Looking for an alternative to Eda AI?
Two apps that recognise plov and somsa without being told. The choice is narrower than usual: do you want the one built for the local market, or the one that keeps working in 15 languages the week you land somewhere else.
What Sabzy is, in full
- Published accuracy: 81 kcal mean absolute error and a 41 kcal median, measured on 62 dishes from Nutrition5k, where every ingredient was weighed on a scale. Every scan also shows its own confidence range.
- Price: $14.99 a year, about $1.25 a month, or $2.49 monthly. The 3-day free trial comes with the yearly plan. The whole list is on the site, not behind an onboarding quiz.
- Free tier: 3 full AI scans — the entire trial, not 3 a day. Barcode scanning, manual entry, macros, water, weigh-ins and Apple Health stay free and uncapped. No card.
- Languages: 15, fully translated — every screen, not just the buttons. It recognises 70+ cuisines by name, not only Western food.
- Privacy: no advertising, no advertising identifier, nothing sold, and no account needed — signing in is optional and exists for syncing and groups. Usage and crash reports go to Firebase and carry nothing you photographed, typed or ate. Your log lives on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, which we cannot read.
When Eda AI suits you better
Eda AI was made in Uzbekistan and for Uzbekistan, in Russian and Uzbek, by a team that eats what its users photograph. The closeness shows: dish names as the people around you say them, habits nobody has to explain, and a team inside your own time zone. If you never log a meal outside the country and a third language would do nothing for you, that is a real advantage. Translation done from far away is no substitute for a product built where you live.