Ethno Cal
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Your food isn't "ethnic." It's dinner.

The calorie tracker that knows what's actually on your plate

Every big calorie app was trained on a burger and a protein bar. Ethno Cal is built dish-first for global home cooking — snap your plate, and we find the dish, the real recipe, and honest numbers.

One free photo scan. No account, no card — sign up only if it earns it.

"Lomo saltado, found it. 861 calories, and worth every one."

Three kitchens

Big apps were trained on burgers. Your food deserves better.

Plate of Peruvian lomo saltado with rice and fries on a wooden table

Peru

Rosa in Lima — lomo saltado

Every tracker Rosa tried filed her lomo saltado under "beef stir fry, misc." and shrugged at the rice and fries sharing the plate. She quit logging within a week.

Ethno Cal recognizes the dish and its real recipe — rice, fries and all — and logs honest numbers with visible confidence. One photo, done.

Indian thali with dal makhani, rotis and rice on a family table

India

Priya in Delhi — dal makhani

Priya's dinner is a thali: dal, roti, rice, sabzi. Western apps made her log four "custom foods" every night — and still got the ghee wrong.

One photo of the thali. Ethno Cal sees each item, knows home dal from restaurant dal, and remembers her mother's recipe after a single correction.

Plate of Nigerian party jollof rice with fried plantain and chicken

Nigeria

Adaeze in Lagos — party jollof

Jollof is not "tomato rice." Smoky party jollof, fried plantain, the chicken — no database Adaeze tried had any of it, so every meal became a guess.

Ethno Cal ships with jollof, dodo and 120+ dishes with regional variants. Adaeze scans her plate and gets numbers she can actually trust.

Woman eating at her kitchen table with her phone lying beside the plate

No scales. No spreadsheets. The phone stays on the table.

Eat like you always do. Snap the plate, confirm the dish, get back to dinner. Corrections stick, so tomorrow is even faster.

Scan your first meal — free

It sees the dish, not a pile of guesses

A curated database of 120+ traditional dishes with regionally accurate recipes and portions. Sinigang is sinigang — not "soup, misc."

Honest confidence, always

Every scan shows how sure we are. When we're not sure, we say so and ask — no fake precision.

Fix it once, it stays fixed

Correct the portion of your abuela's arroz con pollo one time. Every future scan uses your version.

Log in your language

English, Español, Português, Français, हिन्दी. Type "un plato de lomo saltado" and we get it.

Honest estimates beat false precision.

Nobody weighs their grandmother's stew, and we won't ask you to. Ethno Cal names the dish, uses the real recipe, and gives you a consistent, honest estimate — clearly labeled as one. Applied the same way every day, that beats a "precise" number nobody can actually verify. Trends you can act on, not decimals you can't.

Pricing you can see, understand, and cancel

The full price list is right here, before you sign up. No trial that quietly converts. Cancel in two taps from Settings — we mean it.

Two plans. No fine print.

Free

$0 forever

  • 3 AI photo scans a day
  • Unlimited barcode, text and manual logging
  • Full history, forever
  • Personal recipe fixes for up to 10 dishes

Premium

$6.99 / month

$69.99 / year

  • Unlimited AI photo scans
  • Nutrition label scanning
  • Unlimited personal recipe fixes
  • Everything in Free, of course

Cancel anytime, in two taps, from Settings. Your data stays yours.

Built for 12 cuisines at launch

Peruvian, Mexican, Colombian, Brazilian, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Chinese, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Lebanese, Moroccan — with regional variants where they matter.