The Petkit YumShare Dual-Hopper 2 Automatic Feeder with Camera offers AI-powered pet recognition for up to 15 cats, enabling personalized feeding and meal tracking. Reviewers praised its dual hopper design, 24/7 monitoring capabilities, and two-way audio features that allow owners to interact with their pets remotely. The device supports both dry kibble and freeze-dried treats, with a 5L capacity and 21-cup portioning. While users appreciate the convenience and smart features, some noted that video replay requires a subscription and the camera automatically turns off during battery-only operation. This feeder is ideal for multi-pet households seeking precise feeding control and remote pet monitoring, though those wanting full camera functionality may need to consider the subscription cost.
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Facial recognition sorted by individual cat
The YumShare's headline feature is a camera that recognises individual pets — up to 15 profiles — and logs each visit against the right animal instead of treating the bowl as one anonymous feeding station. In a house with two or three cats that turns the app from a timer into a record: who ate, when, and how much of what was dispensed actually went. Recognition is not infallible. It depends on lighting and on the cat presenting its face to the lens, so an animal approaching from behind the unit can be logged late or missed. As a trend line over weeks it is genuinely useful; as an audit of every single meal it is not.
Two hoppers, kibble and treats apart
Storage splits into two chambers totalling 5L, or about 21 cups, which is enough dry food to cover one cat through a long absence. The point of the split is that main meals and treats stay separate and dispense in different proportions rather than premixed. Portions run from 10 to 100 grams, fine enough granularity for a weight-management diet, and the mechanism takes kibble up to 0.47 inches with an anti-blockage action that reverses when it meets resistance. The feeder is capped at 2 to 4 scheduled meals a day and restricted to dry kibble and freeze-dried treats — no wet food, which rules it out for a lot of households immediately.
Night vision behind a monthly subscription
The camera runs continuously with a 940nm infrared array for night vision, and it sorts activity into feeding, eating and pet-visiting events rather than dumping a day of footage on the owner. Seven days of highlight storage comes free. Anything beyond that — full video replay, longer retention — needs an $11.99 monthly subscription, and it is the single most common complaint about the product. There is no local storage to fall back on, so the camera degrades to live view and short clips the moment payment stops. It also switches itself off when the unit runs on battery, which is exactly the moment a power cut makes an owner want to look.
Where the app gets in the way
Mashable scored the feeder 4.8 out of 5 and found it easy to set up, which matches the broader picture: good hardware, fiddly software. The portion-control settings in particular are not laid out the way an owner thinks about them, and getting a schedule to behave takes more taps and more backtracking than it should. Dispense alerts and low-food warnings arrive reliably once configured, and a video review put the feeder at 4.5 out of 5 on much the same reasoning. Two-way audio works well enough that recorded voice prompts genuinely bring a cat to the bowl. It is the first hour with the app that grates, not the routine after it.
Stainless bowl, plastic body, D-cell backup
The bowl is detachable 304 stainless rather than moulded plastic, the right call for something a cat eats from daily and the part most in need of scrubbing. The body itself is plastic and looks it, though nothing about the build feels fragile. Power comes from a 6V adapter with four D batteries as backup — not included, and meant for emergencies rather than as a way to run the feeder off-grid, since the camera shuts down in that mode. Anyone in an area with frequent outages should buy the batteries alongside the feeder and count them as part of the price.
Strengths
- +AI facial recognition identifies up to 15 pets in multi-pet households
- +24/7 monitoring with precise meal tracking and before-and-after bowl images
- +Two-way audio enables real-time interaction and voice reminders
- +Separate compartments for main meals and treats with flexible dispensing proportions
Watch-outs
- −Camera requires subscription for video replay functionality
- −Batteries not included and should only be used for emergency backup
How it compares
Unlike the Petlibro Granary Smart Camera Feeder, which lacks AI capabilities, the Petkit YumShare Dual-Hopper 2 uses AI facial recognition to identify up to 15 pets, making it superior for multi-pet households. While the Pawsync Smart Pet Feeder offers precise weight-based portion control, the Petkit model provides 24/7 monitoring with before-and-after bowl images and two-way audio, features not found in the Pawsync. The Petkit stands out for its smart camera features, though it requires a subscription for full video replay functionality.
Rating sources
Our 4.7 score is the average of these published ratings. Ratings marked * were derived from the reviewer’s written analysis or video transcript — the publisher didn’t print an explicit numeric score, so we inferred one from their own words. Click through to verify. More about methodology.
