Last updated 19 August 2026
What Tare does, what it charges for, and what it does not promise.
Tare is a calorie and nutrition diary for iPhone and Android, made by Charith Perera. Using it means agreeing to what is on this page.
Logging food, searching the catalogue, creating your own foods and recipes, setting goals and tracking weight are free, and are intended to stay free.
Tare Pro covers the parts that cost money to run: reading a meal from a photograph, reading a nutrition label from a photograph, and the Insights screen.
Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple or Google, not by Tare. Payment is taken by whichever store you bought through, and it renews until you cancel it there.
Cancel in the App Store or Google Play. Cancelling stops the next renewal; the subscription runs to the end of the period you already paid for.
Deleting your Tare account does not cancel a subscription. The store owns that relationship and nothing in the app can reach it, so cancel there first.
Refunds are the store's to give. Tare cannot issue one.
Tare derives calorie and macro targets from published equations — Mifflin-St Jeor for resting rate, the Dietary Reference Intakes' activity bands, and the AMDR for the macro split. It shows its working so you can check it.
That is arithmetic, not advice. Tare is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or prevent anything. If you have a condition that food affects, or you are pregnant, or you are recovering from an eating disorder, talk to a professional rather than to an app.
Most food data comes from Open Food Facts and USDA FoodData Central, both open datasets contributed to by the public. Tare mirrors them and filters out entries whose numbers do not hold together, but it cannot guarantee any figure is right. Where a packet and the app disagree, believe the packet.
A food you publish to the shared catalogue is permanent, because other people's diaries come to depend on it. A food you keep private stays yours and can be changed or removed at any time.
Keep your password to yourself; anyone who has it has your diary. You can delete the account at any time — see deleting your account.
An account may be suspended if it is used to attack the service or to publish deliberately false data to the shared catalogue. Neither has happened.
Tare is provided as it is. It is a food diary run by one person, and it may be unavailable, lose a day's data to a bug, or return a wrong number.
Nothing here limits any right you have under the consumer law where you live, including the Australian Consumer Law.
If these terms change in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it.
Anything at all: privacy@charithp.com.