This ecosystem (RD-901 scale, this app, and portal) is accurate and reliable but lacks data export! – Healthy Edge Mobile Review

This review is for the Healthy Edge app but I use it with the RD-901 and their free My Tanita web portal where you can optionally upload the data to via the app. The app both syncs with the scale and uploads the results to the My Tanita portal reliably. I own two other similar wifi scales and each have had some sporadic sync issues which were very frustrating. For both my wife and I the app has been very stable and not crashed. Nor have I encounter any bugs yet. When looking at the two other similar products I have used in the wireless body composition space, this ecosystem (scale, app, and portal) stands out as being more accurate, consistent, and reliable. This ecosystem lacks the visual bling and some of the “nice to have” features that the other ecosystems have but does excel in the most important areas—except one. It lacks the ability to export data outside of their ecosystem in CSV or any format. This app also stands out in one other area. It shows you muscle mass (and in weight, not percent of body weight). The other similar products either don’t show it or only in percent which is not a safe way to monitor muscle mass or lean mass. None of the other apps graph body fat as a percent of total weight and at the same time graph muscle/lean mass in pounds—very helpful. Overall I like the way the app displays data and the graphs that show multiple items simultaneously is incredibly helpful to see both trending over time and the relationship between different items (weight, body fat%, muscle mass, etc). The app has six different graph pages, each shows two different measurement items: weight / body water%, weight / body fat%, weight / muscle mass in LB/KG, body fat% / body water%, muscle mass in LB/KG / body fat%, body water% / muscle mass in LB/KG. They are great to monitor trending over time. Things I would like to see added to the app: 1.- Ability to export data as a CSV file 2.- Add ability to manually enter data. I would like to at least put some of my old data in so I can use a single app to look at older and newer data 3.- Bidirectional sync of data between My Tanita portal and app. That way the portal serves as a restorable backup resource of the phone app 4.- When looking at the listing of measurements, some type of an identifier (different font possibly or italic) on entries if there is a "comment" associated with that entry. Right now the only way to know what entries have a comment is to open every entry and school down to the bottom. 5.- When viewing an entry be able to use a finger to flick/swipe from left to right to view previous entry(s) and right to left to view future entries. Right now you have to hit "back" and then click in next/past entry. 6.- Have multiple user profiles on a single device. If your kids or spouse don't have an iPhone it would be nice to have multiple user profiles on the phone. 7.- If you enable Apple HealthKit than one of the user profiles would have be assigned as the primary to sync with healthKit Apple HealthKit integration - Weight, body fat, LBM, resting calories 8.- Show lean body mass in the app (I like muscle mass which it does show and keep that there). This can be calculated based on the existing info but would be nice to have in the app. 9.- Partner with MyFitnessPal.com and sync weight and body fat to their site. MyFitnessPal.com is the leading nutrition tracking site and your primary competitors in the wireless scales class (Fitbit, Withings, iHealth) all have APIs that transfer data to the MyFitnessPal.com site. Overall the app works well. I now use it daily, and am glad I invested in the scale and ecosystem. I would recommend the ecosystem to others over their primary competitors. Lastly, I would/will rate it higher when the ability to export the data is added and also restore data back down to the app.
Review by Scott_Baldwin on Healthy Edge Mobile.