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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 — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them).
In plain words: a food logging app with no account behind it, and a privacy first app in the only sense we can prove — your data stays on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them), and the two moments when something does leave it are written down further down this page. The same list, laid out row by row: what a calorie tracker with no account keeps on your phone. A free nutrition app, then, with the paid plans written down on the download page rather than discovered inside the app.
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 diary stays on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them).
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, the app holds 19,462 foods, 3,511 of them identified by a CIQUAL or USDA record code; most of the others carry a record from the BLS, AUSNUT, CoFID or CNF national tables (measured 04/10/2026). 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: what you eat, your weight, your recipes stay on your phone — never sent to our servers (except AI or barcode scanning, if you use them). If you choose to help us improve Radish (a screen asks you explicitly, and you can say no or change your mind anytime in Settings), we only receive usage counters, never tied to your identity — which screens are seen, how long the first entry takes — never a food, never a weight, never a photo. 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. Anonymised usage statistics are also sent to Google (in the EU, only if you agree); your diary, foods and weight never are. 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.
In plain words
What kind of app this is
Radish is a free calorie counter for everyday logging: the diary, the search and the scan cost nothing and carry no cap on meals — a calorie counter without subscription for those three, with an optional Premium plan beside them for AI meal recognition, long-term reports and CSV export.
For someone who only wants to log what they eat, that makes it a workable alternative to paid calorie apps: no account to create, no advertising, no data resale. What we add on top is traceability. Radish is a calorie app that shows sources — each food carrying sourced nutrition data displays the table it was taken from and its record number, so the figure can be checked against the official food table that published it: CIQUAL (ANSES) for France, USDA FoodData Central to fill the gaps. Those cited sources are set out food by food, along with the share still estimated, on the data sources page.
Write to us
A question, a bug, an idea
Email bonjour@nutri-track.fr. We read everything.
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Last updated: 25 August 2026.