Happy Scale Reviews

by Too Coolll

This has been the most influential weight loss app I think I’ve ever used! I lost ~50 lbs while using it, and while of course HappyScale isn’t completely responsible it played a huge role. One of my big hang ups with weight loss is that when I see that I have gained weight, I get discouraged, even though we have completely normal fluctuations everyday and so many factors can contribute at any given moment (food weight, water retention, hormones, etc.). Happy scale let’s you see past that, and see that despite a slight increase on the scale you are still on track, which keeps me encouraged to keep going.

The only thing preventing me from giving HappyScale a 5 star rating is what happens once you’ve reached your goal weight. I have now reached my goal weight, and use happy scale to make sure I am on track with maintaining. However, even if you are below your goal weight, if you lose weight HappyScale tells you your trends have “improved” and that you have “made progress”. This is a very bad mindset, and encourages disordered habits. If I lose more weight I will be underweight! That should not be encouraged.

If the developers could find a way to make this language more neutral, I would happily change my rating to a 5 star (and even without would still give it 4.5 if given the option!).

by Jillhasjack

Hey there :)
I just wanted to write and say how much I love HappyScale. I have downloaded probably 40 or 50 different weight tracking apps and every single one was a flop. I attribute a huge amount of my success in weight loss to your little icon (and obviously HappyScale it opens 😉). I’ve battled eating disorders, I’ve tried every diet and eating trend, and I have always felt my scale lurking in the corner. Whether it was there tempting me to see if that 15 minute bike ride helped me lose 1/2 a pound from my previous weight, or mocking me to let me know how much weight I’d gained from the 9 fast food meals I’d had that week. The scale was never my friend. Now this may seem silly, but your app name was what attracted me, happy scale. The little icon is so simple but I couldn’t help thinking “awwww that little face wants me to succeed”. Then, through using HappyScale I realized something: weight trends. Over the months I started noticing patterns. I wasn’t just a fatty McFatfat. This little app gave me a happy place to see that it wasn’t always one step forward two steps back. I love the color schemes, I love the set up, I love watching the trends change when I log a new weight. There are so many wonderful aspects of Happy Scale thank you so much!!

by Thea11111

This weight tracking app has been awesome. At first, I didnt really get what the numbers were all tracking because I hadnt put in enough data. After a few weeks, it started to become clear and it is very accurate and helpful. It also really showed me how close I am to my next weight loss landmark which has made it seem more doable to pass up going on some eating splurge in order to reach it.

I definitely find it rewarding to enter in my weight from my scale now. And even when I have water retention or some other fluctuation, HappyScale helps me to take it in stride instead of feeling like I must be doing something wrong and getting flustered. Sure enough, a few days later, my weight will drop down again just like HappyScale 's trends had suggested, so it really helps the scale to be less of a roller coaster. HappyScale is wonderful. Seriously has helped motivate me to lose weight and not become discouraged.

With weight loss, in particular, if you can't see the overall trend of your weight, it is easy to get psyched out and give up. The way HappyScale is configured, it helps to see the bigger picture in a way that most people trying to lose weight cannot quite manage to see. This is a truly beautiful creation.

UPDATE
They've added even more customizations and I've found even more ways to use the features on HappyScale. Seriously, HappyScale is probably the best designed, most functional app I have downloaded.

by LauraBirdie

Love HappyScale! It’s the most healthy way to look at weight loss. Some days, especially as a woman, you may go up a little or fluctuate. HappyScale applies those logged weight entries and still gives you a good idea of your TREND. So, I don’t get as discouraged when I see a 1-2 pound increase because the graph still shows that my overall trend is going down.

I have a lot of weight to loose to be healthy. So I love that I can break it down into manageable milestones that aren’t as overwhelming as my BIG number.

I love the animations as I’ve hit milestones (confetti!) and the progress I see on the arch, especially when I’m getting close to that next milestone!

I’ve tried other weight loss tracking apps and non compare to this one if you have a big goal in mind. I like looking forward to the predictions (knowing it’s an estimate) that if I keep up the work I’m doing to get healthier my overall goal should be achieved in ____ months.

Definitely worth buying premium! I was lucky to have bought early on and was grandfathered into the premium features. I love that the builder is honoring that commitment they made in the beginning as they work to keep improving HappyScale .

5 stars for sure! I’ve shared HappyScale with many friends and family!

by R2coder

I’ve been on a weight loss journey for over 15 years. This year I started a program that seems to be working. I’m using a couple of tools to help me track what I’m eating and exercise but neither are able to use these metrics to predict where I could be if I maintained my pace (calories in versus calories out). HappyScale is near perfect. It uses my current weight and past weight to calculate the rate of loss and where I could be if I continued losing weight based on: my weekly weight-loss goal rate (2 lbs per week) or what my actual weight-loss rate. I started out inputting my weekly weight but found that more data points make HappyScale more accurate (of course).

For me - it is motivating to view these details into my journey because it along with my other tools completes the picture of my progress. It actually keeps me determined to stay on track with my food & exercise because I want to see the numbers change in HappyScale .

Technically/Functionality - I’ve not experienced any glitches or bugs since I started using this about 2 months ago.

Features wise - it pretty much displays everything I want to know. My only wish would be that the prediction chart would show weekly predictions up to 6 months out.

While it shouldn’t matter to the functionality, I did purchase a year subscription.

by Kelynpeanut

I am so impressed by HappyScale. This is probably one of the only apps I’ve used that the free version is excellent. Today I just upgraded to support The developers of HappyScale for doing such a good job. Other apps have forced me to upgrade for a higher amount. This time I did this to support honest people. It’s really exciting to watch your weight go down. The charts and graphs and goals are so helpful and really catching to the eye and fun to use! I weigh myself every morning right when I get up and I will continue to use HappyScale even when I reach my goal. It’s a great way to stay accountable and be honest about where you are. I would rather notice if I gained 2 pounds then after I’ve gained 10. It’s pretty easy to fix a 2 pound gain. As old as I am getting 50 LOL I need to keep track I don’t want to ever get out of shape again. People, just because we’re getting older does not mean we have to get fatter that’s a lie!

by Ashley-MOM123

I love happy scale! It works perfectly for my needs, watching the weight trend helps keeps the level of encouragement up by giving you progress updates, and having your goal broken into smaller bites. So you can not only see your progress but so you can achieve the small goals quickly and keep your fire burning! There are some paid features, I have not purchased the pd version yet, but I probably will soon. Not because I really need anything more than what the free version offers, but because I want to support the creator of such a great app.
Also kudos on not over advertising the paid version in the free on. I have downloaded and deleted apps that may be great, but every few taps a question to buy the other comes up. I’m so happy HappyScale IS NOT like that! Makes using it enjoyable.

I think the only improvement I could think of would be a place to add body measurements.... and that may very well be in the paid version.

by JimW111

Happy scale. I like it. I weigh myself every day. It shows whether I’m trending down or not and how fast. With my weight going up and down HappyScale Happy Scale shows what my weight will be on future dates. If my dieting stays the same, gets better or gets worse. When I blow my diet I am encouraged to move back to my diet when I see how happy scale displays my my past up and down weights and shows what my weight will be in the future, even with my weight going up and down. Full disclosure says I should tell you I bought the upgrade so I could get all that it could do. And it’s worth it.
Adding to my review
I’ve been using and happy with Happy Scale. Happy scale syncs with my health app. I just bought a new Bluetooth scale with its app. It syncs with health app too. I’m still using Happy Scale but I don’t have to enter the weight. The syncing and Bluetooth weight scale is inputting my weight into Happy Scale. This just made using Happy Scale even better.

by Cheeler

Hey there. I’m an overweight physician who’s struggling with his weight. One of the most difficult things to overcome when one is losing or trying to maintain a healthy weight is a sense of defeat by the occasional slightly-higher-than-average weight when working so hard to lose weight on a daily basis. That can encourage people to stop weighing themselves daily, which is counterproductive to actual weight loss and maintenance of healthy weight. 99% of people who try dieting in controlled studies are able to lose weight... and significant amounts of weight. All but 5% regain it back, if not regain more, within 5 years. One of the common factors that increases your likelihood of maintaining a healthy weight is weighing oneself daily — this brilliant, well designed UI/UX app helps overcome the negative psychology associated with normal ups and downs. It’s a pleasure to use HappyScale. It’s very appropriately priced. Highly recommend to all my friends, family, and patients.

by Middle Age Mom

HappyScale is amazing and you should totally get it and pay the one time upgrade if you can afford it. It is worth it not to be afraid to step on the scale. It is very motivating when the smoothing shows you the fluctuations are just fluctuations and your trend is still good. There is an option in settings to leave a tip if you are so inclined, I found it so worth it so I did leave a tip. Thanks for making HappyScale!!!

But my iPad had trouble and was a brick, I am typing this on my phone... but my data was gone, I was very sad to lose my data. I do not understand backing up through Dropbox, I do not trust such sensitive data to Dropbox. So you will have to decide what to do. Missed that there was the option to do my own encrypted data file, export to excel etc, so do a backup!

So much of my life was on my iPad, the apple store wanted to replace mine, but eventually they got a restore done and I did recover my data... but is was scary... back up your data

by Hilw33

I love HappyScale! I was looking for something to track just my weight (not diet/calories/exercise, etc.) because with apps like that I start obsessing about every single bite I eat, wasting time and mental energy figuring out how many calories I can have. HappyScale is PERFECT because it has a ton of features for tracking weight without all the extra stuff I didn’t need or want. I love that it can break up my big goal into smaller milestones, which helps me track small accomplishments along the way so I don’t get discouraged. I also LOVE that it graphs changes in weight as “trends” rather than individual points, which helps account for normal weight fluctuations while still showing it as overall progress rather than a setback. It’s important to me to stay positive along the way to my goal so I don’t start feeling defeated or overwhelmed. HappyScale is helping me to make healthy changes without obsessing over calories.

by Kateinactuality

I can’t possibly describe the ways HappyScale has changed my body image, my relationship with my weight, my approach to weight loss... really my LIFE. I used to DREAD stepping on the scale, so much so that I would only do it consistently for short periods of time, meaning I had no check ins with myself to notice weight gain until it was excessive. Now, I’m EXCITED to step on the scale every morning. The developer of HappyScale who, I’m told, created it to aid in his own weight loss journey, has leveraged the power of data to move weighing oneself from a headspace of personal valuation and judgement to a less personal, fact-based, statistical headspace. For me, the depersonalization of the weight loss process is revolutionary and life-changing. Now, I don’t have to feel bad when my weight fluctuates naturally because I can keep my eye on my total average or 10 day best numbers. The goal-tracking feature is also super helpful and motivating. HappyScale is amazing— I highly recommend it to everyone and I know, and even people I don’t. Like you. ;)

by Varwig

Over the past few years, through stress eating, I had put on about 40 pounds. Two years of dieting only put on more weight. Happy Scale provided an visual and goal oriented alternative to other apps or programs. I set my goal at my target weight (about 40 pounds), with a lofty goal of three pounds a week. HappyScale then breaks your goal into smaller goals. I chose 10 smaller increments. It given you an expected target weight date and a target date for each smaller goal. When you lose, an animated meter appears showing your progress. After weighing each morning I was able to put in my weight and see my progress. Gain a few pounds? The only way it shows up is on your graph. Your smaller goals still remain the same. I am proud to say that 7 months I have not dieted, but worked to change my eating habits all to meet small weight loss goals. It is much easier to work at losing 4 pounds than 40 pounds on a daily basis. I am now down 40 pounds with only a few more pounds to go. Thank you happy scale for making weight loss charting easy and fun!

by Torrancen90

Puns intended. Like most people I have many ups and downs with my weight. I’ve always been in the plus size weight range, and I love my body, however I do acknowledge that being on the lower end of the PS spectrum is much more beneficial to my overall health. So when life hands you pounds you’ve got to make lemon water, its number crunching time. However, I can do just about everything right but once I see the number on my scale start trickling up or plateauing (even if just for a day or two) I lose most if not all motivation. My mood for my entire day can be adjusted by that dumb little number on the scale.
The moving average is amazing for someone like me. It’s helped me stay on track and not get discouraged. I’m also a huge HUGE fan of the milestones section I love that it lets you know what your percentage is until you reach your next milestone, and if you gain a few oz that percentage won’t go down, again helping to not discourage. I’ve never stayed with a weight tracking app as long as I’ve been using Happy Scale and I ain’t going anywhere but down. I Love HappyScale!

by Coco Hillbilly6

As the title states happy scale is incredibly easy to navigate and use for people who are newer to healthy living and just want an easy app to keep track of your progress. Me and my wife started Keto in December of 2020 and as of today 6/6/21 have both lost about 70 pounds each and although a small part I would say happy scale played a part nonetheless. Being able to easily pull up and look at the progress you’ve made and at what dates you achieved this or that weight and also being able to look ahead at your projected goal achievement date and the like is incredibly inspiring and helps to keep you motivated as you go through your journey to being a healthier person. I would absolutely recommend happy scale to anyone trying to either reach a goal weight weather it’s loosing or gaining weight or just trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I can’t stress enough how helpful it is to be able to go back and see what your weight was at a certain time for reference instead of just trying to remember in your head.

by Ross&DodgeFamily

I love HappyScale! I’ve been using it for almost a year and am down 19 pounds! I had used the free version for quite some time prior to upgrading to the full version. After the upgrade I had reached out to the developer and had gotten a quick and immediate response. Just recently my iTunes account crashed. I reached out to the developer again, and to my surprise, I received another quick and immediate response. The developer had remembered me, and was able to help me get HappyScale back up and running in less than a 24 hour time period from when I had reached out. The professionalism of the developer was and is outstanding! I’m so pleased I had upgraded and don’t regret spending any money on HappyScale which I do use daily! If this developer were to create any other apps in the future, I personally would instantaneously upgrade to the full version. The developer has put a lot of time into the “Happy Scale” app and it shows. This is my unbiased opinion as a consumer. I’ve used some really bad apps and some really good apps, but after finding Happy Scale, I’ve stopped looking for weight tracking apps because Happy Scale has everything I need and more! Thanks Russ!

by Gogo1234

I’ve used HappyScale daily for three years. In that time, the gently calculated “moving average” helped me approach my scale with a better feeling. Instead of “I’m awful. I went up a pound!” I now think, oh that’s today’s entry. How’s my progress going overall? I’ve lost weight every year since I started with HappyScale. I’ve improved my nutrition, and I have kept with a regular exercise routine (nothing extreme). The overall progress I’ve made includes a trend to go down every summer, and up every winter. This trend is really obvious when I look at the graph of my weight change in HappyScale . It shows me that it’s ok to go up in the winter. That’s my natural pattern. And overall, I’ve gone up less and down more each year. It’s been a gradual improvement, and HappyScale has been a huge part of keeping me feeling positive. The way it shows me my progress and trends is the key to my weight loss success. I’ve stuck with HappyScale for three years now. I’m down 22 pounds. Little by little. HappyScale is incredible. Game changer.

Update: HappyScale continues to be huge in my weight loss journey. I’m down 27 pounds now. I hope I can use HappyScale forever!!

by DrinkBot

I’ve struggled with weight my entire adult life, and I love having data, so HappyScale is pretty much perfect for me. Seeing the normalized trend, the rates, and various ways of projecting out into the future is incredibly reassuring and insightful. I can’t give HappyScale high enough praise!

If I could ask for one feature request, it would be a way to mark a date as a breakpoint in the trend. For example, I went on a week-long trip and by the scale weight I gained six pounds (it was AWESOME). I’d love to be able to not normalize across that range of time, and instead set the beginning of the trip, meaning the last date of regular weigh-ins, as the end of a trend line and start a new one upon returning. This would make it easier to appreciate the different phases of weight change overtime, or to see more discretely how a change in diet or regimen effects weight.

Another example: I recently started intermittent fasting and my weight trend is very different. I’d love to be able to pin that date and the moving average trend leading up to it, because now my prior moving averages are all sliding down and I can’t see a clean break in the moving average where I started IF. The scale weight tells the story well, but the moving average smooths it out too well.

by Kicklucy

About a year ago I was at my heaviest weight ever, just over the threshold of “obese.” I wanted to lose 60 pounds, but it felt like an insurmountable hurdle. Something made me give it one more try anyway after turning 40, and in May 2021 I set about doing the only thing that had ever worked for me before: portion control and taking opportunities to make healthier choices. I tried other weight loss apps, but they were overly complicated and discouraging. I saw someone mention Happy Scale and decided to try it.

HappyScale is very simple, but I find it so motivating. I weigh myself almost every morning before eating. The fluctuations of the scale can be frustrating, but Happy Scale gives me a wider perspective and helps me see patterns. Less than a year later, I’m down 36 pounds (slow and steady on purpose), having just achieved a healthy BMI for the first time in about 8 years. Still making steady progress and expecting to reach my goal weight this summer. I’m really glad I found HappyScale. It’s the little things like having to click to view my new trends when I make progress, and seeing my milestones fill in that keep me going! If I could change one thing, I’d like to see some confetti every time I reach a milestone 🤣

by MiaKhadijah

I have never been one to weigh myself more than once a week. Usually less than that(I guess that's how the weight creeped on me to begin with). It's really interesting to see how much your weight fluctuates. The number on the scale is almost psychological. If my weight goes up a pound in a day when I know I didn't eat nearly enough for that to make sense, I will still get discouraged, but then I look at my moving average and it has gone down even though my weight on the scale went up.

I noticed this is how my weight fluctuates throughout the month. I get to a new low weight and then it increases 1-3 pounds until maybe a week later it drops off and I reach a new low weight. I have lost 6.5 pounds this month! It's a little bit, but it's more than I've been able to do before HappyScale. I also like the milestones. It's better than going "Ah, I need to lose 30 pounds." I have it broken up into 10 milestones. I have passed two and have eight more to go! A very simple interface but highly effective! I recommend HappyScale to anyone!

by Heidbeuabflqyv3/-7&

Lets you put the daily ups and downs in perspective and see you’re actually doing fine even if one day looks bad. Also tells you if your overall trend is on a bad track. A big improvement on the usefulness of daily or periodic weigh-ins.
The design is very elegant and easy to use — the developer is clearly someone who loves math AND has great design sense. No extraneous bells and whistles— everything is useful..
I also like how you can get the original app for an irresistible one dollar, provide an optional tip as a thanks If you like it, and upgrade for a few more dollars whenever. So far I’m loving the basic app and provided a tip but will probably upgrade. I do wish there was a diagonal line for predicted progress at the goal at loss rate you set — it would make a even easier to see if you’re on track.

by Morgan_edwards

My husband and I have been using HappyScale since February. And together, we’ve lost just over 22lbs! I love the multiple login feature, and the moving average weights, and the customization is brilliant! It’s everything I ever want to do and see with weightloss! The milestone break down is encouraging, and it’s so helpful to have a tool track our current weightloss rate. I seriously cannot say enough good things about HappyScale!! Download it and watch scale anxiety crumble and weight melt off! You’ll feel confident and more aware of your body, learning to use weight as a tool and not an identifier... I’ve donated a few times to HappyScale developer through HappyScale because of my gratitude, and I hope this continues to be an easily accessible tool for those wanting to shed some weight. Good luck on your journey!

by Best Life Of All Time

I’ve had HappyScale since late 2017. And I’ve seen some dramatic improvements in the experience. I’ve lost more than 20 pounds, now less than 5 pounds to my goal weight. And as someone who never wanted to weigh in, ever, HappyScale has helped to change my perspective. The predictors are amazing! The data presentation helps me feel great about my journey. The graphs are very helpful as well, really gratifying! I can’t say enough good things, in fact, I’ve never done this before, but I deliberately sent money today to the developer of HappyScale, via the tip opportunity, that is optional. Because what I realize, is I spend more time using this data to help me on my journey to control and maintain my weight, than any other tool. Thank you so much! I hope you try it, and would encourage you to think to donate if you find it as helpful as me.

by Ashliebelle

I've tried in the past to put my daily weight into an excel doc and calculate averages to help even out the huge daily fluctuations that can be super frustrating while trying to lose weight. The calculations that do the moving average on Happy Scale are so much better than what I could come up with.

Even when I've had three "high" days in a row, the moving average helps me keep my focus on the long game, reminding me that I'm probably still losing weight based on the trends, and it keeps me from getting discouraged. I'm far less likely to do unhealthy things to get low numbers on the scale in the short run, like skip meals, because getting a super low weight in Happy Scale is just as ineffective on the moving average as a super high weight. Slow and steady, and doing it healthily!