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Our promise
What leaves your phone, written down in full.
Everyone promises “privacy”. Almost nobody publishes the detail. Here is ours: what we refuse to do, then the complete table of what leaves the device — which action, which data, to whom, when. Including the two cases where something really does leave.
What we refuse
Six things Radish does not do
A promise is judged better by what it rules out than by what it announces. These six refusals are architectural choices: they do not depend on a setting you would have to hunt for in a menu.
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No account
No sign-up, no password. You open the app and log your first meal.
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No email
We never ask for an address. So there is no list to end up on, and no follow-up emails to put up with.
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No advertising tracker
No ad-network SDK, no advertising identifier read, no advert displayed.
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No data resale
Your food diary is not sold, rented or handed to anyone — not raw, not “aggregated”, not “anonymised”.
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No shared profile
Weight, goals, slip-ups: none of it forms a profile a third party can look up. There is no account to share.
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No social ranking
No leaderboard, no friends, no public streak to keep up in front of others. You measure yourself against your own markers only.
The full detail
What leaves, and what does not
Two Radish features need the network. We would rather write them down here than let you find out later. Read the table row by row: for each action in the app, what leaves the device, to whom, and when.
| Action in the app | What leaves the phone | To whom | When |
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| Counting, logging, building recipes, reading the Nutri-Score | Nothing | Nobody | Never |
| Scanning a barcode the app already knows | Nothing | Nobody | Never |
| Scanning an unknown barcode | The barcode, on its own | Open Food Facts | On that one scan |
| AI “describe a meal” or photo (optional) | The text or the photo of the meal | The AI provider | Each time you use it, on your action |
| Purchase or subscription | The transaction | Apple, Google, and our subscription processor (RevenueCat) | At the time of purchase |
| Account, email, advertising identifier | Does not exist in the app | Nobody | Not applicable |
The two rows marked “↗” only ever fire on an action of yours: scanning a product the app does not know, or asking the AI to read a meal. The AI is optional and can be switched off. The detail, provider by provider, is in the privacy policy. Our nutrition figures are sourced from public databases: see the data sources page.
How we make a living
The business model, in plain words
Our model is the subscription — not your data.
The core of the app is free: diary, scanner, Nutri-Score, macros, micronutrients, recipes, with no meal limit and no adverts. What pays for development is the Premium subscription (AI included, long-term trends, CSV export) and a one-off plan where the AI runs on your own key. Nothing else.
That sentence has a direct consequence for the table above: we have no economic interest in collecting your diary, so we never built the account, the server or the tracker that would make it possible. A full backup of your data, re-importable into the app, stays free: the subscription sells convenience, never the way out.
Put us to the test
The aeroplane-mode test
A promise you cannot prove wrong is worth nothing. This one takes thirty seconds to test, without taking our word for it.
Thirty seconds, your phone, no tools
- Turn on aeroplane mode. Switch Wi-Fi off too, if it stays on.
- Open Radish and log a meal: search for a food, set the portion, save it.
- Build a recipe from two or three ingredients, and look at its total.
- Read the Nutri-Score and the micronutrients of foods in the built-in database.
- Then try what is meant to fail: scan a product the app does not know, or ask the AI to read a meal. Those two stop, because they need the network.
If step 5 worked without a connection, our table would be wrong. If you ever catch it out, write to us: we will fix the page, not the wording.
What next
Read it, then judge
Nothing to create, nothing to hand over. You can also start by reading where our figures come from.
Last updated: 17 August 2026. Lire cette page en français