Calorie counter app in Arabic and Hindi: what to look for before you install (2026)

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Four things to test in a calorie app in Arabic or Hindi

1. Search in your own script. Type a common food in Arabic letters or in Devanagari. If the list stays empty, the app is translated on the surface only: the menus speak your language, the food database does not.
2. Search in Latin letters. Many people type “falafel” or “biryani” on a Latin keyboard. A good app finds both spellings.
3. Reading direction in Arabic. Arabic reads right to left. An interface that stays left-aligned, with numbers and buttons on the wrong side, is hard to read at every meal.
4. The dishes you eat. A database built for a single country knows little about dal, idli, hummus or tabbouleh. Search for three dishes from your week before you decide.

Radish in Arabic: what the app does today

When Arabic is selected, the whole Radish interface switches to right-to-left: diary, daily totals, settings. Search reads Arabic script. Measured in version 7.68, by running the queries through the app's search engine:

• “تمر” returns the date as the first result; “حمص” returns hummus and cooked chickpeas; “تبولة” returns tabbouleh; “شاورما” returns chicken shawarma; “عدس” returns cooked lentils.
• “falafel”, typed in Latin letters, also returns falafel, shown under its Arabic name “فلافل”.
• The word “أرز” (rice) is found with or without the hamza, “ارز”, the way it is often typed on a phone.

972 food names are translated into Arabic. A food that has no Arabic name yet is shown under its English name, and can still be found by that name. For dish ideas from the Gulf, the Maghreb and the Levant, the Arabic version of the site has two pages: Gulf recipes and Maghreb and Levant recipes.

Radish in Hindi: what the app does today

In Hindi, search reads Devanagari. Measured in version 7.68:

• “इडली” returns idli as the first result, then idli sambar; “डोसा” returns plain dosa, masala dosa and rava dosa; “दाल” returns dal and cooked lentils; “खजूर” returns the date.
• “biryani”, typed in Latin letters, returns biryani and chicken biryani, shown under their Hindi name “बिरयानी”.

1,173 food names are translated into Hindi. The database also holds 200 Indian dishes (idli, dosa, dal, biryani…), 199 of which carry a Hindi name. The Hindi version of the site lists Indian recipes you can log in the app. To weigh and add up a thali or a home-made dal, see how to count calories in an Indian meal.

Choosing the language, and changing it

Radish is available in seven languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Hindi and Arabic. On first launch, the app uses your phone's language if it is one of the seven. You can switch at any time in Settings. Changing language does not touch your diary: meals you have already logged stay in place.

That helps in a household where several languages are spoken, or when you live in a country whose script you don't read: you search in the language you know, and the English name always remains searchable.

The limits, stated plainly

• Not every food has an Arabic or Hindi name. The 972 and 1,173 translated names cover common foods; the rest of the database is shown in English.
• Recipe names are only partly translated. In the live version, about one recipe in four in the library has an Arabic or Hindi name; the others are shown under their English name.
• The website is not fully translated. Blog articles exist in French and English; a selection of pages exists in Arabic and Hindi.

Free, no account, and your data

The food diary, food search, barcode scanning, Nutri-Score, macros and 11 vitamins and minerals are free, with no account to create. On data: your journal stays on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them). Values for generic foods are sourced from CIQUAL (ANSES), the USDA and the national tables (BLS, AUSNUT, CoFID, CNF), and every food page shows its source. Details of each database are on our sources page.

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For a few staples of these cuisines, the food pages on this site give values per 100 g and their source: cooked chickpeas, cooked couscous, dates, cooked basmati rice and cooked lentils.

General information about choosing an app, not medical advice. A calorie counter is a tracking tool: it does not replace advice from a health professional.