Privacy Policy
Sabzy for iOS · Last updated 12 August 2026
Sabzy is a calorie and nutrition tracker for iPhone and iPad. This policy explains what the app stores, what leaves your device, and who else is involved. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past.
The short version
- There is no account and no sign-in. We do not know who you are.
- Your food log lives on your device, and in your own iCloud if you leave iCloud on.
- Meal photos and voice notes are sent to Google for recognition, and are not stored by us.
- There is no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party tracking in the app.
- Nothing is ever sold.
Who is responsible
Sabzy is developed and operated by Boburmirzo Khudoyberdiev, an independent developer based in Uzbekistan. For anything in this policy, including requests about your data, write to mirzo.7767@gmail.com.
What the app stores
Everything you enter is written to a database on your device:
- Your profile — height, current weight, target weight, date of birth or age, sex, activity level and the goal you chose. These are what the daily calorie target is calculated from.
- Your log — meals and their foods, calories and macronutrients, the time each was logged, and any photo you attached.
- Water and weigh-ins — the glasses you tick off and the weights you record over time.
- App settings — units, language, reminders, and how many AI analyses you have used.
If iCloud is signed in on your device, this database is mirrored to the private iCloud database of your own Apple Account. That storage belongs to you: it is covered by Apple's privacy policy, it counts against your iCloud storage, and the developer of Sabzy has no way to read it. Signing out of iCloud, or turning iCloud off for Sabzy in Settings, stops the mirroring.
What leaves your device
| What | Where it goes | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Meal photos | Google (Gemini API) | To recognise the food and estimate calories and macros |
| Voice recordings | Google (Gemini API) | To turn a spoken description of a meal into a log entry |
| Typed meal descriptions | Google (Gemini API) | Same, for text instead of speech |
| Barcode numbers | Open Food Facts, USDA FoodData Central | To look up the product and its nutrition facts |
| Nutrition facts of scanned products | A shared public catalogue (see below) | So the next person to scan the same product gets an instant result |
| Subscription status | Apple | To sell and validate the subscription |
Photos, audio and meal descriptions are sent to Google's Gemini API and processed there to produce the result you see. Sabzy keeps no copy on any server it controls, and the request carries no name, email or account identifier — only the image, audio or text and the instruction to analyse it. Google's handling of that data is governed by Google's Privacy Policy.
The shared product catalogue
When you scan a barcode that Sabzy has to look up, the product's details — barcode, name, brand, calories and macronutrients per 100 g, and serving size — are written to a catalogue in a public iCloud database, so that other people scanning the same product get an answer immediately. This entry is about the product, not about you: it carries no identifier of the device or the person who scanned it, and it cannot be traced back to your log.
Payments
Subscriptions are sold by Apple through the App Store. Apple handles the payment and tells the app only whether an active subscription exists. Card numbers, billing addresses and your Apple Account details are never seen by Sabzy or its developer.
How these third parties are held to this policy
Every party named above is required, under the terms it is engaged on, to protect the data it receives to the same standard this policy sets out, and none of them is permitted to use it for its own purposes, to build a profile, or to pass it on further. Nothing is sent to any of them beyond what the table describes.
There are no analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs in the app, and no parent, subsidiary or affiliated company with access to your data — Sabzy is one independent developer, so there is no one else for data to reach.
The Health app
Health integration is optional and off until you turn it on. When it is on:
- Sabzy reads the active energy you have burned, and only that, so the calories left in your day account for how active you have been.
- Sabzy writes the energy, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fibre you log, and any weigh-in you record, so your other apps stay in sync.
Health data is exchanged only between the app and Apple Health on your device. It is never sent to Google, never written to the shared catalogue, and never stored in iCloud — the energy figure is read when a screen needs it and is not saved anywhere. It is never used for advertising and is never shared with anyone.
Permissions the app asks for
- Camera — to photograph a meal or scan a barcode.
- Photo library — only to let you pick an existing photo of a meal. The app reads the picture you choose and nothing else.
- Microphone — to record a spoken description of a meal.
- Notifications — reminders you set up yourself, such as the weekly weigh-in.
- Health — as described above.
- Meal recognition — your agreement that a photo or voice note may be sent to Google to be recognised. Nothing is sent before you give it.
Every one of these can be refused. The first five can be withdrawn in the Settings app; meal recognition is switched off in Sabzy itself, under Profile › Settings. Refusing one disables the feature that needs it and nothing else.
What Sabzy does not do
- No analytics or crash-reporting SDKs, and no third-party software development kits of any kind.
- No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
- No tracking across other apps or websites.
- No profiles built about you, and no automated decisions with legal or similar effects.
- No sale or sharing of personal information, under any definition, for any purpose.
How long data is kept
Your log stays on your device until you delete it. Deleting the app removes the on-device database. If iCloud mirroring was on, the copy in your iCloud is removed through Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage › Sabzy. Entries in the shared product catalogue are nutrition facts about commercial products and are kept indefinitely; because they contain nothing about you, deleting your data does not affect them.
Children
Sabzy is not directed at children under 13, and does not knowingly collect anything from them. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, write to the address above and it will be removed.
Your rights
Because the app stores your log on your own device and in your own iCloud, you exercise most rights directly: you can see everything in the app, change or delete any entry, and remove all of it by deleting the app and its iCloud data.
If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the GDPR gives you the right to access, correct, erase, restrict and object to the processing of your personal data, and to data portability. If you are in California, the CCPA gives you the rights to know, delete, correct and opt out of sale or sharing — noting that Sabzy does not sell or share personal information. To exercise any of these, or to complain, write to mirzo.7767@gmail.com.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and a material change will be announced in the app before it takes effect. The current version always lives at this address.