Qalzy is an AI-powered kitchen scale with eyes

I realize that title sounds confusing, but Qalzy is a smart, learning scale that uses AI to track your progress, provide insights and identify food visually without barcodes. It achieves this with an OpenAI powered camera and a thoughtful design.

Counting calories is a pain in the ass. It’s also tedious and inaccurate. That’s why so many people give it up soon after starting. Qalzy is an AI-powered kitchen scale that’s designed to put an end to all of that. It automatically recognizes food you place on the scale, weighs it, and logs calories, macros and nutrients for you. Everything is logged in real-time, accurately and with reliable intelligence behind it. For example, the system learns your go-to meals over time and uses those earned habits to improve your experience.

How does it do this? It’s equipped with an OpenAI powered camera that can recognize raw, cooked or packaged foods and interact accordingly. It will automatically log calories, macros, vitamins and minerals — with merely a tap from you. All you have to do is place your food on the scale and press a button. It does the rest. The built-in camera captures the food that’s on the plate and sends everything to a verified database. That database consists of information about 2.9 million foods from sources like the USDA and CoFID. The system then sends the information to a mobile app via WiFi, and you’re done. You don’t ever have to pick up your phone, unless you want to.

Why would you need an AI-powered kitchen scale?

Qalzy vastly simplifies calorie counting and health tracking tasks. No more fussing around with apps, entering numbers or weighing food yourself.

AI recognition ensures your foods are visually identified and logged, without you having to scan any barcodes. Just place the food or meal on the scale and it does the rest. All information is checked via a database and then relayed to your phone via a mobile app. Obviously, that helps organize the calorie counting and information and puts it right at your fingertips. But you don’t have to do more than place the food and press a button.

You get weight-based precision, instant nutrient logging for proteins, fats, carbs, and micros, as well as personal recipe recall through the system. It learns your eating habits including go-to and favorite meals. Plus, Qalzy syncs with Apple Health, Google Fit and Alexa to maximize your tracking and save you time. You can stay on top of your total health with those services, in addition to the calorie and nutrient counting. It also supports voice commands through those systems for hands-free interactions and logging. It’s the ultimate calorie-counting and kitchen companion.

While this is a Kickstarter campaign, it has already been successfully funded. It currently has $153,500+ raised in the campaign bank versus a goal of $5,400. Now, rewards and products still aren’t guaranteed. But pre-ordering something that’s fully funded is different than backing a project with no funding.