Body Comp

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 previously owned an earlier model of the Withings scale and had some issues with maintaining wireless connectivity and accurate weighing, but I always liked that Withings synced with Apple Health and my wearables. Happy to report that this new model works flawlessly and accurately every time. The time to step on the scale and sync to my personal profile and report my weight, body composition, and even the weather for the day is extremely fast and part of my regular wake-up routine. It also still works very well in my digital ecosystem of health tracking.

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.

I got this to replace an aging fitbit scale that stopped working. In terms of features, it's leaps ahead of my previous scale. Where it slightly falls short, is its reliability. It gathers a lot more metrics than the fitbit did which I'm a big fan of (it's why I picked this model after all), but at least half the time, after waiting for it to take all its measurements, I get a red flashing X, and it tells me it failed to determine my heart rate, or whatever. I step off, and back on, to go through it again, and most the time, it gets it on the second try. The app is pretty decent, and syncs with Apple health, which I like. My only complaint with it is that it bombards me with constant notifications (mostly repetitive 'badges' for achievements I've already recieved). Adding a second user was more complicated than it seemed. The account was created easy enough, and it recognized the other user at weigh in time, but it just wouldn't sync to the app. After around a week, it just started working. Occasionally syncing fails for that user, and the metrics seem to take until the next weigh the next day to sync both days. Complaints aside, I'm happy with it, and I'd buy it again if I had to replace it. I'm hopeful that future firmware/app updates will fix the minor annoyances.

Set up was a breeze. Every morning I step on onto it. It does all the things that it does and I push it back under the sink. I go make my morning coffee and sit down and review the readings on my phone. The only way to make positive changes in your life is to have accurate data and this scale does just that. I ran all of the smart scales through my AI agent that has all of my personal health data and this is the one it picked and I couldn’t be happier.

This is the BEST scale I have EVER owned! It was so easy to set up and it gives you so much health information and connected to the WiFi and my Iwatch so easy!

Great scales. Does what a scale should and much more.

CAUTION! BEWARE! Withings will hold your account and data hostage, with No support. At setup they required me to add Microsoft Authenticator to setup my account to use my scale.. Yeah it’s not your bank info, it’s a scale…. When I changed cell phones, unlike a normal provider they are unable to help me resolve Authenticator and login issue. I know my ID and password but because it’s a new phone Authenticator needed to be setup again for their app and they will not help. I am locked out of my scale (again not a bank account or my corporate account), because I bought a new phone... No tech support to call to fix it. Just slow emails. AND in their “concerns of my privacy” they want way more information for me to send them and include a video explaining the situation, providing them with more information than they have about me! Even when I tell them to delete all of my health info from the scale, I still cannot get anywhere via their email every few days. So, they keep my personal data, will not delete it, and will not let me back into my account so it will sync with my apps. Expensive scale now useless because they have implemented security measures they are incapable of supporting. Nice scale that seems to do the basics fine. BUT over inflated sense of security they aren’t able to support like a normal experience we all have with our banks and corporations. You’ve been warned!