Terms
Last updated 28 September 2026
CheckCal is licensed, not sold, under Apple's standard end user licence agreement, which applies to every app on the App Store: Terms of Use (EULA). The notes below are the parts specific to this app. Where the two differ on anything material, the EULA governs.
What the app is
CheckCal estimates the calories and macronutrients of food from a photograph, a barcode or what you type in, and keeps a record of it for you. Photographs are read by an AI model from Google, through our server — or, when Google's does not read one, by Apple's model on its Private Cloud Compute — once you have agreed to that in the app; the privacy policy says exactly what is sent. It is made by Dobreon sp. z o.o., registered in Poland.
The estimates are estimates
This matters enough to say plainly. Reading a plate from a photograph is approximate, and the weight of a portion is the least reliable part of it — on a single meal it can be well off. That is why the app shows the grams of every food and makes correcting them a tap, and why a week of meals says more than any one plate. Treat the figures as a useful guide, not as measurement.
CheckCal is not a medical device and gives no medical advice. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent anything. If you have a condition affected by what you eat — diabetes, an eating disorder, kidney disease, an allergy, pregnancy — talk to a clinician and do not make decisions on the strength of a number in this app. Calorie targets are produced from a standard published equation and are a starting point for a healthy adult, nothing more. CheckCal is not for children under 13, and a plan to lose weight is offered only from 18 and never to somebody already under a healthy weight. No plan aims under a healthy weight for your height or below a safe daily floor (1,200 kcal for women, 1,500 for men); a lower figure can only be typed in by hand, and the app asks you to confirm it first.
Subscriptions
- Barcodes, the food database, manual entry, the day log, scores, reports, weight tracking, workouts, water and Apple Health are free and stay that way. Reading a meal or a nutrition label from a photograph is what the subscription buys. Nothing needs an account.
- A subscription costs $24.99 a year or $3.99 a month in the United States; other currencies are set by Apple's pricing for your region and shown in the app before you buy. A fair-use ceiling applies — see below.
- There is no free trial. An offer code from us may give a lower price or a free first period; Apple shows its terms before you confirm, and the subscription then renews at the price shown there. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending.
- Manage or cancel in Settings on your iPhone, under your name, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the current period runs to its end.
- Purchases are handled by Apple, so refunds are too — request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. We have no ability to issue or reverse a charge.
Fair use of the photo estimator
Each photograph is a paid request to a model provider, so there is a ceiling: 30 photographs a day on Google's model per subscription, or per account when you are signed in, counted on our server and reset at midnight UTC. On an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, photographs past it are read by Apple's model instead, within Apple's own daily limit. It is set where it is because nobody eating meals reaches it and a script reaches it in a minute; if you ever hit it in ordinary use, write to us and we will look at it. Automated, scripted or bulk use of the estimator is not permitted, and we may refuse requests that look like it.
Your account
Nothing in the app needs one. An account keeps a copy of your diary so it reaches your other devices. You are responsible for the email address you sign in with and for keeping access to it, and — if you chose an email account — for the password: that address, the password, or the Apple or Google account behind it, is the only key.
One account is for one person. We may suspend an account being shared or used automatically, as described under fair use above.
You can sign out, or delete your account and everything in it, under You in the app, at any time, without asking us.
Your content
What you log is yours. We claim no rights over it and we do not use it to train anything or show anybody advertising. If you are signed in, a copy is kept on our database so your diary reaches your other devices, and it goes when you delete it — see the privacy policy for exactly what is stored and where. Photographs you send for estimation are used only to produce that estimate and are not retained on our server, and you can stop sending them at any time under You › Privacy.
Availability
The photo estimator depends on a third-party model and on our server, and neither is promised to be available at any particular moment. Barcodes and the food database are looked up in Open Food Facts, which is likewise not ours and not promised. Manual entry, your day and everything already logged keep working offline.
Liability
To the extent the law allows, the app is provided as it is, and Dobreon sp. z o.o. is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from its use. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here affects the statutory rights of a consumer in the EU or the UK — including the right to a remedy where a digital service is not as described.
Governing law
Polish law, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection in force where you live.