Vía Pilates vs Plateful

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On an iPhone running iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, Plateful estimates your meals on the device itself. The photograph is read where it was taken and is never uploaded. Food logging asks for something unusually personal: what you eat, when, how much, and a picture of it, every day for months. Plateful is built so that record has nowhere to go. HOW A MEAL IS ESTIMATED, AND WHAT EACH PATH SENDS 1. On your iPhone. On iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, photos, typed meals, and spoken meals are read by the model already on your phone. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no monthly limit, no network needed. 2. Apple's Private Cloud Compute, at your tap. One tap on the confirm card sends a hard-to-call meal to Apple's Private Cloud Compute for a second opinion from a larger model. It runs on Apple's hardware-attested servers, Apple retains nothing, the request is not readable by Apple, and it never passes through Plateful's servers. It needs no account, and it happens only when you press the button. 3. Claude, if you switch it on. Cloud estimation is how an iPhone without Apple Intelligence gets an AI estimate, and Pro subscribers can choose it deliberately for a harder meal. Before anything is sent, the photo is downscaled and stripped of location and camera metadata on the device. Plateful's server hands the meal to the model and keeps nothing: no image storage, no image column, no log of it. Your meals are not used to train models. The switch starts off, and Settings turns it back off. WHAT NEVER LEAVES THE PHONE, IN ANY MODE Your corrections to an estimate. Everything read from Apple Health: weight, workouts, active energy. Your weigh-ins. Your goals. None of it syncs, none of it is sent, and none of it reaches an estimation request. Plateful carries no advertising, no third-party analytics, and no tracking across apps or websites. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM Privacy is worth little if the figures are guesses. The model reads what is on the plate and judges how much there is. The numbers come from a database of roughly 12,900 foods built from USDA FoodData Central, bundled in the app and needing no network. Every saved meal records the reference it was priced from. WHAT YOU NEED On-device photo, text, and voice estimation requires iOS 27 and an iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on. On iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence, text and voice run on the device and photos are not estimated. On iOS 18 and later without Apple Intelligence, the food database, barcodes, label reading, widgets, Apple Health, and sync all work, and cloud estimation is available. INCLUDED, AT NO COST - Photo, text and voice logging, on device where supported - Barcode scanning and nutrition label reading - A bundled database of roughly 12,900 sourced foods - Calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre and sodium on every meal - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, with one-tap relogging - Apple Health for weight, workouts and active energy - A daily meal quality score, with its reasons - Meal reminders that learn when you actually eat - Progress charts, a weight log, and sync across your devices PLATEFUL PRO - A larger monthly allowance for cloud estimation - Claude as your estimator, for plates you want a stronger read on - Insights: per-meal breakdowns, swaps and weekly patterns - Adaptive calorie targets from your own weight trend - PDF progress reports you can print or send Nothing that was free before Pro moved behind it. Plateful Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or annual, with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://platefulhq.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://platefulhq.com/privacy/