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Menu Explain
✓ verifiedFreemium

Mobile app that photographs a foreign-language menu and returns each dish translated and explained with images.

4.5K saves
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Lufe AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser-based AI translator for webpages, PDFs and images, built for bilingual reading with GPT, Claude and Gemini.

135K visits/mo563 saves
Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0 (unlimited machine translation, no AI credits)
Starter: $9.99 (5,000,000 AI translation credits)
Standard: $19.99 (10,000,000 AI translation credits)
Premium: $39.99 (50,000,000 AI translation credits)
Core features
  • Photo-to-menu analysis
  • Dish explanations with images
  • Translation across 30+ languages
  • Ingredient breakdowns
  • Free tier with limited weekly scans
  • Bilingual webpage translation extension
  • PDF and image translation
  • Select-to-translate with pronunciation
  • Multiple engines including GPT, Claude and Gemini
  • Customizable display styles
  • Supports 100+ languages
Use cases
  • Understanding menus while traveling
  • Decoding foreign-language dishes
  • Exploring unfamiliar cuisines
  • Ordering with more awareness of ingredients
  • Read foreign-language sites while learning
  • Translate PDFs and papers
  • Translate text inside images
  • Follow Discord and Twitter threads bilingually
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