Tanita BF680 Duo Body Fat Monitor/Scale with Athletic Mode Plus Body Water

User Reviews about Tanita BF680W Duo Scale Plus Body Fat Monitor with Athletic Mode and Body Water

This scale is reliable and accurate to 0.2 lbs and is helping us take daily control of our diet and exercise. Good buy! -- An Accurate, Reliable Bathroom Scale

I looked up the various amounts of body fat scales, and found Tanita target focus is on body comp scales. The higher models are geared towards the more athletic group. I spent an additional $10 over what I first planned, but I am completely satisfied with the product and it is very easy to use. -- Great Scale

I love this scale! One of my Weight Watchers leaders had recommended Tanita scales to me because she has one at home herself. The reviews I read were mostly positive and it turned out to be true. I got it for Christmas and I LOVE IT! It's great quality and accurate. -- Great Quality Scale

This scale has met all my expectations. After fearing that digital scales still malfunction, I was willing to pay extra money for something online and not from W*mart. For a 30-something year old, this is the first scale I have every owned. I would recommend it. -- Good Scale

After several weeks of use, I think I have sufficient experience with the BF680W scale to usefully review it (excepting long-term durability). Let's consider features, ease of use, accuracy/reproducibility, and appearance/construction quality. Two person weighing, body fat, and body water measurements or simple weighing are possible. With each use, the scale beeps upon registering a weight, then again for fat/water. I was prepared to hate the beeps, but over time they strike me as sufficiently quiet to be mostly useful and not annoying. Ease of use is quite good, with three simple touch buttons for person 1/person 2/weight alone. You program each person's settings with age and activity levels, not that hard and only needed once. Also, the buttons are easily activated (unlike the fairly hard pushes that some scales require). In my experience, the weights are reproducible over 3 to 5 consecutive weighings within +/- 0.1 pounds, a pretty impressive performance. Body fat/water are much less reliable but pretty well parallel changes in weight in a predictable way. Those aren't likely to be absolutely correct, but are at least useful for following trends. Appearance-wise, this is not as elegant a scale as some but to me has a clean, functional design. Not wafer thin, but low profile and very stable. Material is plastic, but feels pretty solid in a way that is similar to my previous Tanita 622 scale (which lasted between 8 and 10 years). Overall, none of these completely bowl me over but the combination of features, reproducibility, and apparent build quality becomes more and more impressive with time. -- solid, reproducible, multiple features, a little stylish