Privacy

Last updated: November 10, 2026

Total Grams has no accounts, no ads, and no tracking. Your meal history stays on your iPhone. To read your photos, the app sends them to the Total Grams server, which asks an AI model and sends back the answer. This page says exactly what that involves.

Who runs Total Grams

Total Grams is made by Luke, DevMindscape ("we" on this page), who is responsible for the data described here. Email: support@totalgrams.com.

What leaves your iPhone

Nothing is sent until you allow it. The first time you open the camera or Add Food, the app asks "Let AI read your meals?" and explains who reads them. If you choose Not Now, nothing opens and nothing is sent. Anything taken before you allow it waits on your iPhone, unread, until you do. You can see the explanation again in Settings, under AI Photo Reading.

Once you allow it, only what's needed to read a meal is sent, and only when you add food:

• Your food photos, of food on the scale and of package labels. Each is resized and saved again on your iPhone before it's sent, which leaves out its location and camera details.
• Foods you type in, like "flat white with oat milk," and the name you confirm or type for a photo the app wasn't sure about, with the weight from its scale.
• The names and numbers of a meal's foods and labels, when the app matches a label to the right food.
• Proof of your subscription: the transaction Apple signs when you subscribe or start a trial. It says which plan you have, its price and your App Store country, when it started, and until when it runs. It doesn't include your name, email, or payment details. Apple never shares those with us.

Your meal history, your daily goal, and your saved foods are stored only on your iPhone. Only the parts listed above are sent, to be read. Your iPhone's own backups (iCloud or a computer) include the app's data, under your Apple settings.

Who handles it, and for how long

The Total Grams server, hosted by Infomaniak in Switzerland

It checks your subscription, sends your photo or text to the AI model, and returns the answer. It keeps no photos, text, or meal details. Like any web server, it sees your IP address to send the answer back, and Infomaniak keeps standard access logs (such as IP address and time) for security. The server's own log records only errors, with no photos or text in them.

Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI model

Claude reads the photo or text and returns the food, its weight, and its nutrition. Anthropic deletes what it receives within 30 days, and doesn't train its models on it. If its systems flag a request as misuse of its service, it may keep that request for up to 2 years.

Apple

Apple handles your subscription and payment, under Apple's own privacy policy.

Infomaniak and Anthropic handle this data only to run Total Grams for us, under terms that require them to protect it as this page describes.

What we keep

Each subscription can have a set number of photos read a day, to keep the service fair. For that, the server counts photos per subscription per day, keyed to the subscription's transaction number from Apple. That number isn't your name or email, and the count has no photos or food in it. Each day's count is deleted after 30 days.

Why, and the legal basis

• Reading your photos and text is the service you subscribed to (performance of a contract).
• The daily count and the error logs protect the service from abuse and help fix it (legitimate interests).

What we don't do

• No accounts, sign-ups, or email addresses.
• No ads, no analytics, and no tracking in the app or on this website. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising.
• The app doesn't ask for your location, your contacts, or your Apple Health data.

Notifications

"Breakfast logged" and similar notifications are created on your iPhone. They aren't sent through the server.

Where the data goes

DevMindscape is in the European Union. The Total Grams server and this website are hosted by Infomaniak in Switzerland, which the European Commission recognizes as protecting personal data adequately. Anthropic processes data in the United States and elsewhere; that transfer relies on the safeguards Anthropic offers, such as the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

This website

No cookies, no analytics, no trackers, and no fonts or scripts from other companies. The host, Infomaniak, keeps standard server logs (such as IP addresses and the pages requested) for security, as every web server does.

Children

Total Grams isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly handle their data.

Your rights, and deleting your data

You can ask to see, correct, or delete what we hold about you, to object to its use, or to complain to a data protection authority. There are no accounts, so the only thing we hold is the daily count above, and it deletes itself after 30 days. To have it deleted sooner, email support@totalgrams.com with the order ID from Apple's receipt for your subscription.

To delete everything on your iPhone, delete the app. To stop the subscription, see how to cancel.

Changes

If what the app sends changes, this page changes first, with a new date at the top.