DishDraw: Restaurant Discovery
Full menus, allergens, prices
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Full menus for Berlin restaurants, typed out — prices, descriptions and allergen tags on every dish. Find dinner near you, or on your way home.
Restaurant menus are a mess. Half of them are a PDF that pinch-zooms badly, most are out of date, and almost none tell you what is actually in the dish. DishDraw types them out properly.
THE WHOLE CARD, TYPED OUT
Every restaurant gets its full menu as real text: sections, dish names, descriptions, prices and portion sizes. Search inside a menu. No pinching, no downloads, no dead links.
ALLERGENS AND DIETS ON THE DISH
Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, lactose-free and common allergens sit as tags on the individual dish, not buried in a footnote at the bottom of page four. Filter a whole menu down to what you can actually eat.
FIND DINNER NEAR YOU
Open the app and it lists the restaurants around you, sorted by distance, each with its full menu. Switch to the map, or browse by city.
RESTAURANTS ON YOUR WAY
Set a start and a destination and DishDraw shows you the places along that route, with the detour each one costs. Good for the way home.
SEARCH ONE DISH ACROSS THE CITY
Craving ramen, or a particular salad? Search the dish and see which menus nearby have it, and for how much.
THE ORIGINAL, IF YOU PREFER IT
Scanned menu pages and the restaurant's own PDF stay one tap away, so you can always check the source. Opening hours show whether the kitchen is open right now.
IN YOUR LANGUAGE
The app itself is in English, German and Turkish. Menu text can be translated into more languages — machine translations are clearly marked as such, so you always know what you are reading.
KEPT CURRENT BY THE COMMUNITY
Waiters, owners and regulars keep it accurate. Photograph a menu page with the built-in scanner and send it in, add a restaurant that is missing, add a photo or a short video of a dish, or flag something that is wrong. Every submission is reviewed by us before it appears — nothing goes live unchecked.
No account needed. No ads. Nothing to buy.
Starting in Berlin, one menu at a time.
more A shorter start, clearer sorting, and a job board you can narrow down.
- The first launch is three short steps: language, terms, location. Notifications are asked about after you send an order, not when the app opens.
- Sort restaurants by Nearest, Most favourited or A to Z. Distance and City or neighbourhood are now in Filters.
- Search says why a dish was found, for example the words in its description that matched.
- Without a connection you still see the last list you loaded, and the app tells you what still works.
- Jobs: sort by Newest, Highest pay or Starting soonest, and filter by several roles at once, the kind of work and whether you have applied.
- Availability: choose Every day, Every week or Pick days, and add days off.
1.25 1d ago
Directions that take you to the restaurant.
- Directions now opens a route to the restaurant itself, not a search for its coordinates.
- Use the navigation app you like: Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze or Citymapper. You only see the ones on your phone, and with just one it opens straight away.
- Directions works the same from the menu, from the restaurant's address and from the map.
1.24 4d ago
A tidier My profile, and an optional salutation.
- My profile is one clear list. Your phone number, years of experience and public link each open on their own.
- You can add a salutation to your profile: Ms, Mr or Mx. It is optional, employers see it on your profile, and you can change it any time.
- Employers can say on an advert that they especially welcome applications from women. The job stays open to everyone.
- New role on the job board: restaurant manager.
- In Jobs, Home is now the first button in the bar at the bottom.
1.23 6d ago
DishDraw opens on the restaurants again.
- The app now starts on the restaurant list each time you open it, even if you closed it in Jobs. Jobs is one tap away, and a notification or a shared job link still opens it directly.
- Employers choose how long the automatic message on an advert waits before it is sent, from right away up to a day.
- Once a day the app confirms with Apple, in the background, that it is the genuine DishDraw app. This keeps restaurant menus safe from automated copying and needs nothing from you.
1.22 Oct 5
Hiring now works in the app, and there is one sign-in for everyone.
- Companies register, sign in and hire right in the app, with four tabs: Applications, Candidates, Jobs and Profile. Post adverts, choose the countries you accept applicants from, ask candidates for their contact details, and reply with saved templates.
- Restaurants get the same hiring tools: delete an advert or every ended one, set a default message, add a note only you see and an automatic message to an advert, and switch application emails on or off.
- One sign-in for job seekers and companies: enter your email, then the code we send you. No password. New here? Choose "I'm looking for work" or "I'm hiring".
- Employers get a notification when a candidate writes. It shows the person's name, never the message text. If notifications are off on your phone, the app says so and opens Settings.
- Long-press a message to copy its text.
1.21 Oct 4
A business card for job fairs, and a clearer profile and job list.
- Show my card puts your public profile on a full-screen card with a QR code. Whoever scans it opens your profile page and saves you as a contact with one tap. You choose whether the card shows your full name, your number and an email address.
- My profile is grouped into sections, and you set your years of experience right on the row.
- Job adverts stand apart from each other in the list, and a short-term job shows its days as dates you can read.
- In a conversation, a message the employer set to go out automatically now says so, and your messages and theirs each have their own colour.
1.20 Oct 3
Look for work without giving a phone number, and pull down to refresh almost everywhere.
- I'm looking for work no longer needs a phone number. Without one, employers reach you by message in the app.
- Your number has its own section on your profile. In a conversation, Add my number saves it and shares it with that employer in one step.
- Pull down to refresh in Jobs, on your pickup order, and for restaurants on the owner and staff screens.
- The numbers on the Jobs tab bar update as soon as a new message comes in.
- Two new roles for hotel jobs: Reception and Housekeeping.
1.19 Oct 3
Jobs now has messages: talk to employers right in the app.
- Jobs has its own tab bar: Jobs, Messages, Notifications and Profile. Home takes you back to the rest of the app.
- When an employer writes to you about an application, you reply in Messages. Tapping the notification opens the conversation.
- Your phone number is optional. Under My phone number, choose Share with employers or Messages only. You can still share your number later from a conversation with Share my number.
- A link to a job advert that someone shares with you now opens right in the app.
- Every conversation has Report and Block. Employers you blocked are listed on your profile, where you can unblock them.
- Your profile and your free days save from a bar at the bottom, and the app asks before you leave with unsaved changes.
- For restaurants: write to applicants and read their replies in Jobs, and see whether an applicant shared their phone number.
- Fixed: some text fields on iPhone could still sit behind the keyboard.
1.18 Oct 1
Text fields no longer disappear behind the keyboard.
- Every sheet and dialog you type into now sits above the keyboard, for example About you, CV link and City on your job profile.
1.17 Sep 30
Job seekers can show more of themselves, and see who may apply before they do.
- Profile: add a photo, your work history and a public link to your profile that you can stop sharing at any time.
- Applying opens its own sheet with an optional message. An advert can say who may apply by where they live; for those adverts the phone's country is checked when you apply, and only the country is kept.
- You can delete your job account in the app, under Profile.
- For restaurants: message templates in Jobs, advert cards that lead with the number of applications and label the details, and applicants' photos and work history.
- Small fixes throughout.
1.16 Sep 26
Sizes and choices are clearer, and you can follow your order while it is being made.
- A dish with sizes shows each size on its own row with its own +. Choices and extras are asked on one sheet.
- Pickup orders show the pickup prices and any packaging fee before you send them.
- Follow your order: see when the kitchen starts on it and, at a table, when it is on its way to you.
- Jobs: the board lists every open advert, newest first, with search and a role filter. Profiles are listed by city, and adverts can be shared.
- For restaurants: owners open on today's overview. The menu is organised by section, Sold out takes effect at once, and sizes, choices, pickup prices, opening hours and booking length are all edited in the app.
- For staff devices: the ticket shows what to do next, rounds still to enter in the POS are collected on one card, and the bill is split with a Paid tick per person. The device buzzes when food is ready at the pass.
- Small fixes throughout.
1.15 Sep 26
Find work nearby, faster. The job board has a search field, and distance and role now sit behind one filter button, so the listings start at the top of the screen.
- Nearby: swipe through the feature cards. The next card peeks in, and the job board comes first.
- On first launch, pick whether DishDraw opens on places near you or on a district. You can change it any time from the menu.
- Filters sit on a single row you can scroll sideways.
- Small fixes throughout.
1.14 Sep 14
Favorites. Tap the heart on a dish or on a restaurant's menu and it lands in the new Favorites tab, with its price and the place you ate it. It is kept on your phone, so it still reads back even after the venue changes its menu.
- Call the waiter now works at restaurants that take every order themselves — it no longer requires phone ordering to be switched on.
- New map pins: a violet disc carrying the venue's cuisine mark, so a restaurant no longer disappears into the green of the map.
- Small fixes throughout.
1.13 Sep 13
Favorites. Tap the heart on a dish or on a restaurant's menu and it lands in the new Favorites tab, with its price and the place you ate it. It is kept on your phone, so it still reads back even after the venue changes its menu.
- Call the waiter now works at restaurants that take every order themselves — it no longer requires phone ordering to be switched on.
- New map pins: a violet disc carrying the venue's cuisine mark, so a restaurant no longer disappears into the green of the map.
- Small fixes throughout.
1.12 Sep 11
Under the hood: restaurants and dishes now carry new permanent identifiers, ready for the server upgrade that follows this release. Printed restaurant QR cards use the new links.
- Menus, search, table ordering, pickup and reservations work as before.
- Small fixes throughout.
1.11 Sep 10
Sharper search inside a menu, one button style across the app, and a quicker order screen.
- Menu search now ignores accents: "rosti" finds "Rösti", "creme brulee" finds "Crème brûlée". The filter sheet’s own search box does the same.
- A dish whose name contains a number, like "2023 Riesling", is ranked as the name match it is again.
- Searching for a venue with two words puts the venue whose name holds both at the top, instead of everything in a city of that name.
- One button style across the whole app — same shape, same weight, in light and dark.
- The back button on the order screen goes where you came from.
- Your order draft is kept the moment you change it, so the screen no longer waits on the save.
1.10 Sep 5
Order ahead for pickup, a dark theme, and dishes that ask the right questions.
- Order for pickup: put the order together before you set off, see the venue's pickup hours and its last-orders time, and pay at the counter as usual — DishDraw never takes your money.
- Sizes, choices and extras: a dish that comes in three sizes now asks which one, a sauce is a question with an answer, and extras are added per portion.
- Dark mode — light, dark, or follow the phone.
- Filters rebuilt: area, cuisine and dietary in one sheet, and distance is now a set of clear steps instead of a slider.
- Every restaurant has a details page — address, phone, opening hours, cuisine — one tap from the menu.
- Dish photos now lead the card.
- Put your name on your order, so a shared table knows whose round is whose; a round can still be taken back before it is sent.
- Calling the waiter says something useful when you are not at the venue, instead of failing quietly.
- Steadier notifications, and a screen that explains itself when something goes wrong instead of the app closing.
- For restaurants: a redesigned floor view for staff, bills split by seat, and sizes, choices and menu sections editable from the app.
1.9 Sep 4
Find the place that fits what you actually eat.
Area, cuisine and dietary now sit in one Filters sheet, and a distance dial decides how far you are willing to go for dinner.
- Filter by cuisine — around 70 kitchens, pick as many as you like.
- Dietary filters work inside a single menu too: fold a card down to the dishes it marks vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free or halal.
- Allergens now carry an icon and a colour on the dish itself.
- Set how far you will travel, or lift the limit and browse anywhere.
- Clearer wording when the phone only gives an approximate location, and the app names the area it is showing you.
1.8 Aug 28
Scan a restaurant's QR card and its menu opens right in the app.
The order screen is tidier too: settled rounds fold away, and when the restaurant confirms a round while you're watching, you see it instantly.
- Restaurant QR codes open the menu directly — no browser detour.
- Earlier rounds fold up, so the current one stays in view.
- If location is off, the app says so plainly — with a shortcut to turn it on, and a nearby area shown in the meantime.
1.7 Aug 21
Scan a restaurant's QR card and its menu opens right in the app.
The order screen is tidier too: settled rounds fold away, and when the restaurant confirms a round while you're watching, you see it instantly.
- Restaurant QR codes open the menu directly — no browser detour.
- Earlier rounds fold up, so the current one stays in view.
- If location is off, the app says so plainly — with a shortcut to turn it on, and a nearby area shown in the meantime.
1.6 Aug 19
Pick an area, or share your location — your choice.
Nearby now lets you choose a part of Berlin instead of turning location on. And when the app does need your location, it explains why before the system asks.
- Browse by area without granting anything.
- Filter by what you eat, so the list only shows places that can serve you.
- Combine the two to cut a long list down quickly.
1.5 Aug 15
Call the waiter.
At a table you have joined, you can now call someone over without catching an eye across the room. Two reasons, and nothing else in the way.
- Ask for the bill, and say whether you are paying cash or by card, so the waiter brings the card terminal the first time.
- Or write what you need, like another fork.
- You see that the call landed, and you can take it back if you change your mind.
1.4 Aug 13
Order at your table.
At restaurants that have switched it on, you can now put your order together in the app and send it straight to the staff's tablet. Scan the QR code on your table, or type the code printed on it.
- Add dishes as you read the menu, choose the size, and attach common requests like "no onions" or "nut allergy".
- Everyone at the table adds to the same order from their own phone.
- See it change to confirmed the moment a waiter accepts it.
- Whatever language you read the menu in, the kitchen sees your order in theirs.
DishDraw passes your order to the waiter — you order and pay with the restaurant exactly as before.
1.3 Aug 10
Order at your table.
At restaurants that have switched it on, you can now put your order together in the app and send it straight to the staff's tablet. Scan the QR code on your table, or type the code printed on it.
- Add dishes as you read the menu, choose the size, and attach common requests like "no onions" or "nut allergy".
- Everyone at the table adds to the same order from their own phone.
- See it change to confirmed the moment a waiter accepts it.
- Whatever language you read the menu in, the kitchen sees your order in theirs.
DishDraw passes your order to the waiter — you order and pay with the restaurant exactly as before.
1.2 Aug 9
Order at your table.
At restaurants that have switched it on, you can now put your order together in the app and send it straight to the staff's tablet. Scan the QR code on your table, or type the code printed on it.
- Add dishes as you read the menu, choose the size, and attach common requests like "no onions" or "nut allergy".
- Everyone at the table adds to the same order from their own phone.
- See it change to confirmed the moment a waiter accepts it.
- Whatever language you read the menu in, the kitchen sees your order in theirs.
DishDraw passes your order to the waiter — you order and pay with the restaurant exactly as before.
1.1 Aug 7
A shorter start, clearer sorting, and a job board you can narrow down.
- The first launch is three short steps: language, terms, location. Notifications are asked about after you send an order, not when the app opens.
- Sort restaurants by Nearest, Most favourited or A to Z. Distance and City or neighbourhood are now in Filters.
- Search says why a dish was found, for example the words in its description that matched.
- Without a connection you still see the last list you loaded, and the app tells you what still works.
- Jobs: sort by Newest, Highest pay or Starting soonest, and filter by several roles at once, the kind of work and whether you have applied.
- Availability: choose Every day, Every week or Pick days, and add days off.
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