Terms of use
Last updated 1 November 2026. These are short because the app is small and I would rather you read them than scroll past.
What the app is
Gentle Plate is a calorie and protein tracker and meal prepper. It gives you an estimate range for what you log, by text, photo, recipe link or barcode, and a gentle target to eat towards. Every number it shows is an estimate, shown as a range on purpose, because that is as accurate as food logging gets without weighing everything.
What it is not
The app does not give medical, dietary or nutritional advice, and nothing in it should be taken as such. The targets are arithmetic from the details you enter, not a prescription. If you have a medical condition, an eating disorder, are pregnant, or have been given dietary advice by a clinician, follow that advice, not the app.
I build this for my partner and myself and I use it every day, but it is one person's project. I may change it, pause it or close it, and if I ever close it you will get notice and the export button so your data leaves with you.
Your account
Accounts are by invitation while the app is in testing. You sign in with a six-digit code sent to your email; there is no password to set or remember. One account is for one person. If you share a device, sign out before handing it over.
The AI estimate limit
Text and photo estimates, meal tips, recipe screenshots, ingredient swaps, rewriting a recipe's steps and re-pricing a recipe each call a language model, which costs money per call. Reading a recipe link in the Recipes form does not; on Today, a link also asks for swaps, which does. Three photo or text estimates a day are free, and logging by hand is always free. Working out a recipe's numbers counts as a text estimate. An account with a pass can use up to 30 estimates a day. Every account stops at 30 attempts a day of any kind, refused ones included. Both limits count from midnight UTC. An estimate that fails doesn't use up one of your three, but it does count towards the 30. Past a limit the app tells you, except a meal tip, which just doesn't appear, and you can still log by hand. I may change the numbers; if I do, the changelog says so.
Your data
The privacy notice says what is collected and why, in full. The short version: your diary belongs to you, you can export it as one JSON file at any time, and you can delete your account yourself in Settings or by emailing me.
Acceptable use
Do not try to get around the daily limit, probe the service, or use it to run requests for other people. I will close an account that does, with the export first so nothing of yours is lost.
Law and contact
These terms, and any dispute about them, are governed by the law of England and Wales. I am an individual, not a company, and nothing is sold through the app. Questions, complaints and requests go to [email protected].