Scrounge

Your photos

When you search, the photos you chose are sent to the Scrounge server and passed to Anthropic's Claude, the AI service that reads them and writes the recipes. The Scrounge server does not save your photos or your results; they are held only for the few seconds the search takes. Anthropic handles the photos under its own privacy policy.

What else is sent

The meal you picked, anything you typed in the notes field, and your budget, if you gave one. These are used only to write your recipes.

What Scrounge keeps

Scrounge has no accounts and does not ask for your name or email. To stop overuse, the server counts searches per internet address for the current day. That count is held in memory and is not written to disk.

The iPhone app stores the number of free searches you have used on your device. Purchases are handled by Apple; Scrounge never sees your payment details.

What Scrounge does not do

No advertising, no analytics, no tracking across other apps or sites, and no selling of data.

Last updated 11 November 2026.