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The food scale app with a nutritional calculator - and a food diary for the whole family
Put your food on the scale and see its calories, carbs, protein and fat live with the weight - from 8000+ foods that work offline, a barcode or the values of the package. One tap puts what you really weighed into the diary of the right person. Bread units for diabetics, the values of a cooked pot, portions, cups and spoons - free, with no account and no adverts.
A food scale that calculates calories and macros - live with the weight FREE
A scale only measures the weight. The app knows the values of your food per 100 g and works out what is on the scale right now - with every gram you add or take away.
- Calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, saturated fat, sugar, dietary fibre, cholesterol and salt (or sodium) - each one live below the weight, even when the scale runs in ounces.
- Add it up: ∑ LOG IT puts every weighing into the log, and the log adds up all values - your plate, your muesli, your lunch box, ingredient by ingredient.
- The traffic light of a meal: fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt per 100 g as 🔴 high, 🟠 medium or 🟢 low.
- Save it as a THING on the scale: your oat flakes, your bread, your own muesli mix (the values per g of the whole log) - next time one click, or the QR code on the jar.
- In the counting mode the values are per piece: eggs, cookies, crackers.
Manual: nutrition values, traffic light, logging and summing, THINGS
8000+ foods offline, a barcode scanner - or the values from the package FREE
- The food database is built in and works offline: more than 8000 foods with their most important values. The search finds all words in any order, with or without plural endings ("raw blackberry" also finds "Blackberries, raw").
- Food scale with barcode scanner: scan the barcode of a packed food (EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A or UPC-E) with the camera of your phone or computer - or type the number. Its values per 100 g come from a free, open food database and fill the form; check them with the package.
- Of the nutrition functions, only the barcode needs the internet, and only the barcode number is sent - nothing else.
- Your own values in a second, straight from the package. Salt or sodium? Type what the package says: like the EU food labelling rules, salt = sodium × 2.5.
Manual: food database, barcode, own values
A food diary with what you really weighed - for the whole family FREE
Most food diaries make you guess: "1 portion", "a handful". This one takes the grams from the scale.
- Weigh and log your food - or the whole meal. "📒 ADD TO DIARY" adds all or some weighings, single or as one meal with its own name ("Lasagne"). One thing only? "➕ ADD THE WEIGHT" adds what is on the scale right now.
- For whom: you, another person - or a shared pot split by servings (2 and 1: two thirds and one third), and everybody gets the right share of all values.
- When: breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks, chosen by the time - and you can add things later.
- Daily goals and limits per person: goals for calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fibre, limits for sugar, saturated fat and salt. Bars show how far you are: green on target, orange above a goal, red above a limit.
- ⚡ Quick add: your own foods, meal templates ("My breakfast") and the recent foods - one tap each. Ate something without weighing? Add it in grams from the database, a barcode or a THING of the scale.
- History and week chart: every day with its totals, the averages of the last 7 and 30 days, and a bar chart each for calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat against the goal.
- Synchronized through the scale: the family's phones bring their diaries together over the scale - without internet, account or cloud. Nothing happens without a confirmation with a check code, and the scale only passes the data on.
- Your data stays with you: the diary is saved in the browser of your device. A backup file moves it to another device, and a CSV file goes to your spreadsheet or your doctor.
Manual: nutrition diary, quick add, week chart, sync through the scale
Carb counting scale for diabetics: bread units, carb units, carb choices FREE
The carbohydrates of your food directly in the unit your diabetes team uses - for one food on the scale, a whole meal or a recipe.
- Bread units (BU, 12 g), carbohydrate units (CU, 10 g) or carb choices (CC, 15 g) - the grams per unit can be changed, e.g. 10 g per BU in Switzerland.
- Live on the scale: rye bread has 48 g carbohydrates per 100 g - a slice of 80 g shows 3.2 BU or 3.8 CU, even when the scale runs in ounces.
- In the diary for every person: the units of every entry, every meal and the whole day. With a fixed meal plan you see "3.5 / 4 BU" at every meal.
- Net carbs (carbohydrates minus fibre) when your values count the fibre as carbohydrate, and fat-protein units (FPU) for an extended bolus of an insulin pump: 100 kcal from fat and protein are 1 FPU.
A counting aid, not a medical device: the diary only adds up - it does not calculate insulin doses. Your insulin dose is your and your doctor's decision.
Weighing food raw or cooked? Weigh the pot FREE
Cooking changes the weight: water evaporates, rice and pasta take it up. So 100 g of the cooked chili have other values than 100 g of the raw mix - the app works them out.
- Raw ingredients: weigh and log them with their values - or run a recipe. The water counts for the weight, without values.
- The pot: choose one of your saved pots, type its weight or weigh it empty once - the app keeps it.
- Cooked: put the pot with the food on the scale - the pot is subtracted.
- Result: the yield factor (e.g. 0.82 = 18 % lost, mostly water), all values per 100 g of the cooked food with the traffic light, and the split into your meal prep boxes - what goes into each and what each one contains.
Then weigh the portions into your boxes and add them to the diary, print a label with the EU nutrition table for each box - or save the cooked food as a THING ("Chili, processed") with its pot.
🍽 Only what you ate: the TAKE-FROM mode weighs your plate before and after the meal - in between the scale can be empty, you take the plate to the table. Only the difference counts, and the diary opens with just this line. It works for a jar on the shelf, too.
Manual: batch processing, TAKE-FROM
Portion control: the servings calculator FREE
As soon as two weighings are in the log, the servings calculator splits the whole batch - and shows every value of one serving.
- By the number of servings: 6 lunch boxes - the weight of each, and the amount of every ingredient in it.
- By the weight of a serving: 250 g each - how many servings you get, and what one contains.
- By a value: 500 kcal per serving, 30 g of carbohydrate, or a price - every unit of the log can be the base.
Manual: servings calculator
Recipe calorie calculator by weight: the values of every portion FREEPRO
Every recipe shows its nutrition values per 100 g, per portion and for the whole amount you are going to make - from the THINGS with the same names, or linked to the food database.
- Import a recipe from a website with one click - cups, spoons and ounces become grams - change it and save your own version. Nothing goes through our server.
- Weighed step by step: the scale asks for every ingredient with its amount; the screen of your phone stays on while the recipe runs.
- Every ingredient shows where its values come from (✓ THING, 🔎 food database or ✕ no values) - missing values are named in red with their share, so you know the result is too low.
- Portions before you cook: the number of servings, a serving size or 500 kcal per serving - optionally minus the water lost while cooking or baking (e.g. 1000 g dough, 15 % loss = 850 g bread).
- When the recipe is done, it becomes a log: add it to the diary, split it into servings or weigh the pot after cooking.
1 recipe free on the scale, 250 with PRO.
Manual: nutrition of recipes, portions & labels, web import
Kitchen scale in cups, spoons and ml: no more cups to grams FREE
Choose a food or liquid from the database - its density comes with it - and the scale shows the volume live with the weight.
- Milliliters, US and Imperial cups, US and Imperial fluid ounces, teaspoons, dessertspoons and tablespoons. Your own density in g/ml if a product is not listed.
- A goal in cups: 2.5 US cups of corn flour (0.62 g/ml) - the scale tells you the 372 g and fills a percent bar up to 100 %.
- Save it as a THING with its nutrition values - weigh in cups and see the calories at the same time.
The points of your diet program: your own unit with a daily budget FREE
Does your diet program give your foods points and you a daily budget? Give your foods a custom unit with a name (e.g. "Diet points") and a short tag ("pt"), set as the grams of one point (a serving of 140 g with 5 points = 28 g per point), and save it with the THING. In the diary, give "Diet points (pt)" your daily budget as its daily limit: the day shows your points against the budget with a bar, the history a ⚠️ at the days above it.
How many points a food is worth comes from you - the app has no points formula of any diet program. It takes your value per weight, works out the points of the weight on the scale and adds them up (with decimals, e.g. 4.6 pt where your program may say 5). The same works for caffeine in mg or any other unit with a daily limit.
Manual: diet points, other units & limits, custom units
Nutrition labels and QR codes for your jars FREEPRO
- Labels with the live weight and the EU nutrition table per 100 g and per portion - for meal prep boxes, jars of jam, gifts from your kitchen.
- A label for one portion of a recipe: its weight, the ingredients biggest first with the allergens in capitals, and the nutrition table.
- QR code labels for the jars in your pantry: scan the jar, and the scale loads the THING with all its values and the jar weight - you see how much is left without opening the lid.
The free version saves labels as an image with a small line "UP↑SCALE FREE VERSION"; printing and label printers are PRO. The allergens are found by the names of the ingredients - please check them yourself.
Manual: nutrition table, QR code labels, allergens
Your food scale: a smart scale, an adapter - or the Bluetooth kitchen scale you own
- Many Bluetooth kitchen scales of other makers connect to the app directly, with the free virtual scale in the browser. Some can not work in a browser app (e.g. scales locked to the maker's account). Does my scale work?
- A bench scale with an RS-232 port: plug in our adapter - the board costs about 13.50 EUR - or build it yourself.
- Our own smart scales, where the THINGS, recipes and settings live on the scale - the same for every phone of the family.
- Two scales, one sum: grams on a fine scale, kilos on the big one - one log with all values.
The app runs in the browser, no app store: open it, connect, weigh. It works offline and can be kept as one single file. On iPhone and iPad: how it works.
Free food scale app - and what PRO adds
Everything for nutrition at home is free - for ever, no time limit, no account, no adverts. PRO is for more THINGS and recipes on the scale and for printing.
| Function | FREE | PRO | ENTERPRISE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nutrition values live with the weight, 8000+ foods offline, barcode, own values, traffic light | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bread units, carb units, carb choices, net carbs, fat-protein units | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Food diary for the family: goals, limits, quick add, history, week chart, sync through the scale, backup, CSV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Batch processing (raw or cooked), TAKE-FROM, servings calculator | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cups, spoons, ml, custom units like diet points | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| THINGS saved on the scale | 3 | up to 1000 | up to 1000 |
| Recipes saved on the scale, with nutrition per portion and web import | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| Labels with the EU nutrition table and QR codes | as an image | printed, label printers | printed, label printers |
PRO from 4.43 EUR a month or 119.90 EUR once on an UP↑SCALE device; with your own Bluetooth kitchen scale on the virtual scale (no UP↑SCALE hardware) PRO VIRTUAL for 24.90 EUR a year or 89.90 EUR once. ENTERPRISE & COMPLIANCE (from 13.00 EUR a month) adds the proof for regulated work - users, an audit trail, sealed records - and is not needed in a kitchen at home. All versions and prices →
The limits - honestly
- The values are as good as their source: the database, the barcode data or what you type in. A scale only measures the weight. Check barcode values with the package.
- Database and package can differ: the carbohydrates of the built-in database include the fibre, EU package labels do not - for wholemeal bread the database shows more. Use net carbs only where the fibre is counted in.
- Not a medical device: the diary adds up, it does not calculate insulin doses or give diet advice. Talk to your doctor or your diabetes team.
- The diary lives in your browser: deleting the browser data (or a private window) deletes it too - make a backup from time to time.
- Allergens are found by names only: the app does not know what is inside a product. You are responsible for the labels you print.
The page for home cooks & families → · for restaurants & kitchens → · the short version →
Food scale with nutrition: questions and answers
Does a food scale measure calories?
No - a scale only measures the weight. A food scale app knows the values of the food per 100 g (from its database, a barcode or the package) and works out the calories, carbs, protein and fat of the weight on the scale, live with every gram.
How do I use a food scale to count calories?
Choose the food (database, barcode or your own values), put it on the scale and log it with ∑. The log adds up every weighing; "📒 ADD TO DIARY" puts it into the diary of the right person and meal, where the day shows your calories and macros against your goals.
Is there a free food scale app with a nutritional calculator?
Yes. In the free version of UP↑SCALE the nutrition values, 8000+ foods, the barcode scan, the carb units and the family food diary have no time limit, no account and no adverts. PRO adds more THINGS and recipes on the scale and printing.
Is there a food scale for diabetics that counts carbs?
Yes. The scale shows the carbohydrates directly in bread units (12 g), carbohydrate units (10 g) or carb choices (15 g) - the grams per unit can be changed - and the diary counts them per meal and day for every person, optionally as net carbs and with fat-protein units. It is a counting aid, not a medical device.
Should I weigh food raw or cooked?
Weigh it in the state your values are for. For a cooked dish, weigh the raw ingredients, cook, and weigh the pot: batch processing gives you the values per 100 g of the cooked food, because the water lost or taken up while cooking is counted.
Can a food scale scan barcodes?
Yes. Scan the barcode (EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E) with the camera of your phone or computer, or type the number: the values per 100 g come from a free, open food database. Only for this lookup the app needs the internet, and only the barcode number is sent.
Does the food scale app work offline and without an account?
Yes. The 8000+ foods are built in and work offline, the diary is saved in your browser, and there is no account. Only the barcode lookup and importing a recipe from a website need the internet.
Can the whole family use one food diary?
Yes. Every person has own goals and limits, a shared pot is split by servings, and the phones of the family synchronize the diary through the scale - without internet, account or cloud, and only after a confirmation with a check code.
Can I track the points of my diet program with the scale?
Yes, with a custom unit: give your foods their points as grams per point and set your daily budget as the daily limit in the diary. The app has no points formula of any diet program - the values come from you.
Does my Bluetooth kitchen scale work with the app?
Many do: the app connects to Bluetooth kitchen scales of other makers directly with the free virtual scale, and to scales with an RS-232 port through an adapter. Some scales are locked to their maker's account. Look up your model on every scale.
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