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About
Who builds Radish, how, and why.
Radish started from a simple irritation: to count calories you had to either pay a subscription or become the product. So we built the app we wanted to use — free, no account, and with the food diary kept on the phone.
Where it began
Why Radish exists
The big calorie apps took one of two roads: charge for the basics (barcode scanning behind a subscription of around €80 a year), or live off advertising and data. A food diary is an intimate document, though: weight, goals, slips, the hours you eat. We took the opposite bet — an app whose core is free, and whose food diary stays on the device.
Pousse
“Log your meals every day: being consistent beats being perfect.”
The data
Where our numbers come from
Radish never shows an estimate dressed up as a measured value. Calories, macros, the Nutri-Score and the 11 vitamins and minerals on screen come from public reference tables whenever the food appears in one; when it does not, the value is an estimate and says so on screen.
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CIQUAL (ANSES)
Primary source
The food composition table published by the French food safety agency. It is the reference behind every food marked “reference data” in the app.
ciqual.anses.fr → -
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USDA FoodData Central
Composition top-up
The United States Department of Agriculture database, used to fill gaps when a food is not in the French table.
fdc.nal.usda.gov → -
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Open Food Facts
Scanned products
An open collaborative database, queried when you scan a barcode so a packaged product can be identified.
openfoodfacts.org →
Where a value does not exist in those tables, we would rather print “unknown” than invent a figure. As it stands, 831 of the 2,416 foods in the app carry a declared CIQUAL or USDA record. The method, the share still estimated and how to check a food yourself are on the data sources page.
Your data
What Radish knows about you, and what it does with it
No account to create, no server holding your diary, no telemetry. Your diary stays on the phone; counting, recipes and the Nutri-Score work without a connection.
Two features use the network, and only when you trigger them: scanning a product that is not in the bundled database, which sends nothing but the barcode to Open Food Facts, and the optional AI assistant, which sends the meal you choose to have read to a third-party provider. Nothing else from the diary leaves. The detail, provider by provider, is in the privacy policy.
The model
How the app is funded
The core of Radish — diary, scanning, Nutri-Score, macros, micronutrients, recipes — is free, ad-free, with no cap on meals.
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P1
Premium
Subscription
Adds AI meal recognition with nothing to configure, long-term trends and reports, and CSV export of the diary. The full JSON backup, re-importable into the app, stays free: the subscription sells the convenience of a spreadsheet, not the way out.
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P2
Lifetime
One-off purchase
A one-off purchase also exists: there, the AI runs on your own API key (BYOK) rather than being included. You pick inside the app.
That is what pays for development without having to sell anything else.
Write to us
A question, a bug, an idea
Email bonjour@nutri-track.fr. We read everything.
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Last updated: 20 August 2026.