Privacy Policy
Plates doesn't collect your data. Your workouts, food log and settings stay on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud account if you turn on iCloud sync. The developer never receives them.
What Plates stores, and where
- On your iPhone: your training maxes, workouts, body weight, food log, saved foods and meals, settings, and what you entered during setup (goal, age, height, weight, activity level and lifting days). They're kept in Plates' private storage on the device.
- In your iCloud (optional): with iCloud sync on, a copy of the same data is kept in Plates' container in your iCloud account so your other devices can use it. Weights read from Apple Health are never included. Apple stores it under your Apple Account; the developer can't see or access it. You can turn sync off on the Program screen.
- Backups you export: when you export a backup, the file goes wherever you choose to save it.
Apple Health (optional)
If you turn on Apple Health, Plates saves your finished workouts, the body weights you log and each day's food totals (calories, protein, carbs and fat) to Health, and reads your body weight from Health so your targets stay current. You choose exactly what to allow in Health's permission screen and can change it any time in the Health app. Health data is never used for advertising, never shared with anyone, and never stored in iCloud by Plates.
Reminders
Workout reminders, streak check-ins and the meal-logging nudge are optional and scheduled on your iPhone. They're never sent through a server.
Camera and photos
Plates uses the camera to scan barcodes, read nutrition labels and estimate meals from a photo. All of this runs on your iPhone, using Apple's on-device text recognition and on-device Apple Intelligence model. Photos aren't saved by Plates and are never uploaded.
Barcode lookups
When you scan a barcode for a product you haven't saved, Plates sends only the barcode number to Open Food Facts, an open food database, to fetch its nutrition. Nothing else about you or your log is sent. Like any website, Open Food Facts receives your device's IP address with the request; see their privacy policy.
What Plates doesn't do
- No accounts or sign-in.
- No analytics, advertising or tracking, and no third-party SDKs.
- No selling or sharing of data, because the developer doesn't have any.
Notifications
Rest-timer alerts and Live Activities are created on your iPhone. They aren't sent through a server.
Crash reports
If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple may pass along anonymous crash reports. These contain technical details about the crash, not your training or food data.
Deleting your data
Delete the app to remove its data from your iPhone. Data Plates saved to Apple Health can be deleted in the Health app. To remove the iCloud copy, go to Settings › [your name] › iCloud › Manage Storage, choose Plates and delete its data. "Reset all data" on the Program screen also clears your data, on every device that syncs with iCloud.
Children
Plates isn't directed at children under 13 and collects no personal information from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions: plates.lift.eat.repeat@gmail.com