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The Best Smart Scales to Achieve Fitness Goals

Bathroom scales don’t just monitor your weight. The smart ones can now connect to your smartphone and show you a collection of metrics from weight to body composition. Whether you’re looking to attain fitness goals, sustain your current form, or get an insight into your body. Our recommended smart scales are designed to help you stay on track. We recommend the Withings Body+ smart scale for anyone looking to automatically track their weight. It provided the most accurate readings. For anyone with specific concerns or it’s out of your budget, consider the Greater Goods Smart Body Composition WiFi Scale, as it’s also product consistently readings. Its app was the only one that really recorded weight every single time the scale was utilized.

Here are the best smart scales you can buy in 2021

1. The best smart scale overall: Withings Body+ smart scales

The Withings Body+ body composition scale is a user-friendly WiFi model that’s easy to use and seems to be reliable. It can be used by up to 8-people, apparently distinguishing between them by their weight. The smart scale can automatically pass its measurements to other apps or the individual Health Mate apps via WiFi or Bluetooth sync.

It sports an appealing design, gathers more information than any other smart scale, including local weather forecast, IFTTT support, and a pregnancy mode (which disables BIA). The scale also measures full body composition, including muscle mass, fat mass, water percentage, and bone mass. It presents the data in a straightforward user interface and easy to understand the app. And with your measurement history available at any time, you can monitor changes in your weight over time.

For an upgrade, the $150 Withings Nokia Body Cardio offers heart health features, including a Pulse Wave Velocity measurement. Withings also offers a cheaper model (Withings Body), but without the body composition features. Though the data can be an indicator of hypertension; however, the Withings scale does not diagnose medical conditions.

Pros:

  • Easy to use
  • Well-designed app
  • Useful stats on-display
  • Pregnancy mode
  • Complete body composition metrics
  • Compatible with multiple apps and users

Cons:

  • Quite expensive
  • Small display
  • Fragile glass

2. The best smart WiFi scale: Greater Goods Smart Body Composition Scale

If you want a simple, modern, and smart way to keep track of more than just your weight, the Greater Goods Smart Scale is highly recommended, and it won’t break the bank. This model of the Greater Goods Smart Connected Body Fat Bathroom Scale uses WiFi instead of Bluetooth: Making it easy to track progress over time, accurately registering weight changes, and sending data to its associated app.

Greater Goods’ scale can store the history of an unlimited number of weights and other data. It will automatically sync your data with up to eight different profiles as soon it’s finished calculating. And each individual user can’t view one another’s information. Although while we would prefer to see access to historical data. It provides easy-to-read info on weight, muscle mass, water, body fat, and BMI that you can read in the Weight Gurus app (iOS and Android).

It’s also compatible with several popular health and fitness apps like our top pick: Google Fit, Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, UnderAmour, and FitBit app. Compared with other top-rated smart scales we considered, this Greater Goods WiFi scale costs about half as much.

Pros:

  • User-friendly mobile app
  • Unbelievably accurate
  • Great customer service
  • Collects an impressive amount of data
  • Offers push notifications
  • Offers the option to go “weightless.”

Cons:

  • Some might find the setup a bit confusing.
  • Does not work with routers that use SSID for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi bands.

3. A reliable and user-friendly scale: Eufy Smart Scale P1

The Eufy Smart Scale P1 is an incredible choice if you prefer a silent weigh-in Smart Scale to keeps tabs on your weight, BMI, and body composition. It syncs with an app, but since it uses Bluetooth, you must have your phone nearby to sync properly, so you can easily monitor your progress. However, it gives consistently accurate weight measurements and recordings. Also, its app is the most user-friendly of all the scales we reviewed.

Eufy Smart Scale P1 will pairs effortlessly with the EufyLife app for iOS and Android, displays current weight, BMI, and body fat percentage almost instantly on-screen. As one of the best smart, reliable scales, it nailed the weigh-in. It then syncs that number, together with eleven other metrics. Plus, data displayed inline, and bar graphs, and additional historical details are only one tap away.

This Eufy scale can track data for up to 16. Each user can choose whether to make their information visible to other users. But compared to the Withings Body, Eufy’s scale lacks a pregnancy model and weather forecast. Although it’s more compact than the Withings, it also supports integration with Apple Health, Fitbit, and Google Fit. And it comes with excellent customer service and a fair price.

Pros:

  • Most user-friendly
  • Excellent display
  • A reliable scale with a user-friendly app
  • Measures weight, BMI, and full body composition

Cons:

  • No WiFi connectivity
  • No Pregnancy Mode

4. The best scale for Fitbit users: Fitbit Aria 2 smart WiFi scale

The Fitbit Aria 2 smart WiFi scale is an updated version of the original Fitbit Aria Air Smart Scale. While it’s not the most comprehensive but is still accurate and takes a minute or more to register weight, plus you get all the benefits of Fitbit’s top platform.

It’s a sleek and no-brainer scale for anyone who relies on their Fitbit: As it effortlessly transfers your info into Fitbit’s existing top-notch fitness ecosystem. In addition to weight and BMI, the scale also tracks body fat percentage and lean mass of up to eight users via WiFi to the Fitbit app.

The Aria 2 app’s dash-board syncs info about your weigh-ins with your daily workouts and food consumption you manually input for a simple overview. It’s also brilliant; it can differentiate different users, sending personal data to the right user and keeping your info private from other users.

Pros:

  • Sleek design
  • Easy setup
  • Personal data stays private.
  • Available for both iOS and Android
  • Fully integrates into the Fitbit platform and third-party automation like IFTTT

Cons:

  • Expensive
  • Lacks detailed body composition metrics
  • Not safe for users with implanted medical devices

5. Best Weight Capacity: My Weigh XL-550 Talking Bathroom Scale

At 14.7 x 12.5 x 1.5 inches, the My Weigh Talking Bathroom Scale Index has the largest footprint—along with an affordable price tag. It’s the highest capacity and an extra-large capacity scale at 550 pounds we’ve considered. The My Weigh XL-550 scale uses a strain gauge-based technology to be incredibly precise and accurate and also offers measurements in 0.2 pounds resolution and weighs in kilograms (200 kilograms x 0.1 kilograms).

We like that it’s wide enough, so you don’t have to squeeze your feet on it, and further like that, it talks to you, “makes you feel like you have a friend,” and tells you what your weight is. You don’t even have to look down to read your measurement. And if you’re not in the mood to have your weights announced, just flip the switch on the bottom of the scale to silent it. It is incredibly accurate.

If you want a larger, broader platform, consider the My Weigh 700 lb Talking Bathroom Scale. It’s also well designed, especially with heavy persons in mind. The larger, sturdy platform will give you super-accurate readings, footing, and balance.

Pros:

  • 30-year warranty
  • Suitable to anybody-sized
  • Easy to read weight display
  • It talks only if you want it
  • Different standards of measurements

Cons:

  • Six to seven seconds delay in readings
  • Every little feature

6. Best on a budget: Etekcity ESF24 Smart Bluetooth Fitness Scale

The Etekcity ESF24 was the least expensive model we review and the only one to offer unlimited users. This model is worthwhile for fitness fans who want to keep an eye on info about body measurements. It handles up to 400lb, is made of 6mm tempered glass, and utilizes bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) to calculate 13 body composition data, including weight, BMI, and body fat.

Unlike the Etekcity ESF37, the ESF24 also relies on a LED panel instead of an LCD. Their difference in design and the conductive metallic pieces are now differently placed. With compatibility with Fitbit, Apple Health, and Google Fit, users can view trends and evaluate multiple-sports data using iOS and Android smartphones.

The Etekcity ESF24 smart Bluetooth fitness scale seems to be decently made. For just $25, you get an in-depth analysis of your measurements, making other smart scales at this price range or higher obsolete.

Pros:

  • Easy setup and use
  • Accurate measurement
  • Extra-large & sturdy surface
  • Measures 13 different fitness values
  • Unlimited user profiles can be created.

Cons:

  • Not suitable for carpet
  • Bulky compare to most.

How we choose the best smart scales

We researched and went through numerous feedbacks, technical specs, and other retailers for this guide. We chose to review 6 top-rated, best-selling smart scales. After discovering more about this device, the intelligent Body+ Withings scales are our top-notch pick because they are highly accurate and provide a consistent weight measurement. But, if you have specific concerns or it is out of your budget, you can consider the Greater Goods Smart Body Composition WiFi Scale, a solid pick.

Consistency: A smart bathroom scale should provide consistent weight measurement because it’s more important than accuracy. Although smart scales wouldn’t give you accurate measurement as you’d find in a doctor’s office. So, we looked at measurements taken a day today and how well each smart scale handled added weights.

Bluetooth or Wi-Fi Capabilities:

There are two main types of smart scales, but we prefer the WiFi-enabled models to the Bluetooth scale. They are easier to use since Bluetooth has a limited range and requires your phone nearby to sync properly. We further noted every time an app failed to read or record weight on its connected scale.

User-friendly App experience: We checked out Android and iOS apps and just how nicely they tracked what’s on the screen of the scale and examined just how easy it is to use.

Smart compatibility: Are you looking for a gadget to simply calculate your weight, or do you need it to be compatible with Apple Health, Google Fit, the Fitbit app. We also consider IFTTT as a bonus feature, our top. It enables you to create customized automations, such as producing spreadsheets, sending email messages, and syncing calendars.

Privacy: We looked at how scales manage privacy within the app by reading through privacy policies and terms of use since they allow multiple users. Though, all the smart scales we review allows the individual user to choose whether to make their information visible to other users.

Features: Most smart scales measure more than just weight offering an assortment of measurements including body fat, body-mass index (BMI), water, muscle mass, and actually help monitor other fitness goals. Each scale offers various features, so if you’re only concerned with weight, you should stick to the basic models.

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