Privacy

Who we are

MacroMonkey is a calorie and macro diary for iPhone. For questions about how MacroMonkey handles information, email [email protected].

This website

The website has no account system, advertising pixels, analytics scripts, newsletter form or payment form. It does not request your food diary or Apple Health records. The site itself does not set cookies or use browser local storage.

Cloudflare hosts and delivers the website. Requests necessarily send technical information, including an IP address, requested URL and browser information, to the hosting service. Cloudflare may process that information to deliver and protect the site under its privacy policy. This is separate from the app’s local diary.

Following an external link takes you to another service with its own privacy practices.

What stays on your iPhone

Your diary, goals, saved foods, measurements, drafts and the details you enter about yourself (such as age, sex for calculations, height, weight and activity) are stored on your iPhone. MacroMonkey uses them to show your diary, suggested targets and Insights.

There is no MacroMonkey account, no advertising and no analytics. Your age is used only to show BMI for adults, and it is never exported.

Food search and barcodes

When you search online, your search terms are sent to Open Food Facts after a short pause once you’ve typed three or more characters. Barcodes you scan and the products you open are also looked up with Open Food Facts. Open Food Facts receives those requests and the usual technical information, such as an IP address, under its own privacy policy.

Matching against the built-in Australian Food Composition Database (AFCD) and USDA data happens on your iPhone, offline. Your diary, meal dates, goals and photos are never sent.

Camera and photos

The app sees only photos you take or choose. Meal photos, barcodes and nutrition labels are analysed on your iPhone, and photos aren’t kept. A meal you save keeps its text and nutrition, not the photo. MacroMonkey does not use a remote AI service.

Estimates are a starting point. You review and can edit every item before it’s added.

Apple Health

Apple Health is optional. With your permission, MacroMonkey writes the confirmed nutrients you choose (energy, protein, carbs and fat) and reads active and resting energy to show in Insights. It doesn’t read other Health data, and your targets never change automatically. You can change access, and manage samples already written, in the Health app.

Widgets, reminders and Siri

Widgets show aggregate figures from a protected summary on your iPhone, not food names or photos. Settings includes an option to hide figures in widgets. Meal reminders are local notifications scheduled on your iPhone, not remote push messages. Siri and Shortcuts actions open the app on your device.

Export and retention

You can export a date range of your diary as CSV or JSON. Exports are readable copies: they can’t be restored in the app, and the files stay wherever you choose to save or share them.

The diary isn’t synced and is excluded from device backup. Deleting the app or changing phones loses it. You can edit or delete entries in the app at any time.

Contacting support

If you email support, you choose to share your email address and message contents. They are used to respond to your request. Keep unnecessary sensitive information out of your message; you can ask for support correspondence to be deleted, subject to any applicable retention obligations.

Changes to this notice

Updates will appear on this page with a revised date. Changes to app features or data handling will be reflected here before they are made publicly available.