4 Best Bathroom Scales
Stepping on the bathroom scale is not always a happy experience. Before taking a step, you may feel anxious, scared, or hopeful. Regardless if you are monitoring your weight, trying to tone up, or preparing for a marathon, these modern bathroom scales can help you see your progress. You can connect all of these using your smartphone.
1. Withings Body
Type: Digital
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity: Yes
Battery: Comes with 4 standard AAA batteries
Measures BMI: Yes
Measures Body Fat: Yes
Nokia ventured into the health industry by getting Withings. This line is one of the company’s pioneer brands. When you use this bathroom scale, you can check the amount of fat percentage you have and monitor your weight and BMI. Moreover, it can visually provide you a weather report. You can also monitor your bone and muscle mass and the water composition of your body. What impressed us with this bathroom scale is the battery life since it can last for 1 ½ years. It is also a breeze to connect to your smartphones or tablets.
One of the best features of this bathroom scale is the Health Mate app by Nokia. The awesome app is well-made and well-designed. You can see your vital statistics easily from the dashboard. Moreover, we love the Activity Alerts since it gives reminders of all the activities, such as stepping on the scale after taking a short walk or having a quick snack. There are also many programs you can try, such as its 5-day healthier program, sleep smarter mode, and pregnancy monitoring. The sleeping program utilizes information from the Sleep Sensor feature of Nokia to help users have a better sleep.
2. Fitbit Aria 2
Type: Digital
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity: Yes
Battery: Comes with 3 standard AAA batteries
Measures BMI: Yes
Measures Body Fat: Yes
Setting this Fitbit Aria 2 bathroom scale is smooth because it utilizes its wifi hotspot. It monitors the weight, fat percentage, and BMI of 8 different users. You can also upload and access this data from your Fitbit account. This bathroom scale stands out because of the numerous Fitbit products you can match and upload in the app.
It is also a great accent in your room because of the bright display that shows a lot of information. You have to wait for the data to be analyzed, so it cannot upload all of it fast in the app. However, the data accuracy is outstanding. Since the connection is through wifi and not Bluetooth, you do not need to bring your smartphone when using the scale all the time.
If you have a Fitbit product, the Aria 2 bathroom scale can complement it. That is because you will have a better understanding of your fitness goals so that you can achieve them more easily. You can also access many tips and videos to help you exercise and increase your motivation. Lastly, you can be part of one of the biggest fitness communities since there are millions of Fitbit users.
3. Tanita RD-953
Type: Digital
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity: Bluetooth
Battery: 4 AA batteries needed
Measures BMI: Yes
Measures Body Fat: Yes
This Tanita bathroom scale is considered one of the most comprehensive smart bathroom scales. Therefore, you can expect a lot of features from it. It can record up to 10 different body measurements such as weight, BMI, and fat percentage. It can also record BMR or basal metabolic rate, which is the energy you use every day when your body is at rest. You can also monitor your bone mass, muscle mass, and visceral fat. It can ever rate your body.
Although terrifying, it has an impressive feature of listing the statistics of an average person aiming to cut off a few kilos. Put simply; this bathroom scale is for people who want to have precise information on their overall health. This scale is expensive, so it is not highly recommended for those who have just started monitoring their health. Bluetooth connectivity is used to transfer data. Though it may take a while to transfer, the data you will get is correct and reliable.
It might be the first time you have heard Tanita. However, it has been in the health industry for a long period. The company is a leader in being accurate. Compared to Nokia or Fitbit that has an app that is easy to navigate, My Tanita App is not intuitive. Even though you can get a lot of health information from the display, we think that there could be more explanation on how we can utilize the data.
4. Qardiobase 2
Type: Digital
Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity: Yes
Battery: Lithium battery
Measures BMI: Yes
Measures Body Fat: Yes
This Qardiobase 2-bathroom scale is cute, smart, and stylish. You can choose from white glass or black. Therefore, the design is not intimidating. You can access data from its big LCD screen. From there, you can see your weight, fat percentage, water composition, BMI, and muscle and bone mass.
You can connect it to your Apple Homekit data easily and share the data in Map My Fitness applications. It is highly recommended for people who monitor their calorie intake and runners. The bathroom scale also offers health tracking such as ECG and blood pressure monitoring. When you step on it, you can feel a slight vibration. This only means that your data is being gathered. Another great thing about it is the batteries are rechargeable. That means you do not need to use a lot of batteries.
