Wyze's second smart scale costs $40 less than its first — and you'll notice where the money went.
Seven months after launching its $119.98 Ultra BodyScan, Wyze released a $79.98 Scale BodyScan that trims two features to hit the lower price. Wi-Fi sync is gone, replaced by Bluetooth pairing through the Wyze mobile app, which still hands data off to Apple Health and Google Fit. The customizable LCD is also gone, swapped for a simpler 4.7-inch LED display. What survives the cut is the retractable tethered handle with four additional electrodes, which lets the scale measure body composition across your legs and arms separately rather than treating your body as a single circuit.
That handle is the part that matters. Most budget smart scales read impedance only through your feet, which produces rough estimates that skew based on hydration and posture. Segmental measurement — splitting readings by limb — is typically a feature reserved for clinical devices or scales priced well above $100. Wyze putting it in an $80 device shrinks that gap meaningfully, assuming the underlying accuracy holds up against dedicated hardware.
For most buyers, losing Wi-Fi is a minor inconvenience at worst; you have your phone near a scale already. Whether Wyze's body composition numbers are trustworthy is a harder question the spec sheet doesn't answer — and one worth asking before treating the readout as anything more than a trend line.