Privacy Policy
Private by default.
Plate is built local-first. We collect as little as we can, and we tell you exactly what leaves your device and why.
What stays on your device
Your food log, workouts, sets, weights, body details (like age, height and weight), goals and plan are stored only on your device. There's no Plate account, no login, and no server that holds your log.
Your device's own backup may include this data: iCloud or a computer backup on iPhone, and on Android, Android's system backup may save Plate's app data to your own Google Drive. Those backups belong to your Apple ID or Google account; we can't see them.
AI meal estimates
AI logging only runs when you choose it, and Plate asks for your permission before you use it the first time. When you do:
- The photo you take, or the description you type or dictate, is sent over an encrypted connection to our server.
- If you dictate, your device's speech recognition turns your voice into text: on iPhone, Apple's speech recognition; on Android, your device's speech service, which may send the audio to Google to transcribe it. Plate never receives or stores audio, only the resulting text, which is handled like any typed description.
- Our server sends it to Anthropic (the maker of Claude), a third-party AI provider, which returns the estimated foods, portions, calories and macros.
- We don't store your photos or descriptions on our server. Anthropic processes them to return the estimate under its commercial terms, does not use them to train its models, and may keep them for a limited time for safety and abuse monitoring.
- Your name, email, health data and food log are never sent with these requests.
If you'd rather not use AI, you can always log by search, barcode or quick add.
Food search and barcodes
When you search for a food or scan a barcode, the search text or barcode number is sent to our server to look it up in public food databases (such as the USDA FoodData Central database). These lookups aren't stored with anything that identifies you.
Food and nutrition data in Plate is provided by the USDA FoodData Central database, Open Food Facts, the fatsecret Platform API (platform.fatsecret.com) and Edamam (edamam.com). We thank them for making it available.
To make repeat lookups fast, our server caches food search text and barcodes, with their results, for up to 30 days. No user ID is attached to the cache.
Subscriptions and your anonymous ID
Purchases are processed by Apple (App Store) or Google Play, depending on where you got Plate, and managed for us by RevenueCat. RevenueCat assigns your install a random, anonymous ID and records your purchase history and subscription status, so Plate knows whether Pro is active. Our server uses that same anonymous ID to confirm your subscription and to count daily AI requests for fair-use limits. We never receive your name, Apple ID or Google account, or payment details.
Feedback you send
If you use the in-app feedback form, your message, and your email address if you choose to add one, is delivered to our support inbox through Netlify Forms (this website’s form service). We only receive what you type, and we use it only to read and reply to your feedback.
Service providers
We share data only with the providers named above (Anthropic, RevenueCat, Apple, Google Play and Web3Forms), and only so Plate can work. Each processes data under its own terms and privacy commitments, which protect it at least as well as this policy. None of them may use it to advertise to you.
What we don't do
- No ads and no advertising identifiers
- No third-party analytics or trackers
- No selling or sharing of your data with data brokers
- No tracking across other companies' apps or websites
Your choices
You can skip AI logging entirely, or stop using it at any time. Deleting the app deletes your log from your device. To ask about your data, or to have your feedback messages or the anonymous subscription record linked to your install deleted, email support@plateapp.studio.
Children
Plate isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date below.
Last updated November 3, 2026.