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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome way to keep track of weight and healtgoals
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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Great product, and I'm super glad I bought it at Best Buy instead of Target. At Target there were a lot of negative reviews, but I think with how most people at Best Buy are more technology literate there were a ton of positive reviews. I love how you're able to create your own profile and keep track of your weight. You can keep track of other family members weight and there's a setting for choosing being "pregnant" which many other digital scales do not take into account of. The app you use for it is free and it syncs well with a lot of other fitness apps that involve food along with activity tracking. This scale is also not a sore thumb so it's easy to place around a small apartment without it looking out of place, it's a nice sleek/elegant looking scale. Very happy with my purchase!
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Easily one of the most advanced scales in the market. Worth even single dollar. Tracks your BMI, heart rate, fat % and many more. Definitely check it out, Withings one of the best scales in the market.
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This scale is incredibly useful for monitoring your body weight and water weight. Unlike many other scales, it also shows your body fat percentage, providing you with more comprehensive information. Once connected to the Withings app, you can easily track your progress. As an added bonus, the scale also provides you with the day's weather forecast, making it a convenient and multifunctional device.
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It has been so helpful for losing weight and tracking my body composition. It has finally given me the motivation to stay on top of my health and weight in a meaningful way.
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sturdy appliance, the carpet stumps fall off easily when placing in new areas, the display is small and lasts 2 seconds. the app is a subscription con, and the data everywhere, the bluetooth has gaps and needs redo each visit. the real frustration is the app on this scale, is the reason I bought it, and it's a big disappointment.
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Not impressed. This item disconnects from the Wi-Fi constantly and doesn’t send the information to the app, which creates a frustrating morning routine. On top of that you spend loads of time inside the app trying to find information that your scale took. The thing is a time waster. You’d be better off just going and getting a DEXA scan.
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Smart this and smart that, it seems everything is smart today including your scale! The Withings smart scale is definitely a product I’m glad I’ve finally experienced. Just jumping on a scale and seeing your weight is one thing, but being able to see how you’ve progressed is another. If your weight has fluctuated during a few days the scale will show you that in graph form after you initially weigh yourself. And this is just one of many measurements it will show you once you’ve set it up.
And speaking of setup, it’s thankfully very simple and quick and that’s in large part due to the excellent Withings app. Once you download the app and turn the scale on the app walks you thru the whole process. The app works flawlessly with Apple health, so if you allow it, it will import your health data from the health app into the Withings app. This allows you to monitor all your health data and the measurements from the scale within the Withings app. The scale will measure bmi,fat,lean mass & water,visceral fat, your heart rate and will even give you the weather and air quality index! You can store up to 8 users profiles on the scale and it even has an “eyes closed mode”, instead of numbers it gives you inspirational messages! The Withings body smart is an example of when “smart” is done right (product and app functionality work flawlessly together), it really can make day to day life better.
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Good scale unless you accidentally bump it or drop it and then it shatters. And not even a heavy bump. It was a tap and the whole face shattered. For $100 I expected better. There are cheaper more sturdy models that do the same thing.
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I was looking for advanced body composition smart scale and got Withings – Body smart advanced body composition smart wi-fi scale. It came with excellent packing and inside the box it came with 4 x AAA battery, Carpet feet, Body Smart Advanced Body Composition Smart Wi-Fi Scale, Product Guide and Quick Start Guide. After unboxing, I have attached the Carpet feet on the scale. Once it is done, downloaded and installed the Withings health mate app from the app store. After the email registration in the app, the instructions were very easy to follow to configure the profile with height, weight etc.
It integrated with apple health app in iphone and imported all previous information from the health app. It is easy to define the goal and it tracks the information day by day in terms of weight, body composition, heart rate, daily steps, average heart rate. This scale is pretty large and glossy look. The display is LCD and letters are easy to read during measurements.
This scale monitors full body composition: weight, BMI, total body fat, water percentage, muscle and bone mass, Visceral Fat Index estimates the amount of fat stored around organs in abdomen, Basal Metabolic Rate how many calories body burns at rest, and heart rate at every weigh-in. Withings uses position control technology, a unique body position detector to get accurate measurements. It can track up to 8 users independently.
I have invited my family numbers and they were able to track their health information. It is easy to see family members information from the drop down. It is compatible with Apple Health, Google Health, MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, Weight Watchers, train for a race with Runkeeper, Runtastic and MapMyRun. The measurements are very accurate and instant. It is great to see heartbeat, weight, body composition in one place and it shows air quality and weather as well. It is a great smart scale and highly recommend using it to track health related information.
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For the price, this is a great scale and with unique tracking metrics. While the scale is similar to other smart scales from the last ten years, the main draw is in the connections formed within the Withings app and it’s interplay with Apple's Health app on iOS (and presumably it’s equivalent on Android). The app tracks all of your progress within the app with easy to read graphs while introducing goals for tracking your health and weight. I found these to be pleasant, with the fallback knowledge that these are also helping other apps within the connections being tracked by Health.
The scale itself is nicely built, with a color screen that’s a step up from my older smart scale. Every time you step on it displays not only your weight, but also fat and muscle composition, heart rate, air quality and weather for the day. This is customizable, but I found the slideshow format to be fast enough in its defaults to be useful. The scale is quite grippy on tile floors and comes with footings for placement on thick carpets as well.
I’m almost 40, so I’ve been looking to better maintaining my health to specifically avoid the ailments that I’ve seen others in my family endure as they aged. I only learned recently that my family is prone to diabetes, so all facets of health are useful for me as I aim to avoid it entirely. Weight also causes a lot of stress on joints, bones and the body in general, so getting it right is an important goal now. I have a smart watch and have been tracking exercise for a while but I also track my diet within another app, and now even more with this Body Smart scale. I’m getting new insights into my body composition which is really cool. While I lose weight, I get to see how that also affects my water weight, fat around organs, and overall muscle mass. These were not things I could really get insight into before, so it’s yet another motivation as I reach my goals.
Speaking of goals, the Withings app also provides this goal tracking within its app. Set a goal and it will predict how fast you may reach it, based on its exercise, step, etc. readings and insights imported from the OS (opt in.) So far this is nice to see and I’m excited to be able to have a keen eye on my muscle vs fat ratios while I’m also building muscle in my workouts. If you’d rather track your data without seeing your weight every day, you can choose to hide that from view with the ‘Eyes-Closed’ option.
Setup is mostly straightforward, but mine got very confused in multiple ways during first use. Signing in ‘with Apple’ may have been the issue… I had constant OS requests for my login, along with miscalculations on my weight in KGs but labeled as lbs and the scale refusing to recognize me or record my data as a result. Correcting this was very frustrating, but once I recreated my account, cleared out all of it’s connections to the Health app and gave it some time, it finally started to recognize me on the scale and began to work as expected.
Setup aside, I still have one issue possibly specific to tall people like me. I’m 6’ 8,” which is a height where BMI tends not to be accurate at all. The app acknowledges the issues with BMI in its description but doesn’t adjust my goals despite this. When I log in, the app shows my weight status as ‘Obese,’ and my healthy goal weight under the ‘Overweight’ range. These are false, as most of my weight comes from being so tall, but it’s a bit of a shame that it’s not counter-adjusted for within the app.
Despite these two issues, the scale and app are well thought out, providing insights and information in context, alongside goals and tracking. The scale itself is quite nice and at $100 it’s a nice package.
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I’ve used a digital scale for a few months now to track my fitness gains and losses. About 6 months ago I was up on weight and began tracking my food intake and workout volume. Having multiple tracking devices became a pain and when I got the opportunity to try out the Withings Body and Body Composition Smart Wi-Fi Scale, I couldn’t pass it up.
Set up was a breeze with this scale. I downloaded the app paired it to my phone and let them do all the work. It came preloaded with batteries, all that was need was to remove the piece of plastic from the battery compartment. Then I installed the provided feet to the bottom of the scale set I on the floor and stepped on the scale and let it do all of the calculating and measuring. This thing offers tons of great features.
I really like this scale, upon stepping on the scale it quickly shows your weight. Once your weight is measured then it shows how your weight is trending either up or down. After that it displays your fat percent, muscle percent, visceral fat and your heart rate. What makes this unit stand out is that it will send all of the data to your mobile device. I’m able to analyze this data and know if the changes to my diet and workout its helping or hurting. Also, to note it give air quality.
All things said, I am totally enjoying my new Withing scale. I have lost over 20lbs and I’m feeling healthier than I have in a long time. I 100% recommend this scale. It has really motivated me to be healthier. It’s great getting all that information right off the scale and then having it stored in my mobile device to track my progress. Don’t hesitate to pick the Withings scale up for your personal use.
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TLDR: An extremely attractive scale with a bright, colorful, and easy to read screen. That is easy to get on/off of that measures extremely fast, and delivers that information to your phone via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth easily. The App itself can be paired with your Apple Health allowing you to get all your health information in a single app. Making it easy to track or maintain your health goals. I’ve found it to be incredibly helpful in tracking my body fat, visceral fat, and muscle percentages to ensure that I am doing the correct training and diet. But I’m not fully sure how accurate or inaccurate the scale is.
The scale itself is extremely attractive and is plenty large to be able to easily get on and off it. It also is very sturdy where when I place one foot on it doesn’t wobble or offset itself. However, it is extremely glossy which makes it look premium but also means you’ll notice when it is dirty easier (dust). Which is probably a good thing. But it never held onto my footprints. The screen is also large, bright, colorful, and extremely sharp. Making it super easy to read.
Readings come in extremely fast and then go through several screens notifying you of whatever you are tracking. Or if you don’t want to see the results you can do blind mode (which I think is awesome). As the scale can certainly appear to be our enemy sometimes. Personally, I find making sure that I am weighing daily helps keep me at healthier weight as I can see my trends. This scale allows you to go all out in your tracking if you so wish. I personally go with my weight, body fat, muscle, visceral fat, weather, air quality, and standing heart rate each morning. For weight it will show you a graph of where you’ve been so you can see if you’re increasing, decreasing, or steady. With body fat and muscle, it is a percentage. Then visceral fat and air quality outside it will show what is the healthy range and where you sit. The best part of this is that you don’t have to have your phone on you or connected via Bluetooth to get the readings. As it can be done either through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Where with my old scale if I didn’t have my phone and the app open it wouldn’t track it. This is much easier.
Which takes us to the app. The app seems to have tracking for everything which can be a bit overwhelming. I set it up so it would assimilate all my Apple Health info (as I use an iPhone and Apple Watch) which it does seamlessly. Allowing me to get all my important health info in a single app. Which I greatly appreciate. If you are wanting to track additional things, Withing’s has a ton of products that you can buy separately for that as well. But I couldn’t figure out a way to organize the tiles so that I could see the things I wanted to look at most at the top. Instead, I had to scroll through everything. I do like that on the bottom it will tell you a quick snapshot of normal, healthy, stable, losing fat, gaining muscle, etc. (so for example Weight: X lbs. on the bottom will say “stable weight”). Then if you click into it will show you a graph with the trend. That you can also see more broken down by scrolling down or looking the week, month, quarter, year, or all. I also enjoy that it can give you cards of your snapshot information (“your body fat is decreasing”). Along with giving you Health information such as “tackling myth does muscle weigh more than fat” or explaining complex carbs. Essentially, what I’m saying is there is a ton of information and benefit here if you so wish.
Last, accuracy. I have no way of knowing how accurate or inaccurate this scale is. Especially the weight, body fat, and muscle percentage. As that is what I personally go off over BMI. As I find BMI to not be a good indicator. As if you have a lot of muscle like I do you come off in the overweight/obese range despite having acceptable or low body fat percentage. I also think it is more helpful to focus on the trend of body fat/muscle. As if your weight is going up due to working out but you don’t know that you are gaining muscle and losing fat then that can mentally wreck you. With this scale you are able to look at that so you know despite my weight going up I am getting healthier and I am making progress. Which I think is the biggest selling point to a scale like this. I did find those numbers to be higher than my cheaper scale (19% body fat on cheaper scale 20% on this one). Weight was essentially the same. But I had to put on “athlete” or something mode. Otherwise it had my body fat percentage at 29%. Which is simply not correct. So seeing a huge swing of 10% based on a flip of a switch was a bit concerning to me.
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Of all the research I did, I ultimately decided to purchase this smart scale. I’m glad I did! All the metrics seem to be accurate, set up was easy and it’s designed sleek and elegant. The app is pretty robust and easy to use. The health data does seem pretty accurate when I compare them with a couple other apps I use. Only down side was the higher price point. Recommended.
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Got this Withings Body+ Smart scale and i can say that after just one week of usage it got me to pay more attention to my weight and vitals. I always say next monday but now i don't have to wait i keep track of my body fat, hearth rate and weight on a daily basis and the coolest thing is that all that it's being send thru the app on my phone which like everyone i use it at all times and that's a good reminder of what i have to do to reach my fitness goals.
So out of the box it just looks super nice and it's got a rather large glass surface to place your feet.
-They recommend to step on it with your bare feet for an accurate reading and i can agree it is really accurate.
-Set it on a hard surface the way it comes out of the box or use the 4 additional legs they provide if you want to set it on the carpet.
-Download the Withings app, add the scale to it and set up the wifi. It's verry simple to do it since the scale has a colored screen that will inform you all the steps till completion. The app itself is complex but easy to use and i like the fact it can connect to my apple health app and combine all the information to give me a nice overall picture of what i am doing or i should do to reach my goals every day.
-You can have up to 8 users which is very helpful.
-The screen on the scale itself it is large and colored so after the initial setup on your phone will display every measuring you told it to so you don't necessarily need your phone to have all the readings(weight, bmi, fat, muscle, visceral fat, water, bone, hearth rate even outside weather and airquality). It's got some arrows in each corner of the screen pointing at where you should position your weight so it will give you the best reading.
I would say this is a must have in each household! It's very well money spent for such and accurate device!
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It works great as a scale. Expect it to go one or two tenths of a pound different if you're weighing often. I'm enjoying using the app along with my Samsung Health app. Everything that I was hoping for it to be. One thing, the bone mass isn't quite on target. although, that's not my top priority. I get dexa scans for that.