Privacy

Last updated 21 August 2026

Written to describe what the app and its server actually do. No advertising, no analytics SDKs, no tracking across other companies' apps or websites, and nothing sold or shared for anyone else's marketing.

Using Tableful without an account

You do not have to sign in. On first launch the app creates an anonymous account for that installation so your kitchen has somewhere to live. It holds a random identifier and nothing about you, no name, no email, no contacts, no location.

If you sign in with Apple

Apple gives us a stable identifier for you and, if you allow it, an email address. With "Hide My Email" that address is a relay Apple operates, and we never see your real one. We keep the identifier so your kitchen can follow you to another phone, and the email address so we can reach you about your account. That is the entire use.

What we store

Your kitchen	Saved recipes, the week's plan, shopping list state, pantry and cook log, so a new phone can have them.
Recipes you publish	If you share one, its title, ingredients, method, photo and the name you chose to publish under.
Account	The identifier above, an email address if you shared one, and when the account was created and last seen.
Device checks	A key your iPhone's Secure Enclave generates, used to confirm requests come from a genuine copy of the app rather than a script. It cannot identify you or be read by us.
Usage counts	How many paid AI requests you have used this month (imports, Forge, adaptations, or smart collections), to apply the plan's allowance. A number, not a history of what you cooked.
Photos	A photo you scan is sent for reading and not kept. A photo attached to a recipe you publish is stored, because it is part of what you published.

What we send elsewhere, and when

• OpenAI, the text of a page, the caption of a video, or a photo you scan, at the moment you import it, to turn it into a recipe. Sent for that request only. We do not send your plan, your list, or anything about you.
• Apple, sign-in and the device check described above.
• USDA FoodData Central, ingredient names, to look up calories and macros. No account information goes with them.
• The site you are importing from, we fetch the page you asked for, identifying ourselves as Tableful's importer and honouring robots.txt.
• Render, our hosting provider, which operates the servers and storage the above lives on. Depending on the region we run in, that processing may happen in the United States.

App Store purchases. Apple processes Tableful subscriptions and AI top-ups. Payment details never reach us. Apple sends us transaction and subscription status so we can unlock what you bought, prevent fraud, and restore purchases.

What we do not do

• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics or crash SDKs from other companies.
• No tracking of you across other apps or websites. The App Store label says so, and it is true.
• No selling or renting of anything, to anyone.

Getting rid of it

Kitchen preferences → Your kitchen → Delete account. That erases the account, everything in your kitchen on our server, and every recipe you published under it. It is immediate and cannot be undone. Recipes saved on your phone stay on your phone until you delete the app.

You can also sign out, which leaves your recipes on the phone and stops them being backed up, or simply delete the app.

If you would rather ask us, write to privacy@tableful.app and we will do it and confirm.

How long we keep things

Your kitchen for as long as your account exists. Import records, which page, whether it worked, why it failed, for up to a year, because they are how we fix the importer. Monthly usage counts for the current and previous month.

Children

Tableful is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Your rights

If you are in the EU, EEA or UK, you can ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct or erase it, or object to our holding it. Write to privacy@tableful.app. We do not require an account to answer.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, the app will say so rather than leaving you to notice. The date at the top always reflects the current version.