Is Fimbl free?
Yes. Fimbl is free to download, and the heart of it is free: your food diary with search and barcode scanning, check-ins before and after meals, the First Week journey, your story, your first pattern, Graded meals, macros and macro goals, mood, body notes, weight, streaks, private progress photos, Apple Health activity, and the Today and check-in widgets. You also get 3 photo scans and your first weekly reflection to try the AI, and on iPhones with Apple Intelligence, photo scans and meal descriptions stay free after that. Fimbl Premium adds photo scans beyond the free ones, voice logging, AI grades with tips and swaps, weekly AI reflections and the coach, every pattern Fimbl finds, recipes from videos, healthier product swaps, more widgets and streak restore. Premium is yearly with a 7-day free trial, or monthly, and prices are always shown before you subscribe.
Do I need an account to start?
No. Open Fimbl and log your first meal right away, with no account and no questions first. Six short questions then make your plan and show how that meal fits it. When you make an account, your diary moves to it, so it's there when you change phones.
What is Your story?
Most of us lose motivation somewhere around week two. Your story is how Fimbl helps you keep going. After your first week, you write down why you started and add the people cheering you on, and both can sit on your Home Screen as a widget. Each week, you keep it with one card and a minute of answers. Kept weeks become memories: a mosaic of your weeks, how they felt, then and now, a monthly look-back and letters to your future self. Your story is free.
Is Fimbl a diet app?
Not in the usual sense. You can set a calorie goal if it helps you, or switch to Graded meals, where the numbers step back and each food gets a simple balance mark instead. Fimbl is about balance, awareness and habits, and it's built to support a healthier relationship with food, never to make you feel bad about it. It isn't a medical tool or a treatment for eating disorders, and if food ever feels overwhelming, a healthcare professional can help.
Are my progress photos private?
Yes. Progress photos stay on your iPhone: they are never uploaded to our servers, never used for AI and never included in iCloud backups. You decide what is kept, saved or shared, and you can back them up yourself whenever you like. Meal photos stay on your iPhone too, and period days you log in body notes are kept in Apple Health on your iPhone and never reach our servers.
How does the AI work, and what does it see?
AI is optional, and everything else in Fimbl works without it. Your first 3 photo scans or meal descriptions, your first weekly reflection and the Premium AI features go from the app through our servers to Google's Gemini API, with only what that feature needs: a photo for a scan, text for a described meal, or recent diary, check-in and weigh-in context for reflections and the coach. Your name and email are never included, and we don't train AI models on your data. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, later free photo scans and meal descriptions are read by Apple's model on Apple's Private Cloud Compute. AI estimates can be a little off, so you can always adjust them. The privacy policy explains each feature in detail.
How do I save a recipe from Instagram or TikTok?
Open the video, tap Share and choose Fimbl. If you don't see it, tap More and add it. Fimbl reads the link, watches the video and builds the recipe with ingredients, steps and nutrition per portion, which you can edit before saving. Recipe import is a Premium feature.
Which devices does Fimbl work on?
Fimbl is designed natively for iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, in light and dark mode, with Home and Lock Screen widgets. It speaks English, German and Finnish. Free scans with Apple's model need an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence, with iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence turned on.
Does Fimbl work with Apple Health?
Yes, both ways. With your permission, Fimbl reads your steps, walking and running distance, active and resting energy, workouts and weigh-ins from smart scales. If you turn on Health sync, it also saves the weight you log and each meal's energy and macros to Apple Health. Period days from body notes are kept in Apple Health on your iPhone.
What happens to my data?
With an account, your diary is encrypted in transit and stored on Fimbl's servers, so it's there when you change phones. Progress photos, meal photos and period days stay on your iPhone. We don't sell your data, and there are no ads or ad trackers. You can export your data as CSV files, and delete your account any time from Settings: your personal data is deleted, and any AI data we keep is anonymised. Read the full privacy policy.
