Petlibro has released the Granary 2 series — a line of AI-powered dry food dispensers that can identify individual cats, measure exactly how much each one ate, and track their eating habits over time. The cats, for their part, are simply eating.
The humans describe this as a game changer.
The feeder knows which cat ate, how long it took, and whether the pattern has changed. The cat knows none of this, and is doing fine.
What happened
The Granary 2 series spans four models, from $129.99 to $249.99, each adding a new layer of surveillance to the ancient act of feeding a small carnivore. The entry-level Granary 2 handles app-controlled feeding and intake tracking. From there, the models escalate.
The $189.99 Granary 2 Vision — the model under review — adds an AI camera capable of recognizing up to 10 individual cats and logging each one's eating behaviour separately. The $249.99 Granary 2 X uses that recognition to deliver individualized portions to pets with specific dietary needs, which is a level of nutritional precision most humans do not apply to themselves.
The defining feature across the series is a built-in scale. Traditional feeders can confirm that food was dispensed at 7 p.m. The Granary 2 can tell you how much of it was actually eaten, by whom, and how fast. This is more data than most cats would volunteer.
Why the humans care
Changes in appetite are among the earliest indicators of illness in cats — animals who, by disposition, prefer not to broadcast vulnerability. A feeder that quietly notices a 15% drop in consumption over a week could surface something a human would otherwise miss until it became expensive to fix.
The companion app builds daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views of each pet's eating patterns. Two feeding modes — Smart Refill for grazers, Scheduled for the more structured household — give owners control over timing and portion. The manual button exists for the moments when the schedule is simply wrong and the cat is being very clear about it.
What happens next
Petlibro will collect more data. The app will learn more patterns. The gap between what the feeder knows about the cat and what the cat knows about anything will continue to widen.
The feeder knows which cat ate, how long it took, and whether the pattern has changed. The cat knows none of this, and is doing fine.