Withings scales: the best smart impedance meters for 2025

Withings scale is an object dedicated to health capable of measuring your BMI, body mass or even fat. Here are our buying tips and reviews on the best smart bathroom scales.

We updated our buying guide on 07/31/2023. Our comparison hasn’t changed this month, but we’ll obviously keep this guide up to date based on what’s new on the market.

The Withings Body is the intermediate scale of the French brand, but it is already well supplied for most users. It is able to measure BMI, muscle mass, water and even bone. A progress curve with your last 8 weighings is displayed on the screen with a small smiley for the day’s weather. The scale can store up to 8 users and supports a maximum weight of 180 kg. Connected via Wi-Fi, it can send its information directly to the Withings Cloud. These are then recoverable on your smartphone or tablet, which is very practical. There is a mode for athletes, pregnant women and newborns.

The Withings Body + connected scale measures your weight by bioelectrical impedance. This method, well known to health specialists and dieticians, is now accessible to all. By sending very weak electrical currents through your body, this allows resistance to certain tissues to be measured in order to determine the amount of water and fat present. With this information and its precise measurement to a tenth of a kilo, the Withings Body + is able, via a health application, to offer you a tailored nutritional program. This will never replace expert advice, but it should still bring good results without difficulty.

In terms of technical characteristics, the Withings Body + is able to measure weight from 5 kg to 180 kg and has a specific mode for pregnant women and babies. The announced autonomy is 18 months and up to 8 different people can be followed by the system.

Do you want an ultra complete scale? This is the Withings Body Cardio. It does the same thing as the Body + but is additionally capable of measuring your PWV (pulse wave velocity). An unusual and interesting feature for people prone to hypertension. As with the brand’s other products, information is displayed on the scale’s small LCD screen and is also available within the Health Mate app. 8 users can use it and there is a pregnancy and athlete monitoring. Finally, the scale is rechargeable and can support up to 180 kg

We all have our little rituals after waking up. If some are quick to start their coffee maker, others will take the morning weigh-in to find out if they have gained weight … or not. With connected scales, it is now easier to follow the evolution of your weight and at the same time know other data about your body: BMI, muscle mass, bone, fat or even heart rate. All this information collected can then be retrieved on your smartphone and used to set up a diet, for example, or tell you if you are in good health.

Obviously, not all connected scales offer the same features: some will just go to the basics – and suit a public who does not ask for more. Others will make it possible to analyze a lot of things in order to satisfy a more demanding target such as athletes, or even people curious to know their basal metabolism. To help you choose your connected scale, we have prepared this guide for you with purchasing advice.

For 15 dollars more than a basic scale, it is already possible to find correct connected scales that will allow you to follow the evolution of your weight and to obtain some basic information on your metabolism. For simple monitoring, you don’t have to invest a lot of money. Conversely, if you are an athlete or in the process of a serious diet, it may be interesting to look into specific features such as the calculation of BMI, body mass gain or fat. Some machines can even provide sports advice. Another point to take into account: are you alone or with your family? Indeed, some smart scales can keep a limited number of users in memory – or not at all.

Most of the time, connected scales are able to store a few weighings in memory. The best is all the same to be able to follow its evolution from a smartphone or a computer. The most convenient and secure synchronization is by Wi-Fi, but it is also possible that the scale only offers Bluetooth. This means always having your smartphone close to you with Bluetooth enabled, which is (a bit) restrictive.

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