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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Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
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
Navi for Vision Pro
Maker
@rrhoover those damn fancy chefs with their complicated foreign dish names 😤
Jordi Bruin
Navi for Vision Pro
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
Product Hunt
@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
Navi for Vision Pro
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
Navi for Vision Pro
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
html.to.design
This is a great idea! The work behind it must be phenomenal! Wouldn't need this in Japan tho :p
Jordi Bruin
Navi for Vision Pro
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
html.to.design
@jordibruin Amazing work! Well done! Let's hope it will soon because reading Japanese (even more so on labels!) is a pain...
Jordi Bruin
Navi for Vision Pro
Maker
@charlene187 I've filed feedback for it since 2019, so hopefully it's coming in iOS 16 🙂
Charlene GK
html.to.design
@jordibruin Damn! Fingers crossed!
Marwan
Visavis
Just came back from Cyprus and would've absolutely loved this while I was there. Still downloading it anyway cuz pictures on menus should be the standard 😭
Jordi Bruin
Navi for Vision Pro
Maker
@marawan_1997 Good excuse to go on a holiday again, soon!
Marwan
Visavis
@jordibruin I like the way you think!
Pallavi Khanna
Ricotta
This is great! I have a question though - what if there is a typo in the text? Will it impact the search results?
Jordi Bruin
Navi for Vision Pro
Maker
@pallavi_khanna most of the time the results still end up okay due to auto correct on the search engine side. But if not, there is a text field at the top which you can use to correct the typo!
Sarah Donahoo
Very cool idea! Not sure it's something I'd ever pay for (after all, googling isn't soooo difficult) but then again, I do this a lot as a pretty frequent traveler. So, kudos!
Jordi Bruin
Navi for Vision Pro
Maker
@sarah_donahoo you get 25 free scans (and 25 extra if you hold the 'remaining free scans' button 🤫) so it will probably last you a few weeks at least 🙂
Bertie IP
Umm, YUM. Awesome product, @jordibruin (and a great story!). I'll never get over the accidental Ox Tail I ordered in northern Spain one year. If only Cibo had existed then! Congratulations on the launch, 🍔🍜🥘
Jordi Bruin
Navi for Vision Pro
Maker
@bertie yikes, just looked up some photos 😱
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