Purchased and already sent back
I've had the [[ASIN:B002JE2PSA Withings WiFi Body Scale, Black]] for several years and wanted to try the Aria scale because I'd used the Fitbit tracker for some time.<br /><br />THE SETUP<br />I was able to setup the scale for myself fairly easily, but there's another in my house and inviting his email always failed. We just got an error message that said he couldn't be added. I contacted support and they literally didn't have clue. I've developed enough Web sites in my time to know that it's fairly easy to set up error and exception logging, so I'm not sure why they were so slow to help. Finally, after a week of weighing myself, support suggested I delete my account (the primary) and try to add my friend as the primary and then reinvite myself since it seemed my address had already gone through once. I immediately questioned if they were sure about this advice, because I'd lose my data and a weeks worth of measurements. I heard back 24 hours later from someone else saying that was the wrong advice, and I never should been told to do that.  Thankfully, I was smart enough to know and hadn't. Another week went by and the invite just started working magically.<br /><br />USE<br />Compared to the Withings scale, the measurement and display seems clunky. I can never quite tell what it's doing and if you're not careful about moving around, you'll get duplicate measures. It does vary a lot. You can step on it a minute later get entirely different readings. To be fair, the same is true of the Withings scale, and I think digital scales in general. The Aria though, weighed me consistently 2 pounds heavier than the Withing scale. My body fat percentage was always about 2 - 3 points less though.<br /><br />DATA<br />The Withings Website beats Fitbit's far and away when it comes to tracking and visualizing weight and body fat data. Afterall, weight and BMI are pretty much meaningless numbers if lean mass aren't taken into account. But I could never figure out how to get the Fitbit website to actually tell me how many pounds of body fat it registered, as opposed to just the percentage. Withings does that quite nicely and it also has a beautiful mobile app that I like even more than the Web site. I could've sworn hovering over the measures showed actual pounds of body fat, not just percents, but that seemed to stop a few days in. Withings will also show you lean mass, which the Aria doesn't seem to do.<br /><br />I might've kept the scale had it not been for the technical problems inviting other users, the clunky display and the poor use of data on their web site.
Rating: 2 stars