Traveling soon? Plato now reads 90+ languages — and works the moment you point your camera at the menu.
Snap a photo and Plato hands each dish back in your language — then tells you what it actually is: a one-line description, the main ingredients, and flags for pork, shellfish, nuts, vegetarian, very spicy or raw.
Detected
Thai
ต้มยำกุ้ง
Spicy & sour shrimp soup
Hot-and-sour broth with prawns, lemongrass, lime & chili.
순두부찌개
Soft tofu stew
The gap
Translate the menu and you'll learn the words. You still won't know whether to order it. Plato closes that last gap — from what it says to what it is.
A plain translator
Trippa alla Romana
Roman-style tripe
With Plato
Trippa alla Romana
Slow-cooked honeycomb beef tripe simmered in a rich tomato sauce with mint and a generous shower of pecorino — hearty, savory, a Roman classic.
How it works
Three steps between a menu you can't read and ordering exactly what you want.
Point your camera at the menu — printed, handwritten or chalkboard, in any language. One tap, even with no signal.
Plato pulls every line off the photo, detects the source language automatically, and translates each dish into yours.
For every dish you get a plain-language description, the main ingredients, and clear dietary & allergen flags — so you order on purpose.
See it in action
Each card opens on the menu's own language. Tap — or hover — and it turns over to the English name, a plain-language description, the main ingredients and the flags that matter.
Tom Yum Goong
ต้มยำกุ้ง
A hot-and-sour broth fragrant with lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime, loaded with prawns, mushrooms and chili — bright, aromatic and seriously fiery.
Sundubu-jjigae
순두부찌개
A bubbling, spicy stew of silken tofu in a chili-and-garlic broth with kimchi, mushrooms and a cracked egg — warming, soft and deeply savory.
Niúròu miàn
牛肉面
Hand-pulled wheat noodles in a deep, slow-braised beef broth with tender chunks of beef, bok choy and scallions — savory, soothing and satisfying.
Features
Spicy & sour shrimp soup
Hot-and-sour broth with prawns, lemongrass & chili.
The hero feature: a one-line, plain-language description of what each dish actually is — drawing on real knowledge of the cuisine, not a word-for-word swap.
Clear flags for the things you care about — contains pork, shellfish or nuts; vegetarian or vegan; very spicy; or served raw — surfaced on every dish.
Mainly
Each card lists what's actually on the plate, so you can spot what you'll love and steer clear of what you won't — before it arrives.
牛肉面
"niú-ròu-miàn"
Tap any dish to hear it said out loud, so you can order with the right name instead of pointing and hoping.
Printed, handwritten or chalkboard — Plato finds each line, auto-detects the language, and handles columns, prices and mixed fonts.
Keep the places and dishes worth remembering. Well-known dishes are recognised instantly, so favourites load in a tap.
Languages
You won't need to tell Plato which language you're looking at — it detects the source automatically and translates into yours.
90+
languages read
Auto
language detection
∞
cuisines understood