Effective 18 October 2026
Plain terms for a small app. By using Bite you agree to these, and to our Privacy Policy.
The short version. You must be 18 or older. Bite is free, and it will keep changing. What you post stays yours; you let us store it and show it to the people you choose. A meal you post at a restaurant is public by default and shows on that restaurant's page for anyone using Bite. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abuse: report it, block the person, and we act on reports within 24 hours.
Bite is made and run by one person, Nate Bautistas, an individual in California, USA. In these terms “Bite”, “we” and “us” mean that person, and “you” means you. These terms cover the Bite iPhone app and this website, trybite.co.
Bite is a food diary for the meals you photograph and cook. You can share them with the friends you choose, and the meals you post at restaurants help other people decide where to eat. You can post meals and recipes, comment and react, message friends, make plans together, and save places and recipes.
Bite is free. We add, change and remove features over time, sometimes without notice, and there may be bugs. We may stop offering Bite at any time; if we do, we will try to give you notice and a way to keep a copy of what you posted.
You must be at least 18 years old to use Bite, and you confirm that you are when you sign up. If we learn that someone under 18 has an account, we will remove it. You can't use Bite if we have suspended or removed your account before, or if the law where you live forbids it.
You sign in with Apple or with a code we email you. Keep your Apple ID, your email account and the devices signed into them secure; you are responsible for what happens on your account. Use your own name or one you go by, and don't pick a username that pretends to be someone else or a brand you don't represent. We may reclaim a username that does.
You pick who sees each meal you post: Everyone, Friends or Just you. A meal at a restaurant starts on Everyone, which means it shows on that restaurant's page to anyone using Bite, with your first name, so they can decide whether to eat there. You can change any meal before or after you post it, and with Private profile your public meals show without your name or face. Meals you cook at home are never public. You add a friend by sending a request; when they accept, you follow each other and you are friends. Being friends shares your diary with that person, so treat a request like an invitation. You can remove a friend or block anyone at any time. A plan or recipe link you share can be opened by anyone who has it. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly who sees what.
The photos, notes, verdicts, recipes, comments, messages and everything else you put into Bite belong to you. We do not claim ownership of them.
You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process and display your content, only to run Bite: to show it to the audiences you choose (for a meal set to Everyone, anyone using Bite, on that restaurant's page), to deliver your messages, and to render the share links, posters and recap images you make. The license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in backups for a short time and content someone else has already received from you, such as a message or a link. We will not use your photos in marketing without asking you first.
You confirm that you have the right to post what you post, including permission from anyone recognisable in your photos where that is needed.
If you send us ideas, suggestions or feedback about Bite, we may use them however we like without owing you anything, and without any duty to keep them confidential.
There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users on Bite. Don't post, send or do any of the following:
Don't:
You can report posts, comments, messages and people from inside the app, or by writing to hello@trybite.co. You can block anyone. A block works both ways: they can no longer see your meals, find you in search, message you, or send you a request.
We review every report and act on it within 24 hours. Depending on what we find, we may remove the content, warn the person who posted it, suspend their account, or remove them from Bite. We may also act on content or behaviour we find ourselves, report illegal content to the authorities, and keep reported content as long as we need it for safety or the law.
We may remove any content, or suspend or end any account, that breaks these terms or puts other people or Bite at risk. Where it is safe and practical, we will tell you why. If you think we got it wrong, write to us.
Bite is not an emergency service, and nobody watches it around the clock. If you or someone else is in danger, call 911 or your local emergency number.
If you believe something on Bite infringes your copyright, send a notice to hello@trybite.co with: your name and contact details; the work you say is infringed; where on Bite the material is (a link, or a username and description); a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. We will remove material we are given proper notice about, and remove accounts that infringe repeatedly.
If your content was removed because of a copyright notice and you believe that was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the same address with: your name, address and phone number; what was removed and where it appeared before it was removed; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification; a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which Bite may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent; and your physical or electronic signature. We will send a copy of your counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action to stop the infringement, we may restore the material 10 to 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice.
Bite shows what you, your friends and other people on Bite thought. A meal on a restaurant's page is the opinion of the person who posted it, and we don't check it. Place details such as names, addresses, categories and hours come from Apple Maps, open map data and restaurants' own websites. That information can be wrong or out of date, and recipes are written by people, not checked by us. Nothing in Bite is a health, safety or dietary guarantee. Check anything that matters, and always confirm ingredients with the restaurant if you have an allergy.
Bite relies on services run by others, including Apple (the App Store, Sign in with Apple, Apple Maps) and Google Books. Your use of them is also subject to their terms, and we are not responsible for them or for websites a recipe link points to.
Bite is distributed through Apple's App Store, so these points also apply:
Questions, complaints or claims about the app go to Bite at hello@trybite.co.
Bite is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows. We don't promise Bite will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or that your content will never be lost. Keep your own copies of photos that matter to you; your phone's photo library is the right place for them.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Bite is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits or goodwill, arising from your use of Bite or from other people's content or conduct on it. Our total liability for any claim about Bite is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (Bite is free, so that is nothing) and US$100.
Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
You agree to cover Bite's reasonable costs from a claim brought by someone else because of content you posted or your breach of these terms, to the extent the law allows. Please write to us first if you have a problem; most things can be sorted out by email.
You can stop using Bite at any time, and delete your account from Settings. We may suspend or end your access as described in section 10, or if we discontinue Bite. Sections 7 (for content already shared, and ideas you sent us), 11, 15, 16, 17 and 19 survive the end of these terms.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be decided in the state or federal courts in San Francisco County, California, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. If you live outside the US, you keep any protections the consumer laws of your country give you.
We may update these terms. When we do we change the date at the top, and if a change is material we will say so in the app before it takes effect. If you keep using Bite after that, you accept the new terms. If you don't agree, stop using Bite and delete your account.
These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and Bite about the service. If any part turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce something straight away, we can still enforce it later. You can't transfer these terms to someone else; we may transfer them to whoever takes over Bite.
Write to hello@trybite.co. Help with the app is at trybite.co/support.
Earlier versions: 15 October 2026, 1 October 2026.