Like many people I'm overweight and have tried many "diets" to slim down. I'm now convinced calorie counting/portion control is the key to weight loss. This will be the 4th nutrition scale I've purchased and tried. The first one didn't work out of the box and was returned. The next one from Smart Chef actually worked well for 6 months then just quit. The scale still weighed food I just couldn't look up or transfer data.
The weakness of any of these scales is the app that is used with them. I've got lots of experience with "smart" apps with Alexa connected to and operating everything possible in my home. What I've found is the more smart products a company powers the better their software team is at finding problems and restoring function after an issue with "the cloud". To get the necessary caloric values this app has to go through the cloud to a database for the info. The scale I purchased before this was a nice, accurate scale that had a network problem every time I opened the app. The sellers were nice folk that tried to be helpful but knew nothing about software and when communicating about the problem wasted my time asking stupid questions like I was an idiot.
I have been using this for a week and although I had trouble at first logging data I fooled around with it until i learned how to use it. I should have taken a star off for lack of clear instructions but am so pleased it actually works as advertised. I did reach out for help at first and got an email contact form that said they'd get back to me in a few days. So not 5 star support, but they did open a case and asked for more info so there is some support if necessary. A through YouTube video would be very helpful.
One of the most critical features is the ability to link with a fitness app to keep track of your progress.
The two major players here are Apple Health and Fitbit. I bought and wore a Fitbit last fall just for the purpose of tracking everything, but was disappointed at how very little was automatically tallied and that I had to constantly sync to keep it up to date.
I have been wearing a Samsung Galaxy watch for a few years and really like the Samsung Health app better than Fitbit or Google Fit. Unfortunately they are not a big enough player for many of these fitness trackers to link to.
Enter the Health Sync app. For free or a tiny fee if you don't want any ads, the Health Sync app seamlessly
moves data from Fitbit to Samsung Health, so all my fitness metrics are in one place.
One of the things I like about the Etekcity scale and VeSync app is the flexibility to remove all the clutter for the home screen. The app is really trying to help folks with weight loss by suggesting different diets like keto or Mediterranean but all that can be turned off and removed.
Another nice feature is so far everything I've looked up stays visible below the "look up food" window speeding up the discovery process.
Another thing I like is I put a plate on the scale then zero it out with the tare button, let's say weigh a slice of protein bread, but then once that's recorded can zero out the scale again, put some sugar free raspberry jam on the toast and weigh get the additional calories logged. First weigh the salad, then with the dressing etc.
The database is pretty extensive so far I've found something close to everything I've looked up.
On the Keto diet spent years treating a potato or tortilla chip like poison. I just read a study that said regardless of diet choices calories are the key. This tool should help me eat what I want but in small enough portions to lose a pound a week until I reach my target.

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When my very old Weight Watchers scale finally quit, I searched Amazon for something that was similarly sized, and easy to read and use. This scale meets and exceeds everything I was looking for. I have been using the basic, large scale, grey, Etekcity Digital Kitchen Scale, model EK8060, for five days and love it. It arrived with two CR2032 pre-installed batteries and an illustrated, easy-to-understand quick start guide.

The scale is light as a feather and, because of its small dimensions, easy to store in a kitchen drawer. The led display is very legible with its backlit display that automatically turns off after 30 seconds of non-use, while the unit itself shuts down automatically after 120 seconds of non-use.

It is a very versatile scale, weighing items ranging from small packages, letters, to wet or dry ingredients. Four "feet" on the back keep the scale in place. The weight instantly changes as items are added or removed from whatever item is being weighed. A picture accompanying this review is an example of a piece of salmon weighing in at 7.2 ounces.

I can't imagine a better kitchen scale at this price. Very highly recommended.

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I’m a weight watcher member and food intake is all about the points and I have issue with portion control, so this has been a great aid in managing that. What I really like about it is, I can put my container on the scale, zero it out add the food, and the the food details are easily uploaded to my phone. now I track my calorie intake and output and also tracking other important things like proteins and carbs and what not. This started out as curiosity about what I thought I was eating, but it’s so easy to use, now I am using it faithfully as a an additional tool in my weight loss/maintenance journey.

Great value for the price!

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I love that my Etekcity Digital Kitchen Scale is a great tool in my kitchen to help me measure food to ensure that I track what I’m putting into my body, my husband's and my children’s bodies each and every day, all day! It helps me measure food and ensure the quality control on everything. This food scale is my constant companion. I don’t eat without it. Now, don’t get me wrong. I didn't always use a food scale to measure my food intake. In fact, for years when I heard people talk about using a food scale, and measuring their food intake it was always dieters, and one thing I never went on was a diet. At least not in the sense I understood they meant to use the word, "diet"! The thought of depriving my body from food was foreign to me. In fact, growing up with a limited food supply meant that once I was old enough to get a job, I exiled food shortage from my life. However, overeating because food became plentiful in adulthood with a job eventually became a problem. Especially after pregnancy and becoming a mother. An experience worth losing a few vanity points over for sure! However, with weight gain vanity concerns pale in comparison to health concerns. You see, I needed to know for sure that I was eating what my body needed, and that I was feeding my husband and children what their bodies needed. And, if I began to tip over to overeating, I wanted it to be a conscious choice! And for my husband and children, I wanted to help them learn when to recognize that they were tipping over the point of eating the recommended daily calories from each food group so that I and so that they had awareness of when they had enough to do the job of sustaining a thriving body so we could experience the whole life change we were after as a family. This Etekcity Digital Kitchen Scale plays a big part of helping us do that. All day, every day. It makes it easy. It takes just a second to put the food on it and measure the serving size. And I get to choose the units (ounces, grams, etc.).

Now, I don't know about you, but I LOVE observing how people who work for companies in a support capacity do their jobs. And when I come across a person or staff that wows me, I stop and take notice! I also stop and take notice when I come across staff that has the opposite effect on me. And my follow through is just as thorough then as this review is now. The Etekcity Digital Kitchen Scale support team wowed me! Immediately they responded to my inquiry when my scale, which I had for a long time, stopped working one day. Like I told you, this thing works hard all day every day measuring food for a family of four. Well, their support team instructed me on how to troubleshoot what was the cause of the problem, offered to send me a new scale, which arrived quickly, AND the piece de resistance. Several weeks later, they reached out to me to ask me how the new scale was working. Talk about a customer support team! Now that's the kind of service I want all day every day!

So, if you're considering buying a food scale for yourself and/or your family, I highly recommend the Etekcity Digital Kitchen Scale. Not just because it's an amazing digital piece of machinery, but because the company has people, actual human beings who work there that care about the service they provide customers and it shows in the CRM (customer relationship management) system they very likely automated utilizing the beauty of digital technology to do it, but they also kept the human element present with their service, which gives them an extra edge.

This is my third Etekcity Digital Kitchen Scale! It's a machine. It isn't meant to last forever. All machines eventually stop working. There's an expected life for every machine. And when this machine serves me till it can't anymore, like the last 2 did, I'll gratefully whisper a thank you for your service to the people who made it and gladly buy another one. Year after year. Etekcity and their customer team now have a "raving fan", as one of my favorite teachers and mentors calls it! When you get yours, let me know if you become a raving fan of the Etekcity Digital Kitchen Scale too.

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Pro Good repeatability. Easy to read scale.
Con : Platform too small. Most utensil hide the display.
Value for money.

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This is my first ever digital kitchen scale. It is much easier to read the weight than my old one. I also like the tare feature. I wasn't sure I'd like it as my old one had a bowl already, but this one you can use any container you want, and weigh the whole thing, or just the ingredients inside. So far I haven't really used anything other than pounds and ounces, but having the other options is nice too. It's very small and takes up very little counter space, and it's also very easy to wipe clean. Overall, a great purchase.

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Highly intuitive. Works well. Can switch between units easily. My favorite feature is the ability to set to zero if you have a container or bowl on it so you can measure the actual food better

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Good, little bit to expensive but its fine

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good