Privacy Policy

Helpings (Android app in.mihirsolanki.helpings) · Effective 13 November 2026

What the app stores

To work as a meal log, Helpings saves the following on your device in a local database:

• Meals you log: meal type, date, time, the foods in each meal, quantities, units, calories you enter, and optional notes.
• Your food list: food names, default calories and default units.
• Your meal types and combos (saved groups of foods), including any reminder times you set.
• App settings, such as your default unit, theme, and whether reminders and daily backups are on.

This information never leaves your device through the app. Helpings does not request internet access, so it cannot send data anywhere.

What the app does not do

• No accounts or sign-in.
• No advertising, analytics, crash reporting or tracking of any kind.
• No access to your contacts, location, camera, microphone, photos or other personal information.
• No sharing or selling of data to anyone.

Files you choose to save

Helpings only writes files when you ask it to, and only to the place you pick:

• Backup copies and CSV exports are saved wherever you choose in your phone's save dialog.
• Daily backups, if you turn them on, are saved to a folder you choose. Helpings keeps the 30 most recent there and deletes older ones it made. It never reads or changes other files in that folder. You can turn this off at any time in Settings.
• Restoring reads only the backup file you pick.

These files contain your meal log. Where they go next, for example a cloud-synced folder, is up to you and that service's own terms; Helpings itself never uploads them.

Notifications and the home-screen widget

If you turn on meal reminders, Helpings schedules notifications on your device at the times you set. They are created by the app on your phone; nothing is sent from a server. The optional home-screen widget shows today's calories and meal count from the same on-device data.

Device backups

If you have turned on backup in your Android settings, Android may include the app's data in your personal device backup (for example, to your Google account) so it can be restored on a new phone. That backup is managed by Android under your account and settings; the developer of Helpings has no access to it. You can turn backup off in your device settings.

Deleting your data

You can delete individual meals or food items in the app, or delete all meals from Settings → Delete all meals. Uninstalling Helpings, or clearing its storage in Android settings, removes all of its data from your device. Backup and export files you saved elsewhere are not removed; delete them yourself if you no longer want them.

Children

Helpings is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@mihirsolanki.in