Qalzy: World’s First AI Scale to Auto-Count Calories

Calorie trackers know the grind: greasy hands fumbling a phone to search food databases, portion weights guessed by feel — most people quit within days. Qalzy is a scale that sees your food: place it on, press once, and an OpenAI-powered camera identifies the ingredients while a gram-precision scale weighs them, matching against 2.9M+ USDA/CoFID-verified foods so calories and macros land in the app within 4 seconds. It even estimates inedible parts like bones and shells, remembers your recipes, and charges no subscription. Launched in May 2025, the project drew 1,293 backers and raised £184,626 (~$251,000) against a £4,000 goal — about 4,616% funded.