hello i'm wander001 and this is my review of the wise scale brought to you by the people
who normally do security cam and home automation wise has recently started a foyer into connected
health devices we'll call it uh first they had the wise band well i reviewed the wise band first
over there in the corner but at the same time they released the wise band they also came out with the
y scale here now one of the big selling factors and i'm going to lead off with that is the price
wise has been known for having competitively priced products i don't know if you've looked into
a smart scale i never looked into a smart scale before but i knew i needed to scale around the
house and wise came out with the smart scale about the time i was looking so it worked out for me
so smart scale from wise is only twenty dollars go compare that to some of the other more high-end
models and you're gonna be paying much much more that's not to say that wise doesn't pack a lot of
stuff into this for that price tag so let's take a quick look at the scale itself what you're looking
at is a 12 by 12 it's a scale the top is glass so it does collect dust and you can see right here
fingerprints or you know when you're stepping on it it collects grease we'll just say that
it is a nice large display there you can lean on that you'll see so when you first step on it it
goes right into recording your weight and then there's some other biometric stuff that it does
after the fact which you can check out on the scale now the scale itself is super thin being
only one inch thick if we flip it over to the back here you will see the the compartment which houses
the four included triple a batteries to run the scale you also have these foot pads here which
are plastic they're not rubberized and they kind of do wiggle a little bit which is nice now to use
the scale you do need to use it on a completely flat surface i tried using this on several things
that i thought were flat enough and what you get as you probably hear it here it's not totally flat
on my table here so it wiggles around so i ended up trying this on carpet i tried it on several
different locations in my house and what i ended up doing was just getting a piece of wood and
sticking this on it and then i can actually use it accurately because the weight if it's shifting
around like this is not 100 accurate now because this is a smart scale there is some setup that
needs to happen so the question is how easy is it to set up all right this is setup of wise scale
first step is to flip it over and to open the compartment here just nice and easy slide and
put in the four included aaa batteries making note of the positive and negative connections
once that's done simply pop the door back on and flip it over
and then we move into utilization the wise app phone interview over here
and record also on the phone so we're going to come up click the three dots
and we're going to add a new product and we're going to scroll all the way down
we're doing a scale so it wants to know a few things about you
i am a male i'm not going to show you my birth date um i am 5'7 so that's fine
athletic mode well we're gonna leave that off for now and i will set a birthday off camera
alright so the birthday is actually just your birth year
so it doesn't need your specific specific specifics so we're just going to say yes
i was born in 83 so i am a old person all right and next all right so it wants me to
turn this on won't let me proceed without it so we're going to turn that on and select next
so now it's searching for the scale all right so it says i need to check the batteries in the scale
maybe let's make sure that our bluetooth is on oh so it says please step on the scale to activate it
so i'm going to all right so it says that it didn't pick it up and it's probably because i
didn't step on it so we're gonna we're gonna do this in reverse and see if it will turn on
all right so i wonder if i put one of those batteries in incorrectly so we're gonna take a
look at that okay now that was my bad i did put the first battery in incorrectly which is why
it did not work so when you flip it over after you put the batteries in right away it's going
to flash on the screen there so what we're going to do now is using the app i'm going to go back
and we're going to do this again so there's all my information i'm going to step on the scale
to activate it oh and it is asking me to step on this with the bare feet so this
is going to be interesting because where i have the camera set is not going to be
uh useful for doing this so we're going to try and do this uh backwards see if this works
so have on screen
it's doing it backwards it's doing percentages there
and it's letting me know that there's a new firmware update
and hopefully that kind of came through like i said i'm doing this backwards
i think i think it's all connected so it wants me to upgrade so we're gonna upgrade that
see how long that takes and you can see the scale itself lets you know that it's actually upgrading
it's also connected uh via bluetooth so this probably isn't sitting on my wi-fi
which is good because it's one less thing i have to worry about being on my wi-fi network
now i'm not going to make you sit through the entire update process that we're going to do
is we are going to pause and come back when it's done all right so after the update went through
you see here on my screen because i was doing it backwards it uh shows that i'm 46 pounds i'm not
46 pounds uh so that was just to set it up what i'll do now is i'll end up using it and uh get
actual better trends and see what we can do here so as long as you remember to put the batteries in
correctly setup for this is not terrible now one of the things with this being a smart scale is
you want to know can it handle multiple users yes you can have multiple users with the smart scale
however each person needs to have the wise app and their own wise account you can't have multiple
users on the same wise account with multiple users i've tested a couple of different things in that
if there are large enough discrepancies in weight so i pretty much sat with a 28 pound cat litter
box in my arms and took my weight as long as you don't have the app open it's not going to record
that because it does have an internal memory and if you step on this and it's not connected to your
phone it will store that data and then the next time you sync the phone it will pull that data
but if there is a large enough discrepancy it will not suck that data in so that was kind of
interesting to know again i was out there with a 20 out 28 pound box of cat litter
trying to see how little a discrepancy it needed so with having the glass top here it does have
a waterproof rating of ipx3 which is pretty much just spray it's not super waterproof but it is
waterproof enough that if you drip some water on this out of the shower you'll be perfectly fine
so the heart of what this can do is pretty much measured through the wise app so let's take a look
at what the wise app shows you based on what you get from the y scale the wise scale lives within
the wise application so it does again just like i said with the wise band kind of feel a little
cluttered in here with like my smart home devices but unlike the wise band it does not need to have
the app constantly running the background so i do like that so if we come in and select y scale
it loads up you'll notice currently it is not connected to anything because the y scale's
all the way downstairs but it just connected to bluetooth here it will show you your last reading
so this is my last measurement here you've got a plethora of data that it pulls so if we tap on
that it shows you body fat muscle mass body water lean body mass bone mass protein visceral fat bmr
and metabolic age so i will say i am rather happy that it takes off a couple years
once i got down to a certain weight scrolling down here you have a table of
weight data and we're gonna click on that in a moment but all the way down here at the bottom
you have heart rate heart rate is only available if you stand on the scale and trigger heart rate
so if i tap on that and i'm not standing on the scale it will not actively run this
you'll see here's just some past data when i was testing it out now if we click on the trend
table you can see you have weekly monthly and yearly well i haven't had it quite a year yet
but you have weight and then body fat now i did normally what i do is i do this in the afternoons
for whatever reason i ran it today and my weight was down but my body fat percent
was up running this in the morning but i can show you a year so i've been using this and if
we click all the way over here since april 2nd and this is just the trend line so like i said
was really good and then we kind of got around memorial day weekend and things went off but
you have a nice trend line there if you click on any of the days it will give you an exact
breakdown for that particular day however there are no trend lines for all that other data it's
only weight and body fat so you get what you get with it i mean a lot of the information
aside from weight i don't know what to do with myself but maybe you do up here in the upper
right hand corner no matter what tab we're on think of it as your settings so clicking on that
will show you a history and the history is just that it shows you when the weight was taken the
time it was taken and general percentages you can click on that and it will open up the history
a little better than using that chart if for whatever reason we wanted to we can select edit
and we can pick any one of these days and remove something so hypothetically if something got
registered that shouldn't have gotten registered you can always use that to delete it coming back
to the main page here for the why scale here we have settings the name advice which you can
change share you can share the device with another person keep in mind they need their
own wise account you have your user which is your email address units you can change to
pound or kilograms you've got authorized third-party apps now right now the scale will
only work with google fit now supposedly in the future it will work with samsung health and fitbit
but right now you either have apple health or google fit hopefully more will come in the future
power save remote power saver mode on or off for me i keep this on it just takes a little longer to
reconnect via bluetooth no big deal you've got device info and then support so really
for the scale itself it is a very trimmed down spartan compared to what you get with cameras or
the sensors or the light bulbs but again it's a scale it's taking your weight and recording
it and doing metrics hopefully they will integrate with those other services a little sooner
so all in all i've been using the y scale for several months now running tests i pretty much use
it daily just get on check weight because that's what it is it's a scale it's supposed to help
measure things and since we've gone into lockdown having this and knowing that i was going to review
it has kind of helped motivate me uh to kind of get my weight down uh while we've been on lockdown
so if you like me are looking for a scale but want to upgrade to a smart scale you can't go
wrong with a 20 smart scale from wise so if you haven't gotten the impression 20 i really think
it's a no-brainer but that's your call to make i have been wanderer001 if you have any questions
or comments please feel free to leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching