Terms of use

Macros is a free nutrition tracker. It records what you eat and weigh, and calculates targets, trends and an estimate of your energy expenditure from that data.

Every figure Macros shows — expenditure, targets, trends, projections, micronutrient comparisons — is an estimate calculated from what you enter and from food data that can contain mistakes. It is not medical or dietary advice. Talk to a doctor or dietitian before making significant changes, especially if you are pregnant, have a medical condition, or have a history of disordered eating.

You need a verified email address to use Macros. Keep your password to yourself; you are responsible for what happens under your account. Health-import tokens act on your behalf too, so treat them like a password.

You can delete your account in the app under More › Settings › Delete Account, or on this website. Everything in it is deleted with it; the privacy policy lists what that covers.

The iPhone app is distributed through Apple’s App Store, and Apple’s App Store terms also apply to downloading it.

The Android app is not distributed through Google Play. It is downloaded from this website as an APK file, which Android asks you to allow before it installs. Updates are installed the same way.

Food search draws on a shared nutrition database. When you create a food with a barcode, its name, brand, serving and nutrition are added to that database so others scanning the same barcode can find it. Your name and email are never attached to it. Only add products you are describing honestly.

There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour. A food you share must describe a real product. Its name and brand must not contain:

• insults, slurs, harassment or hateful content about anyone, or sexual or violent content;
• advertising, links, or anything meant to promote something;
• personal information such as names, phone numbers or email addresses;
• deliberately false nutrition meant to mislead the people who scan it.

Macros checks the text of every shared food before it is published, and a food that fails the check stays private to you.

Any shared food can be reported from its screen in the app (the ⋯ menu, then Report). A reported food disappears from your searches straight away. You can also hide every food added by the same person; hidden people are listed under More › Settings › Hidden Contributors, where you can undo it.

Reports are reviewed within 24 hours. A food that breaks these terms is removed from the database. Its contributor can lose the ability to share foods, or have their account suspended, without notice. A food reported by several people is taken out of search until it has been reviewed. To report something outside the app, email [email protected].

Use Macros for your own tracking. Don’t try to access other people’s data, overload the service, use it to scrape the food database, or create accounts to get around a suspension.

Macros is run by one person on self-hosted servers. It is provided as it is, without guarantees of availability, and features may change as the app develops. The app keeps working offline and sends what you log once it can reach the server again.

What Macros stores and where it goes is described in the privacy policy.