Last updated: May 19, 2026
CalorieCalc is built to track your calories, not you. We collect the minimum amount of data needed to make the app work, and we don't sell any of it.
Everything you log — meals, weights, workouts, supplements, goals, food favorites, and tags — is stored locally on your device using Apple's SwiftData. If you have iCloud enabled, this data syncs across your devices through your private iCloud account.
We do not have access to this data. It never touches our servers.
If you grant permission, the app reads active energy, workouts, steps, and weight from Apple Health to power the weekly calorie math. This data stays on your device and (if you enable sync) your private iCloud. We never see it, store it, or transmit it anywhere.
CalorieCalc offers four AI-powered features. Each one sends a small amount of data to Anthropic PBC — the company behind the Claude AI model — through our authenticated proxy server, so Claude can return a nutrition estimate. None of these features run unless you explicitly enable AI features in the in-app consent prompt, and you can revoke that consent any time from Settings → Privacy.
Each AI request originates from a tap inside the app — the photo picker, the describe sheet, the recipe builder, or the Analyze button on the Progress tab. The app builds the request on your device and sends it directly to our proxy over HTTPS; we do not collect this data passively or in the background.
The data is used solely to generate the nutrition estimate or period summary that the AI returns to your device for that single request. We do not log AI inputs or outputs on our proxy beyond what is necessary to forward the request, and Anthropic processes the request under their commercial API terms.
Under Anthropic's commercial API terms, your AI inputs and outputs are not used to train Anthropic's models, and Anthropic provides confidentiality, security, and use-limitation protections substantially equivalent to those in this Privacy Policy. Anthropic's full data-handling practices are described in their privacy policy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy. Anthropic's commercial terms are available at https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms.
To prevent abuse of the AI features, each request includes an App Attest assertion (a cryptographic proof that the request came from a genuine copy of CalorieCalc on a real Apple device) and an install identifier used solely to anchor the free-tier credit count to a single install. Neither identifier is linked to your name, email, or Apple ID.
You can use CalorieCalc without ever enabling the AI features. Declining the consent prompt or turning AI features off in Settings means no data leaves your device for AI processing.
If you choose to use AI features without subscribing, you can watch a rewarded ad to unlock a single use. These ads are served by Google AdMob, which may collect standard advertising identifiers (such as Apple's IDFA, if you grant permission) to deliver and measure ads. See Google's ads privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
You can disable personalized ads at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, or by subscribing to remove ads entirely.
Subscriptions are handled by Apple's StoreKit. We never see your payment information. Apple shares anonymous purchase status with the app so we know whether to unlock the AI features.
You can export all of your data at any time as a CSV file from Settings. To delete your data, delete the app — your local data goes with it. To remove your iCloud copy, sign in to iCloud.com or your iPhone's iCloud settings and remove CalorieCalc data there.
CalorieCalc is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
If we change this policy, we'll update the "Last updated" date above. Material changes will be announced in the app.
Questions? Email pat@lawlerinnovationsinc.com.