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About us

Epioneum LLP is a software company registered in England and Wales. We develop and publish iPhone apps: EpiNutri, a nutrition tracker, and epiMind, a companion for breathing, sounds and reflection.

Our business is developing, publishing and supporting iPhone applications, which we distribute through the Apple App Store. Epioneum LLP was formed for exactly that purpose. EpiNutri is our first app and epiMind our second.

EpiNutri is a calorie and nutrition tracker: you photograph a meal or search for it, and the app tells you what you ate, in grams, with the calories and the nutrients that follow from it. It keeps a daily diary, tracks weight and goals, reads barcodes on packaged food, and can optionally read your weight and active energy from Apple Health.

epiMind offers paced breathing, offline soundscapes, a private diary and optional GAD-7 and PHQ-8 check-ins. It is a wellness companion, not medical care, and it has no account, advertising or in-app purchases.

EpiNutri is sold as a subscription on the App Store, where Apple takes the payment and passes it to us. That subscription is our only source of revenue: epiMind is free, we sell no advertising, we sell no data, and we have no other line of business. The prices are all on the Pricing page.

An EpiNutri scan result: grilled chicken and white rice, each with its portion in grams, its calories, and the USDA source it came from
A screenshot from EpiNutri: every row carries its portion, its source, and a confidence score.

Most calorie trackers are built on user-submitted food databases, where a single “chicken breast” can carry five different calorie counts and none of them says where it came from. There is no way to check the number, so you end up trusting a figure that nobody stands behind.

We went the other way. EpiNutri ships with a food database built from the United States Department of Agriculture’s public FoodData Central: 13,349 foods, 26 nutrients each, 35,840 measured portions. That database ships inside the app. Every row in the app names the USDA source it came from and shows a confidence score, and where a value was estimated rather than measured the app says so, field by field. Where we have no figure at all, the app leaves the number blank rather than printing a zero.

The website follows the same rule. Neither app has been released yet, so there is nothing here that pretends otherwise: no ratings, no user counts, no reviews. The screenshots are taken from the apps as they stand.

  • USDA FoodData Central — the United States Department of Agriculture’s public nutrient database, released into the public domain. This is the source of the generic foods bundled inside the app.
  • Open Food Facts — a collaborative, open database of packaged products, licensed under the Open Database License. This is what a barcode scan looks up. Scanning sends the barcode number and nothing else about you.

Both are data sources EpiNutri builds on, credited as their licences require. Neither is a partner, a sponsor or an affiliate of Epioneum LLP, and neither of them endorses our apps.

Epioneum LLP is the only company behind our apps. It has no parent, no subsidiaries and no group. Four other organisations are named on this site, each because we are required to name it, or because a person in distress needs it, rather than because we are connected to it:

  • Apple Inc. distributes our apps through the App Store and is the merchant of record for every subscription, so we have to tell you who is taking your money and where to cancel or claim a refund. Apple is not a partner, an investor or an affiliate of ours and does not endorse our apps. Apple, the Apple logo, App Store and Apple Health are trademarks of Apple Inc.
  • The United States Department of Agriculture publishes FoodData Central, which is in the public domain. We name it because the app shows you which USDA record every number came from, and a source you cannot see is not a source.
  • Open Food Facts licenses its packaged-product database under the Open Database License, which requires attribution. We name it for that reason.
  • Find a Helpline is an international directory of crisis and support lines. epiMind’s support page links to it so that someone who needs help right now can find a service in their country. It is not a partner or an affiliate of ours.

No other business, sole trader or organisation is described, advertised or linked to anywhere on this site.

epiMind works without an account: your diary, check-ins and practice history are stored on your device. EpiNutri uses an account you sign in to with Apple or Google, and your food diary, weight, profile and any Apple Health records you choose to import are stored in that account, so it needs an internet connection. We do not sell or rent personal information, we run no advertising, and we do not track you across other apps or websites. Each app lets you export your records, or erase all of them, from inside the app. The EpiNutri Privacy Policy and the epiMind Privacy Policy set all of this out in detail.

We are a small team and we answer our own email, usually within two business days.