PETLIBRO Granary Camera Feeder Reviews + Honest Verdict

What you get

PETLIBRO lists the feeder at 13.78 by 7.3 by 14.13 inches and 3.75 pounds, with a 5-liter hopper for dry kibble between 2 and 15 millimeters. Each portion is about 20 milliliters, roughly 1/12 cup or 10 grams. It takes 1 to 50 portions per meal. The product page says it schedules up to 10 meals a day, while its own FAQ says up to 6. Either way, it is more than most cats need.

The camera faces down at the bowl through a 145-degree wide-angle lens, with night vision, two-way audio, and motion and sound alerts. The app also warns you about low food, low battery and food jams. It runs on a 5V wall adapter, with three D alkaline batteries as a backup that you buy yourself. On battery power, PETLIBRO says, the Wi-Fi and camera switch off to save power while the meal schedule keeps running. It joins 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz Wi-Fi.

In the box: the feeder, a stainless steel bowl, the power adapter, one desiccant bag and a manual. PETLIBRO recommends replacing the desiccant every two weeks to keep mold out of the food, so add that to the running cost. The feeder is for dry food only, and PETLIBRO pitches it at cats, small dogs and rabbits rather than big dogs.

Feeding: the part that works

The owner who posted the first long review of this model in PETLIBRO's Reddit community was still happy seven months later. The feeder dropped offline about once a month and came back after a power cycle, and kept feeding on schedule during Wi-Fi outages. An owner with a food-obsessed cat reports that the enclosed dispenser held up to repeated pawing, which matches PETLIBRO's description of a fully enclosed mechanism.

There was one stretch of trouble. In late 2023 and early 2024, owners of the camera feeder reported unscheduled extra dispenses, sometimes after the unit rebooted itself. One owner reported in March 2024 that PETLIBRO had pushed a firmware fix. If you buy one, update the firmware before you rely on it.

The dual-bowl version has a quirk one owner spells out: food doesn't split evenly. One owner describes a roughly one-third and two-thirds split between the bowls. PETLIBRO's FAQ says the split depends on how you set the meal splitter, so expect to experiment. If two cats need exact, separate portions, two single feeders are more predictable.

The camera: where owners split

The recurring complaint is a live view that won't load. Owners describe the feed working for a few seconds and then dropping to a bouncing PETLIBRO logo and a "failed to load with network exception" error, while alerts still come through. The reports run from early 2024 to late 2025, on iPhone and Android, on mesh and non-mesh networks.

Owners found several fixes that worked for some of them. On iPhone, turning on the PETLIBRO app's local network permission is the fix most replies credit. Others forced the feeder onto 2.4 GHz or took it off a mesh network. Two owners found that after the feeder falls back to battery power, the camera stays off when wall power returns until the batteries are pulled and the unit is fully power cycled. None of these fixes is universal, and some owners report the problem coming back after a few days.

Image quality draws milder comments. One new owner found the picture a bit grainy for 1080p but was satisfied with it. An owner noted in 2023 that the camera's privacy mode turns the feed off, but anyone with the account login can turn it back on, with no separate user permissions.

The December 2023 incident

In December 2023, several owners posted that their feeders played unfamiliar voice recordings at meal time. PETLIBRO's support replies, which owners posted in the thread, said its engineers had accidentally synced a demo version with the production version during testing, and an app update followed. Owners who turned meal calls back on afterward reported no repeats at the time, though one owner posted in May 2025 that it had just happened to them too. By PETLIBRO's account the 2023 episode was its own mistake rather than a break-in, but it is a reminder that anything with a camera and a microphone in your home depends on the vendor's servers, and some owners now block the feeder's internet access overnight or point the camera at a wall.

Two owners in the main PLAF203 thread also describe melted parts: one an SD card burnt into its slot, the other a USB-C port. They are isolated reports, not a pattern, but worth knowing about a device that runs all day.

Recording: SD card or subscription

Live view is free. Saving video is optional, and you get two ways to do it. PETLIBRO's Video Cloud Standard keeps seven days of clips for $47.99 a year, and Video Cloud Plus keeps thirty days for $95.99 a year. PETLIBRO lists those as 20 percent off its $59.99 and $119.99 list prices, and both include free repair or replacement while the subscription is active. Each feeder needs its own plan.

The other way is a microSD card, which isn't included. PETLIBRO says the feeder takes 16 to 256 GB cards at Class 10 or faster, although one PETLIBRO page says under 256 GB, so a 128 GB card avoids the question. Clips on the card play back only inside the app, not on a computer. Owner results are mixed: some record to SD with no trouble and skip the cloud entirely, while others say SD recording never worked on their unit. Some owners record nothing and use the live view only.

With a 24-month warranty on the hardware, the subscription's replacement coverage matters less here than on cameras with a one-year warranty. If you don't need saved clips, skip both.

What about the Granary 2 Vision?

PETLIBRO's 2026 Granary 2 Vision is the obvious step up at $189.99 on its site and $184.99 on Amazon. It adds a bowl scale accurate to a gram, so you can see how much was eaten as well as how much was dispensed, plus AI recognition that logs which pet is at the bowl. PETLIBRO's own comparison chart lists intake tracking as single-cat on the Vision, though, and the separate Vision Duo at $199.99 is the one with a scale under each bowl. The Vision has no SD card slot, so saved video needs a Video Cloud AI plan at $95.99 to $159.99 a year, and alerts about changes in eating habits need a separate Petlibro Care subscription. PETLIBRO gives it 48 hours of rechargeable battery backup and a 90-day return window when bought direct.

It is too new for an owner record. Until there is one, the original camera feeder is the one with a known track record, flaws included.

Who should buy it

Buy it for a reliable scheduled feeder with a camera you can check now and then, especially if you'll record to an SD card and skip the subscription. It is a better buy on Amazon at about $119 than on PETLIBRO's site at $139.99.

Skip it if the camera is the whole point. One owner says that if they did it again, they'd buy the non-camera version and add a separate security camera, and that combination costs about the same or less. A Wyze or eufy pan camera pointed at the bowl runs on an app built around video and keeps working if the feeder's app has a bad week.