GrocrAI Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 22, 2026
GrocrAI is a family meal-planning app made by GrocrAI (Nashville, Tennessee). This policy explains what the app collects, where it goes, and what you control. Questions: bret.babcock@gmail.com.
The short version
- Your meal plans, recipes, grocery lists, and family profiles live on your phone.
- Nothing is sold, and there is no advertising or tracking in the app.
- The app talks to a few outside services only to do what you asked: price a list, find a store, build a plan, or send items to your Kroger cart.
What the app stores on your device
- Household members and their dietary profiles (names you enter, ages or age groups, allergies, preferences).
- Meal plans, recipes, ratings, favorites, grocery lists, pantry items, and budget snapshots.
- Your chosen Kroger store and, if you connect Kroger, the sign-in tokens Kroger issues. These stay on the device and are sent only to our server when you push items to your cart.
This data is kept in the app's local database on your phone. Deleting the app deletes it.
What leaves your device, and why
Our server (hosted on Render in the United States) receives requests from the app to do the following. It does not keep an account for you and does not store your meal plans or lists, except as noted under Household Sync.
- AI meal planning and recipe search. The ingredients, dietary needs, and preferences you choose are sent to our server and on to an AI model provider to generate plans, recipes, swaps, and substitutions. We send only what is needed for the request. The provider does not use this data to train its models.
- Price comparison. The names of items on your grocery list and the zip code of your store are sent to Kroger and, when enabled, to a search service that reads Walmart prices. No personal identifiers go with them.
- Store lookup. Your zip code, to find nearby stores.
- Ingredient suggestions. Ingredient names, to a public ingredient-similarity model, for substitution and pairing ideas.
- Kroger cart. When you choose to send items to Kroger, the product codes and your Kroger sign-in token go through our server to Kroger. We do not store the token.
Household Sync (optional). If you pair devices, your meal plans, lists, and member profiles are stored on our server so the other paired phone can read them. Each device holds its own token; the server keeps a hashed copy. You can see and remove paired devices in the app, and "Stop syncing" revokes the device on the server. Sync data is not end-to-end encrypted. Ages and dietary details of family members are included in what syncs, so pair only with devices in your household.
Services we use
| Service | What it receives | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Kroger (The Kroger Co.) | Store zip code, item names, product codes, your Kroger sign-in when you connect | Prices, store lookup, cart |
| Anthropic | Ingredients, dietary needs, preferences | AI plans and recipes |
| SerpAPI | Item names, store id | Walmart prices |
| Kaikaku Epicure (Hugging Face) | Ingredient names | Substitutions and pairings |
| Render | Hosts our server | Runs the app's backend |
Kroger's own privacy policy governs your Kroger account. Connecting Kroger in the app shows Kroger's consent screen, and you can disconnect at any time from Profile.
What we do not do
- No advertising, ad tracking, or analytics SDKs.
- No sale or sharing of your data for marketing.
- No account, email list, or password: the app has no sign-up.
Children
Family profiles may include children's names, ages, and dietary needs, entered by a parent or guardian. That information stays on your device unless you turn on Household Sync. The app is intended for use by adults managing a household.
Your choices
- Edit or delete any member, plan, recipe, or list in the app.
- Disconnect Kroger from Profile.
- Stop Household Sync from Profile, which revokes your device on the server.
- Delete the app to remove everything stored on the device.
- Email us to ask that any synced household data be deleted from the server.
Changes
We will update this page and the date above when the policy changes. Material changes will be noted in the app.