The terms for using MealLoop

You must be at least 13 years old to use MealLoop. If you use MealLoop with a household or family group, you confirm that the other members have agreed to share their content within that group.

To use most features you need an account, which you create by signing in with Google. You are responsible for keeping that sign-in method secure and for all activity that happens under your account.

MealLoop gathers the meals you want to cook in a meal basket, turns their ingredients into a shopping list, and helps you cook through them at your own pace. Around that, it offers a recipe library with import from links, a food diary with nutrition targets and insights, public recipes and meal plans, and household groups for sharing.

Features can differ between the web app and the Android app. For example, meal-photo estimates and barcode scanning are currently only available in the Android app, and publishing recipes is only available on the web.

We are continuously improving MealLoop and may add, change, or remove features. If we discontinue a material part of the service, we will give you reasonable advance notice where practical.

If paid plans are offered, the following applies:

• Billing. Paid plans are purchased on the web, billed monthly in advance through Stripe, and renew automatically until you cancel. The Android app does not sell subscriptions. MealLoop never sees or stores your full payment card number.
• Cancellation. You can cancel at any time from the Billing page, which opens Stripe’s customer portal. Unless stated otherwise when you cancel, your plan stays active until the end of the period you already paid for and is not renewed afterwards.
• Plan changes. Upgrading takes effect immediately, and the unused part of your current plan is credited against the new price. Downgrading takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• Refunds. Except for plan-change credits or where required by law, payments are non-refundable and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial periods. Deleting your account cancels any subscription immediately, without a refund for the rest of the period.
• Price changes. We may change plan prices. Price changes apply from your next renewal, and we will inform you in advance.
• Plan limits. Plans can include usage limits, for example on AI recipe imports, CSV exports, or household groups. We may enforce these limits technically.
• Family plan. A Family plan is purchased by a group admin and covers every member of that group, up to 10 members. If the plan ends, the group and its shared content are kept but locked until a Family plan is active again.

• You keep ownership of the recipes, photos, diary entries, and other content you create or upload.
• You give MealLoop a limited licence to store, process, display, and back up that content solely to operate and improve the service for you and the people you share with.
• If you share content with a household group, other members of that group can see and use it inside MealLoop, and group admins can edit it, until it is unshared or deleted.
• If you publish a recipe, you give MealLoop permission to display it, including any translations, on a public, searchable page and to feature it in the public recipe directory, collections, and public meal plans until you unpublish it. Anyone can read that page, and signed-in MealLoop users may save an independent copy to their own account.
• Unpublishing revokes the public MealLoop page but does not delete copies already saved by other users or immediately remove search-engine caches.
• If you import or publish a recipe from a website, video, or another source, you are responsible for having the rights and permissions needed to store and share that content, including its images.

• Don't use MealLoop for anything unlawful, or upload content you don't have the right to share.
• Don't attempt to break, overload, probe, or bypass security or plan limits of the service.
• Don't scrape, resell, or redistribute the service or its food and nutrition databases.
• Don't upload content that is harmful, infringing, hateful, or that contains malware.
• Don't misuse AI-assisted features, for example to generate content unrelated to recipes and nutrition.
• Don't share your sign-in or use another person's account without permission.

Nutrition values come from public food databases (such as Matvaretabellen, USDA FoodData Central, and Open Food Facts), user-entered data, and AI-assisted matching or meal-photo estimation, and can be incomplete or inaccurate. A photo cannot reliably show hidden ingredients, preparation method, allergens, or exact portion weight. Always verify information that matters for your health, and consult a qualified professional before making significant dietary changes, especially if you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or manage allergies or intolerances.

You are responsible for reviewing imported recipes, translations, matched ingredients, visible food components, portion estimates, and the resulting nutrition data before relying on or saving them.

Meal-photo estimation is limited to 20 requests per account per UTC day, and every request counts towards that limit, even when no food is recognised. The source photo is not saved by MealLoop; only the structured estimate you choose to save becomes part of your diary. MealLoop may adjust or enforce feature limits to protect availability and prevent misuse.

MealLoop, including its apps, design, branding, and software, is owned by Stian Hansen and protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms do not give you any right to use the MealLoop name, logo, or code except as needed to use the service normally.

MealLoop relies on third-party services, including Google for sign-in and AI models, Vercel and Neon for hosting and storage, RapidAPI services for importing from Instagram and TikTok, Open Food Facts for barcode lookups, and Stripe for payments. Your use of those services may be subject to their own terms and privacy policies. Recipes you import from websites and social media remain subject to the terms of those sources.

You can stop using MealLoop at any time and can delete your account and associated data as described on our account & data deletion page.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or to protect the service or its users. Where reasonable, we will notify you first and give you an opportunity to retrieve your data. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (such as disclaimers and liability limits) survive it.

MealLoop is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of nutrition data, or uninterrupted availability. We recommend keeping your own copies of important recipes and data.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of the service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us for the service in the 12 months before the claim arose. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, and nothing restricts mandatory consumer rights in your country of residence.

We may update these Terms as MealLoop evolves. If a change is material, we will take reasonable steps to inform you, for example inside the app or by email, before it takes effect. Continuing to use MealLoop after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. The date at the top of this page always shows the current version.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Norway, without regard to conflict of law rules. Disputes are subject to the ordinary courts of Norway, unless mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence gives you the right to a different venue.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to us at kontakt@mealloop.me. For privacy questions, see our Privacy Policy.