Support
Answers to the common questions. If yours isn't here, write to us: a person reads every email.
Tell us your iPhone model, the iOS version, the app version (You → About Yumta) and what you were trying to do. Screenshots help.
Logging
How does logging work?
Tap “Search foods” at the top of Today, or “+ Log food” under a meal. Choose how to add it: search, barcode, photo, describe or quick add. Pick a food, set the portion, and log it. The jar fills, and you can change or delete the entry later, on past days too.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack are always listed. There's nothing to close at the end of the day.
My barcode wasn't found. What now?
Add the product once. You can type the values from the nutrition table yourself, which is always free, or scan the label with Premium and check the values Yumta reads against the pack.
If the product has a barcode and the values pass our checks, it joins the shared food database: everyone who scans that barcode finds it from then on. The shared entry holds the product data only, never who added it. Values that don't pass the checks stay a private food that only you see.
How does photo logging work, and what does it cost?
Take a photo of your meal. Yumta recognises the foods and suggests a portion for each one. The nutrition numbers come from food databases, never from the AI. Check the foods and portions, change anything that's off, then add them to the meal.
Every account gets 3 free photo logs. Photos that show no food, or that fail, don't count. After that, photo logging is part of Premium. Search, barcodes, entering a label by hand and quick add are always free.
The photo is sent to our server and an AI service only to read it. It isn't stored. See the privacy policy for details.
What is Describe?
With Premium, type what you ate, for example “two eggs, toast with butter, coffee with milk”. Yumta turns it into a draft meal with matching foods and portions, ready to check and log. If a match was a guess, it says “Best guess” and you can pick another.
Why does a number say “estimated”?
The portion is the only estimate in Yumta. When an amount comes from a photo or a description, it's marked as estimated, for example “Amount estimated from the photo”. Tap it to change it.
The values per gram always come from a source, shown on every food: a reference database (USDA FoodData Central), Open Food Facts, a scanned label, or a food you entered yourself.
In “Training today”, a workout's energy can also say estimated when Apple Health has no measured value for it. That line is context only and is never added to your target.
What's included in Premium?
Premium covers the AI features: meal photos (after the 3 free ones), label scans and Describe. Premium will be an auto-renewing subscription through the App Store. The price is shown in the app before you buy, and you manage or cancel it in your iPhone's Settings → your name → Subscriptions.
Your plan
How is my target worked out?
From your answers: sex for the formula, birth date, height, weight, goal, daily activity and training days, plus the pace you choose. Yumta works out the energy you use in a day, sets a target with protein, carbs and fat, and projects when you'll reach your goal. Change any of it in You → Plan.
Yumta keeps safety floors: it won't plan below a minimum energy intake or toward an unhealthy goal weight, and it slows a pace that's too steep.
I'm pregnant or breastfeeding
Turn on “I'm pregnant or breastfeeding” when you edit your plan. Yumta then plans to keep your weight steady rather than to lose. Please talk to your doctor or midwife about what's right for you. Yumta isn't medical advice.
Apple Health, widgets and Siri
What does Yumta do with Apple Health?
It's optional. Turn it on in You → Linked apps → Apple Health. Then Yumta:
- writes the energy, protein, carbs, fat and fibre of the meals you log;
- reads your weight, and adds new weigh-ins to your Yumta account;
- reads your workouts and active energy to show “Training today”. These stay on your iPhone and are never sent to our server.
To change what Yumta may read or write, open Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Yumta, or the Health app → your profile → Apps.
How do I add a widget?
Touch and hold your Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and choose Yumta. “Day jar” shows what's left for today (Home Screen and Lock Screen). “Consistency map” shows your last 12 weeks. In Control Center you can add buttons to search and log a meal or to open the barcode scanner.
Can I log with Siri?
Say “Log food in Yumta” or “Log a meal in Yumta”, and Yumta opens straight into logging. You'll also find it in the Shortcuts app.
Account and data
Do I need an account?
You can answer the questions and see your plan first. To save it, sign in with Apple. You can share your email or hide it with Apple's private relay address. There's no password.
How do I export my data?
In the app, open You → Account → Export my data. You get your meals and weigh-ins as CSV files you can open in any spreadsheet, and your plan as a JSON file. Share or save them wherever you like. For anything else we hold about you, email us.
How do I delete my account?
- Open the You tab.
- Under Account, tap Delete account.
- Read what will be deleted and tap Delete my account.
This deletes your profile and plans, every meal you logged, your weigh-ins, your private foods and favorites from our servers, and revokes Yumta's Sign in with Apple. It can't be undone. Foods you added to the shared database stay, without your name. Our daily backups roll off within 14 days.
Deleting your account doesn't cancel a subscription: cancel it in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. If you can't reach the button, email us from the address on your account and we'll delete it for you.
Where is my data stored?
On our own server and database in Frankfurt, Germany. We don't sell your data, show ads or use tracking tools. The privacy policy lists every data flow.
Still stuck?
Write to support@yumta.app. If something is broken, confusing or just feels off, we'd like to know.
Yumta is a tool for tracking food and weight. It isn't medical advice and isn't meant for people under 16.