Search a dish and Bites shows what it really costs at restaurants around you, cheapest first. Real prices, from real menus.
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A burger, a pizza, a kota, a flat white. Type what you feel like.
Every result shows the price, how far away it is and where the price came from. Sort by cheapest, closest or best value.
Open the menu, get directions and go. Paid something different? Post it, and the price updates for everyone.
This is what people are charged on average. Bites shows you who charges less, right where you are.
The average of 9 081 burger prices on Bites, 24 to 26 October 2026, to the nearest rand.
The average of 6 034 coffee prices on Bites, 24 to 26 October 2026, to the nearest rand.
Cape Town: City Bowl, Atlantic Seaboard and southern suburbs. Johannesburg: Sandton, Rosebank, Braamfontein and Fourways. Pretoria: Menlyn, Hatfield and Brooklyn. Durban: Umhlanga and Durban North. Chains and independents are both counted, and some burgers come with chips.
Every price on Bites comes off a real menu or a real bill. Each one says where it came from and when it was last seen, and Bites never estimates one.
Bites reads restaurants' own menus to start. The people who eat there keep it right, by posting what they really paid. All it takes is a free account.
Ate out? Tap the gold button, snap your plate and type what you paid. Got the slip or a menu instead? Bites reads it for you.
Your post goes up in Snacking, the feed, and its price goes on that dish with the date. The next person knows what it costs before they sit down.
A price far off the usual needs a photo, and only counts once a second person posts about the same. Each person counts once, so nobody can push a price around.
After 30 days a price shows the month it was last seen, and Bites asks whoever posted it if it's still right.
Points put you on the weekly leaderboard. Your posts take you from Price Scout up to Price Icon, with badges like First Find and Night Owl along the way.
Tell Bites your budget and see what it buys at places near you.
Everything you post lands in your diary, day by day, with what you paid.
Where you ate, what you spent and what your average bite cost.
All the places you've had a bite, each with its price.
Real screens from the app, October 2026. Also in it: plans with friends, price alerts and a weekly food budget.
Over 360 000 prices so far, and more every week, in:
Somewhere else? Bites works there too. Post the first prices in your town and you earn the Founding Foodie badge. Counts as of November 2026.
I'm Dylan. I'm 20 and in first year at UCT. Bites started with one overpriced meal and a simple question: why can't you see what food costs before you sit down?
So I walked into about 200 Cape Town restaurants, photographed their menus, and learned to code to put every price in one place.
Bites launched in October 2026. It's free, it now has menus in most major South African cities, and it gets better every time someone posts a price.
Dylan Steiner, founder
Yes. It's free to download and free to use.
Three places: restaurants' own menus, which Bites reads and checks; restaurants that run their own page and set their prices; and people who post what they paid. Every price shows which of those it is, and how fresh it is.
Bites has menus in most major South African cities, including Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Gqeberha and Bloemfontein, plus the Winelands and the Garden Route. It works anywhere, and anyone can add prices in a town that's still filling up.
Not to search. You need a free account to post prices, save dishes, follow people or make plans.
Open the dish and post what you paid. Bites works each price out from the latest posts, counting one from each person.
Yes, and it's free. Claim your page to check your prices, add photos and reply to reviews.
Email bites.snacking@gmail.com, or see Help.
One search shows you what everyone near you charges.
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