Privacy Policy
Forage · Effective November 14, 2026
The short version: Forage collects no data. Your diary stays on your iPhone and, if you turn on iCloud sync, in your own private iCloud. There is no account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no third-party SDKs.
Data we collect
None. In App Store terms: Data Not Collected. Forage has no account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no third-party SDKs. Agentic Quarks LLC has no servers that hold your diary and cannot see what you eat, your health information or how you use the app.
Where your diary lives
Your diary, targets, settings and variety garden are stored on your iPhone. If you turn on iCloud sync, they are also stored in your own private iCloud database (CloudKit), under your Apple Account, so they can sync to your other devices. That database belongs to you and is managed by Apple, and we cannot see it. If you back up your iPhone, iOS may include the diary in your own backup, which you and Apple control.
How logging works on your iPhone
When you type or say what you ate, Apple's on-device model only reads the sentence to work out the foods and amounts. The calorie and nutrient numbers come from a food database stored on your phone: USDA FoodData Central (public domain) and Open Food Facts country barcode packs (licensed under the Open Database License, ODbL, with attribution to Open Food Facts and its contributors). Barcode scanning, nutrition label scanning, plate photos and the camera-roll catch-up are read on your iPhone using Apple's Vision and VisionKit frameworks. Speech is recognized on your iPhone. None of this is sent to us.
Permissions
Forage asks for camera, microphone, speech recognition and photo library access only when you use a feature that needs it, and each is processed on your device. You can turn any of them off at any time in iOS Settings.
Apple Health (optional)
Apple Health (HealthKit) is optional and off until you turn it on. If you do, Forage can read your weight, height, sex, date of birth and active energy to suggest a daily target. It reads them live and does not store them. Forage can also write the food you log (energy, protein, carbohydrates and fat) to Health. Health data is never used for advertising, never shared with third parties and never leaves your device except through Apple's own Health and iCloud systems. You can change or revoke access at any time in the Health app or in Settings > Privacy & Security > Health.
Country food packs
Country barcode packs download through Apple's Background Assets, which is hosted by Apple. We run no server for this.
Feedback you choose to send
If you email us from Settings or from this page, we receive only what you write and your email address, and we use them only to answer you and to improve the app. The app itself sends nothing to us.
Purchases
The core of Forage is free. Forage Pro is a one-time purchase (not a subscription) handled entirely by Apple. We receive no payment details.
Your control
You can export your diary at any time from Settings > Export diary (CSV or JSON). To delete your data, delete the app, and if you used iCloud sync, also remove Forage's data in your iPhone's iCloud settings.
Children
Forage is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Not medical advice
Forage is a food and health log, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor about your own needs.
Changes and contact
If a future version ever changes any of this, this page will say so before that version ships. Questions? Email forage@agenticquarks.com. Forage is made by Agentic Quarks LLC.