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by rooster8 3956 days ago
I actually really like the Withings UI, so I take that as high praise.

Yes, Body Fat % is a pretty important thing on my list. I don't have it scheduled for the next release, but I do hope to get it into one of the next couple of releases.

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Just to add a bit more feedback here, the part that withings fails me on is not exposing Fat and LBM in weight terms. If my goal is to maintain LBM and see Fat % go down over several weeks it makes it difficult to determine if that last 2% of bf% drop was too fast (read: too much LBM loss) without actually exporting the data and calculating things by hand. They used to make these variables available in their old web ui, but they aren't available in the app. It feels a bit dumbed down.

They also allow you to set a weight goal, but not a bf% goal, which is so confusing when their marquee product includes a body fat analyzer. For a lot of people who buy these scales to help gauge recomposition efforts the goal over time is to keep their weight the same but see the bf% go down.