Terms of Use — Alkadiet
Last updated: 25 July 2026 These terms are an agreement between you and Bred Applications. Apple is not a party to them.
1. Who you are agreeing with
2. What Alkadiet is — and what it is not
Alkadiet estimates the acid or base load your food leaves for your kidneys to clear, using PRAL (Potential Renal Acid Load), a formula published by Remer & Manz in 1995 and validated against urine measurements. You log what you eat; the app computes a daily figure and shows it on a colour scale.
What it is not:
- Not a medical device. Alkadiet does not diagnose, treat, prevent, monitor or predict any disease or condition, and is not intended to. It is a food tracker with a scientific scoring metric.
- Not medical, dietary or nutritional advice. Nothing in the app is a recommendation to eat, avoid, start or stop anything. Talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian before changing your diet, especially if you have kidney disease, diabetes, an eating disorder, are pregnant, or take prescribed medication.
- Not a health score. PRAL only sees protein and minerals. Fats and sugars score near zero because the formula cannot see them — that makes butter neutral on this scale, not healthy. A green score is not a verdict that a food is good for you.
- Not a pH value. PRAL is a load measured in mEq. It cannot be converted into a pH, and the app therefore never shows one. Anyone who tells you a banana "has pH 7.8" is making it up.
You are responsible for what you eat. Use Alkadiet as one honest signal about your diet, not as a verdict on it.
3. Who may use it
You must be at least 16 years old and able to enter a binding contract. If you are below the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission, and they accept these terms with you.
4. Your licence
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Alkadiet on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, and by these terms. Family Sharing is not enabled for the subscription.
You may not: copy, sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the app; reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble it except to the extent that mandatory law allows; strip or alter any notice in it; use it to build a competing dataset or service; scrape or bulk-extract the bundled food database; or send automated traffic to the scan relay or circumvent its rate limits or the app's daily scan budget.
5. Alkadiet Plus — subscription, trial and billing
Alkadiet requires an active Alkadiet Plus subscription. There is no advertising-funded tier; the subscription is how the app is paid for.
- What it costs and how long it runs is shown on the purchase screen in your own currency before you buy — a monthly plan and a yearly plan. The yearly plan may include a free trial (currently 3 days). Apple grants an introductory offer once per Apple Account; if you have used it before, the app will not offer it again.
- Free trial: if you do not cancel before the trial ends, it converts to a paid subscription and you are charged the price shown.
- Auto-renewal: the subscription renews automatically for the same period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your Apple Account is charged within 24 hours before renewal.
- How to cancel: in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions, or via the App Store. Cancelling stops the next charge; it does not refund the period you are in. We cannot cancel it for you — Apple holds the subscription.
- Refunds are handled by Apple under the Apple Media Services Terms. We have no ability to issue a refund for an App Store purchase. Requests go to Apple (reportaproblem.apple.com). This does not affect your statutory rights.
- Right of withdrawal (EU/EEA): consumers ordinarily have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract. For digital content and services supplied immediately, that right lapses once performance begins with your consent and your acknowledgement that you lose the right — which is what happens when the App Store starts your subscription. Apple's Media Services Terms govern this for App Store purchases, and Apple's refund practice is generally more generous than the statutory minimum.
- Price changes: Apple notifies you and, where required, asks for your consent before a higher price applies. You can always cancel instead.
- If your subscription lapses, the app returns to its subscribe screen. Your log is not deleted — it stays on your device and in your iCloud, and it is there again when you resubscribe.
6. The AI photo scan
When you photograph a meal, the image is sent through our relay to a third-party AI vision model (Google Gemini) which returns guesses at what is on the plate and how much it weighs. See the privacy policy §5.1 and §11.
You must understand and accept how rough this is:
- The output is an estimate produced by a statistical model. It is often wrong. It will miss hidden ingredients — oil, butter, dressing, sauce, sugar — because it cannot see them.
- PRAL is very sensitive to protein. A misjudged portion of cheese or meat moves your score materially. The app is built so you can correct every item and every gram weight, and it marks low-confidence items. Correcting them is your job, not the model's.
- Never rely on a scan you have not checked, and never rely on it for a decision that matters to your health.
- The scan needs a connection and is limited (currently 20 scans per device per day, and a per-minute limit at the relay). Manual search works offline and is always the more accurate route.
7. Food data
- Nutrient values in the bundled database are derived from USDA FoodData Central, a US government dataset in the public domain. We derive PRAL from those values.
- Nutrient databases contain errors, averages and gaps, and the food in front of you is not the average of its category. Values in the app are estimates. We do not warrant that any figure matches what you are eating.
8. Your content
Your log, your photos and your notes are yours. They live on your device and in your own private iCloud storage. We claim no licence to them and have no access to them, which means we also cannot recover them for you if you lose them. If iCloud is off, an uninstall takes your log with it.
9. Availability and changes
We may change, add or remove features, and we may end the app or a feature entirely. If we shut the app down, we will say so in advance where we reasonably can, and you can stop paying by cancelling as described in §5. Photo scanning depends on a third-party model and a hosted relay and may be unavailable, slow or rate-limited; manual logging does not depend on either.
We may update these terms. For material changes we will tell you in the app before they take effect. Continuing to use Alkadiet after that means you accept the new terms; if you do not, cancel and stop using the app.
10. Suspension and termination
You may stop at any time by cancelling and deleting the app. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms in a way that damages the service or other users — for example by attacking or abusing the relay. Where the breach is not serious and can be fixed, we will ask you to fix it first.
11. Warranties
We provide Alkadiet with reasonable care and skill. Beyond that, and to the extent the law allows us to say so, the app is provided "as is": we do not warrant that it is free of errors, that any estimate is accurate, or that it will always be available.
Nothing in these terms removes rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived. If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, you have statutory rights to a conforming digital service under the Digital Content Directive as implemented where you live (in Denmark, købeloven and forbrugeraftaleloven), and those rights apply regardless of what this section says.
12. Liability
To the extent permitted by law:
- We are not liable for health outcomes, dietary decisions, or anything you did or did not eat because of a number the app showed you.
- We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data, lost profits, or the cost of substitute services.
- Where we are liable, our total liability is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for Alkadiet in the 12 months before the claim, or EUR 50.
We do not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence, or for anything else that cannot be limited under Danish or EU consumer law.
13. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by Danish law. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer rules in your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.
Before going to court, please write to us — most problems are a misunderstanding and are quicker to fix by email. Danish consumers may also complain to Nævnenes Hus / Center for Klageløsning (naevneneshus.dk), and EU consumers may use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform where available.
14. Additional terms required for App Store distribution
These terms apply in addition to everything above, because Alkadiet is distributed through Apple's App Store.
- Acknowledgement. These terms are between you and Bred Applications only, not Apple. Bred Applications, not Apple, is solely responsible for Alkadiet and its content.
- Scope of licence. The licence granted in §4 is non-transferable and limited to use on Apple-branded products you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Usage Rules, except that the app may be accessed by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing where Apple enables it.
- Maintenance and support. Bred Applications is solely responsible for any maintenance and support. Apple has no obligation to furnish either.
- Warranty. Bred Applications is solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If Alkadiet fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to Alkadiet.
- Product claims. Bred Applications, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to Alkadiet or your use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
- Intellectual property. In the event of any third-party claim that Alkadiet or your use of it infringes that party's intellectual property rights, Bred Applications, not Apple, is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
- Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting", and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Developer contact. Questions, complaints and claims about Alkadiet go to the contact address in §1.
- Third-party terms. You must comply with applicable third-party terms when using the app — including the Apple Media Services Terms for your subscription.
- Third-party beneficiary. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and have the right to enforce them against you as such.
15. Miscellaneous
If a provision of these terms is unenforceable, the rest stands. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if we sell or reorganise the business, without reducing your rights.
Contact: contact@bredapplications.com · Bred Applications, enkeltmandsvirksomhed · CVR 45915905 · Doritshave 24, 6040 Egtved, Denmark