Prep Pad Smart Food Scale

Product Description

Prep Pad + Countertop Prep Pad is the smart food scale that gives real-time nutritional insight into your food through a customized Balance goal and beautiful visualizations of calories, carbs, protein, and more. Meet your kitchen nutritionist,skip the fads, get the facts. Get an accurate nutritional breakdown of the meals you make at home with the simple-but smart-food scale, Prep Pad, and its partner app, Countertop. Set nutritional goals, make and log your meals, and track your progress to health.

Features

• Get an accurate breakdown of calories, fat, protein and carbs in your meals- whether Packaged or Home Made
• Access a food library of more than 300,000 items with the added ability to scan barcodes
• Track and log meals
• 1 year battery life, 4 AAA batteries (included), Bluetooth 4.0 (w/ single button auto-connect)
• Requires iPad 3 or newer, any iPad mini, any iPad Air, iPhone 4S or newer and iOS 7 or newer; Device requires internet connection

Top Reviews

We thought this would be a great product, and it is- but I just don't ...
by moy (2 out of 5 stars)
January 24, 2015

I was really excited about receiving this product as my wife and I are each using specific fitness apps and have weight loss goals we are working on. We thought this would be a great product, and it is- but I just don't think we are the demographic for this item. For starters, the app is not very user friendly and the data base, although boasting there is over 300,000 foods- did not have some basics that other free fitness apps that help with calorie tracking. When trying to enter a scanned food item that was not in the database or to add a basic food, it felt like land of a million questions and took considerable amount of time. This product does do an excellent job of weighing items with accuracy and doing calorie counts, but the inner ring of food nutrition and how it stacks up to the outer ring in the app for your "goals" is very confusing. The calorie goals are based on the USDA guidelines or your own custom, which I personally felt the calorie limit was way too high for weight loss. We are quite tech savy and watched the video of the how to several times, played with it over a few days, but it is still not making sense. Bottom line- this is a fantastic product for one user or a household without small children where someone can take 25 minutes to weigh out each meal and fiddle with this. I am returning mine and just getting a basic food scale and will continue using my free fitness apps.
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Save yourself $75 and buy a cheap digital scale instead!
by Jose Vazquez (1 out of 5 stars)
April 24, 2015

Two months into my weight loss program and going strong, I decided to get a few gadgets to help make my life more accurate. If you are considering this you are likely a data hound and, like me, want to track every thing you do in order to help you during weight loss. However, while I would recommend many products, this would NOT BE ONE OF THEM. You likely were impressed by the slick video on their site that promised to make your kitchen "Smart". I think I fell for the subtle suggestion that without this, I would simply be labeled as "Dumb". After a few weeks of use, I can promise you will be smarter, but only if you send this thing back.

Overview: Billed as an easy to use platform that allows you to add ingredients and keep track of total calorie count, it is in fact confusing and a pain to use. Eventually, after watching all the vids, and reading all the manuals, I still found little use for any function other than the standard scale function.
1) Integration - It doesnt integrate with the most heavily used platforms. I use Runtastic apps for fitness, and MyFitnessPal to track calories. This integrates with neither even though they are two of the most heavily integrated api's out there. Dozens of other products work with them, and using this as intended requires you to double entry your food if you use them. This is extra work for something that supposed to make life easier.
2) Accuracy/Latency - You have to be patient as you use it in a cumulative recipe fashion. It can take several seconds for the result to show up on the phone. In addition, I have noticed differences for OZ measurements off by up to .5 and ounce between weighs. A little strange given it is supposed to be a smart appliance.
3) Suggestions - And where were these to be found? It was supposed to suggest meals to make and give you step by step instructions on how to do it. I would have loved to try that. No dice.

Overall, you are better off buying a simple scale and using MyFitnessPal with it for a fraction of the price. If you are in a weight loss cycle I just bought an accurate one for 10 bucks here on amazon to exchange for this one, which as we speak was waiting on my desk for a nice UPS man to whisk it away to the land of refunds and recycled products.
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Looked Awesome; Was a Dud
by Kindle Customer (1 out of 5 stars)
May 7, 2017

My wife was very excited to get this scale as she is trying to lose weight and is counting calories. The options on this scale seemed impressive and she really liked the simple design. It is connected to a phone app and you can't use it without the app. It never worked. My wife tried to download the app on her iPhone and the app didn't exist in the app store. She went on-line to see if there was information. The website was basically a background screen with a phone number and an e-mail for customer service. An automated phone answers, puts you on hold for a bit, then drops you. No one responded to her e-mail. Apparently, the company has gone out of business and no one knew about it. There were some great reviews, but none very recent. That should have been a clue. The scale was returned.
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this scale wasn't too bad when I first got it
by Ashley Puhr (1 out of 5 stars)
September 21, 2016

is there a negative star option? this scale wasn't too bad when I first got it, but when I got a new phone and needed to re-download the app I cant, it doesn't exist anymore. So you have an app enabled scale, without an app...so a non working scale. Don't waste your money.
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DOES NOT WORK
by William Wagar (1 out of 5 stars)
May 4, 2017

Do not buy this scale. The app needed to use the scale has been removed from the app store. Currently it is not possible to use this scale.
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CLEAN UP YOUR LISTINGS AMAZON
by Tommy Chase (1 out of 5 stars)
August 8, 2017

What the hell Amazon, I loved everything about this product from the product page - came nicely packaged looked durable, BUT oh they went out of business, the APP to actually control the damn thing is no longer in the APP Store.
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Nice Gadget, poor Application
by Kate (3 out of 5 stars)
April 30, 2016

It is a great concept, especially for those who want to know their calorie intake. The device works just fine, however, there are a lot of issues with the app.It is my first day using it and here is what I have noticed and what the manufacturers should think about in order to make this device ubiquitous:

Pros:

It is a durable device, with nice design.

It doesn't look or feel fragile.

Syncs with its own app within 2-3 seconds.

Provides nice nutritional breakdown

You can see how many calories you have left for the day

It gives you an ability to take a picture of your meal

Cons:

The app in not user friendly, it is hard to navigate, and it is not fully developed. Some buttons will freeze. The app does not sync the info with any other applications. It is an absolute must, unless until their own app will provide the same flexibility and user friendliness as other apps do.

You cannot have more than 1 account at the same time, for example I use Withings smart scale. When you weigh yourself you can assign a weight to a specific user. With Prep Pad app, there is no such ability, that is you would have to log out for another person to log in their meal.

As many people have mentioned, the food base does not have everything, which would not be a problem if the app would allow people to add foods to public database. At this time everything you add will not be visible under a different account. That is, if you have more than 1 person using prep pad at your household, you would have to add the ingredient many times.

I wasn't able to find an option to create a meal save it and then use for future logs. To my understanding everything you weigh and save must be assigned either to breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack. There is no way to create a dish and save it in favorites.

Overall: It is a nice concept and has a huge potential, but at this stage the software is underdeveloped. As many other people I purchased this item to get rid of the necessity to log my foods into some app and the current prep pad app lengthens the process not reduces it.
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Not worth the frustration.
by T. petersen (1 out of 5 stars)
June 2, 2016

I wanted to really like this. The concept is what I wanted, but the follow through is lacking. There seems to be no customer support. When you click "help" in the app you are redirected to an "Oops. The page you were looking for doesn't exist." error. And the website itself is no help. I changed the batteries, which made the scale run better and not shut down as quickly. Changing the batteries, however, did not improve the app interface. It came with no manual. I never could figure out, after finally getting the prep pad to calculate an entire dish, (never mind one or 2 ingredients), how to calculate 1 serving. I also don't like that you can't edit the information, or see a daily consumption total. Everytime I attempted to weigh a dish, I found I had to deconstruct the ingredients and reweigh. It just didn't work well. I am sending it back today. Not worth the $95 I paid for it.

After 2 weeks of frustration, I finally went out and bought the Kitchen Gurus Perfect Portions food scale which includes 2000 built in nutrition facts at Bed Bath and Beyond for $45. It did in a few minutes what I couldn't get the Prep pad to do in 2 weeks. I'm old schooling it with a pencil and paper to document my food journal.
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Useless in the box......still
by Rena Ivey (1 out of 5 stars)
August 3, 2017

I was so excited to learn about this scale and bought it. Only to learn (after it arrived) that it is an IOS system and Apple has discontinued the app which makes the scale works. It's useless in the box. While I'm hoping another tech company will re-introduce it to the market.
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Discontinued and no longer supported - Doesn't work - Avoid "Perfect Company" products!
by Herve (1 out of 5 stars)
November 22, 2017

Discontinued product. Perfect Company that acquired The Orange Chef committed to continue to support the Prep Pad however it seems they didn't keep their promises. The device is pretty much useless.

Don't buy this product or any product from this company.

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