Plated
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The calorie tracker that speaks
katoris, not cups.

Every other app makes you log Indian food as “1 cup mixed curry”. Plated knows what a katori of dal tadka weighs, what a phulka costs you, and why your chole is fine but your bhatura isn’t.

Works in your browser. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like a native app.

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What you can do with it

Six things, each built around how Indian meals actually work.

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Log real Indian food

Search 364 vegetarian dishes — dal tadka, poha, idli, rajma, thepla, misal, pesarattu. Portions are in katoris, rotis and glasses, so you log what you actually served yourself.

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Photograph your plate

Snap a meal and get the dishes identified, portions estimated and calories totalled — plus a straight answer on what was worth cutting.

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Targets that fit you

Enter your height, weight, age and how fast you want to lose. You get a daily calorie number, a protein floor, a water goal and a step goal — each derived, not guessed.

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Told what to eat next

Instead of an empty search box at 8pm, the Plan screen builds a full day around your target and tells you what fits in the calories you have left right now.

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Weekly and monthly proof

A bar chart with your target line drawn across it, a month heatmap of every day you hit or missed, and a weight trend that shows the direction the scale won’t.

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Water, steps, streaks

Tap a glass to log water. Steps save as you type. A streak counter that only rewards showing up, and a daily line that isn’t motivational-poster nonsense.

A look inside the food database

Every dish carries calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre, a home recipe and one specific tip for cutting its calories. These are the highest-protein easy dishes in it.

DishServing CaloriesProtein
Soya KeemaMain 1 katori (~180 g) 266 kcal 26 g
Paneer Quinoa BowlMain 1 bowl (~300 g) 398 kcal 26 g
Paneer Kathi RollMain 1 roll (~220 g) 408 kcal 26 g
Whey Protein ShakeDrink 1 scoop in water (~300 ml) 120 kcal 24 g
Soya Seekh KebabSnack 4 kebabs (~160 g) 232 kcal 24 g
Achari Paneer TikkaSnack 6 pieces (~150 g) 272 kcal 24 g
Paneer Tikka Salad BowlSalad 1 bowl (~250 g) 287 kcal 24 g
Soya Chunk SaladSalad 1 bowl (~200 g) 223 kcal 24 g

And when you’re hungry with no calories left, it knows the lightest things you can eat:

Kachumber Salad · 45 kcal Carrot Cucumber Sticks · 50 kcal Orange · 65 kcal Dates (Khajur) · 68 kcal Rasam · 70 kcal Mixed Vegetable Clear Soup · 70 kcal

How your numbers are worked out

No black box. Here is the actual arithmetic.

  1. Your maintenance calories come from the Mifflin-St Jeor equation multiplied by an activity factor — the same method dietitians use.
  2. Your deficit is whatever pace you pick. 7,700 kcal is roughly one kilogram of fat, so half a kilo a week is a 550 kcal daily deficit.
  3. Protein is set at 1.6 g per kg of bodyweight — high enough to hold on to muscle while you’re eating less.
  4. Water is 35 ml per kg, adjusted for how active you are.
  5. A floor is enforced at 1,500 kcal for men and 1,200 for women. The app will not recommend eating less than that, whatever pace you ask for.

BMI uses Asian-Indian cutoffs, where the healthy range tops out at 23 rather than 25. Plated gives general guidance, not medical advice — if you’re pregnant, diabetic or managing a condition, run your targets past a doctor first.

Questions

Is Plated free?

Yes. It runs on a private server with no ads, no tracking and no subscription. Your food log is visible only to you.

Do I need to install anything?

No. It runs in your browser. On a phone you can add it to your home screen from the browser menu, after which it opens full-screen like a normal app and works offline for the parts that do not need fresh data.

Is the food actually Indian?

Entirely. The database is 364 Indian vegetarian dishes measured in katoris, rotis and glasses — dal tadka, poha, idli, rajma, chole, upma, thepla — not chicken breast and oatmeal. Every dish carries a home recipe and one specific tip for cutting its calories without ruining it.

How are my calorie targets calculated?

Mifflin-St Jeor for your basal rate, multiplied by an activity factor, minus the deficit implied by how fast you want to lose. Targets are floored at 1,500 kcal for men and 1,200 for women, so the app never recommends undereating.

What does the photo feature do?

You photograph a plate and it identifies the dishes, estimates portion sizes from visual cues, and returns calories per item plus what is worth cutting. Estimates from a photo are a guide, not a lab measurement.

Is it suitable for weight loss specifically?

That is what it is built for. It assumes you want to lose weight while still eating Indian home food, so it focuses on portion sizes, protein and swaps rather than telling you to stop eating rice.

Two weeks of honest logging changes what you order.

Set it up in about a minute. Nothing to install, nothing to pay.