The Best Bathroom Scales in Canada of 2026

Whether you’re looking to lose weight, gain it, or maintain it, an accurate bathroom scale is a useful tool for measuring and tracking your progress. A basic digital scale provides your weight in pounds, kilograms, or even stones, while a “smart” model offers a measure of your body composition—that is, the percent of fat versus lean mass on your body as well as a companion smartphone app that keeps a log of your weigh-ins.

After stepping on scales more times in one month than I have in my lifetime, I’m confident that the budget-friendly Renpho Bluetooth Body Fat Scale , which gave us sufficiently accurate readings, is the one that will satisfy anyone’s weighing-in and body-composition-taking needs. It's the best smart scale we tested as well as the least expensive, but if you prefer to spend even less and just want a basic scale, I have a recommendation for you there, too.

These are the best bathroom scales—both “smart” and “basic”—that we tested ranked, in order:

1. Renpho Bluetooth Body Fat Scale (smart)
2. Ozeri Precision Digital Bath Scale (basic)
3. Escali Glass Platform Bathroom Scale (basic)
4. Garmin Index S2 Smart Scale (smart)
5. Etekcity Digital Body Weight Bathroom Scale (basic)
6. EatSmart Precision Digital Bathroom Scale (basic)
7. Taylor Digital Glass Scale, Gray (basic)
8. Withings Body+ (smart)

   

How We Tested

The Tester

I'm Amy Roberts, a managing editor here at Reviewed, where I oversee our health and fitness coverage. I’m also a certified personal trainer and have coached many clients as they work toward their fitness goals, which often include the desire to lose weight. As a part of that, a good scale—one that reliably measures the body’s mass in pounds or kilograms, and even that provides a percent of body fat versus lean mass—can be a valuable tool for tracking progress.

The Tests

For health purposes, having absolute accuracy in measuring the gravitational pull on someone’s mass, e.g., weight, isn’t really all that important. What is important, though, is how consistent a scale is in taking those measurements day to day, week to week—if it’s way off on any one reading, that could throw off a weight log as well as cast doubt on the reliability of the scale as a tool at all.

Replicability Tests

I had a friend who was losing weight mention to me that when he weighed himself every day, he’d hop on and off the scale several times and record the lowest number he saw. I wanted to find scales that didn’t require that level of dedication (or waste of precious morning time). So I did that for you: Every morning for a week, I weighed myself on each scale at least twice—more, if the two numbers didn’t match—and recorded the values. I did the same for the smart scales’ body-composition readings.

What I learned: If you must move the scale at all before recording your weight, you should tap the surface and see a “zero” in order to calibrate it. (While only two scales required that calibration, the instructions on all the scales I tested recommend this method.)

Accuracy Tests

Because we deemed absolute accuracy less important, we didn’t compare these scales’ readings to those of a calibrated scientific scale. Still, I wanted to see if there was some semblance of accuracy in the numbers these scales recorded, both as raw data and to simulate how it would record the weights of different-sized people. As such, I took measurements on each scale for:

• a 25-pound dumbbell
• a 50-pound dumbbell
• me + a 5-pound dumbbell
• me + 50 pounds of dumbbells
• me + 100 pounds of dumbbells

The findings: While only one scale was dead-on—the EatSmart—for all of these tests, none were so far off as to be statically problematic, let alone an issue for the needs of a typical user.

Usability tests

Ultimately, the factors that set these scales apart are in their user-friendliness. For this, I considered:

• The frequency of errors in measuring weight
• How easy to read the displays were
• How comfortably my feet fit on the platforms (I also “borrowed” the larger feet of an over-6-foot-tall friend)
• How easy the scales were to clean—or, really, how little dirt or dust they showed—and store when not in use (spoiler: there was very little difference)
• The variety of measurement units (pounds, kilograms, and even stones) and max weight capacity (typically equivalent to 400 pounds; some went up to 440 pounds)
• The usability of the smartphone app (if applicable)
• The perceived quality of the scale’s materials
• The overall experience of using the scale

What You Should Know About Using a Basic Scale Versus a Smart Scale

The most recent scale-related studies on weight loss show that folks who weigh themselves daily are more likely to lose weight (if that’s their goal) and/or maintain their weight over the long term. Ostensibly, this is because if they notice a change they don’t like, they make modifications to diet or exercise habits to affect the number displayed.

Weight on its own isn’t the most useful measure of your body size, as it only tells part of the story—namely, it provides a value for the total of you, without differentiating how much of you is fat versus muscle versus other lean mass (bone, skin, organs, and so on). That’s where a “smart” scale might come in handy. These use bioelectrical impedance, which passes a low-level charge of electricity through your tissues, using the speed at which the charge returns to the device as a way to determine the amount of each type of tissue it passed through. Some smart scales differentiate your body composition percentages to account for your relative bone mass, muscle mass, and body water content, while some give less detail (principally, fat mass and "lean" mass, which encompasses all of those latter three). But this, too, is rife with its own accuracy and validity problems. For one, in a foot-based scale, the charge only passes through the lower body (meaning if you carry more fat below the waist, you’ll come back with a higher body-fat percentage than is likely true), and for another, your hydration level can alter the results. For these reasons, you can’t take these “smart” numbers as the gospel.

All of that said, taking regular recordings of weight and/or body composition—at the same time of day (to better control for your food intake and hydration variables)—can be valuable. And any scale that has an app offers a means for tracking your weight electronically, though pen and paper is just as useful. With regard to the total weight, if your goal is to lose (or gain) a significant amount, the daily or weekly number on a basic scale will show if you’re going in the direction you want, and at what rate. Additionally, by recording biweekly or monthly or even bi-monthly body composition percentages with a “smart” scale, you should be able to see a shift in the percent of muscle versus fat. Those body composition numbers may be especially useful when gauging the efficacy of strength- or muscle-building plan and may also help account for a plateau in weight—in my personal training experience when someone’s aim is to “tone up,” they may not see a dramatic change in their total weight yet be building muscle while losing fat. A log of readings from a bioelectrical impedance device could capture that trend.

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