Healthy Edge Mobile 4+

I live in the Garmin app world, and I am familiar with performance oriented software. I’ve had this scale and app for about three weeks now, and while this app is more fun than just getting weight, if the performance of the app is anything like the performance of the scale, then don’t pay attention to any of it. I like to see the muscle quality increasing and I assume that’s good, but there’s no explanation for what this is about in the app, or how these readings are done, or what you should look for. You have to go out of the app and Google what Tanita readings mean, and Google takes you back to Tanitas information that is just not helpful and that is inconsistent. According to Google’s information on Tanita’s readings, I have an extremely high muscle quality but the app says average (next to that really high number) and I try to figure out what it’s doing and it apparently merges two numbers together but it doesn’t really tell you how or how it can get to an end result of average. Then the app glitches so that you can’t pull up prior measurements. It will highlight but not open and there’s no way to get it open even if you exit and go back in.
So get this if you just like having fun with these things, but don’t think that this is a really sophisticated piece of equipment — the app is the giveaway.

This app takes the data from the scale/body monitor and transfers it to this app. Then you can transfer the data to the Apple Health app. There are a several issues. The data number for physique is missing and should be shown. In the graphs it is necessary to scroll through blank pages for a segmentation monitor since the monitor that l own does not do segmented calculations. The app knows my product model so it should not make me go through those pages. The Apple Health app only displays four measurements but the monitor takes eleven. I would like all 11 to be shown in Apple Health. Tanita makes some very good and powerful software using monitor data to create a health dashboard. This software should be completely rewritten to show health analysis of the data.

The Tanita 545 Pro may be the best currently available BIA body composition device, though it hasn’t yet been compared to a gold standard in any published research study.

However, the supporting software, including this app, Health for Tanita, and MyTanita, are dreadfully crude and underdeveloped, and has not been updated in more than 2 years. This calls into question their unsubstantiated claims regarding the accuracy of this $500 device and raises questions regarding long term commitment to BIA measuring devices for consumers.