Withings Body Smart Review: A Connected Scale For the Masses
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Withing’s Wi-Fi-connected Body Smart scale is so smart it can even hide your weight from you—if you want it to. The “Eyes Closed” feature is meant to help you work towards a weight goal, and make it easier to fight through setbacks. It’s just one of the features that make this scale great.

I like devices that are not locked into an OS ecosystem (Apple, I’m looking at you!) and although I already have a Fitbit Aria scale, it gets thrown out when my wife stands on the scale with a pet, to get the pet’s weight (you weigh yourself, hold the pet, and then work out the difference). Having a built-in pet/baby mode is actually really useful.

But Withings also has some other interesting features like Eyes-Closed mode, Athlete mode, Pregnancy mode, etc apart from all the usual smart scale measurement features. And of course it will sync to Apple and Google/Samsung Health, and Strava or MyFitnessPal.

Thankfully the Withings+ subscription is not needed for any of the above functionality, so I may seriously consider buying this scale.

See the review at https://www.howtogeek.com/894214/withings-body-smart-review/

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  • MangoPenguinEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m not a fan of buying hardware that relies on some third party service that could either shut down, or decide to charge for usage at any time. The hardware looks nice though.

    • GadgeteerZA@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes true. My existing Aria scale does at least show weight without any app or connectivity. But it is not showing the more advanced features without the connectivity.