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TakeMyWeek

Get a calorie estimate from a photo of your plate, analyzed on your iPhone. TakeMyWeek also sets up your week around your needs: lunches and dinners, the grocery list sorted by aisle, and a little cheer when you reach your goals.

Download on the App Store No ads, no tracking, no account. Your data stays on your iPhone. Plate photos are analyzed on your iPhone and never saved or sent. Only the optional barcode scan needs an internet connection.

Your week, sorted

Plate photo result: the estimated total is about 470 kcal, with a note that it is a rough estimate, then protein, fat and carbs. Below, the foods found: grilled chicken breast 150 g and white rice 100 g, each with its quantity you can correct, and the Add to my day button. Goals tab, Daily journal card: about 776 kcal eaten today, an estimated daily goal of about 1,917 kcal and about 1,141 kcal left, with the Plate photo button. What matters to you? Four goals checked: Eat more balanced, Save time in the kitchen, Move more every day and Cook for the whole family. Your setup: lunch and dinner, 5 days; 4 people; cooking time 30 minutes or less; diet Balanced, chosen for you; no allergen left out; all recipe collections; daily step goal 8,000. My week with the message “Well done! Your setup is ready. Enjoy your week!”, the week’s preferences and an average of about 410 kcal per meal. A recipe, 15-Minute Dumpling Soup: about 250 kcal per serving with its protein, fat and carbs, then the ingredients. Shopping list: 3 of 73 items checked, the barcode scan and pantry links, and the Produce aisle. Goals: 9,200 steps entered today for a goal of 8,000, with the message “Well done! Goal reached with 9,200 steps today. Nicely done!”

Privacy Policy

Effective October 21, 2026 · applies to TakeMyWeek (formerly Dinner Ideas, CookCart and Weekbite) for iPhone, version 1.0 and later

TakeMyWeek does not collect, store on a server, share or sell any personal data. There are no accounts, ads, analytics or trackers, and we receive none of your data.

What stays on your iPhone

Your meal plan, preferences (number of days, meals per day, servings, time limit, diet, excluded ingredients and allergens), pantry quantities, favorites and checked shopping items are saved in a file inside the app on your device. From version 2.1, the same file holds your Goals: the profile you enter (age, height, the sex used in the calorie formula, activity level, pace), your weight log and target, your chosen diet and the steps you enter by hand. From version 2.2, it also holds your answers to the “My needs” questions: your goals, household, meals, diet choice, allergens, cooking time, recipe collections and step goal. From version 2.3, it also holds the items you add to your shopping list by hand. From version 2.5, it also holds your daily log: for each item you add, its date, name and calories, and its quantity and macronutrients when the app has them. Recently scanned products are kept in a separate local cache (at most 200 products, for 30 days). None of this leaves your iPhone unless you choose to share or export it.

Plate photos and the daily log (version 2.5 and later)

Plate photo analysis is an optional Premium feature (3 analyses are free) that runs entirely on your iPhone, with the artificial intelligence built into your iPhone. It needs a compatible iPhone running iOS 27 or later, with that feature turned on. The photo is read in memory to recognize the foods and estimate quantities and calories. TakeMyWeek does not save the photo, does not add it to your photo library and does not send it to us or to anyone else: the analysis needs no internet connection, and if it is not available on your iPhone, the photo is not sent anywhere instead. Only what you choose to add to your daily log is kept, in the app’s file on your device, as described above; the app also keeps, in your iPhone’s keychain, how many free analyses you have used. That number is not part of your data: it is not included in the JSON backup you export, Reset data does not clear it, it is not synced with iCloud and is never sent, and it may remain on the device after the app is deleted, so that reinstalling the app does not give the free analyses back. If you take the photo with the camera, iOS asks for your permission first; you can withdraw it in Settings › Privacy & Security › Camera. The daily log is never used for advertising or marketing.

Calorie calculator (version 2.5 and later)

The calorie calculator runs entirely on your iPhone, with no internet connection and no permission. What you type in it (age, the sex used in the formula, height, weight, activity level and the health professional switch) is used for the calculation only: it is not saved, not added to the app’s file, to your Goals profile or to the JSON backup, and not sent to us or to anyone else. It may open filled in from the Goals profile you already entered, and changes made in the calculator never modify that profile. When you close it, what you typed is not kept.

Congratulations and encouragement (version 2.2 and later)

Messages are chosen on your iPhone from the data above, such as your steps or your saved week; nothing is sent. They appear only inside the app, never as notifications. A small separate file in the app lists which congratulations have already been shown and whether the “My needs” invitation was seen, so that none is repeated. It holds nothing else, is excluded from iCloud and device backups, is never included in exports and is erased by Settings › Reset data. Congratulations about weight appear only with an adult profile, above the healthy-weight threshold and at a gentle pace; no message ever praises eating less.

Weekly reminder (version 2.3 and later)

If you turn it on, TakeMyWeek asks iOS for permission to send notifications and schedules one local notification a week, on the day and at the time you choose, to remind you to plan your week. It is scheduled on your iPhone: nothing is sent to us or to anyone else, and it contains no personal data. The day and time are kept in a small separate file in the app, excluded from iCloud and device backups and never included in exports. Turn it off in the app’s Settings › Weekly reminder, or in your iPhone’s Settings › Notifications › TakeMyWeek.

Export to Reminders (version 2.3 and later)

When you tap Export to Reminders and allow access, TakeMyWeek writes the items still to buy into a list named “TakeMyWeek groceries” in Apple’s Reminders app. iOS asks for full access to Reminders; the app only creates that list and its items, and the next export replaces only the items it created itself, whose identifiers it keeps in a small separate file in the app (never exported). It does not read or change your other reminders. The list is then kept by the Reminders app under your Apple Account settings; if you share it, Apple syncs it through iCloud with the people you invite. You can turn access off in Settings › Privacy & Security › Reminders.

Apple Health (version 2.1 and later)

If you tap Connect to Health and allow it, TakeMyWeek reads only your step count from Apple Health, read-only: it never writes anything to Health. The steps it reads are used to display your daily total and your step goal; they stay on your iPhone, are not saved in the app’s file, are not included in exports and are never sent to us or to anyone else. Health data is never used for advertising or marketing. You can stop access at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Health › TakeMyWeek, or from the Health app. If you do not connect Health, you can still enter steps by hand.

Barcode scanning and Open Food Facts (version 2.1 and later)

Barcode scanning is an optional Premium feature and the only feature of TakeMyWeek that connects to a service other than Apple. When you scan or type a barcode, the app sends only that barcode to the Open Food Facts database (world.openfoodfacts.org) over HTTPS, to retrieve the product’s name, brand, quantity and nutrition facts. The request carries no account, no cookie and no identifier; like any internet request it reveals your device’s IP address, and it names the app and its version. Your meal plan, preferences, goals, weight and Health data are never sent. The camera image is used on your iPhone only to read the barcode; it is not recorded or sent. Open Food Facts’ own privacy policy applies to its handling of requests. Product data comes from Open Food Facts contributors and is available under the Open Database License (ODbL).

When data leaves your device — only because you asked

Purchases and subscriptions

TakeMyWeek Premium is bought through Apple’s App Store. Apple processes the payment and manages the subscription under its own privacy policy. We never receive your name, your Apple Account or your payment details. The app only asks Apple’s purchase system on your iPhone whether a subscription is active. For the welcome offer (version 2.1 and later), the app stores in your iPhone’s keychain the time of its first opening and whether the offer applies to this installation. This item stays on this device, is not synced with iCloud and is never sent; it may remain on the device after the app is deleted, so that the 48-hour window is not restarted by reinstalling.

Network

The recipe catalog is built into the app, and the app sends nothing to us. It contacts the App Store to show the subscription offers and to check or restore a purchase, and, only when you use the barcode scan, Open Food Facts as described above. Everything else works offline, including plate photo analysis, which runs on your iPhone.

Children

TakeMyWeek collects no information from anyone, including children. Goals (weight and calorie target) and the calorie calculator are for adults aged 18 and over; the app refuses a profile under 18 and the calculator gives no result under 18.

Health information

Calories, macronutrients, diet labels, calorie targets and step goals are estimates and general information, not medical or dietary advice. Calories estimated from a photo of a plate are approximate and can be far from the real value: the analysis can misjudge dishes and portions and often cannot see oil, butter, cream or sauces, so check the result and add what is missing. The calorie target uses a published formula with safeguards (minimum daily intake, gentle or moderate pace, no weight-gain goal); it cannot predict your results. The calorie calculator also uses a published formula (Mifflin-St Jeor, with activity factors): its figures are estimates that vary from person to person. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, have a medical condition, or have or had an eating disorder, talk to a health professional before changing your diet; if you tell the app so in your profile, it does not calculate a calorie deficit. Diet and allergen filters are based on ingredient labels in our catalog: always check product packaging for allergens and cross-contamination.

Deleting your data

Data stays on your iPhone until you replace it or delete the app. Settings › Reset data clears the active data (plan, preferences, favorites, pantry, shopping checks, Goals, “My needs” answers, the daily log (from version 2.5), the list of congratulations already shown, the scanned-product cache and, from version 2.3, the weekly reminder with its scheduled notification and the record of exported items) but keeps a local recovery copy on the device; delete the app (rather than offloading it) to remove everything stored by the app. The welcome-offer item and the free-analysis counter in the keychain may remain on the device, as explained above. Steps stay in the Health app, which you control. Items already exported to the Reminders app stay there until you delete them in Reminders. Exported backup files are yours to delete separately. Because we hold nothing on any server, there is nothing to request from us.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Questions: see the contact address below.

Terms of Use

Effective October 21, 2026

TakeMyWeek is licensed under Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement.

TakeMyWeek Premium

Welcome offer (version 2.1 and later)

Recipes and nutrition

Cooking times, calories and macronutrients are estimates computed from the ingredients; they are not medical or dietary advice. Recipes have not all been tested in a kitchen. Recipe pictures are illustrations. Always check packaging for allergens.

Goals, steps and product data

Goals, calorie targets, step goals and the calorie calculator’s results are general estimates for adults and do not replace advice from a health professional. Product information from the barcode scan comes from the open, collaborative Open Food Facts database (ODbL); it may be incomplete or out of date: check the packaging.

Plate photos and the daily log (version 2.5 and later)

Plate photo analysis is part of Premium: the first 3 analyses are free, and later ones need an active Premium subscription. It needs an iPhone compatible with built-in artificial intelligence, running iOS 27 or later; where it is not available, the app says so and everything else works as before. Calories estimated from a photo are produced on your iPhone by an automatic model: they are rough estimates that can be wrong or far from the real value, and they are not medical or dietary advice. Your daily log is a personal record kept on your device.

Support

We read every message and usually answer within a few days.

How does the plate photo work?
Take a photo of your plate: the artificial intelligence built into your iPhone recognizes the foods and estimates quantities and calories, on the device. Add the result to your daily log. 3 analyses are free; after that, plate photo analysis is part of Premium. The photo is never saved or sent. The result is a rough estimate: it can misjudge dishes and portions, and oil, butter, cream and sauces are often invisible in a photo, so check every food and quantity and add what is missing with Add a food.
The plate photo is not available on my iPhone.
It needs an iPhone compatible with built-in artificial intelligence, running iOS 27 or later, with that feature turned on in Settings and its model downloaded (if it is still being prepared, try again later). On other iPhones the app tells you the feature is not available and everything else works as before. The photo is never sent to a server instead.
Why can the calories from a photo be wrong?
The analysis guesses the foods and their quantities from a single photo. It cannot weigh anything and often cannot see what is hidden in a dish: oil, butter, cream, sauces. It can also name a food wrongly or suggest a quantity that is too high or too low. TakeMyWeek therefore shows no calorie range, which would suggest a precision the analysis does not have: under the total, a line says “Rough estimate: the real value can differ a lot.” A note under the list of foods reminds you that oil, butter, cream and sauces are often invisible in a photo: add them with Add a food (they are in the food list). Under a food, “Uncertain estimate. Please check or correct it.” means that the analysis reported low confidence, or that the food is not in the app’s own food list, so its calories are the analysis’s estimate, kept within a plausible range for its category: check or correct it. A line without that mark is not necessarily right. If a message says a quantity was reduced, it was lowered to stay within the app’s limits: check it. The note that the list is limited to the most visible foods appears only when the list was cut to 8 foods (rare: the analysis returns at most 8 foods). When the list is full (8 foods), a note says to remove one to add another.
What changed in version 2.5.1?
Version 2.5.1 changes the plate photo result and fixes a few screens. The calorie calculation is unchanged. Plate photo: the calorie range is replaced by a rough-estimate line without figures; a reminder about oil, butter, cream and sauces appears under the list of foods; a separate message appears when a quantity was reduced; the “Uncertain estimate” mark also appears for foods that are not in the app’s food list; and for such a food, protein, fat and carbs no longer add up to more than 100 g per 100 g (calories are unchanged). Screens: in the barcode scan, in the manual journal entry and when you enter your weight (“Continue” in “Your goal”, “Next step” in the setup questions), fields and buttons stay reachable above the keyboard, and the “One of these situations applies to me” switch (calculator and Goals) also responds when you tap its label.
Where is my daily log kept?
On your iPhone only, in the app’s file with the rest of your data. It is part of a JSON backup if you export one, and Settings › Reset data clears it.
How do I change my needs and goals?
Go to Settings › My needs and goals: the questions open filled in with your current answers and settings. Saving updates your settings and goals; your saved week stays as it is until you prepare a new one. Changing the number of servings is part of Premium, as in the week’s preferences.
What happens if I close the offer screen?
Nothing is charged. From version 2.4 the offer screen opens once, right after your free first week; close it with the cross to continue with limited access: you keep your saved week, its recipes and your shopping list, and you can open the offers again from Settings › Subscription.
Do the congratulations send notifications?
No. They appear only inside the app, for a few seconds or until you tap them, and each one is shown once. The only notification TakeMyWeek can send is the optional weekly reminder (version 2.3), if you turn it on.
How do I share the shopping list with my household?
In Shopping, tap Export to Reminders: the items still to buy go to a “TakeMyWeek groceries” list in the Reminders app. Share that list from Reminders, and everyone sees the ticks. Exporting again replaces the items TakeMyWeek added before. You can also share the list as text, sorted by aisle, and add your own items with Add an item.
What is “Cook once, eat twice”?
In your week’s preferences, with lunches and dinners, turn on Cook once, eat twice: each dinner becomes the next day’s lunch. The dinner card tells you how many servings to cook; the shopping list counts them once. You can still swap a leftover lunch for another lunch.
"Not enough compatible recipes" — why?
Your filters (time limit, diet, excluded ingredients or allergens) leave fewer recipes than meals in your week. The app tells you whether lunches or dinners are missing and never loosens your filters on its own: raise the time limit, choose 5 days instead of 7, plan dinners only, or remove an exclusion. When it sets things up from your needs, it only adjusts what it chose for you (such as the diet or the cooking time) and says so in the summary; your allergens, a diet you picked and your collections are never changed.
How do I plan lunches as well as dinners?
In your week’s preferences, choose lunches and dinners. Your week then has a Lunch tab and a Dinner tab; locked meals stay as they are when you generate again.
How do I keep a meal and reshuffle the rest?
Tap Lock on the meals you want to keep, then generate your week again. Use Replace to swap a single meal.
How do Goals work?
Open the Goals tab, enter your profile (adults only), your current and target weight and your pace. The app estimates a daily calorie target with safeguards and lets you choose one of ten diets for your next meals. Your current week stays as it is until you generate again.
How does the calorie calculator work?
Open the Goals tab and tap the Calorie calculator card, below the Daily journal. Enter your age, the sex used in the formula, your height in cm, your weight in kg and your activity level: it shows an estimate of your basal metabolic rate (the energy your body uses at rest) and of the calories to maintain your weight per day, then per week (7 times the daily figure). It is free and for adults only. It uses the Mifflin-St Jeor formula and activity factors from 1.4 to 2.0; the real figure varies from person to person, so treat it as an estimate, not medical advice. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, have an eating disorder or a medical condition, turn on the health professional switch: no number is shown, and a health professional is the right person to ask.
Is what I type in the calorie calculator saved?
No. It stays on your iPhone, is not saved, is not part of the JSON backup and is never sent. It may open filled in from your Goals profile, which the calculator never changes. If you have saved a weight goal in Goals, the calculator also shows that goal as saved there.
How do I connect or disconnect my steps?
In Goals, tap Connect to Health and allow reading the step count. To stop, go to Settings › Privacy & Security › Health › TakeMyWeek, or use the Health app. If there is no data or access is off, you can enter steps by hand.
The barcode scan does not find my product.
The scan needs an internet connection and a TakeMyWeek Premium subscription. If a product is not in Open Food Facts, check the barcode or try another product; you can also type the barcode digits.
I do not see the welcome offer.
It appears in the Goals tab and, from version 2.3, at the top of the offer screen, only on a new installation of version 2.1 or later, during the 48 hours after the first opening, if Apple confirms that your account is eligible and you are not already subscribed.
Why does the shopping list say 1 avocado when the recipe uses half?
The list rounds whole items up so you buy what you need; recipe pages show exact amounts for your servings.
Can I use metric units?
Yes: choose metric or US units in Settings, in any of the 10 languages.
How do I manage, cancel or restore my subscription?
Manage or cancel it in the Settings app of your iPhone: tap your name, then Subscriptions. On a new device, open TakeMyWeek, go to Settings › Subscription and tap Restore purchases.
What can I do without a subscription?
You can browse the recipe collections, keep reading your saved week, its recipes and your shopping list, add your own items to the list, share it or export it to Reminders, use Goals, the calorie calculator and steps, and try plate photo analysis 3 times. Generating or changing a week, opening other recipes, advanced filters, the pantry, the barcode scan and further plate photo analyses are part of Premium.
How do I move my data to a new iPhone?
Settings › Export JSON backup creates a backup file; open it with Settings › Import JSON backup on the new device. Your daily log is in the backup. Steps from Apple Health are not in the backup: connect Health again on the new iPhone.

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