Wyze Smart Scale X - Digital Bathroom Scale for Body Weight, BMI, Body Fat, Muscle Mass, Heart Rate Monitor | Sync with Health Apps | Body Composition Analyzer for People, Baby & Pet, 400 lbs (Black)

Dateline: A Tiled Room, Under the Unforgiving Glare of a Single Bulb. There is no greater moment of truth, no more savage and immediate confrontation with the consequences of your own life choices, than the moment you step onto a bathroom scale. It is a stark, numerical judgment. For years, this was a simple, analog affair—a twitching needle, a spinning dial, a single, damning number. But we live in a different age now. An age of data. An age of cold, hard metrics. An age of the Wyze Smart Scale.This is not a scale. This is a data-harvesting platform disguised as a sleek, minimalist slab of glass. It sits there on the floor, unassuming, almost benign. And it is cheap. So cheap, in fact, that it feels like a trick. For the price of a few sad, airport-bar cocktails, you get a device that promises to read not just your weight, but your very composition.The ritual is simple. You step on. The numbers on the bright, digital display dance for a moment, and then settle on your weight. But that’s just the opening act. The real show is happening behind the scenes. A tiny, imperceptible electrical current is taking a high-speed tour of your mortal form, gathering intelligence. A moment later, your phone buzzes. The dossier has arrived.You open the Wyze app, and there it is. A full-blown intelligence report on the state of your own flesh. Body fat percentage, muscle mass, bone density, BMI, a whole suite of brutally honest metrics that leave no room for self-delusion. It’s like having a tiny, scarily accurate lab technician living in your bathroom, sending you daily reports.And the app… the app is fantastic. It doesn't just give you the numbers; it charts them. It turns the savage, day-to-day fluctuations of your physical being into elegant, easy-to-read graphs. You can see the slow, grinding progress of a new fitness regimen or the immediate, catastrophic impact of a holiday weekend. It is a relentless, unflinching chronicler of your journey, a brutally honest historian for your own body.You’d think a device this connected, this… aware… would be a thirsty beast, constantly demanding new batteries. But it is not. The thing runs for what feels like an eternity on a single set of AAAs, a testament to some kind of low-energy voodoo that defies explanation. It just sits there, patiently waiting for its next data point, its next chance to tell you the unvarnished truth.The Wyze Smart Scale is a phenomenal piece of gear for an almost laughable price. It’s a reliable, frighteningly insightful, and absurdly affordable tool for anyone who has decided to stop lying to themselves. It’s a brutally honest friend who lives on your bathroom floor, and for those brave enough to listen, it has some very interesting stories to tell.

SO easy to sync to the app, and so easy to use. It looks fabulous and slips easily right under my bed to pull out for a weekly weight check. I love that it keeps track of the data for me on my fitness/health journey, so I can reflect on how far I’ve come. It tracks weight, body fat and muscle mass percentages. So helpful. Definitely worth it.

I’ve been using the Wyse scale for four months and love it compared to the Withings scale it replaced. This scale is easy to use; just open the app, tap the scale and step on it. It works great for family members because it connects to the app when using it unlike the Withings.It also has a pet and baby mode to track their weight. I’m using it for our new puppy. The app also gives you other data and history which tracks your progress over time. For the money it’s a great product.

The scale itself seems excellent to me. The app for it, on the other hand, from my experience was extremely frustrating to set up. The plus is that it lets you set your own target weight, so it's not insisting on you being anorexic and can actually understand if you're looking to gain weight instead of lose weight. The app really does have a lot of room for improvement though, and that's the only reason why it lost a star. I'm about to explore Google Fit which apparently can work in place of that app if you sync them up and grant the permissions and whatnot. I'll be giving that a shot tomorrow morning, I'm in the habit of weighing myself first thing in the morning.

My plain, simple digital bathroom scale was over 20 years old. It did not have replaceable battery but the one it came with LASTED OVER 20 YEARS of moderate use by one person. When it finally gave out, against the warning on the back, I drool it apart and tried replacing the button battery with a new one (the same battery) but it didn’t bring the scale back to life.So I started searching for a new bathroom scale, which is way more difficult than I thought it would be! The brick-and-mortar stores around me had limited models and after checking their product reviews found all had a number of reviews saying they had quit working after a few months to a year.I even looked at a number of “best bathroom scales 2023” lists from general internet searches. Looking at the most frequently listed models on Amazon, thorough price/value evaluatiion (from reviews) led me to choose the Wyze Scale X, black version.It arrived in perfect condition and after reading the instructions, was easy to set up.I honestly did <not> want internet connectivity from a bathroom scale, but you don’t have to set up or use those functions for it to work correctly.It is sensitive to small changes (testing by weighing with/without clothes on) and though I have no other home bathroom scale to objectively compare values with, it does give me weight values that seem realistic and look correct AFAIK.It also will return a body fat composition score if you weigh in bare feet (as suggested) and stay on the scale after the initial weight is displayed, nbut I don’t care what the score is so I just get off once I get my weight. (I’m not a bodybuilder or health enthusiast to the point where a precise measurement of body fat means anything; who can’t already tell if they consider themself over-fat or not? I can. Lol)Size; large and heavy enough to feel secure when I get in and off.Easy of reading; great, an improvement over my old scale.The only downside I can found is that the glass-like surface shows dust and water spots easily. Maybe it is real glass, I’m not sure, but because the edges are exposed I try to be very careful to not hit it against anything hard when I move or clean it.I have started putting it in a bathroom cabinet , horizontally, when not in use. I think it can be stored vertically, which would save some space, but I suspect that might mess with the balance of the weight measuring components over time, idk.It was low/mid priced vs the competition, but I am too thrifty to consider it a disposable item that I’m willing to replace regularly, so I am trying to take good care of it if the care required is not too time/effort intensive.The battery is easily replaceable.And I am still thinking about how to get the 20 yr old scale operational again, in case this new one does crap out sooner than I’d like. There is one small board in it, connected to a few sensors under the outer deck. I scoured the internet looking for info on how to repair it, but the model is long discontinued and the entire product line has been sold to another mfg who doesn’t list it in their support area. I have engineers at my work that may be willing and able to diagnose and fix something, so that’s my next step when I get around to it.The obvious trend towards cheaper (in $ and in quality) components and finished products serves no one well IMHO and I do like to support good manufacturing when I find it.I hope the Wyze Scale X stands up to the test of time.(BTW, I am a buyer for a small US mechanical device manufacturer, and I understand that the cost of components and the finished goods are very important, but I am proud to say my company values reflect quality over cost and I’m glad they are so far successful despite the “race to the bottom” direction most competitors seem to choose. Go USA manufacturing!)