Life-Sparring Review - Withings Body Scan - Deep Dive and DEXA Comparison

If you are interested to know how the body composition analysis of the Body Scan holds up vs. a much older Omron Karada Scan and a Tanita MC-780, and ultimately a DEXA scan, I got you covered too.

Chapters:
Intro 00:00 - 02:19
Weigh-in Screens in real-time: 02.20 - 04:16
App Walk-Through 04:17 - 30:42
Body Comp Data comparison vs. DEXA and Omron 30:43 - 43:12
Wrap-up 43:13 - 47:32

[roku]

A year later this is still the only actual review (rather than marketing) that I could find! Quality youtuber.

[KallaKollo-kv]

DEXA scans are not always accurate. I did one when I was at 7-9% of body fat (by comparing my photos with those showing how one looks at different percentages, i, e with all abb muscles fully visible) and it showed that I had 22% body fat. When I did a caliper measurement the same day I got 6% body fat. I later got the money back from the clinic that did the dexa scan.
Just by looking at your face, you do not look like someone with 30% but rather someone with 20%.

[jojjebros]

Finally a "real" review for the Withings Body Scan.
I've been searching youtube since the beginning of the year for a video like this!

[k.nilsson]

Now I saw this will pass on this product! Thank you=)

[jusdebaobab]

The thing that would be interesting is to test the progression accuracy. So making like 3 DEXA scan one by month during 3 month, try to lose fat and see if the fat loss is accurate with the Body Scan. For me that's the real interest of that type of product watching the evolution of your body mass over the time.

[den]

Thanks for sharing your research and comparision. Your video saved me $499, I'd better stay away from Withings scales.

[sergochdeestoydelootro]

What a shame, I just ordered the scale yesterday after a time out of stock. I really wanted the body scale, but after watching your review (which I think it is the only one with valuable information in YouTube) I cancelled my order 😅

I've been thinking of buying the Body Scan and after reading a bunch of reviews online I started having some doubts. It took me three days of crawling YouTube to find your video, so I can't tell you how happy I am it had all the information I was looking for, especially the comparison to the DEXA scan. Maybe use this as a sign to do the a follow-up, but my takeaway is that I'll be holding off on buying it in the hopes that your next scan will clear up the accuracy issue.

I never expected it to be 100% (or even 90%) accurate, but so many people are complaining about considerable differences while the price is... high.

[HansMeiser-zg]

Hi, thanks for the real review. Good work.
If the upper body measurements with the Body Scan are not usable but everything else is fine, I could buy a Body Comp, couldn't I?

Bye
Phil

[nick]

Thanks for bringing this out here, I hope someone from Withings pick up your feedback. I'm really rooting for accuracy improvements over firmware updates. I haven't purchased this yet but likely to, I don't think there's anything out there with this same feature set.

[den]

I did Dexa scan and I have Withing body scan. I have 19% body fat dexa scan result and Withings body scan shows just 11% fat.

I discussed that with Withings support, they suggest me to enable athlete mode. Now Withings scales show 8% fat, which is even worse, more 2 times lower than my real body fat value.

So I returned my Withings body scan. Withings scales does not work and useless.
My BMI is 21 and my weight is 65kg.

[vinzent]

Thank you for the honest review, really wanted it to be accurate.

[nKrandom]

Looking forward to the follow-up with a new dexa comparison! 👍🏻

[peterwood]

Thank you Fabian. If you extend your review with a new DEXA would you also compare to a skinfold body fat estimate? Interesting to compare these devices to the most basic test available.

[SoulofMaximilian]

Would highly appreciate an update mate! Thank you for the video!🙏

[IsaacMenendez]

Great review. I was contemplating purchasing the Body Scan. I mainly questioned is accuracy and ultimately usefulness. Thanks for your hard work on this!

[rejsn]

Hey, thank you for the detailed review and comparison. I really appreciate the time spent on it :) I was considering buying the Withings Body Scan but I'd rather wait and see how(if) the company addresses these things and if there's a possibility for a firmware update or if there's possibly other and more accurate device on the market. BTW I really like Withings BPM Connect and the Withings app (that's what got me hooked on the scale and the ecosystem they have), so I was thinking to buy the cheapest Withings Body scale just to measure the weight (and perhaps wait few years for a better scale/update), would you say it's a reasonable strategy? :) Thanks

[paypalmymoneydfs]

I mean the DEXA aint exactly accurate either. Chopping you up and blending you is the only way to know for sure.