After my last WiFi-enabled smart scale broke and refused to connect to the Internet anymore, I sought something simpler and cheaper to replace it. The old scale had all sorts of fancy service integrations that I never used. I just wanted something that would track my weight and report the measurements to the Health app on my iPhone.

The Eufy C20 smart scale is what I landed on and I’m very happy with it — and it’s pretty cheap too. Here’s how it works …

Firstly, the scale works completely independently of any other electronic device or service. The iPhone Apple Health integration is an optional extra, but is not required, and there’s no associated subscriptions or other upsells.

The C20 scale has a relatively small footprint, measuring under 27cm square, so you can tuck it away in your bathroom without it taking up too much space. But what’s nice is on top of the scale, you get a pretty large and bright 3.3-inch color screen.

When you step on the scale, it will take your weight and measure other metrics like body fat and muscle mass at the same time. These numbers are easily glanceable on the big screen, and it will show you a little graphic visualising change over time compared to your last reading. Eufy says the scale is accurate with a variance of ~50g (0.1bs), and it seemed accurate in my testing.