project
Sift
Scan a menu. See your best options. Order in seconds — not after 10 minutes of Googling macros.
Sift uses on-device ML to estimate nutrition, detect allergens, and rank every dish by your dietary goals. No account needed. No data leaves your phone.
Download on the App Store →why I built this
A couple years ago, I lost 40 lbs. That process rewired how I think about food — I went from eating whatever to tracking every meal, learning what an actual high-protein plate looks like, and building habits that stuck. But the hardest part was never the kitchen. It was eating out.
Every restaurant was the same routine: squint at the menu, Google three dishes, guess the macros on the rest, and hope for the best. If I was with friends, I'd either hold up the table or just wing it and regret it later. There was no tool that worked at the speed of a real decision — standing in a restaurant, hungry, with people waiting.
So I built one. Sift lets you point your camera at any menu and get every dish ranked by your goals in seconds. No Googling, no logging, no account. Just scan and order.
Designed, developed, and shipped solo — from first prototype to App Store.
features
Menu Scanning
Point your camera at any menu — printed, handwritten, or on a screen. Sift reads it in seconds.
Nutrition Estimation
On-device ML estimates calories, protein, carbs, and fat for each dish. No server calls.
Allergen Detection
Automatically flags nuts, dairy, gluten, shellfish, and more.
Goal-Based Ranking
Set your targets — high protein, low carb, cutting, bulking — and dishes re-rank to match.
Order Hacks
Actionable tweaks for any dish: "sauce on the side (−150 cal)" or "swap fries for vegetables (−280 cal)."
Smart Search
Filter by dish name, ingredients, or restrictions with natural language.
built with
End-to-end in Swift and SwiftUI for iOS 26. Camera processing uses Apple's Vision framework. Nutrition models run entirely on-device via Foundation Models. Zero backend infrastructure.
download
Download Sift on the App Store →Free. No account required. 5.9 MB.
legal
questions? me@srivastsh.com