What's everyone's favourite weight tracking app?

coderdan82 · December 2018

I weigh myself every day and look for an overall trend. Right now I'm eyeballing it but some people have been mentioning using an app for that specific purpose. So what do you use and why do you like it more than others?

AnnPT77 · December 2018

Truthfully, I haven't been that analytical about the choice.

I use Libra, because I have an Android phone. I know that some of the others have interesting features, but so far I haven't heard any specific things that make me want to overcome the inertia of the easy solution.

It's just basic statistics; I could've worked up a spreadsheet myself to do what I wanted, but the app is easy, and good enough.

Tacklewasher · December 2018

Happy scale for iOS
Libra for Android
Trendweight.com for web based.

I like trendweight and use it, but have Libra on my phone.

NovusDies · December 2018

I don't like any of them. I am sure they are fine if you are looking for "good enough" but I do not like being told I am gaining (fat) weight when I am not which can happen.

jjpptt2 · December 2018

Libra

sardelsa · December 2018

I use Libra

jjpptt2 · December 2018

NovusDies wrote: »

I don't like any of them. I am sure they are fine if you are looking for "good enough" but I do not like being told I am gaining (fat) weight when I am not which can happen.

Can you explain what you mean here? Libra is the only one I have experience with, and it simply trends out the values (scale weight) I enter into it. It tells me nothing scout fat weight vs water weight vs whatever else.

Ddsb11 · December 2018

jjpptt2 wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

I don't like any of them. I am sure they are fine if you are looking for "good enough" but I do not like being told I am gaining (fat) weight when I am not which can happen.

Can you explain what you mean here? Libra is the only one I have experience with, and it simply trends out the values (scale weight) I enter into it. It tells me nothing scout fat weight vs water weight vs whatever else.

I was wondering the same thing. I have Happy Scale.

Running2Fit · December 2018

I use Happy Scale. I like that it breaks my weight loss goal down into 10 mini-goals which I always find motivating when I hit. It’s also easy to use and I haven’t had any problems with it.

BingeNinjaNate · December 2018

I use trendweight.com simply because I can connect it to my fitbit account and it can automatically pull my weight from my Aria 2.

Duck_Puddle · December 2018

I have an iPhone so I use happy scale. I also have trendweight setup for the web (but since I’m always on mobile, I’m limited to seeing whatever period it shows me-so it’s not as useful as I’d like it to be).

I have a fitbit wirh an Aria scale. Everything is synced to pull directly from that. I like that I don’t have to actually do a single thing other than step on my scale and it’s updayed everywhere automagically.

But for trending-I find the trendline that fitbit draws to be the most useful for me. It basically confirms the eyeball approach.

Fitbit doesn’t give me the specific number for the trending weight (which the others do), but it gives me the number without red or green shading (which happy scale does-although after 5 years I still haven’t figured out what makes it shade one color vs another-I’ve been gaining/losing at times I’ve had both colors), and I can look at it in nearly whatever increments I want (which trendweight can supposedly do on a desktop site, but doesn’t on mobile).