5 Best Smart Scales (2025), Tested and Reviewed

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Renpho MorphoScan for $160: The Renpho MorphoScan full-body scanner looks amazingly akin to nan Runstar FG2015, including a near-identical show attached to nan handlebars. Well, spoiler alert, they are fundamentally nan aforesaid scale. They moreover usage nan aforesaid app to cod information (and you tin moreover usage some scales simultaneously pinch it). The only logic this standard isn’t our apical prime for nan class is that it’s $25 much expensive. You tin remainder assured that a value warfare is looming.

Xiaomi Mi Body Scale 2 for $80: While I’m flattered that this standard awarded maine pinch a “body age” a afloat 19 years younger than my chronological age, there’s possibly thing near to beryllium desired successful its algorithmic rigor. This Bluetooth-only instrumentality doesn’t precisely break caller ground, offering a basal postulation of metrics for considerably much of an outlay than different entry-level options.

Hume Health Body Pod for $229: Hume Health’s Body Pod, different full-body scanner pinch handles, is heavy advertised—at slightest to nan apps connected my phone—and touted (by Hume) arsenic nan Next Big Thing successful nan world of assemblage management. While nan app is so glossy and inviting, I was shocked to observe really flimsy nan hardware felt, that it lacked Wi-Fi, and that immoderate features are locked down a $100-a-year Hume Plus subscription plan. It useful good enough, but you tin get results that are conscionable arsenic bully pinch a cheaper device.

Garmin Index S2 for $150: Four years aft its release, nan Index S2 is still Garmin’s existent model, a astonishment for a institution different obsessed pinch fitness. It’s still noteworthy for its beautiful colour display, which walks you done its six assemblage metrics (for up to 16 users) pinch each weigh-in. The show besides provides your weight inclination complete clip successful graphical shape and tin moreover show nan weather. The standard connects straight to Wi-Fi and Garmin’s cloud-based retention system, truthful you don’t request a telephone adjacent to way your advancement arsenic pinch Bluetooth-only scales. A telephone moving nan Garmin Connect app (Android, iOS) is handy, truthful you tin support way of everything complete time. Unfortunately, arsenic wellness apps go, Connect is simply a spot of a bear, truthful expect a learning curve—especially if you want to make changes to nan measurement nan standard works. You tin move its various LCD-screen widgets connected aliases disconnected successful nan app, but uncovering everything tin beryllium difficult owed to nan daunting scope of nan Garmin ecosystem. The colour surface is bully astatine first but yet adds small to nan package.

Omron BCM-500 for $86: With its ample LCD panel, quartet of onboard buttons, and oversize metallic electrodes, nan Omron BCM-500 is an eye-catching masterwork of brutalist design. If your bath is decked retired successful actual and wrought iron, this standard will fresh correct in. The Bluetooth portion syncs pinch Omron’s HeartAdvisor app (Android, iOS), but it provides each six of its assemblage metrics straight connected nan scale, cycling done them pinch each weigh-in (for up to 4 users). It tin beryllium difficult to publication nan explanation for each of nan information points, successful portion because nan LCD isn’t backlit, but nan app is somewhat easier to follow, offering front-page graphs of weight, skeletal muscle, and assemblage fat. On nan different hand, nan position is alternatively clinical, and nan app is amazingly slow to sync. For a standard without a Wi-Fi connection, it’s alternatively costly too.

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