Last updated: September 2026
Plateful has no accounts and no sign-in. This policy covers what data the app touches and where it goes.
Everything you log — meals, lab results, your profile and goals — is stored only in the app's local database on your device. Plateful has no user accounts and no analytics or advertising trackers.
Looking up a barcode or searching for a packaged food sends that query through a small Plateful-owned server (a Cloudflare Worker) to Open Food Facts, a public, free food database. No account, profile, or personal data is attached to these queries — only the barcode or search text. The Worker caches results to make lookups faster and more reliable; it does not store your logged meals.
If you use the camera or photo-library option to log a meal, that photo is sent to the same Plateful-owned server, which forwards it to Anthropic's Claude API for a one-time nutrition estimate and does not retain a copy afterward. The photo isn't stored on any server, isn't used for anything besides that estimate, and isn't linked to any account since Plateful doesn't have one.
If you turn on Health sync, Plateful writes logged meals to Apple Health and can read your weight back in. This only happens with your explicit consent through iOS's permission prompt, and you can revoke access at any time in the Health app's Sources settings.
Plateful Pro purchases are handled entirely by Apple through StoreKit. Plateful never sees your payment details.
Open Food Facts (food data) and Anthropic (photo meal analysis, only when you use that feature) are the only third parties Plateful's server talks to. No advertising or analytics SDKs are used.
If this policy changes, the update will be posted on this page.