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Menu Translator

Snap a menu abroad, understand every dish in your language

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Details

External ID
1276262
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
Subtext // Text Roast & Translator
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Oct. 13, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
1
Upvotes percentile
0.33
Tags
iOS, Travel, Artificial Intelligence

Description

Point your iPhone at a menu in Japan, Korea, Thailand or Europe. Apple Intelligence turns it into a list of dishes in your language, each with a short explanation and allergen tags. Show the staff your order in big text, or talk with two-way voice translation. Now in 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Enrichment

Niche
translation and localization tools
Vertical
Travel & hospitality
Function
Search & retrieval
Audience
B2C
AI stance
AI feature
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
photo menu translator for travelers
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Built as a mobile app combining native camera OCR (Apple Vision framework) with Apple Intelligence/LLM translation APIs and standard text-to-speech.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 250 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #111 of 251 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 270 days after the earliest competitor.

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