Arabic first. Built for the Gulf.
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.
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.
Nutrition
Calories as a range, with protein, carbohydrate and fat against the goal that applied on the day. Tap any meal to see the table its figures came from.
23 g
213 g
66 g
1 of 3 meals have macro data
The app tells you the gap instead of filling it.
Beyond counting
Four things the app does with what you have already logged. None of them predicts your weight, and none of them gives you a score.
It reads the hour on Gulf mealtimes, ninety days of what you usually eat at that hour, and what is left of today. Then it offers the shortcut. It never tells you what will happen.
Meals suggested from what you already log, sized to the slot and to the calories the day has left. Swap anything you do not fancy and the rest resizes.
Your energy use for the week, estimated from your meals and the trend in your weight rather than from a formula alone. The copy says estimated everywhere, because that is what it is.
Under six hours of sleep raises the day’s protein target by 15 %, and says why. It never cuts your calories — tired is not a reason to eat less.
The Gulf
A foreign tracker with an Arabic language pack knows neither the food nor the day. The curated table is overwhelmingly Gulf food, and every GCC country has its own published table behind it.
Six countries, six national food tables
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 in Riyadh, Doha or Muscat is tonight’s dinner and not tomorrow’s breakfast.
Pricing
Priced for the Gulf. Your store bills in your own currency; the dollar figure is there so the number means something wherever you are reading this.
SAR 0
Works out to SAR 6.25 a month
about US$20 a year
SAR 12.99 · per month
7-day free trial. Cancel in the App Store or Play Store at any time.
Priced separately in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.
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 Gulf table is what makes it unusual, but it also reads packaged products by barcode and covers a large reference database of everyday foods, so a cuisine nobody curated still logs.
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.
The app is built and priced for all six GCC countries, but the first release is narrower than that: iOS in Saudi Arabia, with the rest of the Gulf and 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.