Withings Wireless Scale WS-30, White

PROS* Weight records update automatically to app after weigh-in reading.* Scale weigh-ins can sync with Fitbit app.* Allows up to 8 individual profiles to be set up for personal weigh-in readings.* Notification reminders can be set to remind of weigh-ins or even other activities.* Scale can display a basic local weather notification on screen after weigh-in once location setting is updated for scale.* Cost is currently around $40 making it a budget friendly scale to track weight goals.CONS* Scale set-up may take a minute, but once it works-- it works well.* The Nokia Health Mate App has to be installed in order to sync with Fitbit app.* Nokia Health Mate app is not as user friendly and some of the app tracking abilities are not available unless using Body Cardio scale.* Additional carpet feet for scale is unusable for accurate weigh-ins, but scale functions properly without them.While this isn't the newest of the Withings scales currently available, it's a nice addition to my fitness tracking. As Nokia is now part of Withings, it seems that they're updating the display for this scale model and calling it the Nokia Body but it's the same basic functions for the WS-30 scale. That could be why there's a lower price tag for this model scale currently. It's definitely worth consideration if you don't want to shell out the big bucks immediately for an Aria or Aria 2 scale that Fitbit provides, plus the Withings WS-30 will sync up with the Fitbit tracking app. There are directions on the Fitbit site to help with that but either way, when you go to the Nokia website to set up your scale you'll have to download another app as well to your phone. It will require you to set up a free Nokia Health account to sync up the device to your iPhone or Android device as well as to sync data between the Nokia Health Mate and Fitbit apps.This scale only does the weight and BMI readings, but I find those helpful when syncing up the data to my Fitbit tracking app. Also, that's another reason why I enjoy this scale-- it will sync with the Fitbit tracking app. Unfortunately to sync the scale readings, I do have to download yet another app onto the precious and limited space of my mobile device. I can also import data back to the Nokia Health Mate app to compare how it tracks my fitness stats. I admit I prefer the Fitbit app over the Health Mate one as I can easily share and report my progress, so I'm really glad I don't have to choose to juggle both in order to track my fitness goals as a whole. One thing's for certain, there's no cheating with this scale-- initially I had some difficulty in getting the scale set up at first, when I did a few test weigh-ins after finally syncing the scale to my Fitbit app it started reporting immediately. I like that, it'll keep me more aware of the regular fluctuation of my weight as I progress to my overall fitness goal. Though for those who are afraid of regular scale weigh-ins, perhaps just set your reminder for once or twice a week. I personally find it helpful to analyse my daily weight fluctuation alongside my activity level and meal plan to make adjustments as needed.If you do use the scale feature for notifications but plan to predominately use Fitbit as your app of choice-- don't double up on reminders already set up in the main fitness tracking app you use. It's not that it utilizes a lot of your mobile resources, it's just redundant and works better to set side reminders that are more specific to the scale. The Health Mate app itself leaves much to be desired in customization and ease of sharing one's progress with support groups towards a fitness goal, but it does a fair job for tracking personal goals. This is why I've only set up basic information currently surrounding weigh-ins on Health Mate and track the rest of my fitness info on the Fitbit app. As I get curious to compare the apps, I've set a reminder to import my Fitbit data to the Health Mate app so I can notice if there's any discrepancies as I progress towards my fitness goal. I like getting the double badge notifications for motivation from both apps, so I personally see that as a plus.What I have noticed with this WS-30 scale is that it doesn't have the feature for Full Body Composition analysis (like the Nokia Body+) or Heart Rate (like the Nokia Body Cardio) making those options in the Health Mate app unusable without upgrading to one of those scales. The Nokia Body Cardio appears to cover both additional readings if you really want to get the most of monitoring and syncing the data up with a Fitbit app. Otherwise, the WS-30 scale will track the core information you need easily with the Fitbit app to keep on target to your overall fitness goals. Another plus for those that have a fitness minded family, you can set up individual profiles for up to 8 users total, so you have one scale to weigh them all. It's pretty useful, and while this is just for me mainly-- if my sister came to visit she could set up to track her own weigh-ins when visiting on the same scale to sync with her Fitbit data.The scale does come with a set of feet to attach if you'd like to use the scale on carpet, but I'd recommend on not attaching them. I thought it was a good idea at first but the readings were way off in comparison to my old traditional scale I was replacing. Don't bother putting these carpet feet on the scale even if you plan to do your weigh-ins on a solid, non-carpeted surface as the plastic material causes the scale to skid under your feet and potentially will cause you to slip and fall. It functions just as well and accurately as-is out of the box after setting up the device. It did take me a little bit to set up the device, but I'm not certain if it was just my Bluetooth or WiFi in the house that was having issues and causing the difficulty-- eventually I was able to get this scale set up after about a half-hour of working through the process with the snags I ran into personally.Overall, for the low cost of this scale model-- it's a good and accurate way to keep track of one's weight goals with the added benefit of being able to sync with the Fitbit app.

The title says it all. When I first received the scale, I was a little bit unimpressed. The "instructions" booklet was as minimal as it gets, and that's all there was in the box besides the scale. Not that one really NEEDS an instruction manual for this scale, but there ARE some non-obvious functions (e.g., the two buttons on the back for manual bluetooth connection and changing weight from metric to standard to stone, etc).After launching the Withings app on my iPhone 4S, though, and walking through the setup, everything pretty much snapped into place. I weighed, and waited. No response from the phone. What?It took a bit of waiting and fiddling before my weight measurements finally arrived to the phone, and the first time I had to manually assign the weights to my profile, even though I'm the only user on the account (hmm). So that was a bit annoying, and unimpressive as a way to start off.However, after things settled in, my profile began to show up on the scale screen itself, and now it works perfectly every time. There's still a pretty good delay before the weight gets from the scale to the app, which is a little bit annoying (mainly when you're using a linked app, such as Lose It!, for counting calories, and you need to factor in your weight for a progress check *now*). However, overall, it's a great scale. I'm particularly impressed with its accuracy. One time I weighed, and then weighed again while holding my iPhone. The weight came up as slightly heavier, and I said to myself, "what??? that can't be right!" Then I realized, it was actually picking up the weight of the iPhone in my hand! When I set the phone down and weighed again, it came up with the exact same number as the first weigh, down to the tenth of a pound. Very impressive!My only regret is that this model doesn't have bodyfat % measurement. I know that bodyfat percentage measurement through the electronic conduction method is not always very accurate, and I told myself, when buying it, that I would do better to just use my skinfold calipers and take manual measurements weekly. And while that may be true, it 's annoying because within the Withings app and others, there's a big gaping MISSING DATA spot where the bodyfat percentage should go along with every measurement event taken. Withings should modify the app to remove this from the layout when using this scale... Otherwise it's just a constant reminder that you didn't buy the more expensive model with the bodyfat measurement feature!I was somewhat between a rock and a hard place, because the model above this, WITH bodyfat measurement, is actually the *older* model, and is soon to be replaced with a new model. That model lacks bluetooth, which this model has. The next model, as I understand it, will have both bodyfat measurement as well as bluetooth, and I believe air quality measurement as well. Thus, it's a less than ideal time to be buying one of these if you want it "all"; you might do well to wait for the new top model if you need both bluetooth AND bodyfat measurement.My only other gripe is that the withings app divides your "health" into four quadrants, one represented by weight, another by exercise, another by blood pressure, and another by sleep. The weight is obviously handled by the app and the scale; the exercise quadrant only interfaces with the RunKeeper app and maybe a couple of others... The sleep quadrant interfaces with the Zeo device which is seemingly out of stock everywhere and apparently has a lot of issues. And the blood pressure one requires buying Withings's blood pressure monitor.So, this is annoying because, according to the app, at least, unless you buy and use the stuff needed for the other three quadrants (its even represented by their LOGO), you basically have to ignore that entire part of the app, and that's how Withings is assessing your overall health. RunKeeper is great, but the rest of the stuff is junk. They need to interface with better apps; for example, Sleep Cycle is an EXCELLENT sleep quality monitoring app for the iPhone that uses its built-in hardware; it could easily interface with it to provide sleep quality data, since Sleep Cycle already interfaces with RunKeeper. Blood pressure, I don't know; there should be an option to make this invisible. At any rate, the overall utility of the app as a "health assistant" could be greatly improved if they would work a bit harder and be a bit less greedy. That said, the scale itself, and the ability of the app to store your weight measurements and BMI (and share that data with other apps) is great. Thus, 4 stars for the Withings Wireless Scale WS-30.UPDATE:After 5-6 months with the unit, I am denoting a star. After about 3-4 months, the unit began to require new batteries every week. Over time, the battery compartment was covered in battery acid; while this may be limited to some units, this one in particular began to eat through batteries, with apparent voltage issues, I believe due to overactive wifi activity.

Nach nun über drei Jahren im Einsatz, kann ich einiges zu dieser Waage sagen und möchte von meinen Erfahrungen berichten. Dabei habe ich die Hoffnung, dass meine Ausführungen für den ein oder anderen hilfreich sind bei seiner Kaufentscheidung.Zunächst rein technisch, die Pros und Cons+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Die Waage ist optisch und auch technisch auf das Nötigste reduziert. Im Grunde handelt es sich um eine schlichte schwarze Glasplatte, die schön flach ist und die somit leicht unter einen Badzimmerschrank o.ä. geschoben werden kann. Ich würde das Design fasst als minimalistisch bezeichnen. Das Display lässt sich erst wirklich erkennen, wenn sich die Waage (durch Belastung) einschaltet.+ Das "Everyday-Handling" ist sehr sehr einfach: Die Waage besteigen, warten, die Waage schaltet sich ein, erkennt das Gewicht, erkennt den User, berechnet den BMI und das Gewicht, zeigt die Abweichung zur letzen Messung (+/-, auch als kleine Kurve), zeigt dann noch ein paar Infos zum Wetter (Schnickschnack) und gut ist! Das dauert alles in etwa 10 Sekunden.... + Die Batterie hält in etwa 8-10 Monate, das empfinde ich als erfreulich lange, der Batteriewechsel ist sehr einfach, ein leicht zugängliches Fach unter der Waage....+ Die Waage ist von der ganzen Familie zu nutzen. Jede Person wird zuverlässig erkannt und mit einem Kürzel angezeigt. Sollten zwei Personen - wie bei uns - das annähernd gleiche Gewicht haben, dann werden beide Kürzel angezeigt und durch Verlagerung des Körpergewichts wählt man den entsprechenden Benutzer einfach aus - sehr gut gelöst, finde ich!+ Innerhalb weniger Sekunden überträgt die Waage (wenn man das will) die Daten an ein Handy o.ä. wo die Daten archiviert werden+ In einer entsprechenden App (Android und iOS - für Windows Phone etc. gibt es nur etwas nervige Workarounds...) werden dann die Gewichtshistorie, die BMI-historie etc. angezeigt. Zu der optionalen Angabemöglichkeit von Zielgewicht usw. möchte ich hier nichts weiter sagen, das ist Standard und funktioniert sehr gut. Datenübertragung erfolgt bei mir per Bluetooth und ist soweit zuverlässig.Nun zum Datenschutz - (Wer sich darum nicht schert, kann dieses Kapitel ja einfach auslassen, es geht dann beim Pfeil weiter! ,-))+++++++++++++++++Die Standardapp für Android ist "Nokia Health" (neben vielen anderen). Es muss einem klar sein, dass alle Daten auf externen Servern irgendwo in den Weiten des Netzes gespeichert werden, wenn man sich auf diese Sache einlässt. Das ist natürlich im Grunde ganz und gar unverantwortbar, wenn man das mal ganz konsequent zu Ende denkt! DA gibt es auch nichts zu diskutieren, meiner Meinung nach. Wenn jetzt jemand trotzdem für sich persönlich entscheidet, so zu verfahren, dann ist das natürlich ebenso völlig in Ordnung. Auf die Möglichkeit, das Krankenversicherungen etc. ganz heiß auf dieserlei Daten sind, weise ich hier nur mal am Rande hin. Tatsächlich gibt es da bereits laufende Projekt, wo Mitgliedern ein individueller Krankekassenbeitrag angeboten wird, wenn sie es zulassen, das ihr Gesundheitsdaten nicht nur getrackt, sondern in Realtime an die Versicherung gesendet werden....wo das dann hinführt mag mal bitte jeder für sich selbst entscheiden. Ich sage nur: ACHTUNG GEFAHR!!! Die Apps erfassen natürlich alles Mögliche optional zusätzlich: Pulswerte, Schritte, je nach Waage Raumluft - da ist schnell klar, wer ein Raucher ist.... Ich persönlich archiviere meine Daten auf dem Handy offline....Die größte Gefahr liegt da, wo ich dann weitere Apps und Geräte von Drittanbietern verknüpfe: Die Datenschutzrichtlinie von Nokia ist dann nämlich raus: Zitat: "Auf Ihrem Gerät installierte Software kann auf Ihre Informationen zugreifen. Unsere Produkte oder Dienstleistungen können Links zu Websites und Diensten anderer Unternehmen enthalten, die eigene Datenschutzbestimmungen haben. Nokia ist nicht verantwortlich für die Datenschutzpraktiken von Dritten und wir empfehlen Ihnen, die Datenschutzhinweise der betreffenden Anbieter zu lesen. Wenn Sie mit dieser Richtlinie nicht einverstanden sind, sehen Sie davon ab, unsere Produkte und Dienstleistungen zu nutzen oder Nokia Ihre personenbezogenen Daten zu überlassen."---> So, aber das war ja hier eigentlich nur am Rande Gegenstand der Rezension. Entschuldigen Sie, wenn Sie diese Infos nicht gebraucht haben. Die Hauptfragen waren wohl:o Braucht man mehr als diese Waage hier kann? Oder doch lieber das "große" Modell....?Für mein Empfinden ist der Funktionsumpfang absolut ausreichend - Raumluftcheck mache ich lieber selber....o Hilft sie mir abzunehmen?Ich finde die Übersichtlichkeit der Waage sehr hilfreich um mein Gewicht zu verfolgen - gerade der simple heute/gestern Vergleich motiviert mich immer wieder, mich etwas zu zügeln....Fazit:++++++o Hat sich der Kauf gelohnt und stimmt das Preis/ Leistungsverhältnis?Yep! Check! Ich finde die Waage technisch ausgereift, simpel im täglichen Gebrauch und solide, was sich durch die bisherige dreijährige fehlerfreie Funktion gezeigt hat! Würde ich wieder kaufen... Wie man mit seinen Daten umgeht, bleibt jedem selbst überlassen, dass Withings das nicht öffentlich deutlicher problematisiert, explizit darauf hinweist und eine eigene "offline"-Funktion bereithält, gibt einen kleinen Abzug!Eine Bitte zum Schluss:==================Ein kurzer Klick auf den "Ja"- Button, wenn diese Rezension hilfreich war, würde mich ehrlich freuen! Kommentare oder Fragen sind ebenso erwünscht! Das kommt dann der Allgemeinheit zu Gute! Besten Dank im Voraus ;-)

Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity, no buttons (other than a button to start bluetooth pairing). Feet for Carpet as well as Hardfloors. Stand on the scales to get your weight (in KG or LBs) and your BMI. Display is nice and clear, and unit looks pretty robust to knocks, and splashing with water. The scales work in isolation, you do not need your wifi working nor a phone/tablet nearby to use them. When the connections are then available any readings (measurements) will be uploaded.You need a smartphone or Tablet to setup this product. No instructions except how to download the app on to your bluetooth enabled phone or tablet, and then you should follow the instructions in the App. Personally I like to have a few instructions to understand the capabilities of what I've purchased.The initial connection is Bluetooth, but during the setup, you tell it if you have a Wifi network and it'll connect thereafter to the wifi. The initial connection to the scales took a long time (as in over 5 minutes), this I believe was due to a (silent) firmware update - sadly the app did not tell me anything about what was happening (just said connecting) so I was left thinking the connection was not working. Thankfully I left the app trying to connect and after a while the app moved on and setup was completed. I was annoyed that there was no feedback whether the scales was using Wifi or bluetooth or even if it was connected at all (I only determined this by turning bluetooth off on my phone and seeing if measures came through).During the setup you have to sign up to a free Withings account. You can have multiple users for the one "device" (the scales), which can be associated to one account (you see everyone's weight) or separate Withings accounts (to the one "device") for privacy. The scales will try to match your weight with previous readings to select which user - if weights are too close then you get to select a user by shifting your weight to highlight the user. Setting up each user is done via the app, but weigh yourself prior to this then you can give the app a "starting figure" to match against. Any readings not matched will be shown in the app (with a date and time), and you can then assign a user afterwards. The automatic matching seems to work well for my wife and I.I found the app (on Android) a little confusing to start with, and needed to play with it for 30 minutes before I felt I knew what it was doing. It did crash quite a few times, but worked after a restart. IT CAN TAKE A FEW MINUTES FOR READINGS TO MAKE IT TO THE APP. You refresh the app by pulling down like you do in many Android apps (e.g. google mail). The timeline section is the best place to start so you can see the times of each of the reads and (if you need to) assign them to a user.The app is a little "polluted" with stuff not related to the scale (i.e. promoting Withings fitness tracker) - but you can easily ignore this and delete the promotional material. The graphs are good and it relates it to BMI which gives you an idea of where your ideal weight is.I connect my withings account to a fitbit account (done on the fitbit site), and this means the fitbit account can record everything, my activity from my "fitbit charge" as well as my weight. Measurements automatically work their way to my fitbit account. This means the Withings App gets little use.BOTTOM LINE - Good for the price. Does what I wanted it to (Graphing results). Looks good. Looks Robust. Seems to gives accurate, and repeatable readings. Shame the setup was a little confusing, but hey you only do it once.

Beware - if you get the white model of these scales you need an iphone to set it up and THEN you can use an Android app to run it. However if you do not have an iphone you should get the black model of these scales as they can be set up with an Android device.Set up is very easy and it works over our wireless network in the house (rather than bluetooth). This means you can weigh yourself and seconds later the data will have transferred direct to your Withings online account which you can access through a PC or on your tablet/phone. Very clever. I prefer using the website to control my account as it has more functionality.Coming from Tanita BC543 scales the Withings scales are equally good quality in my opinion. Solid, and stable. The black gloss surface shows up all the dust etc which the clear Tanita scales didn't but hey ho. I cannot comment on accuracy as I have nothing to compare with but what matters to me is consistency and only time will tell on that front.I got these scales rather than the WS50 model which costs £40 more because I don't need fat percentage (I know I need to lose a few pounds before I start worrying about that!) and am not interested in air quality or temperature which seem strange items to measure on a bathroom scale!In short I would recommend these scales although I have only been using them for a week.NB We had previously bought much cheaper Salter scales which came extremely highly rated on a well known catalogue type shop but they were small and finicky. No comparison to the Withings. You really do get what you pay for.

Well I'm sure when I finally get one which works it will be great. But so far I'm on my second (and am awaiting confirmation from Withings customer services that they'll swap this one also). The first would read my weight but would not connect to any device so was no better than a basic set of scales. Withings insisted I tried multiple devices to see if I could get it to connect and only agreed it was the scales after I had tried it on three different Android devices (runnings ICS, lollipop and kitkat) and two IOS devices. The replacement process was very smoothly handled and they sent out the new one as soon as I put the old one in the freepost rather than waiting for it to arrive before sending out the new one. However the replacement scales are worse. They read about 50% of the true value, never settle on a stable value and suggest I'm standing on the near left corner when I'm not. And because they never settle on a stable value they never send any results to the app. I've checked and it appears that only one of the four sensors is actually working. Despite this they insisted I did a firmware update (which did nothing) and a factory firmware reset (which not surprisingly did nothing), disconnect them from the app, reconnect them etc. If it was the same error I'd suggest that there's something fundamentally wrong with the ws-30. The fact that they had different problems would suggest a Quality Control issue (do they check them at all?) rather than an intrinsic design flaw. Six weeks after my original purchase and I'm still using some £10 scales and writing down the values with a pen and paper. Perhaps I've just been extremely unlucky........

This is initial review. More to follow over time. Seems to be ok. Withings app a bit difficult to get to grips with. Several failed attempts to upgrade software to latest version. This seems to be a known problem. In case it helps anyone, here's how I managed it in the end. If nothing appears to be happening on your iphone when upgrading scales software, just come out of the withings app, into phone settings and back into withings app. This seems to kick it into life. Do that a few more times to advance the blue progress bar. Eventually it will complete. You may well find the scales notify the upgrade was unsuccessful. Most likely it was not. Initiate another upgrade from the app and it should give you a 'success' notification. Post me a comment against this review for more help.Not entirely sure what the wifi connection for the scales is for as seems to require bluetooth to communicate with the phone.Anyway, it looks ok so far. Will see how it goes and update review. Seems to be a bit of a black art to get readings from scale into app automatically. Will keep plugging away ;-)Update 18/02/15Aha now it makes sense. The bluetooth appears to be for initial set up. Once everything is up and running you can let wifi do it's stuff. So with a little more investigation I now have the scale set up properly and sitting on the (hard) floor. I would definitely not recommend using any scale (inc this one) on a carpet if you are in any way interested in accurate readings. Whether, like this one, it provides 'carpet pads' or not. I have a user profile for my wife and myself. We stand on it every day. It turns itself on, tells you if you're not standing in a balanced way! stabilises on the weight, auto-detects which one of us is standing (I am a bit heavier ;-), sends the data off the the withings servers. Next time we open the app on our phones or on the web browser, it's magically there. The withings app isn't the best but it's pretty good. I'd recommend 'weight diary' (on ios). Don't know if it's available on android. It's simple and ace and of course pulls the data direct from withings.All in all, with an unnecessarily tricky setup aside - brilliant. Strongly recommend. Especially if you get it on a lightning deal like I did.