Product claims come from the shipped app
Feature pages should describe behavior a person can actually use in the current iPhone app. Planned features do not belong in present-tense marketing copy.
About CalNotes
A calmer food diary, explained without pretending the numbers are perfect.
CalNotes is an independent iPhone calorie tracker published by Kyle Orin. The product is built around a simple idea: food logging should feel closer to writing a note than maintaining a spreadsheet.
Why the guides exist
Product education before promotion.
Calorie tracking sits close to health, body image, and personal routines. The CalNotes guides are written to help people understand input methods, estimate limitations, privacy choices, and everyday logging habits before they decide whether the app is useful.
The guides are not written by a dietitian and do not provide medical or personalized nutrition advice. People managing a medical condition, pregnancy, eating-disorder recovery, or a prescribed diet should use qualified professional guidance.
Editorial standards
Health-adjacent claims need reliable sources
Guides link to primary or authoritative sources such as the FDA, USDA, CDC, NIH, Apple, and peer-reviewed research when a factual claim needs support.
Uncertainty stays visible
AI calorie and portion estimates are approximate. CalNotes content should explain what a photo, food note, or model cannot know instead of presenting an estimate as clinical precision.
Corrections replace quiet rewrites
Each guide displays publication and update dates. Material errors should be corrected in the article and reflected in its updated date.
Corrections and questions
Challenge a claim that does not hold up.
Product corrections, source questions, accessibility feedback, and privacy requests can be sent through the contact page. Include the page URL and the claim that needs review.