MenuCheck

Love that this comes from your own experience with gout. That's usually the sign of a tool that gets the details right. One question: restaurant menus rarely list every ingredient (sauces, marinades, stock bases). How does MenuCheck handle a dish where it can't be sure? A clear "ask your server about X" flag on uncertain dishes would build a lot of trust, especially for celiac and allergy users, where a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer. Also, would offline scanning be possible for basements and spotty restaurant signal?

Travelling is where I'd need this most. Ordering abroad with a menu in a language you can't read is always a gamble when you have to avoid certain ingredients. Does MenuCheck work on menus in other languages, say Italian or Spanish?

Does MenuCheck make scanning a menu and eating with confidence feel clear on a cold visit before someone trusts it at a restaurant? Happy to send a totally free first-impression video if useful.

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Hi everyone, I’m Kevin, the maker of MenuCheck. I have gout, so I know how frustrating it is to open a restaurant menu and wonder what I can actually order. Talking with friends who have other dietary needs made me want to build something that could make that moment easier. MenuCheck lets you scan a menu and see options based on your needs. It’s an early version, and I’d love honest feedback: what would make it more useful when you’re deciding what to eat?

Good to see a tool built from a real diagnosis, Kevin. To answer your question about what would make it more useful: for conditions like gout or diabetes, the menu is only half the picture, because most people eat at home far more often than they dine out. A small "what to buy for the week" view that reuses the same dietary filters (for example low-purine or low-sugar shopping lists) would keep users in the app between restaurant visits. Also, when MenuCheck flags a dish as risky, showing the specific ingredient that triggered it (say, organ meat or a sugary glaze) would help people learn the pattern instead of just following a yes or no.

Since the dietary profile includes health conditions (gout, diabetes, celiac), I'm curious where that profile lives: only on the phone, or on your servers? In the EU that counts as special-category health data, so a line like "your conditions never leave your device" would be a strong trust signal on the listing, right next to the camera scan. Is the menu photo processed on-device, or sent to a model?