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Holy weight-loss, the Wyze Scale is an amazing deal at $20 – CNET

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For just $20, the Wyze Scale measures not only weight, but also body fat, BMI, heart rate and more.


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Friends, let us not be ruled by the bathroom scale. Must we define our self-worth by a number at our feet? Are we to let our days be ruined upon discovering we’ve gained a pound? Nay, I tell you. Nay! Cast your scales into the river and look upon them no more!

Wait a sec… scale deal! The new Wyze Scale just arrived, and it’s priced at $19.99. Shipping and sales tax might bring your total closer to $30, but that’s still an extremely good deal on a surprisingly good smart-scale. Many others cost considerably more.

Wyze is the company behind a growing catalog of crazy-inexpensive smart-home products, including the $20 CNET-favorite Wyze Cam, the $7 Wyze Bulb and the $100 Wyze Lock. With the Scale and forthcoming Wyze Band, the company looks to be expanding into health and wellness.

Read more: The best smart scales for 2020

Like many of its smart ilk, the Wyze Scale pairs with your phone so you can track various metrics: weight, of course, but also things like body-fat percentage, muscle mass, metabolic age and half a dozen others. It even measures heart rate. All this happens courtesy of electrical signals sent through your feet. Thankfully, it has weight-only safety modes for pregnant women and people with pacemakers.

What impressed me most about the scale is the design: It’s really pretty, looking like something that could easily cost $100, and it has heft. (You can’t begrudge Wyze charging a shipping fee for this.) I also like that it supports up to eight users, though that means each person in your family needs a phone, the Wyze app and a Wyze account. 

It can integrate with Apple Health and Google Fit now; Fitbit and Samsung Health support are in the works.

The only real downside I can see is the IPX3 waterproof rating, meaning you shouldn’t step out of the shower and directly onto it. Anything more than a mild splash could be trouble.

But for $20? When some smart scales sell for as much as $100-$150? Heck, you’d be hard-pressed to find a “dumb” scale this cheap.


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