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Mealfy is an iOS app that reads a restaurant menu from a photo. Point your camera at the menu and it pulls out every dish, translates it, converts the prices into your currency, and marks what is vegan, spicy, or carries an allergen — so you can order in a place whose language you do not speak.

The first dish appears about four seconds after you take the photo, and the rest of the menu fills in behind it. Mealfy streams results as it reads, so you are never watching a spinner wait for a whole menu to finish.

Any of them. Mealfy reads the menu as an image rather than matching a fixed language list, so Czech, Japanese, Greek, Thai, Georgian, Arabic and everything else are all fair game — including menus that mix two languages on one page. It detects the language on its own; you do not tell it what you are looking at.

English, Ukrainian, and Russian. You pick yours in the app, and every dish name, description, and portion label is translated into it. More target languages are on the way.

Mealfy reads prices in about forty currencies — across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia — and converts them into US dollars, euros, Ukrainian hryvnia, Polish zloty, or Czech koruna at current exchange rates. It works out which currency the menu is priced in from the symbols on the page, so a menu in koruna, yen, or baht all convert without you setting anything.

Yes. Czech, German, Austrian and Polish menus often print allergens as bare numbers next to a dish — A1, A7, A 12 — with the key on a separate page, or nowhere at all. Mealfy picks up those codes and shows them on the dish, so you are not decoding a legend in a language you do not read. Treat it as a helpful reading of the menu, not a medical guarantee: if an allergy is serious, always confirm with the restaurant.

Yes. Mealfy recognises the markers restaurants actually use — a leaf, a V, a chili pepper, a 🌱 or 🌶 — and turns them into labels you can read at a glance, whatever language the menu is printed in.

It does. A beer at 0.3L and 0.5L, nuggets at 5, 7, or 9 pieces, a lemonade sold in three flavours at one price — each variation is listed separately with its own price, volume, weight, or count. This is usually where a plain translation app gives up.

Mealfy is free to use today. There is no subscription and no limit on how many menus you scan.

Not currently. Mealfy is an iOS app, and an Android version is not planned at this time.

Yes. Signing in keeps your scanned menus with you across sessions and devices. You can sign in with your email address, with Apple, or with Google.

Every menu you scan is saved to your account, so you can pull up a place you liked last month and remember what you ordered. Scanned restaurants are pinned on a map, and dishes you loved can be kept in a favourites list.

Scanning a new menu needs an internet connection, because the photo is read on our servers. Menus you have already scanned stay available in your account.

Mealfy enhances contrast before reading, so dim restaurant lighting and photos taken at an angle usually work fine, and it handles chalkboards and handwritten menus when the writing is legible — which matters, because the daily specials scrawled on a board by the door are often the best thing in the place and the hardest thing to read. If part of a menu comes out wrong, it is generally because that part was blurred, cut off, or in shadow — retake the photo closer to the section you care about. Mealfy deliberately skips items it can only half-see rather than guessing at them.

Take a photo of the menu in the Mealfy app. It reads the menu as an image, pulls out every dish with its description and price, and translates the whole thing into your language. Unlike pointing a general-purpose camera translator at a menu, Mealfy understands that it is looking at a menu — so you get structured dishes, prices, and portion sizes rather than floating translated words laid over a photo.

Yes — Mealfy is free. There is no subscription and no cap on how many menus you scan. You need an iPhone and an internet connection at the moment you scan.

Partly, today. Mealfy scans the QR code and opens the menu it points to, so you don't have to switch to another app to get there. Translating that QR menu is not supported yet — it's something we're working on. For now, translation works on a photo you take of the menu itself.

Yes. Mealfy works out which currency a menu is priced in from the symbols on the page, then converts every price into US dollars, euros, Ukrainian hryvnia, Polish zloty, or Czech koruna at the current exchange rate. You do not have to tell it where you are or set the source currency yourself.

Yes. Restaurants mark vegan and vegetarian dishes with whatever they like — a leaf, a V, a 🌱, or a footnote in a language you do not read. Mealfy turns each of those into a plain label, so one scan tells you what on the menu you can actually eat.

Mealfy handles Japanese menus well because it reads the page as an image rather than relying on you typing or tracing characters you cannot recognise. That matters most in scripts where you can't even sound a dish out, let alone guess what's in it — Japanese, Greek, Thai, Korean, Georgian, Hebrew and Arabic all work the same way, including menus that mix two scripts on one page. An unfamiliar alphabet is no harder for Mealfy than a familiar one.

Yes, for a new scan — the photo is read on our servers, so scanning needs data or Wi-Fi. Menus you have already scanned stay in your account and can be pulled up afterwards. If you are travelling without roaming, scanning over the restaurant's Wi-Fi works fine.

Photos are processed to extract their text and are stored with your account so you can look them up later. You can delete your account at any time, which removes your data from our servers. See our Privacy Policy for details.