What a private calorie tracker looks like in practice: on-device storage, no account, no ad SDKs — and the tradeoffs stated plainly. Updated August 2026.
BodyDex stores food logs, weight, recipes, workouts, and protocol logs in a local SQLite database on your device. No BodyDex account is required for core tracking, and there is no centralized database of user food entries. AI features send only the photo or question for processing, with no name or account identity attached — and the app ships with zero ad SDKs. The tradeoffs are real too: no multi-device sync yet, and deleting the app wipes local data irrecoverably — so export a portable copy of your records (Profile → Export Data, JSON or CSV) before any reinstall. There's no in-app restore, but the export keeps your history in a form you can read.
Food logs, weight history, recipes, workouts, and protocol logs are stored in a local SQLite database on your phone. That's not a marketing abstraction — it's a database file on your device, not a row in a vendor's cloud.
You can log food, weight, workouts, and protocols without creating a BodyDex account. A tracker that demands an email before your first entry is building a profile of you; a local-first one doesn't need to know who you are.
There is no server-side BodyDex table of what you ate. Your log can't be sold, subpoenaed from us, or leaked from our infrastructure, because it isn't in our infrastructure.
When you use AI photo scanning or the coach, only the photo or the question is sent for processing, with no name or account identity attached. Photos aren't saved server-side (unless you explicitly send one with a scan-accuracy report — auto-deleted in 90 days) — the answer comes back and lands in your local database. Our privacy policy details how AI providers may use submitted content.
BodyDex ships with no advertising SDKs. Nothing in the app is instrumented to build an ad profile from your eating habits, weight, or protocols.
Profile → Food Databases shows which source powers food search, barcode scans, and AI scans, and has a switch to turn any of them off (one search database always stays on so search keeps working). Foods from the community database, Open Food Facts, are labeled as community data with a note that entries can be inaccurate, and you can flag incorrect data from the food detail screen.
Export your data as JSON or CSV from Profile → Export Data any time. Delete everything from Profile just as easily. Local-first means the data is yours to take or destroy — no support ticket required.
Because your data lives on one device, it doesn't follow you to a second phone or tablet automatically. Sync is on the roadmap; until then, one device holds the log. Exports give you a readable copy of your records, but there is no import to load them into another install.
There's no cloud copy to restore from, so deleting the app deletes the local database irrecoverably. If you're about to reinstall, switch phones, or wipe the device — run Profile → Export Data first, every time. The export is a portable copy of your records, not something the app can restore, but it's the difference between losing your history and keeping it in readable form.
There is no BodyDex server copy to restore from, and the current app has no import or restore feature. An export (JSON or CSV) is a portable copy of your logged records — it doesn't include image files or every setting, and the app can't read it back in. On iOS your data can ride along with device backups depending on your settings; the Android build opts out of OS backups entirely.
Your data controls live in Profile — no settings maze, no support ticket.
Choose JSON (full structured export) or CSV (spreadsheet-friendly). The export covers your logs — food, weight, recipes, workouts, protocols.
Files app, cloud drive, email to yourself — anywhere off the phone. This file is a portable copy of your records; BodyDex has no server copy, and the current app has no import or restore feature to read it back in.
Deleting or reinstalling the app wipes the local database irrecoverably. Export first, every time. To erase everything on purpose, use the delete option in Profile.
Your food logs, weight, recipes, workouts, and protocol logs are stored in a SQLite database on your device. Core tracking works without a BodyDex account, and there is no centralized server-side database of user food entries. It's an architecture statement, not a slogan.
AI features are the one place data leaves the device, and the scope is narrow: only the photo you scan or the question you ask is sent for processing, with no name, email, or account identity attached. Photos aren't saved server-side unless you explicitly opt to send one with a scan-accuracy report (auto-deleted in 90 days); the privacy policy details how AI providers may use submitted content. The result comes back and is stored locally like everything else.
No. There are zero advertising SDKs in the app. BodyDex is funded by Premium subscriptions, not by monetizing your eating data.
It's gone, irrecoverably. That's the honest flip side of no cloud copy: nothing survives an uninstall except what you exported — and because the current app has no import or restore feature, an export is a portable copy of your records (JSON/CSV), not a way to rebuild your log. Run Profile → Export Data before deleting, reinstalling, or switching phones so your history at least survives in readable form.
Not with synced data today — multi-device sync is on the roadmap. Right now each install keeps its own local database. Exports give you a readable copy of your records, but there is no import in the current app, so an export can't be loaded into a second device.
We make architecture claims, not invincibility claims. Your data sits in a local database on your device and inherits your device's protections (passcode, device encryption, your OS backup settings). What we can say factually: a breach of BodyDex servers can't leak a food-entry database that doesn't exist there.
Protocol logs are exactly the data you want on-device — same local SQLite model.
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Track food, weight, workouts, and protocols with your data in a local database on your own phone.
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