About Katalogos
Katalogos reads Greek taverna menus for you: the nine real menu sections, around 150 dishes with Greek script, transliteration, allergens and a plain-English explanation, a Greeklish-friendly look-up, a polite order card for the waiter, and a daily Recall deck so you can read the menu yourself by day three. It works fully offline, with no account and no ads.
Quick answers
Finding a dish
Open "Look up" from the toolbar menu and type what's on the chalkboard — in Greek letters or in Greeklish (xorta, chorta and horta all match χόρτα). Accents and capitals don't matter.
Allergens
Set your allergen and diet profile in Settings. Every dish card then shows a clash warning if it contains one of your flagged allergens.
Showing the waiter
Add dishes with the + button, then open "My order" and turn on "Show to waiter" for a large, Greek-only card you can hand across the table.
Daily reminder
Turn on the recall reminder in Settings or during onboarding. iOS will ask you to allow notifications the first time you do.
Frequently asked
Does Katalogos need an internet connection?
No. All 150-plus dishes, the allergen data and the recall deck are built into the app. Nothing is downloaded, and nothing is sent anywhere.
Can I photograph a menu to translate it?
Katalogos deliberately has no camera and no photo translation. It's built around typed look-up of real taverna menu wording, which is more reliable than OCR on handwritten chalkboards.
Are the allergen flags a guarantee?
No. They describe how a dish is usually made. Recipes vary by taverna, so the order card always includes a line asking the kitchen to confirm.
How does the Recall deck work?
Dishes you save are reviewed with spaced repetition: cards you know well come back after a longer gap, cards you struggle with come back sooner. Ten cards a day is usually enough to read a menu unaided by day three.
I found a translation or regional-tag error. What now?
Please tell us which dish and what's wrong using the form below — we check every report against regional sources before changing the entry.
Contact us
Can't find your answer above? Send us a note and we'll get back to you by email.
You can also reach us directly at [email protected].