Qalzy wants to replace your food scale and calorie app

Qalzy is a smart food tracker that combines a built-in camera, precision scale, and AI to make calorie logging fast and easy. The device is live now on Kickstarter.

Now, this isn’t a concept as you sometimes get with crowdfunding projects, and it isn’t a prototype. It’s a fully working device with a built-in scale, camera, and app integration designed to make food tracking actually tolerable. It was built by people who got tired of juggling five apps, a food scale, and a keyboard covered in flour.

A very different kind of food tracker

There’s nothing new about using a scale to track meals. The problem has always been that you have to weigh every item, identify it, guess at macros, type it all in, and hope the numbers are close enough to useful. Most people either get it wrong or give up. Qalzy’s founders were among them.

That experience led to the idea behind the device: combine AI-powered image recognition with a precision kitchen scale, then automate the logging process entirely. Place your food on Qalzy, press a button, and everything else happens behind the scenes. It identifies each ingredient, weighs it down to the gram, matches it to a curated database, and sends the nutritional breakdown straight to your app.

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The camera is powered by OpenAI’s vision tools, and accuracy is a key focus. The company claims a database of nearly 3 million food items sourced from USDA and CoFID. If Qalzy makes an error, you can correct it, and the device will learn from it for future tracking.

The design looks more like a premium kitchen scale than a tech product. It’s splash-proof, easy to clean, and has a retractable camera that disappears when not in use. You get a choice of black or white finishes. To handle different lighting conditions, the device includes a built-in LED flash.

It works even without the scale

While the hardware does the heavy lifting in the kitchen, the Qalzy app is designed to be a standalone tracker when you’re out. Snap a photo or scan a barcode, and the same AI system processes and logs your meal. Unlike many health platforms, there are no hidden fees or gated features. You pay once for the hardware, and the app comes with it.

The database and AI can handle whole meals, not just single ingredients. Place a mixed plate on the scale, and Qalzy will identify each item, calculate their approximate weights, and log them individually. For most users, that’s still significantly more accurate than guessing or relying on phone apps. It even takes edible portion estimates into account for foods like chicken wings or bone-in fish.

The system improves over time

There’s a memory component too. Qalzy learns what you eat, stores your recipes, and recognizes when you’re repeating a past meal. You can create your own recipe inside the app by logging each ingredient once. Next time, Qalzy uses that exact recipe rather than pulling a generic version from the database.

The more you use it, the smarter it gets. This includes adapting to portion changes and identifying new combinations that resemble past logs. It also supports custom recipes with manual entries for number of servings and cooked weight.

Plus, the whole thing integrates with Apple Health and Google Health Connect, syncing your nutrition data with workout and sleep metrics. That means calorie targets adjust based on your physical activity, and everything stays in one place without needing to jump between apps. There’s Alexa support too. You can log ingredients with a voice command, which comes in handy when your hands are full.

Our takeaway

AI food tracking seems to be the new rage. We’ve seen more and more smartphone apps adopting AI camera powered food tracking. Zepp Health and Oura are two examples. In fact, Qalzy sounds very much like Zepp’s Amazfit V1tal. Demoed at CES 2025 it’s a camera that logs your meals automatically. However, it lacks the scale part which will be available on Qalzy.

These devices are for people like me, who want to track their meals but are tired of doing it the hard way. It doesn’t pretend to make calorie logging fun, but it may make it tolerable enough to stick with.

Price: $175

Raised: $30,109 of $5,338 goal

Estimated delivery: September 2025
41 days to go

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