Support

Help & FAQ

A few common questions. If yours isn't here, write in — every email is read by the person who made the app.

How to use it

What do I do first?

Snap a photo before your next meal. That's the whole onboarding. Open BrainFood, tap the plus, take the picture, save. Thirty minutes later you'll get a reminder to log how you feel.

I forgot to take a photo before eating. Can I still log the meal?

Yes. On the add-meal screen there's a "Choose from library" option for a photo you already took, and a text field so you can type the meal name without any photo at all. The time picker lets you set when you actually ate.

Why thirty minutes?

Postprandial response — the body's reaction to a meal in alertness, glucose, and energy — peaks roughly in the first hour after eating. Thirty minutes catches the rising edge before the day buries the signal.

Can I change the check-in delay?

Not yet. Configurable delay is on the short list for the next version.

About photos and EXIF

If I pick a photo from my library, what time does BrainFood use?

The photo's actual capture time, from its EXIF metadata. So if you snap a photo in the iOS Camera app at lunch and log it in BrainFood at dinner, the meal still lands on the lunch row of your timeline.

Where are my meal photos stored?

In BrainFood's private app storage on your iPhone. They are not added to your camera roll, and they don't leave the device. They are included in your iCloud device backup if you have one.

Notifications

I'm not getting reminder notifications.

Check Settings → Notifications → BrainFood and confirm notifications are enabled. If you tapped "Don't Allow" on first launch, that's the fix.

The notification fired immediately instead of after thirty minutes.

This happens when you log a meal that was eaten more than thirty minutes ago (e.g. a photo with an older EXIF timestamp). The reminder schedules from the meal's actual capture time, not from when you tapped Save. If the thirty-minute window has already passed, the reminder doesn't fire at all.

Data & privacy

Does BrainFood share my food data?

No. There is no account, no server, no analytics. Everything lives on your phone. See the privacy page for details.

How do I delete a meal?

Swipe left on the meal row in the timeline. Deletes the meal, the check-in, the photo, and cancels the pending reminder.

How do I delete everything?

Delete the BrainFood app from your iPhone. All meal data and photos are stored in the app's container and removed with it. There's no other copy.