Worthwhile Purchase But Needs Enhancements to Reach Full Potential
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Best Sellers in Kitchen & Dining
i bought this scale in order to get better control of tracking nutritional information specifically carbohydratesthe product was packaged well in environmentally friendly cardboard specifically designed to protect the product without producing excessive wastethe scale is slim sleek and shiny the display on the scale is backlight and a bit difficult to read it could use brighter backlighting or leds the controls are minimal onofftare and switching between measurement unitsthe ios appthere are several apps from the company in the app store so it is important to use the qr code in the package to find the correct app or visually match the app icon with those in the store once installed the app quickly finds and attaches to the scale via bluetooththe app requires the user to create an account for storing entries the app can be installed on multiple devices and each device can use a single account or separate accounts when multiple devices are linked to a single account entries that are tracked sync between devices via the internetsadly the ios app is not a universal app although it runs on the ipad which is a device many will use in their kitchen it just appears in iphone format it does not support landscape mode and it does not support rotation this is a problem when using an ipad because most ipad stands work best in landscape mode and in portrait mode to keep the ipad plugged in the bottom of the ipad needs to be placed at the topthe app supports the standard usda database of foods and seems to include some product entries although barcode scanning is supported so far i havent scanned a code which returned info on the product i imagine the database will be populated over timewhen a product isnt in the database the user can add the food and its serving size and nutrition once added the app will return accurate nutritional information for any size serving of the foodto track a food the user locates the food in the database optionally places a container on the scale and uses the tare feature to zero out the weight of the container adds the food optionally selects the meal touches a checkmark then finally touches a checkmark to track the food it is important to remember to click the checkmarks or the food serving doesnt get trackedit is possible to track a food without the scale but it is not an intuitive procedure the user must select the disconnected scale searches for the food  touches an arrow on the display to override the weight enters the grams then touches the checkmark to track the foodthe app totals the days nutritional consumption on a dashboard in the diary but does not show nutritional totals for each meal if meal totals are needed the user must view the detail of each food and add the desired nutrient total in their headthere doesnt appear to be a way to choose which nutrient totals are displayed on the dashboard but details of all tracked nutrients are available on a separate screena feature that to me is obviously missing is the ability to use the scale and app to calculate the nutrition for recipes it seems like a pretty easy feature to add to the app create a recipe entry weight and add all fo the ingredients specify a recipe title specify the number of servings and show the nutritional totals for the recipe and per serving i really hope to see that feature added in the futureanother missing feature is the ability to export the diary there is no apparent way to access a web site with the tracked data and there should be at least an option to export and mail the diary as a tabdelimited or csv text file or copy it in tabdelimted format to the iphooneipad clipboardoverall impressionthis is a worthwhile device a great hardwaresoftware combination what it does it does well but the software seems to be in its infancy and the company has a great opportunity to greatly enhance the software to make it much more useful in the kitchenhere are enhancements that need to be made to the ios app make the app universal with true support for ipads and on the ipad use the larger screen to advantage make the nutrients displayed on the diarys today dashboard customizable to those nutrients the user needs to track add customizable dashboard totals by meal so users dont have to mentally add them up manually add the ability to create save calculate and track recipes make tracking foods manually a less cryptic procedure add diary export capability make diary accessible via account login to a web sitewould i recommend this productyes if you have a need or desire to track your food intake more precisely this device will do that for you what it does it does well it is relatively easy to learn and start using and easily fits into the preparation and serving of a meal i am hopeful that the apps will be enhanced to add features to make the produce easier to use and even more valuablethe company has a golden opportunity here to set the gold standard for connected food scales and become the major player in the field