Body-composition hardware, ranked
4 products across 1 brand, ordered by how many of each vendor's claims we could confirm ourselves. It is not a claim that any product works.
This category covers consumer bioelectrical impedance (BIA) hardware, currently Hume Health's Hume Pod scale and Hume Band wearable, used to estimate body fat percentage, muscle mass and related metrics at home. BIA hardware is a real, established measurement technique, but consumer devices carry real accuracy limitations relative to a clinical reference standard like DEXA.
Before comparing specific devices, bioelectrical impedance scales: how accurate are they really covers what actually shifts a reading (hydration, recent exercise, time of day) and how to get useful data from a consumer scale despite those limits.
Hume Pod
8-sensor bioelectrical impedance body-composition scale
HumeWeave 2.0
Replacement wearable strap
Common questions
Less accurate than a clinical method like DEXA for a precise, single-point-in-time reading. They're more useful for tracking trends over time under consistent testing conditions than for an exact number on any given day.