Questions about Kove.
What it is, what it costs, where your record lives, and the things it does not have. Every answer is about the product as it works today.
What Kove is.
What is Kove?
Kove is a health journal you write in one message. You type a sentence, or dictate it, or photograph the plate, and Kove files it into the per-day fields you control: the meal, the weight, the sleep, the headache and the workout out of the same sentence. It keeps a written note of each day, answers questions about your own record, and grades nothing. It is a closed beta today, open by invite.
How is Kove different from a calorie counter?
A calorie counter fixes what you can track to food, and makes every entry a search through a database. Kove takes the sentence instead, and holds whatever you decide to track rather than food alone. The other difference is what is missing: no streaks, no badges, no mascot, and no opinion about the number you just logged.
Can I track something Kove has no field for?
Yes, and this is the part most trackers get wrong. Everyone's health is different, so Kove builds around what you want to track. Mention it in passing and Kove offers to add it, which you accept with one tap. Anything that doesn't have a field is still kept, written into that day's journal note. Anything you added is yours to rename, retype, reorder, hide or delete, and the thirteen Kove starts you with cover the obvious ground until you change it.
Do I have to talk to it, or can I log by hand?
You can log entirely by hand, and it is not a fallback. Your raw data is always there as a spreadsheet to read and edit, a quick-add template covers whatever you log every day, and at the gym you tick sets as you go. Typing a sentence, dictating one and photographing a plate are three doors onto the same thing, and Kove never takes the manual one away.
Can Kove read a photo of a meal or a nutrition label?
Yes. Send a photo of the plate, a nutrition label or the kitchen scale, with a few words if you like, and Kove reads it and logs what it shows. Anything you type counts as fact over what the picture suggests. A photographed label is kept among the foods Kove has seen, so the same product can log from its own figures next time.
Numbers, and what Kove will not do.
Are the numbers accurate?
The ones Kove estimates are estimates, and Kove says so: a photographed plate comes back as “about 160 g”, never as a fact. Any amount you state yourself wins outright, and a saved food uses the figures off its own label. Totals and averages are added up by Kove rather than produced by the model, so a day cannot drift, and every value is yours to correct where it sits. Common foods and branded products are looked up in open reference tables rather than guessed, and each food says which it got. How close all of it lands is measured, with the numbers, on the accuracy page.
Do I have to weigh my food?
No. Write “a plate of pasta” or “a pot of yogurt” and Kove estimates the portion, writes the amount it assumed beside the food so you can correct it, and uses the grams whenever you give them. How close those guesses land against standard portions is on the accuracy page.
Does Kove have streaks or badges?
No. No streaks, no badges, no mascot, no red numbers and no praise either. A day you skipped is an empty row and nothing says anything about it. Nothing you log is ever judged. Reminders exist only if you set them up yourself, in the app or by asking in chat (“remind me to log my mood every evening”), and Kove never sends one you didn't ask for.
Will Kove tell me what is wrong with me?
No. Kove describes what your record shows and stops there: it does not explain, diagnose or prescribe, and anything clinical belongs with a professional. That is a rule the product is built to rather than a line of small print. You can still talk things through with Kove and ask it for ideas, like a meal that fits the rest of your day or a change to your training plan, and it helps with exactly what you ask. None of that is medical advice: Kove is a general-wellness journal and not a medical service.
Price, platforms and languages.
How much does Kove cost?
Everybody gets 30 days free, with no card. After that Kove is 39 € a year. The first 50 to join from the waitlist before launch keep it at 29 € a year for as long as they stay. Kove is a closed beta, so the waitlist is how you get in.
Is there a free version of Kove?
No, and there will not be one. A free tier is what leads to the ads, the streak screens and the history behind a paywall that people are leaving other apps over. One plan instead, with everything in it, and 30 days to see whether it is worth it. If you need longer than that to decide, write to [email protected] and ask. Taking your whole record out is free whether you are paying or not.
Is there an iPhone or Android app?
Not on the App Store or Google Play yet. Kove currently installs as a web app (a PWA) from your browser and then works like an app, with its own icon and no address bar, which on an iPhone is a less familiar step than it should be. You can also keep using Kove in the browser, on your phone or on a computer. A native app is planned and coming soon. If it is something you really want, write to [email protected] and say so: it helps decide what comes first.
Can I connect Kove to ChatGPT or another AI assistant?
Not for now. Kove does not offer a connection to ChatGPT, Claude or other assistants yet. The one way today is an assistant that can drive a web browser where you are already signed in to Kove, which works because it uses the app the way you would. Proper connections to assistants and to other apps are planned.
What languages is Kove available in?
English and Italian, and the Italian is reviewed by a native speaker. Food and exercise names are matched in Italian, so a normal Italian meal is recognised as one. The language belongs to your account rather than to the device, so a bilingual household works, and Kove replies in whichever language you wrote your message in. More languages can follow if people ask for them: if you would like Kove in yours, write to [email protected].
Your record.
Where is my data, and who can see it?
On one server in the European Union, run by Kove, and the search that reads your journal runs on that same machine rather than being sent out to be indexed. What you write in chat, and any picture you send, goes to one AI provider, and the nightly backup goes to a store in the EU. Dictation is transcribed by your own browser, so Kove never receives the audio.
Can I get my data out of Kove?
Whenever you like, free, whether you are paying or not, and without asking anyone. The export is ordinary files rather than a blob only Kove can read: your days as a spreadsheet, your conversations as readable text, your pictures as pictures. You can delete a single photo, or the whole account, the same way.
Can I run Kove on my own server?
Not right now. Kove runs on one server in the EU, operated by Kove, and today there is no version you install yourself. That could change later: if self-hosting is what you need, write to [email protected] so it is counted.
Ideas and problems.
How do I ask for a feature or report a bug?
Use the feedback form for anything: something broken, a feature you would like, or just an idea. If you would rather write an email, send it to [email protected]. Inside the app, the same form is at the foot of Settings.
Want to try Kove?
Kove is in closed beta, open by invite. Everybody gets 30 days free, with no card.
After the trial Kove is 39 € a year.
Early bird: the first 50 to join from this list before launch keep it at 29 € a year, for as long as they stay.
Only an email address is required. How it is handled.