Customer Ratings & Reviews

---- Summary ---- Pros: - Stylish design - Comfortable to wear - Long battery life - Sleep tracking with cycles and sleep score - Wide range of accurate health sensors/metrics - Workout tracking - Water-resistant up to 50 meters - Customizable, unobtrusive smartphone notifications - Great smartphone app Cons: - No built-in GPS or NFC - No always-on digital display - Occasionally mistakes some movements as cycling ---- Review ---- Design: With its hybrid design, the Withings ScanWatch blends aspects of a traditional analog watch with those of a smartwatch. At first glance, most wouldn’t think this is a smartwatch, and that’s one aspect of the design that I like. It’s basically a traditional analog watch with a small digital display at the top. By default, the display is black, and if you want to turn it on, you press the crown. The display is clear and bright making it easy to read from all angles and in different lighting. I wish you could set the digital display to be always-on though. The strap is black and made of durable silicone-like material. While I haven’t tried different watch bands yet, it’s simple to remove and replace them, and it appears compatible bands are available in a variety of materials and colors. What I didn’t initially notice until reading more about all the features is that the subdial at the bottom of the watch face shows the percentage (0-100) of your step goal that you’ve accomplished. This is a neat little feature that blends right in with the traditional, classy look of the watch. On the right side of the ScanWatch, there is a pressable crown that enables you to activate the digital display and scroll through or select features like performing an electrocardiogram (ECG) or starting workout mode. More on those later. To wrap up my thoughts on the ScanWatch’s design, its metal construction and scratch-resistant glass evoke durability and quality. It’s also comfortable to wear and stylish. Mobile App: Syncing the watch to your phone takes place in the “Health Mate” app, which is also the hub for your health data and settings. I appreciated the guided setup process that only takes a few minutes. The app was thoughtfully designed to provide a glance at relevant data like your average heart rate or sleep score from the previous night. It also provides the ability to look more closely into that data for specifics and trends. Notifications from any app can be received on the ScanWatch, and I like that these can be turned off or on in the Health Mate app. While I find notifications helpful, I like that the watch isn’t centered around them. From setup to analyzing tracked data, all aspects of the app are easy to use. I enjoy using it daily because I feel that it provides me with valuable insight and motivation to reach my goals. Health Monitoring: In my view, the standout health monitoring features of the ScanWatch are an electrocardiogram (ECG) and oximeter (SpO2), as well as 24/7 activity and heart tracking. I’m not a health professional, but I recently learned that an ECG can detect heartbeat irregularities. An oximeter, on the other hand, measures the oxygen saturation of your blood. It’s exciting to see health monitoring tools such as these in a smartwatch. It’s important to follow the instructions when using these features, otherwise, you’ll receive a message stating the results were inconclusive. I feel confident in the oximeter readings because I compared the results on my watch with a fingertip pulse oximeter and they matched exactly. The ECG is designed to detect arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm). For me, the ECG result just says “normal”, which is what I’d expect. In addition to the ability to manually perform ECG or oximeter tests, the ScanWatch proactively monitors your heart all day to give you important data, such as average heart rate, or even alert you of irregular heart rhythms. If you chose to wear the watch while you sleep, the sensors can detect breathing disturbances, an indicator of sleep apnea. I felt that this feature was worth mentioning because sleep apnea affects many people, and the ability to detect this via smartwatch is a new technology. I’m fortunate enough to not have sleep apnea, but I like knowing that this tool is available. What I’ve found especially intriguing about sleep tracking with the ScanWatch is the sleep score it provides in the Health Mate app. The score is based on sleep cycles, duration, regularity, and interruptions. I do notice that a lower sleep score correlates with tiredness during the following day. I’ve realized that tracking sleep and putting a score to it motivates me to improve my sleep. The wide variety of health monitoring tools in the ScanWatch provide me with peace of mind. Fitness Tracking: Steps and other activities like swimming (ScanWatch is water-resistant up to 50 meters deep), biking, and running are automatically recognized and logged in the Health Mate app without needing to press any buttons. The automatic tracking works well, but it’s not perfect. For instance, there have been several occasions where the ScanWatch registered that I was cycling when I was doing work around the house. Detailed measures, such as floors climbed or distance traveled, are tracked automatically as well. Distance traveled requires the use of your phone’s GPS though, so if a built-in GPS that doesn’t require a phone to track distance is a feature you’re looking for in a smartwatch, this may not be the one for you. For other workout types, an “Other” workout mode can be manually activated from the watch, and a summary of the workout will show in the Health Mate app, which provides measures like duration and heart rate. Each of the measures seems to be accurate, and everything is well summarized in the Health Mate app to view data specific to a workout or look at trends. The automatic capabilities of the ScanWatch take the guesswork out of fitness tracking. Battery Life: The advertised battery life is up to 30 days. I’m happy to report that seems spot on. I’ve tried to avoid charging the ScanWatch since I first got it to test the battery life, and while I’m not up to 30 days yet, it seems that it could get there with regular use. I’ve been frequently testing the health monitoring tools and using the optional sleep monitoring feature overnight, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the battery doesn’t make it the full 30 days, nonetheless I’m impressed by the battery life. I certainly don’t have to worry about charging it every night, so that’s a major perk of the ScanWatch. Verdict: The Withings ScanWatch is a beautifully designed hybrid smartwatch with a wide range of health monitoring features and exceptional battery life. Its comprehensive health and fitness tracking features make it a powerful and insightful device. While there’s no built-in GPS for phone-free distance tracking or NFC for payments, these weren’t must-have features for me. The ScanWatch is my first hybrid smartwatch, and now I’m a fan. As long as your priority isn’t built-in GPS, NFC, or other smart features that the ScanWatch doesn’t have, I highly recommend this smartwatch. Its style and important health metrics are unmatched.

I have owned several smart watches that were loaded with apps, touch screens, and tried to multi-task - this watch best them all by focusing on health with simple controls and alerts. Pros - Clean design - looks like a watch and that is good. - Controlling functions via the crown works well and is intuitive. - Alerts from your linked phone trigger a strong vibration and scroll in the display momentarily - they are not stored and this worked great for me. - Heartrate, step counting, floor counting, sleep monitoring and exercise detection all worked perfectly in the background collecting data with no extra steps from me. - Step count is displayed as a percentage 0-100 by a secondary dial (works well and is intuitive). - On demand ECG worked well and was reassuring. - Battery life is great - almost shocking considering how much I use it. I am using 5-7% per day meaning I charge it every 2 weeks or so. - It seems fairly sturdy and waterproof. I have used it while doing yard work, moving furniture, and in the pool with no damage or impact to operation. - Withings Health Mate App works well and has useful data displays and analysis tools. Things to Consider - Alerts from my iPhone occasionally stopped working and I got a notice to restart the Health Mate App on my phone. The alerts that can be displayed are limited to a certain set of apps, but all the ones I needed were available (I get alerts for FB Messenger, Hang-outs, Ring, Text, Phone, Outlook, Teams). - I found it uncomfortable to wear the watch in the recommended position above my wrist bone – it did not impact operation except it could have contributed to the blood oxygen readings being a little off. - The blood oxygen reading was hard to make work reliably; I often got a low warning and then switched wrist and got a normal reading. I tried this with a few other people and it was hit or miss. - The band is made of rubber, which makes it easy to clean, but also regularly pinches my hairy wrist. I would recommend. This watch works well – tracking your health in the background and relaying notifications from your phone subtly while getting great battery life.

This is the smartest and definitely best looking “smart” watch I’ve owned. It’s really amazing all it can do in a slim comfortable form factor that is also easy to read. Pros: Does an EKG in 30 seconds! Does a blood oxygen level scan in 30 seconds! Tracks steps, workouts, stairs, etc. Comfortable - seriously the most comfortable smart watch I’ve tried and the easiest to sleep with if you want to wear while sleeping Long battery life – says up to 30 days, but that depends on if you have all the features enabled like advanced tracking while sleeping. I’ve been getting a little over 2 weeks with everything turned on. The small digital circle display is surprisingly readable. I normally wear reading glasses and don’t need them to read this display. Intuitive and easy to use – the little dial works great to quickly switch modes for taking an EKG, checking oxygen level, stop watch, alarms, step tracking, etc. Auto workout tracking Waterproof Ability to swap out the band easily Very attractive watch – looks like an elegant timepiece and not a square blocky computer Simple visual circle dial at the bottom to track your activity goal (like 10,000 steps, etc. and is configurable) Always visible time! It displays the time like a traditional analog watch, so it’s always “on” to see the time Withings Health Mate app is easy to use to see all your readings and integrates your tracking data with other apps like Fitness Pal, Apple Health, etc. Cons: Not really a con for me, but FYI that you can’t customize the display because it’s mostly analog (I think this a benefit for me, but wanted to point it out) Other observations – I was getting inconclusive blood oxygen readings but then re-read the instructions that recommended wearing it tighter to get better contact and then worked perfectly. I prefer to wear it one band notch looser for all day wear. (I didn’t have to tighten to get accurate EKG readings). I’m amazed at all that it can do in such a good-looking watch. Been getting lots of compliments!

If you are looking for a health monitor to use during your day to day non-exercise activities the Withings Scan Watch might be worth considering. If you are looking for a health monitor to wear during any type of exercise I think you should consider something else. In using this watch I have found that it’s accuracy can vary quite a lot during exercise. During exercise sessions my heart rate is often reported several beats above or below what my chest strap monitor reads and I verified this by using two different brand heart rate monitors. On one cycling session which was intense/sweaty my average heart rate was only half of what my chest strap monitor recorded. Even under non strenuous exercise activities I have found that the heart rate values tend to be slightly over or under by a couple of beats fairly consistently. This happens on either wrist with the band tight and the watch worn as shown in the instructions. I had similar results when measuring my oxygen levels when compared to dedicated finger readers. As for the sleep detection, however I find that it detects my sleep time fairly well including the times when I wake up at night. I can’t comment on whether the depth of the sleep is accurate but the timing seems to be right. I can also say that the step count is pretty consistent and reasonably accurate although the two displays don’t quite agree (see photo). I walk the same route every day and the step count is consistently close to the same number afterwards. Because of the inaccuracies I have experienced using the measurements during exercise I only wear this watch for non-exercise activities. The Withings Scan Watch is a fitness/health watch with the look of a classic wrist watch. (see photo) I think that Withings took a more traditional approach in this watch. Rather than create a plastic or rubberized looking watch like most of the competition they built the fitness functions into an attractive looking wrist watch. I got the sapphire crystal white faced watch and it looks as good with workout clothes as it does with a suit and tie. This watch does the all the typical functions you would want in a fitness watch. It monitors your steps, distance covered, floors climbed, time and speed by utilizing the gps functions in your phone and an accelerometer built into the watch. Based upon this information and your personal profile the watch estimates calories burned and your overall fitness level. You can track your training using the 12 automatically recognized activities or you can manually select one of the 40 preprogrammed activities. The list is quite substantial and the activities are easy to set up if you choose one that is not auto-recognized. The watch also can monitor your sleep activity, breathing disturbances, your heart rate, your Sp02 oxygen level, as well as perform a medical grade ECG and watch for A-Fib heart arrhythmias. Lastly the watch can display notifications including activity notifications and text messages from your phone (see photo). The small display on the watch face will give you phone call alerts and display text messages but because the display is so small it is more of a notification than an actual display of the message. There is no function in the watch that allows you to respond to a text or phone call. The watch runs on a rechargeable battery and depending on how it is used can last up to about 30 days per the specs. Setup: I hope because this watch is so new that the setup process will improve. The instructions in the box tell you to download the Health Mate App. When you first set up the watch it requires your personal profile information and inputting the date via the watch can take forever. This was very problematic with putting in a birth date because of the way they show the calendar. I found it was easier to input any date and then go back and edit the dd/mm/yy entry vs trying to flip through years and months in the app. Once you get the profile set up and the app syncs with the watch you are good to go for most of the common fitness and activity functions. I highly recommend going through the help center in the app to get the most use out of the watch. Hardware: I really like the watch fit and feel. Its very light, the band is a rubberized band that looks nice but also keeps the watch tight to the wrist without being annoying. The digital display on the watch is a small circle in the upper half of the watch face. In the lower half of the watch there is another circle display that shows the number of steps taken that day. It’s a mechanical hand that indicates the percentage of your daily goal that has been reached. (see photo) To gain access to the various activities and monitoring features you use the side button – its like a watch crown but instead of pulling it out to set the time you press it in to access the menu and then rotate it to get the areas of interest. The watch supports swimming but should not be used for diving or snorkeling. Health Mate App and Use: I have had the watch for a couple of weeks so far and I am still learning new features and functions. The application is menu driven with the four main areas being the home screen with all your latest measurements and trends; the dashboard screen with your activity, body, heart, nutrition and sleep data; the device screen which shows your watch settings and lastly your profile which shows your personal data used by the watch to provide information on your fitness (see photo). I have used other brands of fitness and health monitoring watches and I found that the Health Mate app is reasonably competitive with them when it comes to delivering the captured data. The App can be linked with Strava and several other fitness dedicated sites. It can also provide gps after-the-fact results to show where the activities took place but it does not provide any type of map routing. Because the watch can do so many functions it takes time to learn the various settings within the application. Luckily I found that most of the typical functions I use were auto recognized or easy to set up. Once it did decide my grass cutting was actually a cycling activity so the auto function is not totally fool proof.

The Withings ScanWatch is an impressive timepiece to place on your wrist. This watch has given me a great blend of classy / elegant style, along with modern smartwatch and health capability. This watch has some fantastic style and looks that will get you noticed because it doesn't look like the competitors. Classic circular style and face, but with a digital easy to read display built inside (this can be turned off if you choose to). The Health Mate app within the App Store was easy to find and install on my iPhone XR. The app was paired up quickly and had me operating my new ScanWatch within just a few minutes. Health Mate is a feature rich app that can track a lot of your health data on a consistent basis. ECG reading, Blood oxygen levels, Heart Rate, Sleep tracker, Calorie counter, and Pedometer. I have really been happy with the health data that this ScanWatch has opened my eyes to. Being better as a person to be more active and get more sleep on a regular cycle. The watch offers great looks and great personal health information to help you want to be more proactive with your body and mind. Wearing this watch for workouts has been great since it's able to track GPS locations when paired with my iPhone. I get a complete assessment of how my workout went with heartrate and calorie count. The watch is also waterproof so I can wear it on sweaty workouts, in the rain, and in the shower. The ScanWatch can also give you smart notifications from some of my favorite apps on my iPhone. I can be notified of phone calls, scrolling text messages, emails, and etc. Limited visual interface, but enough to give you an alert that something is there to check. The battery life is actually pretty good as well since it can go up to 30 days before needing a charge again. I have been using my watch all the time 24/7 and have been recording daily workouts with GPS. Therefore my battery lifespan of the watch until needing a recharge has been about 9 days. Overall I will say this is a great watch by itself. When compared to an Apple Watch it doesn't quite match up to the visual display and tech rich features within an Apple Watch. I think it's a classy looking watch and perfect for someone who wants to be showcasing a style and fashion that is all their own, and stand apart from the square watch crowd. PRO: Useful health statistics Battery life Classy upscale looks CON: No touch screen display Similar price point to the Apple Watch which offers more features

I love the look & style of the watch (I specifically bought the one with the blue face) & I love that the readings they seem accurate even tested the BPM & ECG while I was hooked up at my cardiologist appointment the other day! That's why it's 4 stars & not 3, so why not a five? well because it claimed battery life is 30 days and I knew that was probably just if you use it as a watch without reading the digital display by pushing the button, but so far I've had to charge it bi-weekly. Which isn't that big of a deal but just wanted to be honest with my findings! And the other reason for only 4 is because the app is definitely not perfect with sleep results..... Example times where I've gone to bed only to be woken up a couple hours later by my dog needing to go to the bathroom or such, even if I go to sleep again only 10 or 15 minutes later It's like it washes that 2 hours off my clock like the other day I actually went to bed at 11:00 p.m. got woken up at 1:15 a.m. went back to bed 1: 35 when I woke up the next morning at 6:30 It only said I got. 4 hrs 55 minutes sleep.... Add face palm emoji here (but with words cause it said "please remove emoji) lol but as you can probably guess with the four star rating I'm definitely not going to return it because other than those two things it's pretty awesome!

Love this watch. A smart watch that is sleek and elegant. It resembles a Movado design. In addition to monitoring my excercise activity, it has all kinds of great features like heart monitoring, and oxygen level monitoring. It's worth the somewhat spendy pricetag.

This watch does all i want and more. Very stylish, and the battery life is in a world of its own. This is my second Withing watch.

I have used this smartwatch for 1 day and so far I am loving all the information it gives without the look of a smartwatch. I was looking for something on those days I don’t want a bulky apple watch and I found it! I have the scale as well and I like the ease of setup and sync. I bought extra bands on amazon :) This watch is the perfect accessory if you are looking for sleek savvy and functional

I really wanted to love this watch, as I have been waiting for it to be released for over a year...but I did not. It is well made and comfortable to wear, and the simple style is attractive. Battery life is good, a few days, but not nearly as good as they claim. Some of the health features are great, but I noticed that some of the stats do not match up will with other sources I use to check them. And the fact that it does not do constant heart rate checks (something like every 10 minutes unless you are in the middle of an exercise session) makes the heart rate tracking less than reliable, in my opinion. I realize this was made more for someone who is looking for overall health and wellness monitoring, and for that high level stuff it is very good. But with other products out there with more features and more options, it is not my choice.

Combining the best features of their previous smartwatch offerings, Withings has come up with what I believe is the best fitness and health monitor available. Too many fitness monitors look like your generic rubber wristband; plastic and cheap. Even the higher end offerings are boxy and look like something a child would wear. Withings' ScanWatch looks like a classic analog watch, simple and elegant. Offered in 38mm and 42mm, both have what appears to be the same size dial face with different bezels. The 38mm being rounded with very little bezel and the 42mm having a slightly larger beefier bezel. Multiple wristbands are also available should you wish to get rid of the standard silicone band. Multiple reviews have already been posted with detailed descriptions of each feature this watch offers, so there is no reason to revisit. The Step Counter is accurate, even for tall individuals with longer than average strides. Heart Rate monitoring is also very accurate, compares well with the monitors at my health provider's office. The Sleep Tracker is ok, depending upon how long it takes for you to reach a rested state, duration can be inaccurate and on several occasions the watch has failed to identify any sleep duration at all. Breathing Rate monitoring is good, runs in the background and is not something I normally look at. Same goes for O2 level monitor and Breathing assistant. The ECG test is another feature hyped by Withings but seeing limited use. Battery life is great, superior to several other fitness monitors. Easily able to last a month before having to recharge. Recharging should be easy but I found getting the watch to mate and start charging somewhat finicky, have had to pick up and replace the watch onto the charger several times before it starts charging. Overall this is a great tracker for someone looking for the classic look of an analog watch with the features of a fitness tracker.

Quick Summary: If you have wanted to get a fitness tracker but have been holding off because you wanted something with more traditional looks, this Withings Scanwatch is an absolutely amazing product. Battery life is amazing especially if you use the default settings. The Sp02 and ECG sensors are really cool and easy to use. Overall it's just an awesome watch if you aren't looking for the full smartwatch experience. Probably the biggest benefit of the Scanwatch for most people is the subtlety of the design. It has a traditional watch face with the fitness tracker features displayed on a small cutout in the watch face. If you go with the black Scanwatch, it's even more discrete, but on my white model it is almost unnoticeable. I've had a few people notice that it's not actually a traditional watch and ask about it. It's a really cool understated design. My personal favorite feature of the Scanwatch is the battery life. With the default settings, you should be able to go a few weeks without charging it. Even if you set it to do the sleep apnea tracking every night you can easily get over a week between charges (I think I got 10 days when set this way). I think Withings advertises up to 30 days, which is certainly believable but I haven't stretched it that far. Using the ECG and SpO2 sensors is very easy to do and provide consistent results. By default the monitoring for breathing disorders when sleeping only happens a few times per quarter to save battery life, or you can set it to every night. You can customize notifications to allow all phone calls or messages to vibrate on the device or you can customize the apps that are allowed to show messages. This feature works as expected but does have a battery life impact. So far the only two negatives I have for the Scanwatch are how long it takes to charge (which is offset by the incredible battery life) and the alarm feature being a little lackluster. I'm not sure if the vibration is just not strong enough or what, but I don't think it's ever woken me up (or even gently nudged me toward waking up). For charging, if you let the watch run down to very low battery, you will need to charge it for a very long time to top all the way up. I've been just sticking it on the charger once a week or so when I jump in the shower. Used this way, 15 minutes of charging gives it another 10-15% charge, so I can go almost indefinitely before I have to fully top it up.

Asthetically pleasing, this device looks like an analog watch. But it is much, much more. Initial setup is extremely easy. After that, it will automatically track five activities that you select, track your sleep, and your pulse rate. On demand, it can track your electrocardiogram (ecg) while checking for atrial fibrillation and can also check your blood oxygen saturation percentage (spo2). Activity tracking is very accurate for walking and cycling - much better than that provided by my charge 3 hr. Sleep tracking is ok, but not perfect as it frequently skips logging any sleep for me. While the associated Health Mate app allows you to edit a sleep log, it does not allow you to create one if no sleep log was created by the device - a mild bummer. That same app will connect to the My Fitness Pal app for the sharing of activity data and calorie consumption. However, the formula and/or data used between the two to calculate additional calories available from activity is quite mystifying. It also does not seem that the Health Mate app updates My Fitness Pal throughout the day as additional activities occur. Hopefully, this can be resolved in a future update (Fitbit got it right so Withings/Nokia can as well). Although the device does not take a blood pressure reading, the Health Mate app allows you to enter an externally obtained reading. Overall, the Health Mate app works well. I did notice a few glitches: 1) the above issue with activity calorie counting and 2) a bug encountered while editing a sleep log where after initiating an edit and then backing out, any subsequent edit sleep log will not allow an edit - you must close the app and restart it in order to edit the sleep log. The first bug is more serious than the second, but both should be resolved quickly. A really big positive is the battery charge duration. I was accustomed to having to recharge my Fitbit at least once a week, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that this Withings device can last up to a month on a single charge - less if you take lots of ecg and/or spo2 measurements. How cool that they figured out a way to deliver so many features and still use so little battery in doing so. The watch band is comfortable and seems durable - unlike every Fitbit device I have owned. In summary, it looks quite good, fits and feels good, and works pretty good, too. Highly recommended.