Terms
Last updated 21 September 2026
Half Plate is licensed, not sold, under Apple's standard end user licence agreement, which applies to every app on the App Store: Terms of Use (EULA). The notes below are the parts specific to this app. Where the two differ on anything material, the EULA governs.
What the app is
Half Plate plans a week of dinners from a library of recipes, builds one shopping list from that plan, cooks with you step by step, and keeps a food diary if you want one. An assistant can adapt a recipe into a version of your own, read a shelf or a label from a photograph, and answer questions about cooking. It is made by Dobreon sp. z o.o., registered in Poland.
It is not medical advice
This matters enough to say plainly. Half Plate is not a medical device and gives no medical advice. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent anything. If you have a condition affected by what you eat — diabetes, an eating disorder, kidney disease, an allergy, pregnancy — talk to a clinician and do not make decisions on the strength of a number in this app. Targets, where you set them, come from a standard published equation and are a starting point for a healthy adult, nothing more. The report the app can produce for a clinician says on its first page that it is the app's own reading.
Allergies and other hard limits
A must-never you set filters what is suggested and what an adapted recipe may contain, and no ranking or preference can get past it. We build it to hold and we test that it holds. Even so, the label in your hand is the authority: recipes are matched to a public food database, products are reformulated, and a shared kitchen is not something software can see. If an allergy is dangerous to you, read the packet.
The numbers are ours, and they are estimates
Calories, macronutrients, plate scores and amounts are calculated by us from USDA FoodData Central on the ingredients as confirmed, not produced by the assistant. Amounts read from a photograph are guesses until you set them, and the app says so where it shows them. Treat the figures as a useful guide rather than as measurement.
What the assistant is
Answers, adapted recipes and readings come from an AI service and can be wrong. The app checks what comes back against your limits before showing it, and drops what breaks one, but a suggestion is a suggestion. Nothing the assistant produces is applied to your plan or your diary without you confirming it. Nothing is sent to that service until you agree, and the agreement can be taken back in You → Assistant — see the privacy policy for what each request carries.
Recipes
Most recipes come from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH), are in the public domain, and are adapted by us — metric amounts, shorter steps, nutrition recalculated. Some are written by us; each recipe says which it is. NIH does not endorse this app. A recipe you bring in yourself stays yours, is marked for your own use and never joins the public library.
Free, and Pro
- Everything done by hand is free for good: the library and search, saving, cooking mode, ratings, the first week built on your phone, weeks planned by hand, the shopping list, My food, the diary by hand and by barcode, the plate score, reports and export.
- Each assisted feature has one free pass so that all of it can be tried — one Recipe Lab run, one shelf reading, one meal photograph, one set of Explorer ideas, three recipe imports, three Chat questions. A pass is spent only when a result comes back: a failure, a refusal and a repeat of the same request cost nothing.
- Pro is $24.99 a year or $3.99 a month in the United States; other currencies are Apple's pricing for your region and are shown in the app before you buy. There is no trial — the free passes are the trial.
- Pro carries ceilings rather than an open tap: ten Recipe Lab runs a month, five Chat questions a day, thirty recipe imports a month, twenty meal photographs a day, ten shelf readings a day, one set of Explorer ideas a day. Recipe Lab and Chat show what is left of theirs as you go; the rest are there to stop automated use and say so only if you reach one. They are counted on our server and can be adjusted without an app update.
- Message packs — 20 for $0.99, 50 for $1.99 — add Chat messages for a subscriber who has used the day's five. They are bought once, do not expire, and are spent only after the day's own messages are gone.
- A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and your Apple Account is charged within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel in Settings on your iPhone, under your name, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the current period runs to its end, and everything you already made, saved or bought stays.
- Purchases are handled by Apple, so refunds are too — request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. We have no ability to issue or reverse a charge.
Fair use of the assistant
Every assisted request is a paid request to a model provider, which is what the ceilings above are for. They apply whether or not you subscribe, and they are set where nobody cooking dinner reaches them and a script reaches them in a minute. Automated, scripted or bulk use is not permitted, and we may refuse requests that look like it. If you ever hit a ceiling in ordinary use, write to us and we will look at it.
Your account
Most of the app works without one. An account turns on syncing between devices, and the assistant's free passes are counted against it. You are responsible for the email address you sign in with and for keeping access to it, and — if you chose an email account — for the password: that address, the password, or the Apple or Google account behind it, is the only key.
One account is for one person. We may suspend an account being shared or used automatically, as described under fair use above.
You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app, at any time, without asking us.
Your content
What you plan, cook and log is yours. We claim no rights over it, we do not use it to train anything and we show nobody advertising. If you are signed in, a copy is kept in our database so that it reaches your other devices, and it goes when you delete it — the privacy policy says exactly what is stored and where. A version of a recipe you make in Recipe Lab is yours in the same way; the original always stays beside it, unchanged.
Availability
The assistant depends on a third-party model and on our server, and neither is promised to be available at any particular moment. Barcodes and the food database are looked up in Open Food Facts, which is likewise not ours and not promised. The library, your plans, your shopping list, cooking mode and everything already logged keep working offline.
Liability
To the extent the law allows, the app is provided as it is, and Dobreon sp. z o.o. is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from its use. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here affects the statutory rights of a consumer in the EU or the UK — including the right to a remedy where a digital service is not as described.
Governing law
Polish law, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection in force where you live.