Fork the Record is a nutrition-tracking app designed to keep confirmed food history on your device. It does not use advertising SDKs or sell personal information.
Confirmed food logs, nutrition snapshots, goals, weight entries, preferences, and recent foods are stored locally using Apple platform storage. They remain on the device unless you export them, write selected records to Apple Health, or delete the app’s data.
If you grant permission, Fork the Record can read active energy and weight and can write nutrition or weight entries you confirm. Health information is used only to provide app features. It is not used for advertising or sold. You can change Health permissions at any time in iOS Settings or the Health app.
When you choose AI chat or prepared-meal photo analysis, a food description or a resized image is sent through the Fork the Record Cloudflare service to the Google Gemini API. Meal photos are flattened to remove embedded metadata, including location, before upload. Fork the Record processes request bodies in memory and does not intentionally retain meal images or add them to request logs.
The current family beta uses Gemini API unpaid quota. Under Google’s Gemini API terms, content submitted to unpaid services and generated responses may be used to provide, improve, and develop Google products and machine-learning technologies, and human reviewers may process API input and output. Do not include people, names, medical information, or other sensitive or identifying information. Regional handling may differ under Google’s terms.
Food searches and barcode values may be sent to the USDA FoodData Central service through the Fork the Record backend. Subscription purchases and entitlement status are processed by Apple through StoreKit. Fork the Record does not receive your full payment-card details.
Cloudflare receives ordinary network information, such as an IP address, to deliver requests and apply short-lived abuse and rate limits. Fork the Record does not use that information for advertising or tracking.
Fork the Record does not sell your information. Data is shared only with service providers needed to perform a feature you request, such as Apple, Cloudflare, Google Gemini, or USDA FoodData Central. Confirmed nutrition history is not uploaded by the personal beta. Fork the Record’s backend discards request bodies after processing; Google controls its own handling under the linked Gemini terms. Disabling cloud analysis prevents future meal-photo uploads but cannot retract content already processed by Google.
Fork the Record is not a medical device. Google’s current Gemini API terms require users of the AI service to be at least 18, so cloud chat and prepared-meal analysis require an adult confirmation. Nutrition estimates can be incomplete or wrong and should not be used for diagnosis or treatment.
For privacy questions or help exercising these choices, visit the Fork the Record support page.