Frequently asked questions

Yes — Forkmate is a remote MCP server, so any MCP-capable AI assistant can log your meals. Claude (Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and Claude Code) and Cursor support remote MCP servers today, so you connect Forkmate once and then just tell your assistant what you ate. ChatGPT's support for third-party MCP connectors is still rolling out and varies by plan — if your ChatGPT can add a custom MCP connector, Forkmate works there too.

Any client that can connect to a remote MCP server, over OAuth or, for apps that run on your computer, with a personal key from Forkmate's settings. That includes Claude (web, desktop, and Claude Code) and Cursor today, plus any other MCP-capable assistant. Forkmate is deliberately client-agnostic — you log from the AI you already use instead of being locked into one company's app. See the Connect page for step-by-step setup.

Yes — all of it, with no credit card. Create an account and log meals from your AI assistant or the web, see your calories and macros in the diary, and keep your complete history. Food search, barcode scanning, chain-restaurant menus, unlimited entries, and free data export are all included, with no ads.

No. Your diary shows your complete history — every day you've logged. Everything you log, and anything you import, is kept and stays yours to export for free at any time.

MyFitnessPal makes you tap through its app to search a database or scan a barcode, and paywalls a lot of the basics. Forkmate flips that: you log in plain language from the AI assistant you already use, and every food shows the source its numbers came from — nothing is estimated silently. It's built for active people — training sync (Strava and Garmin) is on the roadmap so your targets adjust around how you train — and your data is yours, with free export and no ads.

Yes. Export your data with MyFitnessPal's free “Download My Data” option, then drop the whole export into Forkmate's importer and enter the password MyFitnessPal sent you. It's opened and read right in your browser, so the file and password never leave your device, and you see exactly what will import before anything is saved. You can also have a connected AI assistant read the export and replay the rows into your diary through our import prompt. And if you already have a food_diary.csv — from MyFitnessPal Premium's CSV export, or one your assistant extracted from your export — you can upload it directly in Forkmate's guided importer (open your diary and choose “Import from MyFitnessPal”). Either way your calories and macros come over exactly as you logged them — we don't re-estimate your history. See the Switch from MyFitnessPal guide for the full walkthrough.

No. We never sell your personal data and we never use your health-related data for advertising. Your food diary is yours — you can export it for free or delete it at any time from your account settings. We share data only with the service providers that help us run Forkmate (such as our auth and hosting providers; our AI provider, which reads the text of the meals you type in the web app, never who you are; and our analytics provider, which receives pseudonymous records of which features are used, never what you eat), under contract and acting on our behalf. See our Privacy Policy for the full list.

Forkmate looks foods up in open, public databases — USDA FoodData Central and Open Food Facts — and, for a restaurant dish, in the restaurant's own published figures. Only when none of those has a figure does our AI estimate one, and that food is labelled Estimate. Every number names its source, and a restaurant figure from a third-party site is labelled Unofficial. In the web app an exact match logs at once with Undo, anything else is one tap, and every entry can be edited or undone; through an AI assistant you can correct or delete any entry afterwards.

Honestly? No food tracker is pinpoint accurate, and Forkmate is no exception — food databases, portion sizes, and even lab measurements all carry real margins of error. Our take: most people quit tracking because it's tedious, so logging consistently and easily matters far more than chasing perfect numbers. Good-enough numbers you actually log beat perfect numbers you abandon. If you do need pinpoint accuracy — for clinical or medical reasons — we encourage you to weigh and measure your food and log it precisely in the web diary. Forkmate is a general-wellness tool, not medical advice; always consult your physician for medical or clinical nutrition decisions.

No. Forkmate is a tracking tool, not a medical device, healthcare provider, or source of medical or nutritional advice. Calorie and macro estimates are for general informational purposes only and may be inaccurate. Consult a qualified professional before making dietary, health, or medical decisions.