Your health matters more than any number in this app. Be smart and careful if you change the way you eat, and make sure your body still gets everything it needs.
No Meat Today counts the days you ate no meat, prices what you logged in CO₂e, water, land and animals, and — if you photograph a plate — guesses what is on it. Every one of those is an estimate, offered in good faith and for general information only. None of them is a measurement, and none of them is medical advice.
This disclaimer was last reviewed on 12 September 2026. “We” below means Goodwhale EURL, the one-person company I publish the app under.
Not a substitute for medical advice
Before you make a health, medical or dietary decision on the strength of what the app shows you, consult your healthcare professional. We are not responsible for errors or omissions, and we do not take responsibility for a decision you take based solely on the information in the app. Any action you take upon it is strictly at your own risk.
What the camera can and cannot see
A scan starts with a photograph, and with whatever you choose to add to it: whether it is food, a drink or a text to read; a plate’s width, a container’s volume or a weight; and anything you dictate while framing the shot. Your words win — what you say about a photo overrides what the model would have guessed from it. If you allow it, the app also reads your location once, at the shutter, to put the plate on your map; that never reaches the model, and it never reaches us.
Apple Intelligence then reads the picture: it names each food it can see, judges how much of it there is, files it under one of the app’s own foods, works out the energy, protein, carbohydrate and fat, and says how sure it is. It is asked never to invent a food that is not in the picture. Then you confirm or correct it yourself, with the usual tap on a planet. That analysis runs on your device or in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute; nothing is kept there, and nothing is used to train anyone’s models. We never see your photo, your words or the result.
What no photograph can show is the rest: what lies under the top layer, the oil or butter the cooking added, the sugar in the sauce, the recipe, the brand, the substitution the kitchen made — or how much of the plate you actually ate.
Estimates, not measurements
Nothing in a scan is weighed. The quantity is a judgement made from a picture, and when the reading offers no quantity at all the app counts 100 g. A food filed under one of the app’s own foods then carries that food’s typical figures, not your plate’s — which is exactly why a tiramisu counted as cake gives you a plausible number rather than a true one.
The environmental figures come from the app’s own table rather than from the model: kilograms of CO₂e per kilogram of food, drawn from published averages, with my own estimates where no published figure exists, and a category average for any food without a figure of its own. The ±20% band History shows around a total is my rule of thumb for how much production varies. It is not the uncertainty of the science, which is far wider — beef alone spans a threefold range. A cloud is 250 g of CO₂e, rounded to the nearest one. Where each number comes from is set out on the app’s own Sources page, which also admits which figures are mine rather than a study’s.
Treat all of it as an order of magnitude that helps you compare your own weeks. Do not publish it as a measurement of anything.
Never use a scan for a decision that has to be right
A photograph cannot see an ingredient, and the app holds no allergen data whatsoever. So do not use a scan, or the nutrition it produces, to decide:
- a dose of insulin, or of any medication set against carbohydrate or sugar;
- whether a dish is safe with an allergy or an intolerance;
- anything within a diet prescribed for a medical condition — kidney disease, coeliac disease, diabetes, phenylketonuria, a low-sodium regime;
- what is safe to eat in pregnancy;
- or whether a dish is genuinely free of meat, fish, gelatin, broth, lard or stock. If being right matters to you, the app’s guess is not enough.
For any of those, read the label, ask whoever cooked it, or ask your clinician.
Apple Health, if you turn it on
When you let the app write to Apple Health, a scan’s estimates are saved there as dietary samples — energy, carbohydrate, protein, total fat and sugar. Anything else that reads Health will then treat those estimates as your measured intake, because Health has no way to mark them as guesses. They are yours to review or delete in the Health app at any time, and the permission itself is yours to withdraw in iOS Settings.
The AI-written text elsewhere in the app
The silly remarks, the name suggestions for your cows and the quizzes are written by a language model too. It can be confidently wrong, including about nutrition. None of it is nutritional guidance, and none of it has been reviewed by a dietitian.
If tracking stops being kind
This app is a habit tracker. It is not a diet, not a health service, and not a therapist. If counting starts to feel compulsive, or if logging your meals has you eating less than you need, the right move is to stop tracking and talk to someone — your doctor, or an eating-disorder helpline where you live. Nothing here is worth that.
No Meat Today is rated 4+ on the App Store, and children are welcome in it. It is still no basis for removing food groups from a growing child’s diet; that is a conversation for a paediatrician.
Tell me when it is wrong
A reading you can see is wrong is worth reporting: there is a button for it at the end of every scan’s details, and you can always reach me at Settings → ✉️ Contact the cowboy. Those reports are how the scanning gets better. The support page lists every other way to get hold of me.
Liability
We will not be liable for any losses or damages in connection with your use of No Meat Today, the information it shows, or this website. The full terms of that limitation, and the law it is governed by, are in the Terms of Service; what the app does with your data is in the Privacy Policy.