Privacy policy

Forkbell is made by Gajendra Singh Rathore. This page explains what the Forkbell app and forkbell.app collect, why, who else handles it, and what you can do about it. It is written to be read, not skimmed past.

The short version

• Your food log, workouts, weight and the answers you gave in onboarding are stored so the app can work out your targets and show your days. They are yours.
• When you use Type a meal, the words you type are sent to Anthropic, whose Claude model splits them into foods. Nothing else about you goes with them.
• Usage data and crash reports help us fix and improve the app. Both have their own switch in You → Privacy.
• We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use it for advertising.
• You can delete your account from inside the app, and everything it holds goes with it.

The app

Your account

You sign in with Apple or Google. We receive your name and email address from them (with Apple you can choose to hide your email, and we then get a relay address). We never see your Apple or Google password.

What you tell us in onboarding

Your goal, date of birth, which formula to use for your energy needs (male, female, or an average of the two), height, weight, target weight and pace, how much you move, which days you train and what kind of training, what you eat (diet and cuisines), what has made tracking hard before, whether you want gentle mode and hidden numbers, your units, and how you heard about Forkbell. From these the app works out your daily calorie and macro targets, and stores those too. Your language, region and time zone are stored so dates, units and reminders are right.

You can see these answers in You. The app is for people aged 16 and over; if the date of birth you enter is under 16, onboarding stops and nothing is saved.

What you log

Each food you log (its name, portion, calories and nutrients, the meal and the day, and whether you searched, typed or quick-added it), each workout (exercises, sets, reps, weights and times), exercises you add yourself, and each weigh-in. These are stored on your phone first, so logging works without a connection, and copied to our database when you are online so they survive a new phone.

This is health information. We use it only to show it back to you and to work out your targets and trends.

Type a meal

When you type a meal ("2 roti, dal, a katori of curd"), the text is sent to Anthropic, which runs the Claude model that splits it into foods and portions. The numbers then come from our food database, not from the model. The first time, the app asks before anything is sent, and Type a meal is not used unless you agree. Only the words you typed are sent: not your name, email, weight or anything else in your account. Anthropic processes the text to return the result and, under its commercial terms, does not use it to train its models.

We keep a record of each request (the text, the time, how many foods matched, and the cost) to enforce the daily limit, to watch costs, and to improve matching. If you try Type a meal during onboarding before signing in, the request is tied to a one-way hash of your device's identifier and IP address, never the raw values.

Reminders

Meal reminders and the evening check-in are scheduled on your phone by iOS. We do not send them from a server, and they only run if you allow notifications.

Usage data and crash reports

• Usage data (PostHog): which screens and buttons get used, such as "a meal was logged by typing" or "onboarding finished". It never includes what you eat, what you weigh, what you type, your name or your email. Calories appear only in broad bands. Switch it off in You → Privacy → Share usage data.
• Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics, by Google): what went wrong when the app crashes or hits an error: the app version, the phone model, iOS version and the screen it happened on. Switch it off in You → Privacy → Send crash reports.

Both are on by default and both turn off immediately.

If you joined the waitlist

If you sign in with the same email you used for the waitlist, your account is marked as a founding member and remembers your referral code and when you joined.

Deleting your account

You → Delete account deletes your account and everything stored with it: your profile and answers, every food, workout, exercise and weigh-in, and your Type a meal requests. It also clears the copy on your phone. It cannot be undone. Before you confirm, you can tell us why you are leaving; that answer is stored with no link to you.

Deleting your account does not remove your waitlist entry, which is separate. Email hello@forkbell.app if you want that gone too.

The website and waitlist

When you join the waitlist: your email address, the language you used the site in, and the referral code of the person who sent you, if any. We also store which link brought you here (the utm_* parameters), the page you landed on, the website you came from, a one-way hash of your IP address used only to stop abuse, and your browser's user-agent string.

If you answer the optional question: what you use to track food today, and anything you type about it.

If you ask to join the WhatsApp tester group: your WhatsApp number. It is used for that group only.

Analytics: if you allow analytics, we use PostHog to record page views and interactions such as joining the waitlist or opening a question. Until you choose, analytics runs without cookies and without an identifier that persists between visits.

Cookies

fb_consent remembers your analytics choice. fb_utm_first, fb_utm_last, fb_landing, fb_referrer and fb_ref remember how you arrived so a signup can be attributed. fb_wl remembers your waitlist entry so the welcome page works. PostHog sets its own cookie only after you allow analytics. Supabase sets session cookies only when you log in.

What we don't do

We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers or data brokers, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites. We do not send marketing on behalf of anyone else. Forkbell is not a medical service, and nothing in the app or on this site is medical advice.

Who processes it

Each of these handles data only on our instructions and under their own terms:

Service	What for	Where
Supabase	Database and sign-in for the app and the waitlist	Singapore
Anthropic	Reading typed meals (Type a meal)	United States
PostHog	Usage analytics for the app and the website	United States
Google Firebase Crashlytics	Crash reports	United States
Apple, Google	Sign in with Apple, Sign in with Google	Their own infrastructure
Resend	Waitlist emails	United States
Vercel	Hosting forkbell.app	Global

Some of these are outside India, so your data may be processed in those countries.

How long we keep it

• Your account and everything you log: for as long as you have an account. Deleting a food hides it straight away; it is erased from our database when you delete your account.
• Type a meal requests: for as long as you have an account. Requests made before signing in, tied only to a device hash, are kept for twelve months.
• Waitlist entries: until launch and for up to twelve months after, or until you ask us to delete yours.
• Analytics: twelve months. Crash reports: ninety days. Server logs: thirty days.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Most of it you can see and delete yourself in the app. For anything else, email hello@forkbell.app and we will respond within thirty days. Unsubscribe from emails by replying "stop" or using the link in any email. If you are in India, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act gives you these rights and a right to raise a grievance; the same address is our grievance contact.

Children

Forkbell is for people aged 16 and over. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you believe someone under 16 has an account, email hello@forkbell.app and we will delete it.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so in the app or by email before the change takes effect, and update the date at the top of this page.