Renpho Health

It doesn’t use the WiFi in the scale to do background updates. You have to open the app to get the latest readings onto your phone and piped to the other apps you are actually using to monitor the data. It shouldn’t check frequently to save battery in the scale and the phone; so, having the check frequency settable would be good. I would probably pick the once a day… The app user can’t remove the annoying and time consuming weight and BMI animations when you configure the scale. They are cute the first couple of times, but a waste of time after that. Speaking of BMI, it is nearly total junk science. It’s just your weight times your height. Given that height doesn’t change, it’s exactly the same as tracking your weight. It’s also a poor indicator for individual health: if you don’t believe me, compute the BMI for any NFL football team. The BMIs will claim they are all unhealthy! BMI has some usefulness for statistical analysis, but it’s too wildly variable to use to assess an individual’s health.

I kept with the older style scales which has been exceptional! I tried the upgrade which was NOT an improvement for me. I believe they should have kept with what was working so well. Change is not always an improvement.

This is better than my old scale

For some reason it only shows mine and not my older children weight detail such Visceral fat

Love this app (and the scale). Ben using it for over 5 years. But why the change from obese to fat? Obese is a more appropriate medical description.

I love this app and scale! I haven’t checked in a few months, but just realized the terms for your weight have changed from “obese” to “fat.” I’m not typically one who is offended by many things but this seemed really extreme. Yes, my weight is above being overweight but fat?! Even the CDC and WHO use underweight, normal, overweight and obese. Not sure why the developers have chosen “fat” but that’s not OK. That can be very triggering for someone who struggles with their weight.

App hangs on start uninstall didn’t help - there is no way to login as well after clearing the data

I like the old app better..I just recently purchased a new scale (have had it for about a month) & sadly it can only be connected using this newer “updated” app. It doesn’t connect well with my Apple Watch (sometimes it won’t connect at all) so I can’t take my weight & have it easily stored like I would when using the older app & scale. I hate that I can’t connect the scale to the older app because it was so much easier & ran smoother, I used my watch every time & the measurements would just be waiting until I accessed the actual app on my phone, nothing was ever lost…hopefully this app will have an update soon so that it can be useful it’s unfortunately too late for me to return the scale

App freezes every single day! It doesn’t hold data and upon opening it just freezes. I have to reopen it more than 20 times for it to start working again. Extremely frustrating

The updated app does not read previous weight measurements from Apple Health like the old Renpho app does. So this app looses years of weight trend data that it could access if it asked to read the data. I will continue to use the old Renpho app.