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Acne Risk puts your food logs, skin observations, progress photos, and treatment changes on one timeline. It looks for patterns in your own history while keeping general food estimates separate from your observed relationship.

Log food portions consistently and complete regular skin check-ins. The app needs both exposed days and comparison days, so ordinary days matter just as much as flare-up days. Treatment changes should also be recorded because they can affect the pattern.

It depends on how often you eat a food and how complete your skin logs are. Fewer than five paired exposure days remains “Not enough data.” From five to eleven it can begin learning, while moderate confidence normally requires at least twelve paired days plus adequate comparison coverage and stable results.

No. Acne Risk is a self-tracking and informational tool, not a medical device, diagnosis, treatment, or substitute for a dermatologist or other qualified professional. Seek professional care for medical questions or concerning symptoms.

It is a shared, non-personal starting estimate based on available food characteristics, nutrition data, category information, and research context. It is not a claim about how your skin will respond.

It is an observational association calculated only from your logged food and skin history using a fixed outcome window. It may still reflect treatment, stress, hormones, sleep, other foods, missing logs, or chance; it does not prove that a food caused acne.

It is a conservative blend of the general estimate and your observed relationship. Personal evidence receives more weight only as sample size, skin-log coverage, comparison coverage, and stability improve. A single flare-up cannot immediately push the estimate to an extreme.

The app does not yet have enough paired exposure and outcome days—or enough suitable comparison days—to describe a personal pattern responsibly. Keep logging; the general estimate remains visible in the meantime.

New food logs, skin observations, edits, deletions, and treatment changes can add or invalidate evidence. The current insight can update as your history grows, while historical score snapshots remain unchanged.

You can search your foods and connected catalogs, use recent foods, favorites, meal templates, barcode lookup, voice entry, meal-photo entry, or diary import. Food is always added to the date currently open in the log.

Search can combine your saved foods, the internal catalog, USDA FoodData Central, and Open Food Facts packaged-food data. Results vary by source and product, so nutrition values and matches should always be reviewed.

The app shows when USDA search is temporarily unavailable. Try a shorter description, search for the components separately, scan a packaged-food barcode, or create and save your own food. For a sandwich or mixed dish, logging the main ingredients separately often gives better nutrition detail.

Yes. Open a logged food to edit its portion, use the remove control, or use the temporary Undo action after logging or deleting. You can also drag foods to reorder them within the log.

Favorites keep individual foods easy to reach. Recents prioritize foods and meals you actually use. Templates save a reusable group of foods and portions for recurring meals.

You can record overall severity, lesion types and approximate counts, face or body locations, oiliness, redness, pain, healing, notes, morning or evening timing, and treatment or routine changes.

The automatic evening prompt appears after 8:00 PM. Morning and evening observations help the app avoid treating food eaten later in the day as a possible explanation for an earlier observation.

No. Photos are optional and require separate consent. You can use skin tracking without enabling photo storage.

Photos are stored privately for your account, hidden in the acne log until you choose to reveal them, and used in the comparisons and exports you request. They are not analyzed by AI, sold, or used for advertising.

Yes. You can export selected acne-log dates and choose whether to include photos. You can delete individual photos or all skin photos, and you can withdraw permission for future uploads separately.

Voice food entry and meal-photo logging use AI processing. Personalized food-to-skin estimates do not use OpenAI or another generative model; those calculations are deterministic.

No. Voice and meal-photo results always open an editable review sheet. You must confirm the interpreted foods and portions before anything is logged.

The selected clip or prepared meal image is sent through an authenticated backend function for transcription or interpretation. Acne Risk does not save that original AI input to your account. Provider-side processing is described in the Privacy Policy.

AI credits represent a monthly processing allowance, not cash or a transferable balance. Usage is metered by feature and processing consumed, and requests are blocked when the account or platform allowance is exhausted.

Core food logging, skin tracking, evidence views, and personal history remain available. Premium access can unlock the AI processing required for voice and meal-photo logging.

Acne Risk is a direct-to-consumer service, not a doctor, hospital, insurer, or service offered on behalf of one. Information in the app therefore may not be protected by HIPAA, although consumer privacy and health-data laws may still apply.

Yes. Open My Profile → Privacy requests to request access, export, correction, deletion, or consent withdrawal. Individual food entries, skin observations, and photos also have in-product controls.

No. The current Service does not sell personal information or consumer health data and does not use consumer health data for targeted advertising.

While signed in, open Feedback & requests from the account menu. Choose Bug or Feature request, describe what happened or what you would like, and track its status from the same screen.

Read the Privacy & Consumer Health Data Policy and the Terms & Medical Disclaimer. Those documents control if this FAQ and the legal terms differ.