Your health matters more than any number in this app. Be smart and careful if you change the way you eat, and make sure your body still gets everything it needs.
No Treat Today counts the days you did not overindulge, turns what you logged into sugar cubes, and — if you photograph a plate — guesses what is on it. Every one of those is an estimate, offered in good faith and for general information only. None of them is a measurement, and none of them is medical advice.
This disclaimer was last reviewed on 12 September 2026. “We” below means Goodwhale EURL, the one-person company I publish the app under.
Not a substitute for medical advice
Before you make a health, medical or dietary decision on the strength of what the app shows you, consult your healthcare professional. We are not responsible for errors or omissions, and we do not take responsibility for a decision you take based solely on the information in the app. Any action you take upon it is strictly at your own risk.
What the camera can and cannot see
A scan starts with a photograph, and with whatever you choose to add to it: whether it is food, a drink or a text to read; a plate’s width, a container’s volume or a weight; and anything you dictate while framing the shot. Your words win — what you say about a photo overrides what the model would have guessed from it. If you allow it, the app also reads your location once, at the shutter, to put the plate on your map; that never reaches the model, and it never reaches us.
Apple Intelligence then reads the picture: it names each food it can see, judges how much of it there is, files it under one of the app’s own foods, works out the energy, protein, carbohydrate and fat as well as the sugars — total, added and free — and says how sure it is. It is asked never to invent a food that is not in the picture. Then you confirm or correct it yourself, with the usual yes-or-no answer to Crush. That analysis runs on your device or in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute; nothing is kept there, and nothing is used to train anyone’s models. We never see your photo, your words or the result.
What no photograph can show is the rest: the sugar stirred into the sauce, the syrup in the coffee, the oil the cooking added, what lies under the top layer, the recipe, the brand, whether the drink was the diet version — or how much of the plate you actually ate.
Estimates, not measurements
Nothing in a scan is weighed. The quantity is a judgement made from a picture, and a food filed under one of the app’s own foods carries that food’s typical figures, not your plate’s — which is exactly why a tiramisu counted as cake gives you a plausible number rather than a true one. A rough figure beats a missing one, but it stays a rough figure.
The cubes are arithmetic on top of that estimate, so they inherit all of its uncertainty. A cube is 4 g of sugar, rounded to the nearest one: under 2 g is a free pass, anything above counts as at least one cube. The app counts free sugars as the World Health Organization defines them — the sugars added by the cook or the maker, plus those in honey, syrups and fruit juices — which is why whole fruit does not rain cubes down your screen. And the default budget of six cubes a day comes from the WHO’s conditional guideline of under 5% of energy on a 2,000 kcal day. It is a public-health reference point, not a prescription written for your body. Where each number comes from is set out on the app’s own Sources page.
Treat all of it as an order of magnitude that helps you compare your own weeks. Do not read it as a measurement of what you ate.
Never use a scan for a decision that has to be right
A photograph cannot see an ingredient, and the app holds no allergen data whatsoever. So do not use a scan, or the nutrition it produces, to decide:
- a dose of insulin, or of any medication set against carbohydrate or sugar. If you manage diabetes, this app is not a carb-counting tool and was never built to be one;
- whether a dish is safe with an allergy or an intolerance;
- anything within a diet prescribed for a medical condition — diabetes, kidney disease, coeliac disease, fructose intolerance, a low-sodium regime;
- or what is safe to eat in pregnancy.
For any of those, read the label, ask whoever cooked it, or ask your clinician.
Apple Health, if you turn it on
When you let the app write to Apple Health, a scan’s estimates are saved there as dietary samples — energy, carbohydrate, protein, total fat and sugar. Anything else that reads Health will then treat those estimates as your measured intake, because Health has no way to mark them as guesses. They are yours to review or delete in the Health app at any time, and the permission itself is yours to withdraw in iOS Settings.
Alcohol
You can count days without alcohol here, and plenty of people do. That is not treatment for alcohol dependence, and this app does not pretend to be. If you drink heavily every day, stopping abruptly can be medically dangerous — withdrawal is a medical event, not a matter of willpower. Talk to a doctor before you change that, and let a professional, not an ape, tell you how.
The AI-written text elsewhere in the app
The remarks, the name suggestions for your apes and the quizzes are written by a language model too. It can be confidently wrong, including about nutrition. None of it is nutritional guidance, and none of it has been reviewed by a dietitian.
If tracking stops being kind
This app is a habit tracker. It is not a diet, not a health service, and not a therapist. The whole design is meant to be gentle about it — a treat never resets your progress, and your apes stay with you — but no design makes tracking right for everyone.
If counting starts to feel compulsive, if a cube count decides whether the day was a good one, or if logging has you eating less than you need, the right move is to stop tracking and talk to someone: your doctor, or an eating-disorder helpline where you live. If you are in treatment for an eating disorder, ask the person treating you before you track anything at all. Nothing here is worth that.
Tell me when it is wrong
A reading you can see is wrong is worth reporting: there is a button for it at the end of every scan’s details, and you can always reach me at Settings → ✉️ Contact the Creator. Those reports are how the scanning gets better. The support page lists every other way to get hold of me.
Liability
We will not be liable for any losses or damages in connection with your use of No Treat Today, the information it shows, or this website. The full terms of that limitation, and the law it is governed by, are in the Terms of Service; what the app does with your data is in the Privacy Policy.