Ratings & Reviews for Garmin 400-lb Index S2 Smart White Bathroom Scale with Body Fat Indicator
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What Customers Are Saying
The device provides detailed health and fitness insights, including weight, BMI, body fat, muscle mass, bone mass, and water percentage. Users praise the seamless integration with the Garmin Connect app and the convenience of automatic data tracking and syncing. However, some report issues with the accuracy of body composition metrics, particularly body fat percentage, and occasional connectivity problems. Overall, the scale is a powerful tool for health and fitness tracking, though the accuracy of certain metrics may be questionable.
Customer review summary generated by AI, including incentivized reviews.Hillariously inaccurate for athletes
As a long-time Garmin loyalist currently using the Forerunner 970, I expected the Index S2 to be the final piece of my data puzzle. Instead, it has proven to be the most inaccurate tool in my kit. The scale’s "smart" algorithms seem incapable of processing an athletic profile. The S2 appears stuck on a basic BMI-style interpretation. It measures me (54 y/o, 5'10", 175 lbs, 52 VO2) at 23.5% body fat—a figure that is physically impossible given my very lean physique (visible 8-pack), dense muscul...
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Just the right motivation.
Just the motivation I needed. In addition weight, I love the other metrics of BMI, %body fat, muscle comp etc. and I like that it recognizes other users in the family.
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Seems more like a promising beta
The positives first: The scale is consistent from day to day, had a great display, and I like the day to day weight chart. The negative: On first weighing, the scale showed my weight 5 lbs higher than two other scales available, and my body fat percentage went from 16% on my Index (and verified periodically on other scales) to 28% on the index 2! I understand some variance, and I'd read that a different testing algorithm could show a higher body fat percentage, but a 12% jump to a number that ma...
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Good for the Price
Its good for the price, and it gives decent data. But honestly I just changed to Hume, gives more data. But for the price good buy.
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Worth the price
Love it. Everything about this is 5 star. Highest recommendations given.
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Great product - but ....
There is a lot to like about the S2 Smart Scale. It offers a useful and actionable package of data regarding your body composition and interfaces directly with your Garmin Connect Account to make that data readily accessible. A big benefit is that you can calibrate the % Body Fat based on a current DEXA scan. This allows you to overcome one of the known disadvantages of BIA scales. It has an attractive footprint and Garmin's high quality fit, finish and functionality. There is one thing I don't ...
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Best scale I could have ever imagined!
I absolutely love this scale! The weight and BMI are very accurate. The remaining measurements seem also good, but you have to keep in mind that when you first take these measurements with the scale, that these are your baseline measurements. Then going forward you look to see how the measurements change compared to the baseline. Are the baseline measurements accurate? I don’t know because I don’t have anything to compare them to. But I’m not too concerned with that and more about improving th...
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Best scale I have ever owned
Excellent product. A bit tricky to get synced with my Garmin connect app, but love that I can track my body composition history. Spend the money.
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I can't figure out how to get my scale to upload to my phone. So far the videos haven't helped. I can't get past the torso with the question mark. Still trying. This MIGHT be a great product. So far I'm kinda disappointed.
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The % body fat seem suspect.i weigh a little under 160 body fat reads 31.9 work out hard for 2hrs a day and burn 800+ calories so ths doesn't compute
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Good way to keep track of progress
Had the scale for some time now. Great for keeping track of progress on weight, % body fat and Muscle mass. Recently changed WiFi in house and was a little tricky to change and had to reset scale, lost a few weeks of data. After factory reset was able to set up with new household wifi. Garmin for some reason thinks this is a new scale after the reset which is why I got asked now for a review after owing the scale for several years. Would by again.
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Terrible product
Terrible product. Weight not accurate by over 50 lbs. won’t send weight to phone app even though it says both are synced.
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Weight is accurate, everything else is way off!
I can't recommend this scale. It's typical Garmin quality, but the body composition metrics are so far off as to be useless. Weight is spot on, body fat percentage compared to a Dexa scan is about 10 percentage points high (meaning mine as measured on a DEXA is about 14% and on the S2 is 24%!!), and bone density weight is about half or less of what it should be. It might be useful for tracking trends, but that's not why I bought it. I unfortunately got it through a pro deal and can't return it.....
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Ehh
I bought this a little over a month ago, doesn’t recognize when my foot is on it to activate, doesn’t connect to my Garmin apps, I’ve had to reset it 9-10 times. I can’t return it because I threw away the packaging. 3 stars only because it’s very accurate weight wise.
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Too soon to tell, have only had it for a month
It's too soon to tell if I like it or not. I just switched from a Fitbit Aria to Garmin Index, and my body fat % is completely different. Fitbit said it was 17% (after decreasing from 26% over months of working out), while Garmin scale says it's 25%. So, I don't know which one to believe, and how they each calculate this number.
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Inaccurate body fat % measurements. I ended up returning it. I'll hold out until there's a four point body fat % scale from Garmin.
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Mine couldn't even complete setup
I got this straight from Garmin and spent 3 hours trying to get it to pair to the network and take a reading, to no avail. Endless syncing screens, tried resetting and now It can't even find a single wifi network. I think their software is quite buggy, and it might also have a janky wifi chip in it. Unfortunately I have to return it as it's just a paperweight.
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Failure
Love the concept. Love the linkage with my Garmin account and devices. However the scale is impossible to use. Multiple attempts have to made to get it to register, or a reset has to be done. Takes a good 3-5 minutes before it ‘wakes up’.
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Calculations need improvement
I am active and not overweight, I am 5’08” at 220 lbs. with it being a smart scale that can compute your muscle weight, it has my BMI and body fat percentage extremely high (straight off a chart reading instead of calculating the actual muscle mass, body fat percentage and BMI)
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Very nice indeed.
Lovely functionality and appearance - took many, many attempts to set up. The features definitely help to change lifestyle for the better.
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