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If you need a feeder now, our automatic cat feeder buying guide recommends PETKIT Solo for scheduled dry-food meals and Cat Mate C500 for prepared wet food. They are different products; our Goldfish observations apply to Nestsplus.
Goldfish sometimes has to paw the last few biscuits out of the outlet. As far as she’s concerned, she has found a loophole.
Our verdict
We like the straightforward setup, scheduling and backup power. It looks relatively stylish in our home, too.
Four feeding times, without much fuss
Setup was straightforward. The four customisable feeding times let us choose when meals arrive.
The original listing’s title and description give different maximum portion counts. What matters in use is how much your chosen setting puts in the bowl.
The battery backup has earned its place
For a wider look at what battery backup does and does not cover, our guide separates mains outages from Wi-Fi and app failures.
The feeder uses mains power with batteries as backup. We’ve had several minor outages during our time with it, and the backup handled them without any issues we noticed.
The backup has been useful during those short outages. We don’t know how long it would last through a prolonged power cut.
Battery backup does not replace someone checking on your cat while you’re away. Food arriving is only part of the care routine.
The food at the outlet, and Goldfish’s interpretation
If you want to measure your own machine, our feeder portion weighing guide explains how to record food in the bowl separately from anything retained at the outlet.
The lingering food has never clogged the mechanism in our use, and the next feed clears the remainder.
Which feeder did we use?
Ours is the unit sold through the original Amazon listing, advertised with a 6-litre hopper and stainless-steel bowl for dry food. We matched it to our purchase record. This review covers that feeder.
The original listing was unavailable at our 6 October 2026 check. We haven’t verified another UK listing for the same unit; a similar-looking feeder may have different controls or dispensing behaviour.
Would we buy it again?
We’d consider the same version again for its easy setup, four feeding times and backup power, knowing that a little food can remain at the outlet.
It remains useful in our home. Disappearing from a shop listing has not stopped it feeding Goldfish.
How we assessed it
This is our everyday experience of roughly two years with Goldfish. Identification and availability were rechecked against the original listing on 6 October 2026. Portion accuracy and battery endurance have not been measured, and we have not tested the competing feeders linked here.