After Testing 23 Bathroom Scales, These 8 Impressed Us With Body Fat Analysis, Muscle Mass & More (2024)

No matter where you are on your health journey, a bathroom scale can provide useful data and help you keep track of your goals. Bathroom scales have improved greatly in recent years. Many smart scales are now equipped with multiple health insights, like comprehensive body fat analysis, body fat percentage, muscle mass, water weight, metabolic rate, and Bluetooth capabilities for your smartphone, to give you more data than just the number alone.

According to Deepti Agarwal, MD, of Case Integrative Health, healthy body weight can fluctuate daily and even hourly. She cautions against weighing yourself too often and being too rigid with the scale. However, having more data via a smart scale might help make tracking your health easier and more efficient.

To find the best bathroom scales, we tested 23 of the most popular scales on the market. We evaluated each scale based on setup, reading consistency, ease of use, display readability, and value. Throughout the entirety of our testing process, we made a mindful note to only continue with our evaluations in stable health and mind, stopping if the weighing process was triggering or causing any distress. A dietitianon our Medical Expert Board also reviewed this article for medical and scientific accuracy regarding what to look for in a bathroom scale, their accuracy, and who should avoid using one.

• Best Overall: FitIndex ES-26M Bluetooth Body Fat Scale
• Best with Bone Density Measuring: Withings Body + Body Composition Wi-Fi Scale
• Best Budget: Ozeri Precision Digital Bath Scale
• Easiest to Use: Greater Goods Digital Body Weight Bathroom Scale
• Best for BMI Measuring: Etekcity Body Weight Bathroom Digital Scale
• Best with Heart Rate Monitor: WYZE Smart Body Fat Scale
• Best for Goal Tracking: RENPHO Smart Body Fat Scale
• Easiest for Multiple Users: Etekcity ESF-551 Smart Fitness Scale

What to Know about Bathroom Scales

Many smart scales offer the ability to track more than just your weight. Depending on your goals and your personal needs, these additional smart features may or may not appeal to you, so consider what features you’d like while shopping.

• Body Composition Metrics: The smart scale tracks muscle mass, body fat percentage, water weight, bone mass, skeletal muscle, visceral fat, subcutaneous fat, BMI, and metabolic rate through an electric current you can't feel.
• Bluetooth and App Capabilities: Some scales pair with a phone app to deliver health data. Most apps can track weight over time and show trends. In addition to apps, you might want to consider connecting your scale data to other health apps and fitness trackers, such as your Apple Watch, Fitbit, or Google Fit.
• Multiple Users: Smart scales can create multiple user profiles, especially if using an app. Some scales can identify new users automatically and keep your health data separate without requiring you to do any extra work.
• Maximum Weight: Most scales on the market can read up to 400 pounds. If maximum weight is a limiting factor, be sure to know the scale's maximum capacity before you buy.
• Additional Features: Some scales can tell you heart rate, the weather forecast, or precisely measure infants and young children with tare buttons. Depending on your goals and your personal needs, these additional features may or may not appeal to you, so consider what features you’d like while shopping.

Why We Like It

With an almost perfect 5 across the board, the FITINDEX Bluetooth Body Fat Scale was a clear winner during our lab test. In addition to measuring your weight, this smart scale has Bluetooth capabilities that connect to a phone app and help you track even more health information.

The scale tracks body composition metrics like body fat, muscle mass, body water weight, bone mass, and even your metabolic rate. Experts agree that having more data helps you make better decisions about your health than just weight alone.

Knowing whether you’ve gained muscle mass versus fat versus water weight helps make sense of those daily and weekly fluctuations that can otherwise feel frustrating. Best of all, this scale’s wealth of information is offered in a user-friendly app. We loved all of the different health insights this scale provided. It stores your data so you can keep track of your health over time, and it is perfect for someone who really wants to watch their weight.

It’s Worth Noting

The scale can be quite sensitive.

Product Details:

• Number of Measurements: 13 body composition measurements
• Bluetooth Capable: Yes
• Maximum Weight: 396 pounds
• Maximum Number of Users: Unlimited
• Additional Features: Baby mode
• Syncs With: Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Google Fit

Why We Like It

If you’re looking for a scale that provides as much health data as possible, the Withings Body+ is just that. With the ability to track many metrics from water weight to bone density, this makes the Withings scale one of the more advanced [products] on the market.

The scale’s connected app offers additional features that help you set goals and see trends over time with your health metrics. The scale also offers a nutrition tracking feature that allows you to set your weight goal and manage your daily calorie budget, making it a one-stop shop for weight management.

The Withings Body+ features don’t stop there. It’s also compatible with over 100 top health and fitness apps, offers you the daily weather forecast to plan your outdoor workouts, and allows up to eight users to store their weight history.

It’s Worth Noting

The set-up process is more time-consuming than other products on the market.

Product Details:

• Number of Measurements: 13 body composition measurements
• Bluetooth Capable: Yes
• Maximum Weight: 396 pounds
• Maximum Number of Users: 8
• Syncs With: Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Google Fit
• Additional Features: Daily weather forecast, daily calorie management

Why We Like It

If you’re looking for a scale without the smart scale bells and whistles, look no further than the Ozeri precision bath scale. This classic scale offers a sleek, simple design in a classic model.It’s very easy to use, and you can stand on it without tipping at all. The reading was quick and almost perfectly accurate.

Step on the scale, and receive your reading immediately. There’s no need to tap the scale and wait for it to calibrate, as with many other scales. The scale has a convenient and user-friendly tare button to weigh objects, luggage, or children easily if needed.

It’s Worth Noting

The product does not provide additional features like body composition data.

Product Details:

• Number of Measurements: 1
• Bluetooth Capable: No
• Maximum Weight: 400 pounds
• Maximum Number of Users: Unlimited
• Syncs With: N/A
• Additional Features: N/A

Why We Like It

Once you receive it, this scale is easy to use straight out of the box. Its extra-large backlit display makes it easy to get the results you’re looking for right away.

While the Greater Goods Digital Bathroom Scale is straightforward without extra features, we loved its simplicity. It's straightforward, easy to use, and looks nice. We like the LED lighting. It's also lightweight and a good size (square) to fit into your bathroom.

It’s Worth Noting

The reading flashes when it’s displayed rather than giving a static number.

Product Details:

• Number of Measurements: 1
• Bluetooth Capable: No
• Maximum Weight: 400 pounds
• Maximum Number of Users: Unlimited
• Syncs With: N/A
• Additional Features: N/A
  

Why We Like It

If you’re interested in learning more about your health beyond a simple weight measurement, knowing your BMI can help. The Etekcity Smart Fitness Scale offers body composition measurements like BMI, muscle mass, and water weight. With 13 different body composition measurements, you will have a plethora of data to sort through no matter what information you need, all easily accessible from the connected app.

In addition to its own app, the scale also connects to health and fitness apps like Apple HealthKit, MyFitnessPal, and Fitbit so that you can sync everything in one place.

It’s also a great choice for families. Using baby mode, you can even track your little one’s growth and development by creating a separate profile to monitor their health. Plus, it’s eligible for purchase with HSA or FSA funds.

It’s Worth Noting

The red analog weight contrasted with the black scale wasn’t easily visible, but its app makes it easy to find data.

Product Details:

• Number of Measurements: 13 body composition measurements
• Bluetooth Capable: Yes
• Maximum Weight: 400 pounds
• Maximum Number of Users: Unlimited
• Syncs With: Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Google Fit
• Additional Features: Baby mode

Why We Like It

This smart scale offers body composition analysis with 12 metrics. It also tracks your heart rate via its smart scale heart rate monitor. Use the app to see trends over time and sync your scale data with other health and fitness apps to keep track of your goals.

Its LED display is easy to read for immediate results on the scale, but the app offers plenty more data. You can share your scale with unlimited users and create eight different profiles in the app; the scale also recognizes different users automatically.

It’s Worth Noting

One of the scale’s few flaws was the app's initial setup. We would also make the app a little easier to set up (it sends you through several prompts before you can get to the home screen).

Product Details:

• Number of Measurements: 12 body composition measurements
• Bluetooth Capable: Bluetooth capabilities to phone app
• Maximum Weight: 400 pounds
• Maximum Number of Users: Unlimited users
• Syncs With: Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Google Fit
• Additional Features: Heart rate monitor
  

Why We Like It

An easy way to keep track of your weight goals is with a scale that gives you not only plenty of information but also a place to set and track goals. The RENPHO Smart Scale tracks 13 body composition points in its app, but it also allows you to add weight and body fat goals and offers insight into how close you are to hitting them.

We loved this scale and its health-tracking features. With 13 body composition measurements, you get a full picture of your health. If you’re looking for even more insight, RENPHO makes a smart measuring tape that connects to their app to track your progress further.

This scale connects to top health and fitness apps and other smart devices like the Apple Watch. The app tracks more than just weight—it also calculates BMI, muscle mass, water weight, and even metabolic age.

It’s Worth Noting

The scale can tip easily due to the location of the feet underneath the product.

Product Details:

• Number of Measurements: 13 body composition measurements
• Bluetooth Capable: Yes
• Maximum Weight: 400 pounds
• Maximum Number of Users: Unlimited
• Syncs With: Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Google Fit
• Additional Features: Baby mode

Why We Like It

Etekcity’s ESF-551 Smart Fitness Scale is an amazing scale at an even better price point. When we tested this scale, we were pleasantly surprised at how easy-to-use it was, but also how it was practically ready to use right out of the box. The app was very user friendly and made it super easy (and exciting) to use with our smart devices. It’s for this reason we believe this scale is the best smart bathroom scale.

Eternity's ESF-551 Smart Fitness Scale is a smart scale that uses four smart sensors to accurately and precisely weigh you. We tested out how precise it was by weighing a 20 pound dumbbell and it weighed in exactly at that number, if not only a half pound over. It hosts unlimited users, is compatible with other fitness apps, and has baby and zero-current mode to protect pregnant people and people with pacemakers. It also utilizes BIA technology, which is 4 electrodes that send a small electric current through the lower half of your body which gives you a detailed biometric analysis on the VeSync app. The physical scale has rounded corners and anti-skid padding for extra security.

We felt the LCD display was super clear and easy-to-read. We feel that this scale is more than worth the price, especially given all the features, high user accessibility, and how simple the setup was. It made tracking our statistics incredibly easy, which made taking care of our health even easier.

It’s Worth Noting

While you can have unlimited users, you may have to program the users on different phones.

Product Details:

• Number of Measurements: 13 biometric measurements
• Bluetooth Capable:Yes
• Maximum Weight: 400 pounds
• Maximum Number of Users: Unlimited
• Syncs With: Fitbit, Google Fit, Apple Health and Samsung Health
• Additional Features: Baby Mode, Zero Current Mode

To determine the best bathroom scales, we tested 23 of the most popular scales on the market. We tested our two different scales for a month, weighing ourselves once daily. We evaluated each scale based on setup, reading consistency, ease of use, display readability, and durability. Throughout the entire testing process, we made a mindful note to only continue with our evaluations in stable health and mind, stopping if the weighing process was triggering or causing any distress.

• Accuracy: To begin the test, the team was weighed by a nurse practitioner supervising the test to see how accurate each scale was. We tested the precision of the scale by weighing another object (such as a 20-pound dumbbell) first. Every time we weighed ourselves, we did so first thing in the morning before eating and drinking, making note of the results every single day.
• Ease of use: We also used any accompanying apps on our phones and smart devices, noting if the app needed to be recalibrated every time we used it, if any other usage instructions needed to be repeated for each use (e.g., tapping the foot on the scale before use, etc.), and how many profiles you can store on the app for different users.
• Data Readability: We also checked if it tracks data over time and helps you understand what the data means. We also used dumbbells while on each scale to see how well the scales measured changes in weight.
• Durability: We also tested the scales for durability in a drop test, dropping a nine-pound toiletry bag onto each scale and then looking for any damage.

Our Experts

To help us come up with this list, we consulted the following expert:

• Deepti Agarwal, MD, Director of Interventional and Integrative Pain Management at Case Integrative Health in Chicago, Illinois.

Medical-grade scales that offer bioelectric impedance are more accurate in assessing body composition than home scales. However, DEXA scans are the gold standard for body composition analysis and bone density, according to a 2021 observational study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. If your focus is currently on building lean muscle mass, it’s important to understand how this impacts your scale weight.

More Bathroom Scales to Consider

While these scales didn't fully meet our expectations, they may still interest you.

• iDOO High Precision Digital Bathroom Weight Scale: Although the scale is simple and quick, with no calibration required, our testers felt it was hard to read due to the flashing display on the blue background. It was difficult to capture the reading efficiently, so it didn’t make our final list.
• EatSmart Precision 550 Bathroom Scale: While this scale is no-frills and easy to use, we felt it was more appropriate for someone who only weighs in occasionally and isn’t trying to track their weight or health metrics regularly. The surface does retain footprints easily, and there’s no app to connect to for long-term tracking.
• Fitbit Aria Air: This high-quality smart scale has many of the same features as similar products, but you must be a member of Fitbit Premium to access the app and receive your comprehensive health data.
  

Caroline Thomason is a Registered Dietitian and nutrition expert. She has a complex understanding of personal scales and what consumers seek from speaking to doctors, patients, and other dietitians.