Nutrition tracking that survives a real week.
Named for keema, the South Asian dish of spiced minced meat. My mother’s is legendary. You can have the recipe if you can convince her to write it down.
Keema is an iPhone nutrition tracking app. We designed it to make it as easy as possible to set goals, log food, and see your data, and we designed it with privacy in mind. Your data belongs to you: it lives on your phone, with an encrypted copy in your own iCloud unless you turn that off, and you can export it at any time, even if you cancel your subscription. We never see it. We never receive your log, so we can’t sell it.
I’m a father of three boys, and I’ve dealt with health issues, injuries, and weight concerns. I’ve used the well-known apps and found they became harder to use over time: more advertisements, worse function, and more of what I needed locked behind a high subscription fee. Worse, some of the best-known apps use what you tell them about your health to target advertisements and sell your data to others. So I built Keema for myself for ease of use and privacy, then realized others might like to use it too.
My work also shaped how I built it. I’m a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric emergency medicine physician, and I teach and do research at a medical school.
As a physician, I’m used to treating what people tell me about their health as private, and I built Keema the same way. I have no access to what you put in the app. Your food, your weight, your goals and your backups never reach me, so there is nothing for me to see, sell or share.
My research training helped me review and use published medical research to make Keema as accurate as possible. The rules for how the app words things alone rest on more than 100 published studies and guidelines.
I’m also a board-certified health and wellness coach. Coaching taught me that a habit lasts when it’s easy and encouraging, and doesn’t make you feel guilty. That became the one rule below.
I want your feedback, including what you like as well as areas needing improvement, whether it’s a problem, a wrong food, or an idea for making the app better. I have a long list of improvements and features planned, and they all come with the one subscription, with no higher tier. However, I’m a team of one, so please be patient, as all app upgrades and fixes (and email responses) are by me.
Log in a few seconds. We tried to make logging as easy and versatile as possible: you’ll find half a dozen ways to find the food you want, all straightforward and intuitive.
Portions the way people describe them. A handful, a bowl, half a plate, a “large” from the drive-through. Exact amounts are welcome but never required.
Works offline. Keema has over 480,000 foods built in, and new app releases add more. Search works with no signal, on a plane, in a basement.
Barcodes and labels. Scan a barcode or point the camera at a nutrition label and the numbers are read off it.
Recipes. Paste a recipe link and Keema reads the nutrition the publisher put on the page, or estimates from the ingredient list and tells you it’s an estimate.
Many ways to get a number. Search the built-in foods, scan a barcode or a label, paste a recipe link, or pick a dish averaged from published recipes. When none of those has it, ask AI. Estimates are always labeled, and the privacy policy says what each AI is sent.
Reminders that know when to stop. A meal reminder cancels itself the moment you log that meal.
Goals that adjust to you. A weekly logging goal, one meal or snack a day. Each week runs Monday to Sunday. Meet the goal and next week asks for one more day. Fall two or more days short and it asks for one fewer; one day short, it stays the same.
Your data stays yours. One file on your phone, and an encrypted copy in your own iCloud that you can turn off in Settings → Data backup/exports. Export it any time from the same page. Deleting the app deletes the file on the phone and leaves the iCloud copy, which you can delete in the iOS Settings app.
None of these is told who you are.
Does it need an account? No. There is nothing to sign up for.
Does it connect to the internet at all? Only when a feature needs it (a barcode lookup, a recipe page, an AI estimate under your own key, the iCloud backup to your own iCloud), and never with your name or email. The app records every request it makes so you can read exactly what was sent, apart from Apple’s own checks for iCloud backup, the App Store and its age check. None of those carry anything from your log. The privacy policy lists each case.
Does Keema collect anything about how I use it? Usage counts are only sent if you say yes. When you set up the app, it asks two questions: whether it may count how the app is used, and then whether it may send those counts to TelemetryDeck once a day. The counts are a few numbers about which features were used, such as how many foods were logged by barcode, and whether this iPhone can use Apple’s online AI. It never sends anything from your log or any goals. You can turn either off at any time under Usage counts in Settings → Privacy. Every message that was sent is listed in Settings → Privacy → See what has been sent.
Does Keema use AI? Yes, when you ask for it. If a food isn’t in the database, AI can estimate it, through Apple’s online AI, on your phone, or through a model you choose. Every estimate says it’s one and names the model. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, when search finds several close matches, the phone’s model helps pick the one you meant; it can’t change a number. The patterns Keema points out in your log come from fixed rules.
Does it work with Apple Health? Yes, if you turn it on in Settings → Apple Health. Each food and each weight you log is written into Health. Keema reads your date of birth, for your age; your height, biological sex and latest weight, each only when you tap to use it; the weigh-ins Health already has, so none is sent twice; and, with activity credit on, your active energy and workouts. Which of those go is chosen in Health itself, which keeps a switch per kind. See the privacy policy for exactly what is written and read.
How do I move to a new phone? Sign in to the same iCloud on the new phone and open Keema. It offers to restore your log from iCloud. If iCloud backup was off, on the old phone go to Settings → Data backup/exports → Export a backup, then use Restore from a file in the same place on the new one.
I deleted the app. Is my log gone? Not if iCloud backup was on. Install Keema again, sign in to the same iCloud, and restore from the card on Today or from Settings → Data backup/exports. If it was off, yes, unless you exported a backup or have an iCloud or computer backup from before you deleted it. The “A new phone, deleting it all” page, in Settings → Data backup/exports, explains this.
A food is wrong or missing. Tell us (see Help below) and we’ll fix the database. Restaurant figures come straight from the chain’s own document, so if the chain is wrong, the app is wrong the same way.
The easiest way is from the app: Settings → Help & feedback. Each row there (a problem, a missing food, an idea, a question) opens your mail app with a draft that already has the version number and the phone model in it, so you only write what happened. Nothing is sent until you tap Send.
Or write to Keema@SinaShifa.com directly, with “[Keema]” in the subject so it isn’t lost among the rest. There is no helpdesk behind that address: we read every message, work through feedback in the order it arrives, and reply as time allows.
For a bug, what you did just before it went wrong is the most useful thing you can send. For a wrong or missing food, a label photo or a link to the right number lets us fix the database.
Keema is a nutrition tracking app. It does not provide medical advice and is not designed to diagnose or treat any medical or behavioral condition. If you have a condition that could affect how you use the app, or your physical or mental health, get guidance from a trained healthcare professional and do not rely on the app. This includes anyone with an eating disorder, anyone who is pregnant or breastfeeding, and anyone under 18.
Using Keema does not create a doctor-patient or coach-client relationship.
Anyone affected by an eating disorder can get help from Beat in the UK, the Butterfly Foundation in Australia, the National Eating Disorder Information Centre in Canada, ANAD or the National Alliance for Eating Disorders in the US. Elsewhere, Find A Helpline lists help lines by country.
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