Arabic first. Built for Saudi Arabia.
Photograph a meal and Sahtain reads it against curated Saudi and Gulf food data, then shows you a calorie range. Where a source publishes no figure, you see a dash. Never a number we invented to fill the gap.
Coming to the App Store and Google Play.
35 g
85 g
sfda.gov.sa
34 g
A range, because a plate is never twice the same. Every figure carries the source it came from.
The honest bit
Each of these is checked by the build. They are not a statement of intent; they are conditions the app has to satisfy to ship.
Food varies. The same plate of kabsa is not the same twice, and a photograph cannot know how much oil went in. So Sahtain shows a range. There is no single-number view to switch to, because the app has no field to put one in.
A range is the only calorie type the API can return.
The plan, the price and what the free tier includes are on this page and on the first screen of the app, before any sign-up. Nothing about cost is behind a form.
The plans endpoint is public and a test fails if that changes.
No percentage, no "AI-precise", no promise about your body or your weight. If that copy ever appears in the app, this site or the store listing, the build stops.
A build step scans the shipped copy for it.
How it works
Point the camera or pick a photo. Sahtain matches it against a curated table of Saudi and Gulf dishes and shows the calorie range with protein, carbohydrate and fat. Adjust the portion with a stepper, or pick a different match.
Your photo is handed to the model and dropped. Only a small thumbnail stays in your diary.
Kabsa, mandi, jareesh, saleeg, matazeez, harees, tameez. Hundreds of dishes curated from published Saudi and Gulf food composition data, each carrying the source it came from. Albaik and Mama Noura menu items too.
Barcode scanning for packaged food is free and unlimited, always.
See what is left today across calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat. Follow weight over a week or a month against the goal that applied then. My Plan proposes tomorrow’s meals from what you already log.
In Ramadan the day changes shape: suhoor and iftar are real slots, not meals squeezed into breakfast and dinner.
Made here
A foreign tracker with an Arabic language pack knows neither the food nor the day. These are the differences you notice in the first week.
Not a layer over an English app. Every screen lays out right to left in Arabic, in a typeface chosen for the script rather than one that merely covers it.
During Ramadan the diary’s day changes shape on its own. Your meals are not forced into breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Dishes are curated from published food composition tables, and each row records where its figures came from. Where a table publishes no carbohydrate or fat, the app shows a dash.
Which day a meal belongs to is decided on your phone, so a 21:30 dinner is tonight’s dinner and not tomorrow’s breakfast.
Pricing
Saudi Arabia pricing. Your store shows the local price where a different currency applies.
SAR 0
Works out to SAR 6.25 a month
SAR 12.99 · per month
7-day free trial. Cancel in the App Store or Play Store at any time.
Questions
Because a photograph cannot tell how much oil went into the pot, and the same dish is not the same twice. Every app in this category faces that; most round it to one confident-looking figure. A range is what the underlying food data actually supports, and Sahtain has no way to display anything else.
It is sent to the model that reads it and then dropped. It is not stored on our side and it is not used to train anything. A thumbnail small enough to recognise the meal stays in your own diary on your device.
Yes, and it is not a countdown. Barcode scanning and manual logging are unlimited and always free, along with your diary, your goals and your weight history. The free tier includes three meal photos a day. Sahtain Plus removes that daily cap.
Yes. The curated Saudi and Gulf table is what makes it unusual, but it also reads packaged products by barcode and covers a large reference database of everyday foods.
Yes. The app ships in Arabic and English, and you change language in settings. Arabic is the default because that is who it is built for.
iOS first, in Saudi Arabia, with Android to follow. Join the waitlist above and you will hear on the day, and not before.
One email when Sahtain reaches the store. Nothing else, and no sharing with anyone.