3 of the best smart scales
Withings Body Comp
Withings makes simple and stylish smartwatches that don’t look like smartwatches, high precision thermometers and sleep trackers that never need to touch your body. It also makes smart scales and clearly simple weigh-ins aren’t enough for Withings based on what the Body Comp is capable of.
It’s putting sensors underneath your feet that along with grabbing stats like visceral fat, water and muscle mass, will also make assessments about your cardiovascular health. It can capture insights about your standing heart rate and vascular age to help you understand just how healthy the most important organ in your body is and whether there’s cause for concern.
Withings isn’t done with the insights there either. It also wants to capture data from the nerves in your feet with the view that it could help detect signs that might indicate a chronic condition, by giving you a simple nerve health score.
Withings includes a six-lead ECG sensor using a more accurate method of dishing out heart rate data than the more common optical heart rate sensors typically used on smartwatches and fitness watches to reduce the chances of inaccurate data.
That data is synced and stored away in the very slick Withings companion phone app where you can keep the plentiful health and weight stats for up to eight users and will know when a different person steps up to weigh in. As well as an athlete mode to track gains, Withings includes a Baby Mode letting you weigh your baby by holding them in your arms. Just make sure you’ve created a profile and added in their height and estimated weight first.
You can level up on the app to Withings+ status and that will do a better job of taking your measurements and putting them to more actionable use to help you make lifestyle and behaviour changes and hopefully build a healthier you.
Once these smart scales are wirelessly connected to your phone it will also pull through weight-free information as well, including outdoor air quality data to help you decide whether you really should venture out day or maybe keep out of the smog. And when it’s streamed off your stats post-measurement on the large display, it’ll also show you the day’s weather forecast, giving you one less reason to check your phone. It’s fair to say this is very much your smarter than average smart scale.
Alternatively…
Salter Smart Digital Bathroom Scale
Salter’s big expertise mainly lies in the kitchen, but its Bluetooth smart scale is well equipped to handle weigh-ins elsewhere in the house. It can store weight stats like BMI and Body mass for up to 8 users and display it on a large backlit LCD screen. There’s dedicated athlete and baby weighing modes and a new companion app to keep an eye on your good and bad weighing days.
Renpho Elis Aspire Smart Body Scale
Renpho offers up 13 different body measurements including more advanced ones like visceral age and metabolic age, and lets you update stats to its companion app either over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi without having to boot up the app. The battery-powered scale comes in black and white looks and does let you sync data to other platforms including Apple Health and Fitbit to keep all of your tracking data in one place.
Eufy Smart Scale P2 Pro
This feature-packed connected scale can take 16 different measurements including capturing resting heart rate and telling you your body age and body type. It’ll create a virtual U-Body 3D model to see how your body is changing on your health and fitness journey. Eufy offers Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity for syncing and pairing to its own app or third party apps letting you share the data love across platforms.
Huawei Scale 3
Huawei lets you step up onto a sleek, white scale that can take eleven measurements from a design that’s been built to withstand high and low operating temperatures or even being dropped to the ground. You can chart your changes in weight, BMI or body weight percentage from the Huawei Health companion phone app where you’ll also be offered some guidance on what you can do to stay on that healthier path.
Now add these…
MyFitnessPal
Free (premium subscription available), myfitnesspal.com
The app to log the food that will shape those scale measurements, MyFitnessPal lets you scan barcodes, will remember meals and has a 14 million strong foods catalogue if you’re worried your creative breakfasts can’t be covered.
Shakesphere protein shaker bottle
Shakesphere protein shaker bottle, £55, shakesphereuk.com
A fitting vessel for a pro-workout protein hit, this shaker is built so powders don’t get stuck when it’s time to clean it. It can even blend soft fruit and keep soup hot in thermos flask mode.
Proscenic T31 digital air fryer oven
£149, amazon.com
Proscenic’s air fryer can serve up healthier chicken, chips and veg with an LED touchscreen baked in for easy control and Amazon Alexa integration to let you get that cooking process started via
Rachael Sharpe
Commissioning Editor, Stuff magazine 
