Wyze has announced its first smart scale that can capture body metric data for your arms, legs, and torso individually using a retractable handle. Wyze’s smart scales have traditionally been budget-friendly alternatives to offerings from competitors like Withings, whose entry-level Body Smart scale now starts at $129.95. The new Ultra BodyScan is Wyze’s most expensive smart scale at $119.98, but it offers similar functionality to the $499.95 Withings Body Scan that also features a handle.
Available now through Wyze’s online store, the Ultra BodyScan offers similar functionality to the much cheaper $34 Wyze Scale X, including measuring 13 different body composition metrics like weight, body fat percentage, BMI, muscle weight, bone mass, and body water percentage. What potentially makes the upgrade to the Ultra BodyScan worth the extra $80-plus is that it uses a total of eight electrodes on the scale and its retractable handle to provide more accurate bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and a breakdown of those various metrics across your legs, arms, and torso.
Where the Wyze Scale Ultra BodyScan trails the more expensive Withings Body Scan is with heart metrics. Both scales can measure your heart rate during a weigh-in, but Withings goes much further with that data. Its Body Scan scale provides EKG recordings that can be shared with a doctor, assessments of your cardiovascular health and your vascular age, and warnings about dangerous heart arrhythmias like A-fib if detected.
Like the cheaper $50 Wyze Scale Ultra that debuted last November, the new Ultra BodyScan has a 4.3-inch customizable color screen that can display detailed breakdowns of data for up to eight users, including how measurements have changed over time. But the scale also has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for sharing that data to Wyze’s mobile app, or the fitness apps from Google and Apple. Four AAA batteries will keep the scale powered for up to nine months, and like other Wyze smart scales, it has modes for weighing pets and luggage while you’re holding them.
