Cibo

Cibo

Point your camera at a menu and see photos of the dishes.

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Cibo uses AR and realtime text recognition to highlight dishes on the menu. Point your phone at a menu and select the dish you want to see photos of. No more typing into Google Image Search!
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iOS•Augmented Reality
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What do you think? …

Ryan Hoover
Very cool idea. I know it's not particularly classy, but I like it when restaurants include photos of the food on the menu. 😋
Jordi Bruin
Maker
@rrhoover those damn fancy chefs with their complicated foreign dish names 😤
Jordi Bruin
Maker
@rrhoover let me know if you run into anything while using it! I've been optimizing it over the last few days based on feedback from early users but because the formats of menus can be very very varied it will take some iterations to get it really right!
Ryan Hoover
@jordibruin 🙌🏼
Anna Filou
@rrhoover I still don’t understand why “good” restaurants *must* not have pictures on the menu and it’s only fine for street food places.
Jordi Bruin
Maker
Last week I was on holiday in Italy and I obviously went to a lot of restaurants. I don't speak Italian, so I ended up googling a lot of the dishes to see what they would look like. That got annoying pretty fast so I made Cibo, an app to help you figure out what to pick at a restaurant! You can see a video if it here:
For one my other apps (Soosee) I had done a lot with text recognition already so I could re-use a lot of code for this project. I built the app in 5 days from idea to App Store submission which really shows the power of SwiftUI for quickly creating apps. Here is my initial tweet from Monday when I had the idea, you can follow the thread to see the app evolve over time: https://twitter.com/jordibruin/s... Cibo does not track any data and does not contain ads. Users can scan 50 menu items for free, afterwards they can make an in app purchase (€1,99 or equal in your local currency) to perform unlimited scans. Let me know if you have any questions about the process of building this, or if you have suggestions for how I can improve the app! Thanks, Jordi
Stewart Barrett
@jordibruin This is the app for me, this is me at every foreign restaurant trying to figure out what dish is what. (that plus being very indecisive)
Jordi Bruin
Maker
@stewup we've all been there haha! Let me know if you run into anything the next time you're at a restaurant!
Charlene GK
This is a great idea! The work behind it must be phenomenal! Wouldn't need this in Japan tho :p
Jordi Bruin
Maker
@charlene187 I was able to re-use a lot of code from my app www.soosee.app, which scans ingredient labels for allergies. Unfortunately Apple's text recognition does not work in Japanese yet 😞
Charlene GK
@jordibruin Amazing work! Well done! Let's hope it will soon because reading Japanese (even more so on labels!) is a pain...
Jordi Bruin
Maker
@charlene187 I've filed feedback for it since 2019, so hopefully it's coming in iOS 16 🙂
Charlene GK
@jordibruin Damn! Fingers crossed!