Support

Getting started

MacroMonkey needs an iPhone with iOS 27 or later. There’s no account to create. Set your own calorie, protein, carb and fat targets, or get suggested targets from your details, then start logging.

Logging food

Open Add food to search, scan a barcode or nutrition label, photograph a meal, describe a meal in words, or pick from your saved foods, recents and favourites. You can also enter nutrition manually. Every entry is reviewed before it’s added, and you can open an entry later to change its portion or nutrition.

Photo and Describe estimates

MacroMonkey estimates each item and portion on your iPhone. Swap a food, change a portion or edit anything before you add it. Estimates are a starting point, not measured nutrition. Photos are analysed on device and aren’t kept.

Meal photos and Describe need an iPhone and language supported by Apple Intelligence. Search, scanning and manual entry work on every supported iPhone.

Food data

The Australian Food Composition Database (AFCD) and USDA data are built into the app and work offline. Open Food Facts powers online search and barcode lookups, which need an internet connection. Australian results are shown first. Credits are in Settings → About → Food data sources.

Goals

Set your own calorie, protein, carb and fat targets, or get suggested targets from your details. You decide which to use, and you can change them at any time. Targets use a start date, so past days keep the targets they had.

Apple Health and permissions

Apple Health is optional. MacroMonkey can write the confirmed nutrients you choose and read active and resting energy for Insights. Your targets never change automatically. Change access in the Health app. Turning sharing off stops future writes; it does not erase samples already in Apple Health, which you can manage in the Health app.

Widgets, Siri and reminders

Add MacroMonkey widgets to your Home Screen or Lock Screen to see your day’s calories and macros. Settings includes an option to hide figures in widgets. An Add Food control is available for Control Centre and the Action button, and Siri and Shortcuts can scan, search or log a saved food. Meal reminders are optional local notifications.

Keeping a copy of your entries

Use Settings → Export to choose a date range and save CSV or JSON files. Keep exported files somewhere you control. They are copies and can’t be restored in the app. The diary is excluded from device backup, so avoid deleting the app as a troubleshooting step if you want to keep your entries.

Privacy

No account, no ads and no analytics. Your diary, goals and foods stay on your iPhone; searches and barcodes go to Open Food Facts to find foods. Read the privacy policy for the details.