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openScale is an Open Source App for Android to keep a log of your body weight, fat, water and muscle.
## How its started ...
I gained a little weight while ago, not overweighted, but I decided to do something about it. So I started my first diet. I bought a diet book in a book shop and followed it strictly about 2 weeks. At the beginning it was really tough, but in the end my diet worked out. I lost around 10kg (around 22lb). In that time I checked my weight every two or three days with my normal digital bathroom scale. That's helped me to stay motivated because I was happy to see that I gradually lost some weight. The disappointment was that my diet progress was not tracked in any way. Of course I could create a spreadsheet and wrote down my weight values but that would be troublesome and not seasonable in a world of smartphones and tablets.
I gained a little weight a while ago, not overweighted, but I decided to do something about it. So I started my first diet. I bought a diet book in a book shop and followed it strictly about 2 weeks. At the beginning it was really tough, but in the end my diet worked out. I lost around 10kg (around 22lb). In that time I checked my weight every two or three days with my normal digital bathroom scale. That's helped me to stay motivated because I was happy to see that I gradually lost some weight. The disappointment was that my diet progress was not tracked in any way. Of course I could create a spreadsheet and wrote down my weight values but that would be troublesome and not seasonable in a world of smartphones and tablets.
My first intention was to buy ready to use wireless scale. So I searched on the internet for a wireless bathroom scale that can track my weight and display my diet progress on a smartphone or tablet. I found a couple of start-ups and companies which have wireless scales, for example [FitBit Aria](http://www.fitbit.com/de/aria) , [Withings Smart Body Analyzer](http://www.withings.com/de/smart-body-analyzer.html) , [Runstatic libra](https://www.runtastic.com/shop/de/runtastic-libra-scale) , [Medisana BS-430](http://www.medisana.de/Gesundheitskontrolle/Personenwaagen/BS-430-connect-Koerperanalysewaage-HausMed.html) and [Beurer BF-800](http://www.beurer.com/web/en/products/weight/diagnostic_scales/BF-800-white). Most of the design of the wireless scales and the app design are really good but the big drawback is that (except Beurer BF-800 scale) sends all your data directly into the cloud of each company. Beside that you lost your privacy and the high prices, you need always an internet connection. You are heavily dependent to the company servers. For example some Withings users reported that they have always a delay between weighting and seeing the result in the app. All in all I don't want to give any health data to a company. The Beurer BF-800 was the only scale that doesn't send automatically all your data to a cloud (of course it's possible with Beurer-Connect). I decided to give Beurer BF-800 a try, so I bought one. I installed the [Beurer Health Manager](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beurer.connect.healthmanager) on my Nexus 10 tablet and tried to connect the scale via Bluetooth with my tablet. It didn't work. My tablet has Bluetooth 3.0 and the scale works with Bluetooth 4.0 (also named as Bluetooth Smart) and it is not downwards compatible (didn't know that before). To be fair on the Beurer website is a [list of compatible smartphones](http://www.beurer.com/web/we-dokumente/gebrauchsanweisungen/list-compatible-smartphones.pdf). But the Beurer Health Manager lacks also in design and many users reported on Google Play that they are unsatisfied with the app. Furthermore I don't want to buy extra a new tablet or smartphone that has Bluetooth 4.0 for only logging my weight. So I sent the scale back.