Wyze's $80 Smart Scale Does Body Composition — Here's What You're Actually Giving Up
The new Wyze Scale X cuts $40 from the Ultra BodyScan. The tradeoffs are smarter than you'd expect.
Seven months ago, Wyze dropped the Ultra BodyScan at $119.98 and positioned it as the affordable alternative to Withings’ $400 body composition scales. Now they’re undercutting themselves. The $79.98 Wyze Scale X is available today, and the compromises they made to hit that price point reveal a lot about what actually matters in smart health hardware.
What $40 gets removed
The Ultra BodyScan’s headline feature was its handlebar — you grip it during weigh-ins to send a small electrical current through your upper body, improving the accuracy of bioelectrical impedance analysis. The Scale X ditches the handlebar entirely. You’re back to feet-only measurement, which means body composition readings will skew less accurate, particularly for upper body metrics.
Also gone: the built-in display showing your full body composition breakdown. The Scale X shows weight only. Everything else lives in the Wyze app. For most people checking their phone anyway, this is a non-issue. For anyone who wanted a glanceable dashboard on the scale itself, it’s a real downgrade.
What actually stays
Here’s where Wyze made smart choices. The Scale X still tracks 13 body metrics: weight, BMI, body fat percentage, muscle mass, bone mass, water percentage, visceral fat, metabolic age, protein, and more. The sensor array is essentially identical to the Ultra BodyScan for lower-body measurements. You’re getting the same granularity of data — just with slightly less measurement accuracy for full-body composition.
It still supports up to eight user profiles with automatic recognition. It still syncs with Apple Health, Google Fit, and Wyze’s own app ecosystem. The max capacity remains 400 pounds. The battery life is still rated at 18 months on four AAA batteries.
Who this is actually for
If you’re tracking weight trends and want basic body composition data without obsessing over decimal-point accuracy, the Scale X is genuinely the better buy. The handlebar on the Ultra BodyScan improves readings by maybe 3-5% accuracy for body fat — meaningful for athletes and serious fitness tracking, irrelevant for someone checking in weekly to see if they’re moving in the right direction.
At $79.98, the Scale X undercuts Eufy’s Smart Scale P2 Pro ($50, but fewer metrics) and Withings Body+ ($99, comparable features). It sits in a sweet spot where you’re getting legitimate body composition tracking without paying the premium for clinical-grade accuracy you probably don’t need.
The Wyze ecosystem play
This is Wyze doing what Wyze does best: commoditizing features that used to cost three times as much. The Scale X isn’t their best scale — the Ultra BodyScan still exists for people who want the handlebar and the display. But it’s their most strategically interesting one. It’s priced to be an impulse buy for anyone already running Wyze cameras, sensors, or their watch.
The $80 smart scale category just got more competitive. Wyze’s bet is that most people don’t need perfect accuracy — they need good enough data at a price that doesn’t require justification. They’re probably right.