Morsel

Support

Write to albara.m.hassan@gmail.com. A person reads every message, and we reply within 2 business days.

If something looks wrong with a number, tell us the line exactly as you typed it and the value Morsel showed. Please don't send health information you'd rather keep private; we never need it.

Logging

How do I log food? Type what you ate, one food per line, the way you'd write a note: "2 eggs scrambled in butter", "big oat latte", "half a chicken burrito". Press Return for the next line. Calories appear in the column on the right a moment later.

Can I group lines into meals? Write a meal word on its own line, like "Breakfast" or "Lunch", or end a line with a colon. It becomes a header with a subtotal.

What else can I type? - // felt hungry after the gym is a comment. It's never counted. - water 500 ml counts toward water, not calories. - @ opens your saved meals. - x2 at the end doubles a line. - Ending a line with "yesterday" moves it to yesterday, with an Undo.

Can I paste a whole list? Yes. Each pasted line becomes its own entry.

I deleted something by accident. Tap Undo in the toast that appears, or use the undo button. Deleted lines also stay in Settings > Recently Deleted for 30 days, where you can restore them to their day.

Can I dictate? Tap the mic in the keyboard bar. Speech is turned into text on your iPhone; audio never leaves it.

Accuracy

Where do the numbers come from? Most foods come from a nutrition database built into the app from USDA FoodData Central. Barcode scans use Open Food Facts. Lines that need more thought are read by Apple Intelligence and matched to the database. Tap any value to see its sources, the grams Morsel assumed and how sure it is: High, Medium or Best guess.

How do I get a better number? - Add grams or a clear amount: "150 g chicken breast" beats "some chicken". - Open the details sheet (tap the value): drag the grams to adjust, switch an assumption off (like cooking butter), or pick one of the alternatives. - Fix it in words: type a correction such as "only half the rice" and accept the change. - Search: "Choose food" lets you pick the exact food from the database.

Morsel remembers your corrections, so the next time you write the same line it uses your version.

How accurate is it? See the accuracy page for how we test and what we measure.

Apple Intelligence and iOS versions

My iPhone doesn't have Apple Intelligence. Smart parsing needs Apple Intelligence. You can still search and pick foods. Common foods with clear amounts ("2 eggs", "1 cup rice", "a banana") still resolve from the built-in database, lines you've logged before resolve from your history, barcode scanning works, and everything else in the app works the same.

What needs iOS 27? Think harder (a closer look at a tricky dish, ingredient by ingredient) and Snap meal photos use Apple's newer models, on your iPhone or on Apple's Private Cloud Compute, so they need iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence. On iOS 26, those lines keep the database or on-device result, or ask you to choose the food.

Which languages can I type in? Settings > Languages shows which of your languages Apple Intelligence reads directly, and lets you download Apple's offline translation packs for others.

Offline

Morsel works offline. The database and on-device parsing don't need a connection. Lines that need a deep estimate show a small clock and finish when you're back online. Barcode lookups need a connection the first time; products you've scanned before work offline.

iCloud sync

Your journal syncs through your own private iCloud database when iCloud is on for Morsel. There's no account to create. If lines don't appear on another device, check that both are signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud on, then open Morsel on both.

Apple Health

Turn it on: Settings > Apple Health > Sync with Apple Health. Morsel saves calories, macros, fiber, sugar, sodium, saturated fat, caffeine and water for each line, and reads activity and weight to show your day and adjust your goals.

Turn it off: switch it off and choose "Keep existing data in Health" or "Remove Morsel data from Health".

Health data is never used for ads or analytics and never shared.

Goals and Gentle mode

How is my target calculated? Settings > Profile and goals shows the formula (Mifflin-St Jeor resting energy times your activity level, then your chosen rate). The target changes as you adjust the inputs.

I don't want to see calories. Turn on Gentle mode in Settings. Calories are hidden throughout the app and its widgets; you can track protein or just keep a journal.

Your data

Export: Settings > Export saves your journal as CSV or JSON, or copies today as tidy text.

Delete: see Privacy. We don't hold your data on a server, so deleting the app and its iCloud data removes it completely.

Morsel Pro and billing

What's free? Every line gets its numbers for your first 7 days, then 3 lines a day. Lines past that are kept with a small Pro chip and get their numbers when you upgrade, delete a line, or on another day. Typing, meals, undo, Recently Deleted, barcode scanning, goals, weight, Apple Health, iCloud sync, export, standard widgets and up to 15 saved meals are free.

What does Pro add? Numbers for every line, every day, Snap meal photos (iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence), Think harder (iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence), Insights, Fill my macros, recipes, unlimited saved meals (the free version keeps up to 15) and alternate app icons.

Prices (US): $29.99 per year after a 7-day free trial, $5.99 per month, or $59.99 once for Lifetime. Local prices are shown in the App Store.

Will I be reminded before the trial ends? Yes, if you leave "Remind me a day before the trial ends" on when you start the trial. The reminder arrives 24 hours before you're charged.

Cancel: iOS Settings app > your name > Subscriptions > Morsel, or Morsel > Settings > Manage subscription. Cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal or trial end. Pro stays on until the period you paid for ends.

Refunds: Apple handles refunds. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Restore: Morsel > Settings > Restore purchases, signed in with the Apple Account you bought with. Family Sharing members get Yearly and Lifetime automatically where Apple supports it.

Apple Watch

The Watch app shows today's calories, protein and meals, and logs a line by dictation. It needs the iPhone app nearby: lines are sent to your iPhone, which works out the numbers.

Contact

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