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What do you mean by this?

> it's completely free to use SnapCalorie, the $79.99 price is a donation to support our research

I just downloaded the app and I don't see any way to use the premium plan without paying 79.99 or 6.67/month. How do I choose not to donate?

Or do you mean it's a required donation? And if that's true, in what sense is the article wrong, given that it says exactly that?



You have access to all of the same features without upgrading to premium. Just click the "x" on the paywall.


The paywall says I get extra stuff from premium, including "unlimited photo, voice, and barcode logging", "unlimited AI nutritionist chat", "unlimited Personalized tips from your AI nutritionist".

It sounds like if I pay more, I get more access and can use the app more? So the original article was completely correct in characterizing the premium plan as $79.99

It says

> The app was free to download, no trial period necessary. There's a $79.99 per year premium plan, but it's intended to be a donation. The app caps free tier users at three photos per day, while all non-photo methods of logging are unlimited and free for everyone.

Which part of that is not correct?


Apple requires us to say you get more as part of premium. They have silly rules that tie our hands on stuff. You have access to everything as part of the free tier. Hopefully the recent court case from Riot will help make it easier for us to clarify this.


I just tried in the app on Android and it would not allow me to take more photos unless I pay.

When you say "you have access to everything as part of the free tier", does that apply to Android as well?

Because what you are saying is not true on Android. After 3 photos I cannot take another, the message says "You used all of your photo logs! As a free tier member you get 3 free Photo logs per day."

You are claiming that this is different on iOS?




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