MenuGuide

MenuGuide solves a very specific travel problem: standing in a restaurant, holding a menu you cannot read. Instead of typing dish names into a search box, you take one photo. The app uses AI to translate dish names in context, attaches a real photograph of each dish so you know what will arrive at the table, and lists the ingredients it detects. Because regional specialities are easy to mistranslate, the original dish name stays visible underneath the translation.

The safety layer is what differentiates it. You tell MenuGuide once about your allergies (peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, fish, dairy, eggs, gluten, soy, sesame) and your diet (vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, halal, kosher, gluten-free, low-carb), and it flags any dish that might conflict while showing the allergens found in every item. The app is explicit that these are AI estimates from menu text and typical recipes, not lab-tested guarantees, so severe allergies still warrant a word with staff.

MenuGuide translates into 49 languages and works with menus written in non-Latin scripts such as Japanese, Thai or Greek. With location permission it also knows that a "$" in Buenos Aires means pesos rather than dollars, and it renders prices in your currency. Scans are saved to a History tab on the device. A free tier covers a limited number of scans per day with a built-in sample menu; Premium unlocks unlimited scans and every dish on long menus.