How do I do that in Intake?

No. The core Intake app is a one-time purchase with no recurring subscription fees. Intake AI is a separate optional add-on for richer AI food logging, and own API key (BYOK) logging is available without an Intake AI subscription.

Not for the app: it is a one-time purchase, and you can return it within the store's return period. Intake AI, the optional subscription, starts with a 3-day free trial for new subscribers.

Intake AI uses model calls that create ongoing costs, especially for photos and longer conversations. The subscription covers those hosted AI costs while the core app remains a one-time purchase.

No. Intake AI is optional. You can keep using Intake with search, barcode scanning, custom foods, recipes, and all core tracking without enabling AI.

Intake AI lets you describe meals with text, analyze meal photos, scan nutrition labels, log recognized ingredients separately, correct ingredients and amounts in place, adjust portions, and edit calories before logging. In Germany it costs 3.99 € per month or 39.99 € per year, each with a 3-day free trial. The App Store and Google Play show the price for your country.

Both log meals from a text description or a photo, show the estimate as a card, and let you change the portion and log it as one meal or ingredient by ingredient. Intake AI adds the correction view for ingredients and amounts and nutrition-label scanning, works without a key or provider account, and keeps improving. With your own API key (BYOK) you use your own provider account and pay its usage costs.

Two features need Intake AI: the correction view, where you correct the food, amounts or nutrition values and edit, remove or add ingredients, and nutrition-label scanning, which fills in the create-product form from a photo of the label.

No. AI results are estimates and can be wrong, especially with unclear portions or hidden ingredients. Intake AI shows editable suggestions so you can review values before saving them.

Yes. You can add your own OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini API key in Settings and log meals by text or photo with AI without paying for the Intake AI subscription. Your chosen provider's terms and usage costs still apply.

No. Own API key (BYOK) logging does not require an Intake AI subscription. It does not include the two Intake AI features: the correction view and nutrition-label scanning.

Intake supports own API key (BYOK) logging with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini providers.

No. ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro, Claude Pro, and Claude Max do not include API keys or API credits. API access is separate and requires a developer/API account with the provider.

No account is required. Your data stays on your device. On iPhone it can sync through your own iCloud account, and on Android you can turn on an encrypted backup to your Google Drive.

Intake AI sends food descriptions, photos, captions, and recent chat context through Intake's backend and AI providers to generate nutrition estimates. Intake does not sell your data or use it for advertising.

When you use your own API key (BYOK), requests are sent to the provider you selected. That provider's terms, privacy rules, and usage costs apply to those requests.

Yes. All of your data stays on your device by default. iCloud sync on iPhone and the encrypted Google Drive backup on Android are optional. Intake is designed to work without account tracking and without selling your personal data.

Intake includes access to a food database with over 3 million entries.

Intake combines food data from USDA, the German Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS), and Open Food Facts (which provides most entries). By combining these sources, search results are broader and more accurate. The data is updated daily so you always get the latest information.

Yes. Intake supports Apple Health on iOS and Health Connect on Android so your nutrition data can sync with your health ecosystem.