Forkiee

Berke and I turned that note into an iPhone app at our studio, Third Floor Studios. You point your camera at a menu in any language, and Forkiee checks every dish against how you eat, with a verdict and a reason for each one.

I ran the research (the user interviews, the testing and the UX analysis between rounds) and did the product design. Berke wrote the code.

What my family can eat, what we can’t, and how to ask for it in whatever language the menu happened to be in. Every new country meant a menu we couldn’t read and the same nervous question for the waiter.

That list is still the heart of the app. You tell Forkiee how you eat once (allergies, traces, intolerances, diet and goals), and it does the checking from then on.

The reason also gives you the words for the waiter. Traces count, so “may contain nuts” shows up. And when Forkiee picks 1 dish for you, it says why, with the calories and macros next to the goal you set.

Then it hands you an allergy card in 9 languages to show the staff, with the sentence already written.

Privacy got the same plain treatment. Your past tables stay on your phone, and menu and bill photos aren’t kept once they’ve been read.

Same app, same App Store page, a new name. Forkiee started the studio’s “-iee” naming family: an everyday object with a friendly ending.

Split the bill from a photo of the receipt. Keep a Taste Passport of the dishes you loved, with your own photo of the plate. Follow friends’ tables on a map, with what they ordered and how the kitchen handled their allergies.