WithingsSmart Scales for Body Weight, FSA or HSA Eligible, Body Analysis, Fat Content, Muscle Mass, Bone Density, Visceral Fat, Bathroom Scale, BMI Scales Digital Weight and Body Fat, Bluetooth, WiFi

This scale is fantastic! My wife and I both use it to track our fitness progress and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to do the same. The key is to measure consistently at the same time of day. For instance, we weigh in at the beginning of the day before we’ve had anything to eat for the most accurate results. The app is very user friendly and it is not difficult at all for my wife and I to have separate profiles. The scale somehow recognizes who is standing on it and attributes those stats to the correct profile. The information it tracks is very useful and not gimmicky like a lot of the smart scales out there that inundate you with pretty useless data. The body fat and lean mass percentages, cardiovascular age, and metabolic age and are really interesting to track.The quality of the scale is very high. It feels solid and durable. It looks very clean and hasn’t gotten dirty even after about a month of use.If you’re looking for a smart scale, this is the one. It’s more accurate than virtually all other feet-only scales. For twice the money you can get the hand held electrode reader to increase accuracy by about .5% but for us it was not worth the extra money. The body comp was the way to go for us.

I purchased the Body Comp scale (mainly for the body composition and vascular age data), after using the Withings Wireless BP cuff for almost 4 months. The connectivity between the BP cuff and the Withings Health Mate app works seamlessly. So, based on this experience, I purchased the Body Comp scale thinking all the poor reviews reporting issues were just over-blown. Wrong!!! Upon receiving the scales, I activated the provided batteries (removed the piece of plastic from the battery compartment ), and completed the setup via the Health Mate app successfully. Placed the scales in the spot (bathroom) they would be used, and took my first weigh-in. All worked as expected and the results immediately appeared in the Health Mate app. I then added my wife as a second user, through the Health Mate app. Again, all worked as expected. Her first weigh-in reported correctly. The second day provided the expected results for both profiles. Then, on the third morning, is when things went wrong (no settings on the scale had been changed, and no up-dates to our phones iOS). We both weighed-in. The scale automatically selected the correct profile for each of us and proceeded as expected. The issue with my profile was the body composition data showed on the scale LCD, but then reported an error when attempting to up-load the data to the Health Mate app. The scale then correctly selected my wife’s profile and showed all the data correctly on the scale’s LCD, but did not up-load any new data to the Health Mate app. Both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi were connected correctly and both phones showed a connection in the Bluetooth settings. During the following three days, every possible action to correct the issues were taken (e.g., confirmed the batteries were 100%, cleaned the top of the scales (even though the scales were brand new), moistened our feet per Withings FAQs, removed scales from the Health Mate app, deleted the Health Mate app from the phones and re-booted the phones, reinstalled the Health Mate app, restored scale to factory settings, and re-installing with the Health Mate app, etc.). After all these actions, making numerous searches on Withings’ website and the general internet, no solutions were found and the scale’s data never up-loaded correctly to the Health Mate app. The Withings’ website has very limited (and very basic) guidance in their FAQ and Troubleshooting sections addressing these issues (I checked multiple times to ensure I had not over-looked a possible solution). After the level of frustration I experienced with the data not up-loading to the Health Mate app and the very expensive price this scale cost, I decided it was an “omen” the scale would be a constant problem, so I returned it to Amazon for a full refund and purchased a different brand (much less expensive and worked much better straight out of the box). I would not recommend Withings Body Comp scale because there appears to be an issue either in the scale’s internal software or maintaining a reliable interface with the Health Mate app.

Believe the other five star reviews.All I have to add is that it is pointless to have this scale if all one cares about is why clothes aren't fitting like they used to. Do not get this if you are the type who gets a new gym membership on January 2 and a month later you forgot where the gym is.What the scale is good for, or at least how I rationalized the purchase, is it that it complements a geek's approach to health and fitness. That is, we all know that improving one's health is fairly simple: eat better, get more sleep, drop the carbs, add ninety minutes or more of vigorous activity a week and stay out of the taverns. You don't need this scale or even any scale if all that is of interest is generally better health and clothes fit.Now for those who enjoy body hacking or What Ifs? This scale is awesome. Lets say that you adopt a regime of regular fasting and daily walks. This will burn fat and likely trash your muscles and that result will be reflected in the body composition readings. Dropping carbs? H2O numbers change. Overworking your exercise, your heart patterns will change (though for Reasons, you only get afib notifications but the ECG/EKG graphs are telling if you know how to read them and good at discerning artifacts)Want to know how that fad exercise/diet is working out for you? Now you have personal anecdata to support or refute whatever claims were made. Just took up running, swimming or boxing? See how these new activities integrate with your body shaping. Are the numbers valid? Who knows and how would a consumer know unless they had access to medical grade and certified analogs. I don't think it matters unless your numbers somehow work themselves into conversations, but trends, which this scale and app can provide will give fairly decent feedback to whatever diet/exercise plan you are following.The downside, and it is fairly understandable why, is that this scale does not play well with the Garmin Universe. Garmin has the best tracking watch - the Fenix line, this is indisputable. What Garmin doesn't have is the best peripherals. I was seriously considering upgrading from an ancient Withings smart scale to the Garmin offering because of the integration, but I wanted more toyz and having more dollars than sense opted for this prosumer scale. Thankfully MyFitnessPal is the intermediary between these two health and fitness gadget Goliaths.Because of the robust data collection that Withings is doing, and the plethora of data scientists itching to leverage AI or something to generate marketable data, I can't help but think that broader acceptance of this device would lead to things that Garmin has been doing with their data partners and that is to invent scoring mechanism based on some combination of metrics collected from this scale and integrations from other peripherals (BP and Oxy sensors) along with dietary habits from collaborations with various diet tracking apps.I look forward to what Withings comes up with in the future and I can only encourage them to work with their market competitors and intermediaries so that they can make some Withings brand Health numbers so that metrics based body hackers can game. We are odd ducks, but quite frankly its us who buy these wildly unnecessary devices.