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No. Free models work well. A paid plan usually gives better macro estimates and deeper coaching. The built-in protocol helps even small models behave professionally.

In clipboard mode (the default): no. All AI communication is copy-paste via your clipboard. The app does not connect to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other provider in the background.

In in-app API mode (optional): only when you send a message. The request goes from your phone directly to the provider, using the API key you entered. PastePlate has no server in between and does not keep your key.

On your device only. On Android the key sits in encrypted app storage. On iPhone and iPad it sits in the Keychain. It is not uploaded to PastePlate, not included in a logbook backup, and not part of Android ↔ iOS database transfer. We never see the key. The provider that issued the key has its own account with you.

Clipboard mode (BYOA, the default): PastePlate copies a start or export prompt to your clipboard. You paste it into ChatGPT, Gemini or another chat yourself. The app does not call that provider.

In-app API mode (optional): you paste your own API key in Settings. Chat happens inside PastePlate. Each send goes HTTPS from your device to the provider. Meals can be written straight into your logbook. Same providers, no PastePlate server.

On a fresh install: after My AI coach the wizard asks How do you talk to the coach? Pick In the app (API). You do not enter the key in the wizard. Then: Settings → AI coach, paste the key, before the first chat. Existing installs: the same screen in Settings. See setup.

PastePlate does not charge tokens. In API mode you pay credit at your provider (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic). The PastePlate subscription stays separate.

No. The key is not in a logbook backup and not in Android ↔ iOS transfer. On the device only (encrypted storage or Keychain).

The wizard is the same as on the setup page. No third path. Clipboard: 13 screens (start prompt, fetch, import). API (in the app): five screens — chat in PastePlate, the meal in the log, report button. Key later in Settings.

No. You need an online chat-AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek…). PastePlate-AI has no built-in model and does not support offline or local models such as Ollama for the coach workflow. Your logbook stays on your phone. In clipboard mode the coach step is copy-paste into a live AI chat. In in-app API mode the chat inside PastePlate still talks to a live provider over the internet.

Under Settings → My AI coach → Meal analysis you choose whether the coach may ask when a meal is unclear. Master off = never ask, estimate immediately. See the guide.

Yes. Turn off Extra questions for unclear meals. Then the coach never asks follow-ups, not by category and not for a photo. Clipboard and API read that choice from your profile.

Yes, when master is on: grains, dairy, meat/fish, portion & preparation, drinks & pastry separately. Photo request is its own toggle. Explanation and screenshots: Settings & Measurements.

In clipboard mode (default): 1. Start your AI coach for today (start prompt). 2. Fetch data from AI chat (export instruction). 3. Import data from AI (paste the export block). Same three steps every calendar day.

In API mode: no export block. Meal tool in the chat, report button, no fetch and import.

Yes. Use one chat per calendar day. In clipboard mode: start in the morning, log all day in that chat, then fetch and import at the end of the day (often the next morning if you wait for watch burn). In API mode: another day is another chat in the app, no start prompt to paste.

That is clipboard mode. Check Settings → My AI coach and Open via (browser or app). If you chose None, PastePlate only copies to the clipboard. In API mode no external chat opens: you talk in PastePlate. Free accounts work best with Gemini, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek; paid subscriptions work with all listed providers.

Yes. Change your coach under Settings → My AI coach. The next session uses the new choice.

That is clipboard. PastePlate copies prompts to the clipboard only. You open ChatGPT, Claude or any other tool yourself. In-app API needs a chosen provider (not None).

Clipboard mode. Optional short instructions after copying a prompt. Toggle under Settings → My AI coach → Show paste helper. You can enable it per flow: start, fetch data, week plan request and week plan fetch. API mode has no paste helper.

In clipboard mode: yes. The preview shows how many meals and days are in the block. Daily reports, watch burn and week/month reports can be included when present. In API mode there is no export block.

Yes. Copy from the first { through the last }, including the report text line. Extra markdown around it is usually ignored.

Yes, two ways. Clipboard: Settings → My AI coach → Custom https link (Open via). API: your own HTTPS endpoint plus key, a different screen. Not the same field.

Usually the export block was cut off, edited by hand or incomplete. Use Fetch data from AI chat first, then copy the full block from the reply. Do not paste your own summary. If it still fails, ask your coach again for the data block and check nothing is missing before or after the structured block.

Edit any meal afterwards in the logbook. For recurring meals, save a blueprint in My Library via your coach (“save as favorite”). The AI uses it as source of truth from then on.

Clipboard: if the week report is missing or empty in your coach's export, the existing week report is not overwritten. Ask your coach again and re-import. API (in the app): report button in the week chat; no export block.

Clipboard: if the month report is missing or empty in the export, the old month report stays in place. Re-fetch from your coach and import. API (in the app): report button in the month chat; no export block.

Reports use the profile that applied on that day (profile history). To realign: open that day’s circle, tap + → Start your AI coach for that date. Clipboard: then fetch and import. API (in the app): the report button in that chat.

Those favorites are stored as 100 g for now. Check and edit them in My Library after import.

In the saved AI reports archive (top bar). Text is stored word for word, not regenerated by the app. Clipboard: after import. API: after the report button, stored in the app.

Most calorie apps show charts. PastePlate keeps personally written coaching prose from your AI: fixed sections (macros, quality, behavior, wins, next steps) stored verbatim. Clipboard: after import. API (in the app): after the report button.

Personal goal comes from your optional free-text coach note (fatigue, intolerances, questions you want to explore). Behavior & patterns covers eating behavior from your meal log: timing, snacking, repetition, food quality. Symptom themes belong in Personal goal, not Behavior.

During setup or under Settings → Profile → Extra info for the AI coach. Clipboard: it is included in every start prompt. API (in the app): it goes with the chat. It opens each report at Personal goal.

No. Pattern sections are for self-reflection and discussion, not diagnosis or treatment. See our Health disclaimer.

No. PastePlate-AI is a nutrition logbook and coaching workflow. AI reports are for self-reflection, not diagnosis or treatment.

Yes. Share posters are available from report sections and milestone screens (weight, plants, month goal and more).

The same emoji sections in every report: personal goal (when filled in), weight status, physical context (body fat %, BMI, FFMI), calories & protein, hydration, protein & satiety, longevity & plant variety or variety & balance, nutritional quality, behavior & patterns, your win & what went well, growth opportunities, steps forward (tomorrow, next week or next month). The AI zooms out per period.

Yes: the same sections as the daily report, with week or month totals and deeper pattern review. Steps forward targets next week or next month. Clipboard: import them in the same export block when the calendar ends the week or month. API (in the app): report button in the week or month chat.

Log · Week · Month · Measurements. The first three are the same meal log at different time scales. Measurements is your health hub (weight, fat%, sport, etc.).

Energy balance: intake compared to burn (from your watch via AI or from activity estimate).

Scores for protein against your goal, and for fats against the fat guidelines, for that day, week or month. Carbohydrates show grams and their share of calories, without a good/bad color.

Either no nutrition and no burn data, or a fasting day with burn but little or no food logged. Add meals if you ate; the score updates automatically.

Tap a macro segment → Analysis options → View meals or Why this score? for a plain-language breakdown.

Yes. Edit in the logbook; totals and scores recalculate.

Yes, on the Log tab by meal name across your history.

Macros, fat quality, fibre, salt, plant ingredients, recipe text and more, not just calories.

Start from estimated daily burn (BMR × activity). Cut: deficit = kg per week × 7700 ÷ 7 (e.g. 0.25 kg/week ≈ 275 kcal below maintenance). Bulk: fixed surplus by focus, lean +150, clean +250, strength +500 kcal/day (not the 7700÷7 formula). Maintain: at estimated burn.

Settings → Profile. The coach and circles use the same numbers.

No, optional during setup. Some maintenance features and share posters need a target weight.

The app marks “goal changed in this period”. Pace comparison may pause until your goal is stable again (about 14 days with enough measurements).

A snapshot of your profile and goals for each day. Older days used the goals that applied then, important for reports and circles.

You can use logged weight measurements to feed goal calculations. Configure under Settings → Profile.

It starts at your oldest weight in the range and cumulatively applies daily calorie surplus/deficit (intake minus burn, 7700 kcal per kg) to show whether your logbook explains the scale.

Examples: get leaner, strength, balanced, affects protein factor and how the coach frames advice.

No direct brand link. On iPhone and iPad, enable Health sync in Settings to read data from Apple Health (weight, activity, sleep, workouts). On Android, enable Health sync to read from Health Connect. Your watch must share data to that platform first (for example Garmin Connect → Apple Health or Health Connect).

Open the menu and tap Health sync, right below Health sources. Switch sync on, allow the data types you want, pick how much history to import and tap Sync now.

Weight, body fat, height and body measurements; steps, daily distance, active burn and workouts; sleep with bedtime, wake time and sleep stages when available; resting heart rate, heart rate, VO2 max, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, heart rate variability and blood pressure. Every data type has its own switch, so you can leave anything out. Cholesterol stays manual.

No. Manual entry always wins. If you logged a weight by hand and your scale sends a different number for that day, your own entry stays. The same rule applies to burned calories: only one source per day is used, so watch and phone can never be counted twice.

You choose: 30, 60, 90 or 180 days on the Health sync screen. PastePlate imports that period in weekly chunks the first time, so your trend charts are filled straight away.

Health platforms do not share everything. PastePlate does not import GPS tracks, maps or watch-specific scores (such as Garmin Body Battery). Only data your watch sends to the health platform on your phone can appear, which is Apple Health on iPhone and iPad and Health Connect on Android.

There is no background sync while the app is closed. With Health sync on, PastePlate syncs automatically when you open the app. You can also tap Sync now in Health sync, or pull to refresh on the logbook or a trend screen (pull down and release). Many watches finalize the previous calendar day around midnight on the health platform.

They are imported anyway. PastePlate does not work from a fixed list of sports, so windsurfing, padel or pickleball simply appear with the name the health platform gives them, plus duration and calories. Distance sports such as running or cycling can be added to your sport log for the pace chart.

Yes, optionally. Turn on Share nutrition with Health on the Health sync screen and your meals go out as calories and macros, with water if you track it. Edit or delete a meal and it is updated on the health platform too. This is off by default and asks for separate permission.

No. Health data is read on your phone and stored in your local logbook, the same place as your meals. Nothing goes to PastePlate servers. Turn a data type off, or disable sync entirely, and reading stops.

The app estimates burn from your activity level in Profile. You can adjust activity per day in the logbook, or mention movement and sport in your coach chat.

On the day detail and in energy balance on the circle, when health sync is enabled and your watch shares active energy. The Health overview on the Measurements tab shows today and the last seven days in one place.

Longevity mode: unique plants via a strict 15-category protocol, 30 plants per week goal, plant explorer per day/week. With Longevity on, your coach also gives feedback on fat quality and fibre in chat and reports.

Yes. Without Longevity, the plant counter and week goal are hidden.

Vitality (Longevity coach style) expects Longevity mode on. To turn Longevity off, pick another coach style first under Settings → Coach style.

Your AI labels plants and categories in meals following the built-in protocol. The app counts unique species; it does not guess plants on its own.

In Longevity mode when your weekly plant goal is reached (green bar). Optional in-app banner on the week tab; no push notification.

Not manually. Clipboard: tell your coach in chat to save a meal as favorite with a name. It arrives when you import that day. API: no export block; save from the in-app chat or meal tool.

In a new chat, state grams and use the exact name from your library list (e.g. “I had 200 grams of pumpkin puree”).

Macros on the card apply to the total gram weight shown. Your coach sets this. Edit in the library if needed.

Yes, in My Library from the menu.

Open from the week tab / week planner hub icon.

Clipboard: wizard → Request week plan → paste in AI → Fetch week plan → import. API: wizard → Request (week chat in the app) → plan in the library, no Fetch or Import.

The active plan for “this week” is included in your start prompt in clipboard mode. API (in the app): it goes with the chat. Older plans are view-only.

Clipboard: Request = full planning prompt. Fetch = short instruction to export the week plan block from an existing chat. API: Request only; the plan is stored in the app.

Yes. Pick your country in the wizard and name your store under Additional wishes, for example “I shop at supermarket X”, with the real name of your store in place of the X. Your menu and shopping list then use products and house brands that fit. Name no store and your AI keeps the menu generic instead of inventing one.

Anything you can say in a sentence: max cooking time on weekdays, air fryer only, a budget for the week, no coriander, cook double on Sunday for meal prep, mild for the kids, vegan on Monday and Thursday, extra protein on gym days. The text goes into the prompt word for word and leads food, shopping, brands and deals.

Yes. Cap it at 10, 50 or 70 products, or at 30, 55 or 75 with Longevity on. You can also type your own number up to 120, or set no limit. A tighter cap means more reuse across the week, and the Longevity minimum of 30 keeps your plant target next to protein and staples.

Yes. Choose No IF, 16:8 (eat 12:00 to 20:00), 18:6 (13:00 to 19:00), OMAD (one meal at 18:00) or a custom window. The times, the number of slots and the slot names go into the request as hard rules, so no breakfast appears in a 16:8 week. You can also flip single days to a full fasting day with no meals.

No. The wizard does not pull from favourites or a meal library. Your plan is built from your profile targets, your wizard answers and your wishes. To reuse a menu, pick the same as last week or vary as the basis.

No. The plan is advice. If you ate what it said, say in chat for example “lunch according to plan”. The coach copies that slot’s saved values exactly. In API mode the meal goes straight into your logbook. In clipboard mode it goes through your own chat. If you ate something else, log it with a photo as usual.

The Shop tab is a checklist: tick items off, filter to one day or the whole week, and find weekly staples in their own group. Reset the ticks when you shop again, and share any tab as a PDF with logo.

Weight, body fat %, body sizes, strength, sport, blood pressure and cholesterol, with trend charts and shared date range on the hub. More: Settings & Measurements guide.

Overview = hub tiles and mini charts. Trends = longer MA lines. BMI and FFMI lines use zone colours where supported. Explanation and examples: the guide.

BMI does not tell the full story. The app offers education and FFMI (weight + body fat %) for more context. Charts and tiers: Settings & Measurements. Sources: Health sources.

Relevant values go into your start prompt in clipboard mode and can appear in reports after you log and import. API (in the app): they go with the chat; report via the report button. There is no separate cloud sync.

Yes. The range is shared across Measurement sub-screens and syncs back to the overview when you navigate.

No. There is no PastePlate server that sees your logbook. Data stays on your device unless you back up. Clipboard: or you paste into an AI. API (in the app): or you send something in that chat.

In a local database on your phone or tablet. No cloud account required.

Menu → Database: create backup, choose folder, optional automatic backups and retention.

Yes. Database → restore backup. The app detects Room (Android) vs SwiftData (iOS) and converts. Both apps must be recent enough for the schema pin.

Menu → Export to CSV.

Clipboard: only what you paste into the app. API (in the app): what you send in that chat. After that, your AI provider’s privacy rules apply.

Menu → Clear logbook… (destructive; confirmation required).

Yes. Same workflow on both. Exchange data via built-in cross-platform database transfer.

The full app: logbook, AI workflow, measurements, reports, week planner, backups and cross-platform transfer. Your AI chat subscription is separate.

No. Any token cost is between you and your AI provider if applicable.

Full app access for 7 days, then €8.99/month or €39.99/year unless cancelled in the store before the trial ends.

Default, Analyst, Motivator, Calm, plus overlays Vitality (Longevity) and Athlete (bodybuilder framing). Change under Settings → Coach style.

No. Old reports in the archive stay as they are. Clipboard: the new style applies after a new import. API (in the app): a new chat or the report button.

Dutch, English and more. Menus and report structure follow your app language. Clipboard: start prompts too. API (in the app): the chat in PastePlate.

Not as a product feature. Coach protocol avoids supplement hype. Never use the app for medical decisions, see Health disclaimer.

Optional: inactivity reminder and morning motivation (permission required). Many “notifications” are in-app share sheets only, no push.

In-app share hint at each new 5 kg step toward your goal. Anti-spam setting available.

In-app share sheet after you log the milestone. Templates match your profile (loss/gain, man/woman for fat target).

Available with a green month calorie ring and known burn data. Not shown for pure maintenance goals.

About 3 minutes for the profile wizard (19 steps). Then 7 days free to try. Clipboard: optional short or full workflow walkthrough (13 screens). API (in the app): five screens.

Because we're a coaching app, not a simple calorie counter. Goal, weight, activity, coach note and AI choice go straight into your prompts and reports — so a powerful model can give you truly personal coaching. Not a quiz trick: everything you enter is used by the app right away.

Yes. Settings → Profile. Macro targets, body fat goals and fine-tuning live there too.

It is a nutrition logbook with a Bring Your Own AI workflow, not a generic medical dashboard. Clipboard: coach reports after import. API (in the app): after the report button.

No built-in model. Reports come from your coach: clipboard (import) or in the app (API, report button). Rich prose reports, plant diversity, behavior sections and optional personal goal tracking.

Clipboard: the 13 screenshots on the setup page, short version on the home page under How it works. API (in the app): five screens on setup · API day. The in-app tutorial runs once during onboarding.