What OwnPlate is for
Plain promises about how this app works. Each one is checked against what the app actually does. Anything not built yet is listed at the end as not built, never described as if it were.
1. Seeing what you actually eat
Most of what surrounds food is designed by someone else: the portion, the package, the ad, the aisle. Almost nothing tells you honestly what you just ate.
OwnPlate is here so you can see it for yourself. It does not tell you what to eat. It shows you what you did eat, clearly enough to decide what to do next, with a coach to think it through with.
2. Four weeks to find out, then an honest price
You get four weeks before anyone asks for money. That is long enough to answer the one question that matters, *is this working for me?*, and short enough to be a promise the app can keep. If you subscribe, the first charge waits until four weeks after you joined.
No feature is held back for a paid tier. The coach, the photo reading, the plans: what you get in week one is the whole app.
There is one limit, and it is named rather than hidden. Reading a photo is capped per day, because it is the one thing that costs real money every time it runs.
- Running out never stops you logging. Type the meal or tell the
coach. You lose the camera doing the reading, not the record.
- You see the number before you spend it, not by hitting a wall.
- It will go up as the app learns what it costs to run.
Nothing else is metered, and nothing else is planned to be.
3. People bring people in
OwnPlate grows by members vouching for it, not by ads.
OwnPlate is invite-only. Signing in creates your account, but until a member opens the door for you, what you get is the community map and a place in the queue — not the app pretending to work.
- Invite a friend once you have used it steadily: logging on ten of
the last fourteen days. The invitation asks why you thought of them, because you are vouching, not forwarding a link.
- Earn an Exir. Logging on twenty of twenty-eight days fills a drop;
four drops make an Exir, a first month you can give. On the community map you can read the case of someone waiting, in their own words, and give it to them.
A gift is measured in people, not in currency. What is shown is how many people you brought in, never an amount ranked against anyone else.
4. Your data, and where it lives
In your own Google Drive, if you connect it: your meal photos at full size, your scanned pantry labels, a plain-language note of what the coach has learned about you, a readable copy of each plan, and full backups whenever you ask.
All of it in one folder OwnPlate creates. The permission it asks for (drive.file) reaches only files this app itself made: the rest of your Drive is invisible to it, and it never asks for Google Photos. Decline it and the app still works — you lose the photo archive, the readable note and the backups, not the coaching.
On OwnPlate's server, what the app needs to work: your profile, meals and their items with a small thumbnail of each photo, body measurements, plans and goals, pantry products, water, fasting windows, and, if you connect Apple Health or Health Connect, your steps and workouts (read only; OwnPlate never writes to them).
Conversations with the coach are kept as a rolling window of the last forty messages so it can remember what you were talking about. Older messages are dropped. What matters from them goes into the plain-language note in your Drive, where you can read or delete it.
What we do with it: study patterns across accounts to make the app better, such as which foods are hard to estimate or which targets turn out to be unrealistic. We would rather say that than pretend nobody looks.
What we will never do: sell it, rent it, or share it with anyone outside OwnPlate. Not advertisers, not data brokers, not anyone whose business is selling to your insecurities. Not ever, and not for any price. The few services that process data to run the app are named in the privacy policy.
5. A place on the map, not a place in a ranking
Members appear on the community map as a heart at city level, never a name or a precise place. A number comes when you commit to a plan, given in the order people joined. Nothing on the map is ordered by what anyone achieved or paid.
When progress is shown, the satisfaction line is yours, in your words. Reaching 40% of a goal and calling it "super satisfying" is a real result. The app never turns your numbers into a grade and calls that how you feel.
6. Tell us what is wrong
Say what is wrong to the coach, out loud or typed, however it comes out. It writes a short summary, sends it to the people building OwnPlate, and shows you exactly what it sent. No form, no ticket. What is stored is the summary, what you said, and which screen you were on.
7. The alpha, and what it asks of testers
Right now OwnPlate is tested by a small group invited by name. Being a tester asks one more thing than using the app, stated plainly:
A tester's conversations with the coach are kept, not just the last forty, so we can tell whether it is improving. When voice goes wrong (it hears nothing, invents words from background noise, misunderstands), only those few seconds of audio are kept, so the failure can be reproduced and fixed. Never the whole day, never the good conversations. Audio is deleted after ninety days; written conversations are kept while the alpha runs.
- It is part of the invitation, stated before sign-in, and accepting
it is recorded.
- You can read all of it.
- You can withdraw, which deletes what was kept.
- It ends when the alpha ends.
What is not built yet
- the public board of plans, progress and satisfaction lines
- an unaimed sponsorship pool, for anyone who needs a month and has no one
to ask
- account deletion from inside the app (for now, email
hello@ownplate.ai and it is done by hand within thirty days)
- Drive as the only home for your data, with the server as a copy it can
rebuild
Changing this page
This page is served straight from one file in OwnPlate's source. If anything here stops matching what the app does, that is a bug, and the fix goes in the same change.