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A calorie tracker that has heard of burek

Cal AI, MyFitnessPal and the rest are built in English and localised afterwards, if anyone gets to it. Nobody had made a tracker native to Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian or Montenegrin, even though people were searching for exactly that.

The second problem kills more accounts than language does. Manual logging does not survive a real meal, because nobody is going to look up gram weights for a bowl of grah, so the habit collapses within days and the app gets deleted with the blame landing on the user.

Kalo replaces the database with a photograph. The plate gets read into calories and macros, comes back as a structured breakdown in the user's own language within seconds, and stays editable before it logs, so a wrong estimate is corrected rather than argued with.

The model prompt is tuned for the food people here actually eat, which an American food database has never heard of. A tracker that cannot recognise ćevapi is not slightly worse for this market, it is useless, and the interface carries no English fallback anywhere, because a single untranslated string is the moment an app stops feeling like it was made for you. The model key never touches the phone, which matters more than it sounds: shipping a key inside a mobile binary is handing it to anyone willing to unzip the app.

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