4 Best Smart Scales (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Other Smart Scales

Renfo MorphoScan
Photograph: Chris Null

Renfo MorphoScan for $150: The Renfo MorphoScan full-body scanner looks surprisingly similar to the Runstar FG2015, including an almost identical display attached to the handlebar. Well, spoiler alert, they’re basically the same scale. They also use the same app to collect data (and you can even use both scales together with it). The only reason this scale isn’t our top choice for this category is that it’s $15 more expensive. You can be sure that a price war is looming.

Arbolef Body Fat Scale CS20W
Photograph: Chris Null

Arboleaf Body Fat Scale CS20W for $40: This affordable Bluetooth scale isn’t the flashiest I’ve tested, thanks to its large, silver electrodes and an oversized display that feels a little garish. While the weight is easy to find, it is difficult to read the six additional figures shown, all displayed simultaneously. I like the Arbolef app better than Scales, where in addition to the seven mentioned above, five more metrics can be found, each of which has a useful explanation when tapped. At this price it’s a solid deal, but it’s probably safe to skip the upsell of getting “Intelligent Interpretation Reports” for an additional $40 per year.

Hume Health Body Pod
Photograph: Chris Null

Hume Health Body Pods for $183: Hume Health’s Body Pod, another full-body scanner with handles, is heavily advertised – at least for the apps on my phone – and is promoted (by Hume) as the next big thing in the world of body management. Although the app is really shiny and inviting, I was surprised to find how weak the hardware was, it lacked Wi-Fi, and some features are locked behind the $100 per year Hume Plus subscription plan. It works quite well, but you can get equally good results with a cheaper device.

Garmin Index S2 for $191: Five years after its release, the Index S2 is still Garmin’s current model, which is a surprise for a company obsessed with fitness. It’s still notable for its beautiful color display, which tells you about its six body metrics (for up to 16 users) with each weigh-in. The display also provides your weight trends over time in graphical form and can even display the weather. The scale connects directly to Wi-Fi and Garmin’s cloud-based storage system, so you don’t need a phone nearby to track your progress, as is the case with Bluetooth-only scales. It’s useful to have a phone running the Garmin Connect app (Android, iOS), so you can keep track of everything over time. Unfortunately, as health apps go, Connect is a bit slow, so expect a learning curve—especially if you want to make changes to the way the scale works. You can turn its various LCD-screen widgets on or off in the app, but it can be difficult to find everything due to the daunting scope of the Garmin ecosystem. The color screen is nice at first, but ultimately adds little to the package.

Omron BCM-500 for $92: With its large LCD panel, quartet of onboard buttons, and oversized silver electrodes, the Omron BCM-500 is a striking masterwork of Brutalist design. If your bathroom is made of concrete and wrought iron, this scale will fit the bill perfectly. The Bluetooth unit syncs with Omron’s HeartAdvisor app (Android, iOS), but it also provides all six of its body metrics directly on the scale, cycling through them with each weigh-in (for up to four users). The labels for each data point can be difficult to read, partly because the LCD isn’t backlit, but the app is somewhat easier to follow, offering front-page graphs of weight, skeletal muscle and body fat. On the other hand, the presentation is relatively clinical, and the app is surprisingly slow to sync. For a scale without a Wi-Fi connection, it is also quite expensive.

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