Privacy policy
Cheeks tracks your food, not your data. This page explains, in plain words, what Cheeks keeps, where it lives and what you can do with it.
Last updated November 11, 2026
The short version
- Everything you log stays on your iPhone.
- Cheeks has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.
- We never see, collect, sell or share your data. There's no Cheeks server holding it.
- You can export or delete all of it, anytime.
What stays on your iPhone
The foods and meals you log (with any photos you add), ratings and hearts, saved foods and recipes, movement, body notes, wrap-ups, your goals and settings, and anything you choose to fill in under About you (weight, sex, age range, menopause). It's all stored inside Cheeks on your iPhone, protected by the encryption built into iPhone. Nobody at Cheeks can see it.
iCloud sync (optional)
iCloud sync is off unless you turn it on in Settings. When it's on, your Cheeks data, meal photos included, is kept in your own private iCloud account so your devices can share it. Apple holds it under your Apple Account, and Cheeks has no way to see it. Apple Health data never goes to iCloud through Cheeks.
Apple Health (optional)
If you connect Apple Health, Cheeks reads your workouts so they show up as movement. If you also turn on saving movement to Health, Cheeks writes the movement you log in Cheeks to Health. Cheeks reads and writes workouts only, nothing else from Health. Health data stays on your iPhone, is never used for advertising and is never shared with anyone. You can change Cheeks's access anytime in the Health app.
Photos, the camera and smart logging
Snap it, Describe it, barcode scanning, and reading nutrition labels and recipe screenshots all run on your iPhone, using Apple's on-device tools. Your photos and descriptions are never sent to us or anyone else. Cheeks asks for camera or photo access only when you use one of these. If you use Siri or keyboard dictation, Apple handles your voice under Apple's own privacy policy.
When Cheeks goes online
Cheeks works without the internet. It only connects when you ask it to:
- Paste a recipe link: your iPhone fetches that page straight from the recipe site, like any web visit. Nothing about you is added.
- Open a source, resource or helpline: it opens in Safari inside Cheeks, under Apple's Safari privacy.
- Support Cheeks: the purchase goes through Apple. We never receive your name or payment details.
Reminders
Reminders are off unless you turn them on. They're scheduled on your iPhone, not sent from a server, and they stop while Cheeks is paused.
What Cheeks never does
No accounts. No ads. No analytics or third-party code that collects data. No tracking across apps or websites. No selling or sharing data, ever. If you've chosen in iPhone Settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports; you can switch that off in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.
Your data, your call
Export: Settings → Export my data gives you spreadsheet files (CSV) of what you've logged, to save or share wherever you like.
Delete: Settings → Delete my data removes everything Cheeks keeps on this iPhone, and with iCloud sync on, the deletion reaches your other devices too. Deleting the app also removes its data from your iPhone. Workouts Cheeks saved to Apple Health stay in Health until you remove them there, and Cheeks data in iCloud can be removed from your iCloud storage settings.
Because we never have your data, these controls are the way to see or delete it; we have nothing to send or erase.
Children
Cheeks isn't made for children under 13. We don't collect information from anyone, children included.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too, and we'll say what's new in the app's update notes.
Questions
Questions about privacy, or anything else? Write to us anytime.