Balance Body Composition Glass and Plastic Personal Scale (White)

I normally wait to leave reviews, as to get a feel or use whatever it is for enough time to honestly share my experience with an item. But I just received this scale earlier today and had to share how great it is right off the bat. First of all, it was shipped quickly and the packaging is very impressive, simple, and well thought-out. There's no crazy packing paper or boxes or lack of instructions. Everything about this scale, from the unpacking to the directions and the set-up, is very simple and easy for anyone to understand. They even provide a website with friendly navigation to share FAQs, info, and organize a few 2-5 minute videos explaining everything you need to know. Even the most clueless tech-person will have no problem setting things up. As for the actual scale, it seems to be of very high quality. Aesthetically, it has a sleek and simple look, seems to be very sturdy, and the screen is clear and large enough to read from a distance. I especially love how, after weighing and measuring, the multiple stats (Weight, Body Fat %, Water Weight %, Muscle Mass %, and Bone Mass %) scroll through the screen a few times to give you chance to write things down and/or just see them (the screen doesn't automatically shut off a few seconds after you step off, like many other digital scales - I think it scrolls through each measurement three times before it shuts off). I also really like how organized Greater Goods seems to be. Everything from the design of the scale, to the packaging, to contacting the company, to their website itself, is very clean, simple, and high quality. There are also repeated reminders of how to contact customer service if need be, plus a 5 year warranty on the scale itself. I don't know how large this company is, but they are going about their business right from many angles. I will come back and update if anything changes. I think the only concerns I have require actual on-going use of this since it would be the long term function, battery life, precision, and accuracy (but, more so, precision). For anyone who is concerned about actual numbers rather than precision: As a health and fitness professional, I have experience using calipers to measure 7-point body fat with myself and clients for over ten years. I have found them to be very accurate. That said, when I last took my own body fat % with the calipers a couple of weeks ago, it was around 16%. When I set myself up on this scale (keep it mind, it was not my true weight since I excitedly did this hours into the day after breakfast and a snack), this scale showed me at 20.5% when I entered myself as an athletic female, and 24% when I entered myself as a regular female. Obviously, this is a huge difference than my caliper-based 16%. On the setup website, Greater Goods states: "An athlete is defined as a person who is involved in intense physical activity approximately 12 hours per week and who has a resting heart rate of approximately 60 beats or less per minute." Although I do not get nearly the 12+ hours of intense exercise each week, I do have a very low, conditioned heart rate (around 38-48 bpm, depending). Not to mention, I would qualify myself as athletic due to my current fitness level. So, again as a personal trainer and fitness professional, I would recommend if you are are a female who regularly exercises utilizing strength-training for even 3-6 hours per week or consider yourself more fit than the average person, enter yourself as an "athletic female" during set-up on this scale for closer accuracy in terms of body fat %. Now, all of the above said, I'll share something that I also share with clients (and the mindset within my books like The Holistic Fitness Starter Guide: Understanding how to achieve lasting weight-loss and full-circle fitness ). What ultimately matters is the progress and consistency in whatever you're doing. In this case, it is the precision of the scale. As long as you are using this - or any - unit of measurement to gauge your progress in terms of body composition or weight loss, what matters most is the precision of the device (in terms of body fat % and the other measurements it offers) rather than the ACTUAL number you see. Whether my body fat is 16% (as my calipers state) or 20.5% (as this scale states), I now have a means to gauge whether it goes up or down and will adjust my personal health/fitness plan accordingly. Another reason I appreciate this company is because they do express similar concern on their website: "The most important thing with body composition is to pay more attention to the trends than the day-to-day numbers. You'll have a better view of how things are really going by watching how the numbers change from month to month." Simply, this or any scale is a reliable tool to help keep you accountable and know the direction YOUR body may be going. If you are the type to obsess about specific numbers and find it dictates the mood of your day or devalues your self-worth in any way - it may be a better idea to gauge things by how your clothes fit and how you feel (always great tools!) rather than stepping on a scale each day. In terms of accuracy of weight, however, I will say that this scale does seem to be quite accurate when telling your weight measurement. This is compared to my current/old scale, the scale at my gym, the scale at the supermarket, and the last time I was weighed at the doctor's office. I may even be confident that the weight relayed on this Greater Goods scale is most accurate compared to of all of the above. Wow, longer review than I expected to leave! Not surprising considering what I do for a living, I guess :) In a nutshell, get this scale if you're looking for one. It's just good... AND, I forgot to mention, for a REALLY great price. Thanks for reading!

The first one I received had visibly been used and returned as the batteries were all over the place. Furthermore, it did only give me my weight but nothing else. I was pretty displeased so I called Greater Goods to let them know about it. As soon as I explained my issue, Nick apologized, explained that visibly Amazon had made a mistake as Greater Goods does not accept any return and told me that he would be sending another one immediately and that I was to keep the defective one or dispose of it. So 3 days later (I called him on Friday afternoon and got the new scale on Wednesday) I did put the new scale to the test. I have been previously using an Omron Body Fat scale since at least 5 years but I was growing increasingly discontent of it because its reading are all over the place. Not only there were variations of about 100-200 grams (4-8 Oz) between 2 readings spaced by maybe 30 seconds but the fat/muscle percentage was also changing greatly by an order of more than 0.5%. There is a big difference between having 20% or 20.5% of fat if you weight 200 Lbs...20% means 40 Lbs of fat and 20.5% means 41Lbs... So 1 Lb of fat inaccuracy is a lot when you monitor yourself daily... Let me pause for a second to state the obvious: No Body Fat scale is truly accurate to a very high degree but consistency is important. This is why after so many years I started searching if there was anything better on the market and here comes the Greater Goods Scale. Not only is this scale about 1/2 of the price I paid for the Omron but it has raving reviews so I took the plunge. I have been now using it for about one week and I have to say that it is very consistent and coherent. Compared to the Omron, this scale shows me variations of 0.1% of my body muscle or fat within 2 days when the Omron would jump up or down 2-3% in the worst cases and 0.5% in the best cases... Here what I love with the greater goods scale: - Customer service is impeccable - Very accurate - Very affordable - Easy to use. You step on it to start it. It detects the user, providing that the users are not too close in body type. For instance, a husband and his wife will likely be identified properly. Siblings may have more issue if they are twins. - In doubt, you can specify the user manually - Up to 8 identified users. - Easy to set up. What I like less: - Where is the app to keep my readings? I am not even asking for a bluetooth connected one for that price although it would have been nice but a simple app to record my readings would be useful. For the moment I use the free app Body graph that seems to work fairly well. In conclusion: Apart from the defective one I originally got and which is due to a wrong item being sent by Amazon warehouse, I am extremely satisfied with my scale.

I was not expecting what I received for what I paid. I was shopping based on price and aesthetics, and could have just as easily clicked on half a dozen other similar scales. I purchased the Greater Goods Premium White scale with hidden display. I can't say enough good things about the purchase experience. Product packaging was next level in my opinion. Unboxing experience was great and made me feel like I bought a premium product. The company includes a brief "about us" pamphlet. Some of their proceeds get donated to help select causes. Online pictures always make the product look better than it is, that was NOT my experience here, this scale looks GREAT! Fit, finish, quality, feels sturdy, etc... Was concerned about going with the hidden display, but glad I did. It works and looks great, no issues reading the numbers, highly visible. I cant speak to the accuracy (no other scale to compare to) but as far as precision, I have found the scale to weight consistently within a +/-10lb range. To explain, I AM able to make it fluctuate by leaning and standing on it differently, BUT it's pretty consistent if you step on it the same way every time, you'll be right about in the middle of that 10lb range. It is also probably worth noting that I am a +/-300lbs. A flat, stable, level floor is really required for proper function, pretty much like any other scale out there. I'm using it in the best place I have for it, but can't say I've satisfied all of those requirements as much as they should be. Still, has been working great for me for about month now.