Best smart scales to improve your fitness

The Body Comp is the mid-price option in Withings’ newest range. That being said, it’s expensive when compared to other brands. Still, it provides a huge breadth of information–more than any scale currently available apart from the Withings Body Scan. You can track your weight, muscle, fat and bone mass percentage, your lean mass and water mass, visceral fat index and BMI (body mass index, a measurement of body fat based on your height and weight). This scale provides more heart health information than any other brand as well, with measurements of heart rate, vascular age, and a pulse wave velocity reading that evaluates arterial stiffness.

Withings also throws in a nerve health score, measured via the sweat glands on your feet, which could deliver useful information for those diagnosed with diabetics, among others.

In addition to measurement tracking, the Withings app offerrs additional information to help you to interpret results. The scale itself is one of the largest available (measuring 12.8 x 12.8 inches), so it’s a good option for bigger people. It connects via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Our one gripe, apart from its price tag, is that it doesn’t include the option of USB charging. That said, it comes with batteries that should last for 15 months with a daily weigh-in.

This budget-friendly Wyze scale offers 13 measurements, from such basics as weight and body fat percentage, to heart rate, a feature that many lower-priced scales lack. It calculates your heart rate using the camera lens on your smartphone, however, not from just standing on the scale.

It’s a good option for people who are trying to eat well, as it calculates your basal metabolic rate, which will give you an idea of the number of calories to consume each day to stay at the same weight, lose weight, or gain.

Unlike the Withings app, however, the Wyze app is pretty bare bones. There’s no additional information on how to interpret results or eat or exercise to improve your health.

The Wyze X measures 11.8 x 11.8 inches, making it a mid-size option. It’s not as large as Withings scales, but it’s bigger than other budget models. It has a large, 3.5 inch monochrome display, but it only displays weight and body fat percentage. It connects to the app via Bluetooth. There’s no Wi-Fi option, which means taking your phone into the bathroom with you when you go to weigh yourself. But for people with a poor Wi-Fi connection where they keep their scale, this could be an advantage.

A solar charging panel is one of the Renpho Elis’ best features. And it doesn’t need to sit in sunlight to charge–it can harvest energy from an electric light. This make it a great option for people who might want a scale for specific periods of training, after which it’ll be stored for a while.

The scale measures weight, BMI, body fat, fat free body weight, subcutaneous fat, visceral fat, body water, skeletal muscle, muscle mass, bone mass, protein, BMR, and metabolic age. That’s a comprehensive list.

The app experience, on the other hand, is pared-back. You’ll only be able to see trends of your weight, BMI and body fat, but the good news is that all your data is exportable to a large number of other apps and platforms. That said, the process is simpler with some than others. We also found that the evaluations that come alongside in-app measurements (underweight, obese, high, low, etc.) could be inaccurate and worrying.

At 11 x 11 inches, the scale itself is on the smaller side, and only displays your weight onscreen. It connects via Bluetooth only.

The Eufy P2 Pro is a great all-rounder, delivering 16 body measurements, including weight, body fat mass, visceral fat, subcutaneous fat percentage, bone mass, skeletal muscle mass, protein percentage, water content, Body Mass Index (BMI), and heart rate. It’ll also give you a body age, calculated from the other measurements and, via a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), will let you know how many calories you expend in a day, before exercise.

You’ll see your weight, heart rate, and fat content on the scale’s monochrome 2.9-inch screen. Eufy’s app will report the rest of your data, with an editable image of a figure with dimensions based on your measurements. You’ll find an evaluation alongside your measurements, which will help you to interpret the numbers. You can then set goals to work towards.

The scale itself is smaller than the Withings at 11 x 11 inches, but it can be used by people weighing up to 400 pounds. Altogether, this mid-priced scale is a solid choice: It doesn’t require a huge investment, but will deliver a lot in return.

If you’ve decided that you want to improve your health or lose weight but don’t know where to start, you might want to invest in this scale from Yunmai, a Xiaomi company. It does all the basics and it does them well.

The Yunmai Smart Scale 3 delivers 13 measurements: weight, BMI, body fat percentage, skeletal muscle mass, water, protein, visceral fat index, bone mass, BMR, biological age, fat weight, body fat mass index, and fat-free mass. If your focus is on weight loss, this will give you plenty of information to go on. Just bear in mind that you won’t get any heart health measurements.

On the scale itself, you’ll see your weight and body fat percentage, the rest of the measurements will be sent to the app via Bluetooth. The app is simple, straightforward and easy to use. You can set a body weight goal and, instead of using critical labels to evaluate measurements, it uses red and green zones, which may be less off-putting. You’ll only get trends for weight and body fat percentage though, so it isn’t a good option for people who want to track increases in muscle mass, for example.

It’s a little bit larger than some other budget models at 11.8 x 11.8 inches and it weighs accurately up to 330 pounds. It charges via USB-C, which means there’s no need to buy batteries.