Good scales are available from as little as 30 euros - that's the good news from our test of 17 body fat scales. The less good news: Several expensive models with prices between 100 and 400 euros fail to achieve a good rating. Stiftung Warentest's test results show how you can avoid expensive bad purchases - and save a lot of money...

The Shape Sense Connect 200 from Soehnle is the test winner of the body fat scale test with largely very good measured values. It impressed both in terms of handling and measured values. The deviations of the Pearl "14 in 1 glass body analyser scale" were somewhat larger, but still within the good range...

Describing Withings Body Scan as a smart segment body analysis scale does not do the device justice: it is astonishing how much information about the condition of the body it determines in one go. The scale does not process the data completely satisfactorily, but the accompanying app is an Eldorado for health data freaks...

Compact and smart - The Withings body scale reliably measures the various health parameters and lists them in detail.

Compact and smart: The Withings body scale reliably measures the various health parameters and lists them in detail.