This scale is old and expensive, newer scales are cheaper and measure more things while being friendlier with Apple Health.
I bought this scale almost 4 years ago and am just now writing a review. The reason I am writing the review is because it recently started flaking out which prompted me to buy a new (different) scale, so I figure it's worth sharing my experience with the Fitbit Aria scale now.<br /><br />The things I like about the Fitbit scale are that it looks gorgeous, seems to be made of high quality materials. Really, never thought I'd be so impressed with how a scale looks, but it just looks and feels premium. It seems to provide pretty accurate and consistent measurements, but -- it only measures weight, body fat, and BMI.<br /><br />After daily use for nearly 4 years it has started acting up -- and this has happened occasionally in the past also -- while the scale is sitting undisturbed, it'll just keep acting like someone is standing on it and will say &#34;Step Off&#34; or &#34;Thinking&#34; over and over and over. Sometimes it'll do that in a loop for hours. I'm surprised the batteries last as long as they do, but the battery life is surprisingly good.<br /><br />Besides the scale becoming possessed and going into these seemingly endless cycles of thinking someone's standing on it, the biggest thing that bugs me about it has to do with Fitbit as a company not embracing popular health platforms like Apple Health. Your $100+ smart scale suddenly feels not-so-smart when it doesn't sync with Apple Health, when it seems like just about every other modern smart device or app out there that measures anything fitness/health related does sync with Apple Health. Apple Health wasn't around when this scale came out, but it's still irritating that they don't support it now. You can go on the iOS app store and get a paid app that will sync your Fitbit data with apple health, but it's a manual process to do that.<br /><br />When I started searching for a replacement scale I found that many newer scales are cheaper and measure lots of different things that the Fitbit scale doesn't. I bought a new smart scale that tracks weight, BMI and body fat % (the only 3 things fitbit tracks) as well as muscle %, bone %, water %, and BMR (things the fitbit doesn't track).<br /><br />If I could go back in time, I'd still have bought the Fitbit scale because I liked having it and it was the best option when it came out, but at this point in time I have a hard time recommending it to anyone because there are many alternatives to this scale that are newer, have more features / track more things, and cost less. The Fitbit hasn't gained any new features in the many years it's been out, it hasn't dropped in price, but loads of smart scales from other companies have come out that are more competitively priced and measure/track more things, all while being more friendly with platforms like Apple Health. I guess the only reason I'd recommend this is if you want to track your weight and only do it within the Fitbit ecosystem. For me, I've moved on from the Fitbit ecosystem and like to track lots of different stuff within Apple Health so I may be a bit biased.<br /><br />Pros:<br />- Premium look/feel/build quality<br />- Has served me well for several years of daily use<br />- Surprisingly great battery life. Batteries seem to last for months at a time of daily use, even when it goes in to these bizarre loops of measuring over and over while nobody is standing on it.<br /><br />Cons:<br />- Started flaking out occasionally and going into loops for hours at a time where it thinks it is sensing someone standing on it. While I'm happy to get nearly 4 years of daily use out of ANY electronic gadget, it feels like a scale is something that, especially for the premium price tag, should last even longer than this did.<br />- Fitbit as a company refuses to embrace Apple Health, requiring you to jump through extra hoops if you want to sync your scale data with Apple Health<br />- Expensive - has been out for years but still has the same premium price tag<br />- Newer scales measure more things than this and cost less, while embracing platforms like Apple Health
Rating: 3 stars