Coming to iOS
Point your phone at the menu. SpoonTip translates it, groups it by course, and tells you what each dish actually is — before you order it.
Send us a line and we'll tell you the day it lands.
You are seated. The menu arrives. It is four pages of a language you do not read, the server is waiting, and the only thing you recognise is the word pizza.
Everyone has ordered the wrong thing out of politeness. SpoonTip exists so that the good dish — the one the locals order — is the one you can find.
How it works
No account, no setup, no typing. The first dish lands in about twenty seconds.
One photo or several. Pages photographed together are read as one menu, so a dish never lands in the wrong course just because it fell on the next page.
Dishes stream in as they are translated. The first one lands in about twenty seconds — you start reading while the rest is still arriving.
Real photos, allergens flagged, prices in your currency, and a companion that answers the question the menu never does: what is this, actually?
What you get
Dish photos
Every dish is matched against a shared catalog by its canonical name, so the photo you see is of the actual dish — not a stock image of something that sounds similar.
Allergens & preferences
Set what you avoid during setup — gluten, dairy, shellfish, peanuts, anything you type in yourself. From then on every scanned menu flags what matters, in colour, before you order.
The companion
Tell it who is at the table and it will build an order. Ask what a dish is and it explains — the ingredients, how it is served, whether it is a starter or the whole meal.
Voice
Ordering rarely stops at the menu. Speak, and SpoonTip translates both ways — enough to ask for the check, flag an allergy to a server, or ask what the special is.
You say
“Is this dish very spicy?”
They hear
“¿Este plato pica mucho?”
Privacy
A menu photo can carry more than a menu — the restaurant, the city, who you were with. SpoonTip is built so that none of it becomes a business model.
There is no ad business here, so there is nothing to profile you for.
Scanned menus are stored locally and never uploaded to us.
An anonymous identifier, not tied to your name, email, or phone.
Your menu photo is processed for translation and then dropped.
Pricing
Ten scans a day covers a holiday. Premium is for people who eat somewhere new most weeks.
$0 forever
Everything you need for an occasional trip.
$4.99 per month
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For people who eat out somewhere new most weeks.
Any language the camera can read — the translation model is not limited to a fixed list. You choose the language you want the menu translated into, and SpoonTip can suggest one based on where you are.
The first dish appears in roughly twenty seconds. The full menu keeps filling in behind it, so you are reading long before the scan finishes.
Scanning needs a connection, because the translation runs on a server. Menus you have already scanned stay on your device and open offline.
A shared catalog matched by canonical dish name. If a dish is not in the catalog yet, you get the translation and explanation without a photo rather than a misleading one.
The photo is sent over an encrypted connection for text recognition and translation, and is not retained on our servers afterwards. The translated result is stored on your device only. See the privacy policy for the full detail.
Coming to iOS
Or just say hello — hello@spoontip.com