Terms of Use
Updated 28 October 2026
By creating a username in Hunger you agree to these terms.
Not medical advice
Hunger estimates calories and macros from photos and descriptions, and its numbers can be wrong by a wide margin. It does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition, and it is not a substitute for a doctor or a dietitian.
What you can post
The Feed is for photos of food. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Do not post:
- anything other than food, including people, faces or personal information;
- nudity, sexual, violent, hateful or harassing content;
- anything illegal, or anything you do not have the right to share;
- spam, advertising, or a username that impersonates or insults someone.
Titles, notes, comments and usernames pass through a filter that refuses slurs, sexual terms and abuse before anything is posted.
Reporting and blocking
Every post and every comment can be reported, and every person can be blocked, from the post's menu or the comment's. A reported post or comment disappears for you immediately. Blocking someone removes their posts and comments from your Feed at once, hides yours from them, and notifies Hunger of the content you blocked them from. Reports and blocks are reviewed within 24 hours; content that breaks these terms is removed, and the account that posted it is removed too.
Your photos
You keep ownership of everything you post. Hunger does not claim it, and nothing here takes your rights away from you.
What you do give Hunger, by posting to the Feed, is a licence to use it: worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sub-licensable, to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute and display your posts and to make other works from them, in Hunger and in promoting Hunger. You confirm you are entitled to grant it — that the photo is yours to post, and that anyone identifiable in it is content to appear.
The licence lasts while your post is up. Delete the post, or your account, and it ends: we stop using it and take it down, allowing a reasonable period for copies already made and for anything the law requires us to keep.
Anything beyond running and promoting Hunger — selling your posts on, or training an artificial intelligence model on them — is not covered by this licence. Hunger will ask you first and do it only if you say yes.
Estimating a meal is a separate thing, and it happens whether or not you share the meal. On an iPhone that cannot read the plate itself, the photo is sent to an outside AI provider to be estimated. Hunger uses the free tiers of those providers, and a free tier's terms commonly let the provider keep what is sent and train its models on it — which is outside this licence and outside Hunger's control. The picture travels with nothing attached to it: no name, no account, no location. The Privacy Policy says what travels and what does not, and the app tells you before the first photo leaves so that you can type your meals instead.
Your account
You must be at least 13. Hunger may remove content or accounts that break these terms. You can delete your account at any time from Profile.
Changes
If these terms change, the date above changes with them, and continuing to use the Feed means accepting the new version.