Scan any menu. Get the three dishes you'll actually love.
Ordering at an unfamiliar restaurant is a small, repeated gamble. The menu is long, the names give little away, and the person who knows the food — the waiter — is incentivised to push whatever the kitchen wants to move. Most people end up ordering the same safe dish they always order, or asking the table for advice and regretting it when the food arrives.
pickyeat is an AI dining assistant built for that exact moment. You photograph the menu in front of you. Within seconds it has read every dish and price on it, and it hands you three recommendations chosen for you specifically — not the restaurant's bestsellers, not sponsored placements, but the dishes that fit your taste, your diet and your budget, each with a short reason for why it made the cut.
How it works
- Scan the menu. Point your camera at a menu card, a wall board, or the table's QR standee. A vision model extracts every dish, price and section — including dense multi-column boards that span several photos.
- Tell it about you. Pick a mood (a drink, a quick bite, a full meal), your diet, spice tolerance, budget and anything specific — “no onion or garlic”, “high protein”, “something light”. This takes about twenty seconds, and the menu finishes parsing in the background while you choose.
- Get three picks. Allergens and diet conflicts are removed as hard filters first. What remains is ranked against your preferences, health goals and what you've enjoyed before, and the top three arrive with calories, protein and a plain-language reason each.
Built for how India actually eats
Vegetarian, vegan and Jain diets are first-class rules, not checkboxes bolted on at the end. Health conditions — diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid, PCOS — shift what gets recommended rather than just displaying a warning. Prices are in rupees, the budget applies to the whole table's order rather than a single dish, and the vocabulary is thali and tiffin, not entrée and appetizer.
Track what you eat, from a photo
The same engine powers a calorie tracker. Photograph your plate and pickyeat breaks the meal into its parts — rice, sambar, half a corn cob — with calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre for each. Set daily targets and it tells you what's left for the rest of your day, in a sentence rather than a spreadsheet.
For restaurants
Restaurants can put their menu on pickyeat and print a free table standee. Diners scan the QR and land directly on picks from that restaurant's own menu — no app install, no commission, no ordering middleman. Owners see which dishes get recommended and ordered most. More for restaurant owners.
Frequently asked questions
What is pickyeat?
pickyeat is an AI dining assistant that reads a restaurant's menu from a photo and recommends the three dishes you're most likely to enjoy. It filters every suggestion against your allergies, dietary rules, health conditions, budget and current mood, so you order confidently instead of scanning a hundred unfamiliar names.
How does pickyeat work?
You photograph the menu — a card, a wall board, or a QR menu — and pickyeat's vision model extracts every dish with its price. You then pick a mood, diet, spice level and budget. A recommendation model ranks the full menu against those inputs and returns three dishes, each with a one-line reason explaining why it suits you.
Is pickyeat free?
Yes. Scanning menus, getting dish recommendations and tracking calories are free for diners. There is no app to install — pickyeat runs in your phone's browser.
Do I need to download an app?
No. pickyeat is a web app: open pickyeat.com or scan the QR standee on your table and it works immediately in your browser. You can add it to your home screen if you want an app-like icon.
Which restaurants does pickyeat support?
Any restaurant with a readable menu. If someone has already scanned that venue, its menu is on file and your picks appear instantly. If not, your scan adds it — so the next diner there gets instant results.
Can pickyeat handle allergies and dietary restrictions?
Yes, and it treats them as hard rules rather than preferences. Dishes containing a declared allergen are removed before ranking begins. pickyeat supports vegetarian, vegan, Jain and egg-inclusive diets, and adjusts picks for health conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, thyroid conditions and PCOS.
How accurate are the calorie estimates?
Calorie and macro figures are AI estimates from a photo and typical recipes, generally within about 20 percent. You can refine any estimate by setting the portion size, adding sugar or cooking oil, or describing what the photo missed — pickyeat then recounts with your notes included.
How is pickyeat different from a food delivery app?
Delivery apps help you choose a restaurant and place an order. pickyeat starts after you're already seated: it reads the menu in front of you and tells you what to order from it. It takes no commission, processes no orders, and recommends only from the actual menu at your table.
How can a restaurant get pickyeat on its tables?
Restaurants can add their menu and print a free table QR standee. Diners scan it and land straight on personalised picks from that restaurant's own menu, with no app install. Owners can see which dishes get recommended and ordered most.
pickyeat — scan · pick · eat. Made in Pune, India.