# Shapa

> Personalized health platform with a numberless scale for long-term lifestyle change. (iPhone/iPad app by Shapa Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shapa/id1053767884 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Shapa Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1053767883)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.50/5 from 2,943 App Store ratings · 114 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 70 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2017-02-22
- Data updated: 2026-09-01
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shapa/id1053767884/reviews.md

## What is Shapa?

Shapa is not a diet and exercise program - it's unique platform that pairs a numberless scale with a user-friendly app to motivate you toward healthy lifestyle changes. You'll get a tailored program based on your personality, habits, and environment to help you achieve long-term weight management success.


Measure Progress Not Weight:

No more love-hate relationship with your scale. It's normal for weight to fluctuate daily, and the way traditional scales are designed actually hinders your progress.


Get a More Accurate Sense of Your Health:

Instead of seeing your weight, our system uses smart algorithms to tell you your Shapa Color and your Shapa Age, truer metrics of your actual health.


Personalized to You:

Shapa analyzes your unique personality, preferences, environment, habits, and lifestyle. As a result, your Shapa apps recommends personalized activities called Missions that are right for YOU.


Features:

Shapa Color and Shapa Age: These are better feedback mechanisms to replace seeing your weight.  As you progress, you'll see your Shapa Color and Shapa Age improve!

Missions: Small, simple daily actions that are personalized to you.

Progress Review: Track your and celebrate your progress in your Shapa program.

Integration With Fitness Devices: Shapa allows you to sync with the Apple Health app and many other fitness platforms to record your fitness data. With this fitness data, Shapa will provide additional feedback about your activity in the Progress Review screen.

Vacation Mode: You can take a pause so as not to effect your progress over time. Or take Shapa with you, it loves to travel too! 

Shapa Streak: Keep your weigh-in streak alive every time you step on the Shapa.

Community: Invite people to Shapa, share your progress

Amazon Alexa: Get your Alexa to read out your daily Missions.

Design: Shapa is sleek circular design (in cherry, oak, black, orange) so that it looks like it belongs in your home.


Why Shapa? We all know that weight gain is linked to serious health risks, from heart disease to diabetes. But for most of us, losing weight is an uphill battle. Shapa takes a behavioral science approach that understands the psychology behind why it’s difficult to lose weight.

Developed by leading social scientist Dan Ariely, Shapa guides you to long-term weight management success through achieving healthy milestones in a personalized program. Shapa pairs an innovative device with a user-friendly app to analyze, track, and motivate you. Shapa is not a diet and exercise program - it is a long term health solution.

## Key features

- Numberless scale for progress tracking
- Personalized health metrics (Shapa Color, Shapa Age)
- Tailored daily activity recommendations (Missions)
- Integration with fitness devices and Apple Health
- Progress tracking and review
- Vacation mode and weigh-in streak
- Community sharing and Amazon Alexa integration

## What do users think of Shapa?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Awesome scale and great way to lose weight
- 👍 Helps with weight loss journey
- 👍 Motivational and encouraging
- 👍 Tracks progress without obsessing over numbers

**Cons**

- 🐛 Buggy app with connectivity issues
- 🔋 Battery life problems
- 👎 Subscription required for full functionality
- 👎 Poor customer service
- 👎 Unreliable data tracking and syncing

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes frequently
- Syncing issues with Apple Health
- Inconsistent weight tracking
- Subscription renewal problems

**Most requested features**

- Option to see actual weight numbers
- Better integration with Apple Health
- More customization for individual needs
- Improved missions and challenges

## Recent user reviews (10 of 114)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shapa/id1053767884/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Lifetime membership

*2026-07-22, version 2.8.6*

Thank you for introducing a lifetime membership! I initially got Shapa as part of the Vitality program and I enjoy the product but renewing has been expensive and a hassle. Lifetime membership has made a lifetime user out of me.

### 3/5 — Limited options

*2026-05-31*

Many of the people who are drawn to a device like this have a history of disordered eating. Because of the audience, I am confused about some of the app developer choices. The language about the colors and weight loss in general is NOT neutral. It is somewhat emotional with congratulatory messages as well as sort of a chastising tone if there is a day of weight gain. There is no way to turn this off as far as I can tell. A far more helpful app and device would just give me the color without any additional commentary (or at least the ability to disable the quotes and “encouragement”). I am neutral about weight. I don’t need software to have feelings about it that I do not.

### 1/5 — Great concept

*2026-02-28, version 2.8.2*

Terrible support and hardware. The scale constantly needs to be calibrated and bugs out leaving you with a paid membership you can’t use. Had a total of 4 scales now, same result of the scale being inoperable. Customer service to correct the situation is a joke.

### 2/5 — Moralizing BS

*2026-01-09, version 2.8.2*

I love the idea of this scale. But the kids of people who are drawn to this are also the same kind of people who are unlikely to respond well to a frowny face based on the number of times they weigh in per week. I don’t need or want motivation. I just want a simple numberless scale that lets me know if I am on the right track. I don’t need sad faces or moralistic language. But there does not seem to be a way to turn any of this off, and you have to use the app to see the colors. 🤷‍♀️

### 2/5 — iPhone issues

*2026-01-08, version 2.8.2*

No complaints until I got the iPhone 17 in October. After that, I haven’t been able to connect to the scale. Customer service seemed to be helpful initially, but then told me that I would either need to use another way to connect (inconvenient), get a new scale (why would I spend the money when my current one was barely a year old and their support wasn’t supporting), or download IOS Beta (still didn’t resolve issue). Can’t recommend at this time.

### 5/5 — Awesome scale and great way to lose weight.on a rating of 1 to 10 I give The Shapa scale s  10.

*2025-10-18, version 2.7.9*

What a great scale and motivational words of wisdom that follow with a video of someone making me to want to keep going and setting things for me to do and all of this is helping to focus on losing weight and getting myself healthy in the process. 10 Kudos to the inventor of SHAPA.

### 2/5 — Wouldn’t recommend: they don’t keep it up to date

*2025-10-15, version 2.7.7*

I first got this scale a little over a year ago, and it was amazing at first. Unfortunately, they don't keep it up to date. It's not compatible with the newest iPhones, and so they told me that I needed to just get another device to use it with. I'm using an old iPad, which it also doesn't work with, and they gave me the advice to try to turn it off and turn it on again. Really disappointed with the level of technical support and follow-through. Great idea. Wish they kept up with the technical side of things.

### 3/5 — Great, especially when features work

*2025-07-19*

The app has been really a wonderful tool in my weight loss journey. In the last several months it seems like more features are having issues. I can’t track period weight gain, the results rarely load on their own anymore (I have to just eventually hit the “back” button to get my daily color), and recently it has stopped talking to my Health app (which was part of the appeal in getting this in the first place, being able to track health data in more detail). Because the daily results don’t regularly load on their own anymore I don’t get to see the little rewarding animations of my Shapa Age going down, celebratory milestones, or my hiker climbing the mountain towards my goal. 

TLDR: it’s been a helpful tool in tracking towards my goals and creating a daily habit of recording, but the rewarding feel is lessened by less features working as intended.

### 3/5 — I’m on my husbands plan and I renewed and it keeps going back to renewal every time I use my app

*2025-06-05, version 2.7.7*

Fine if you update me like my husband did

### 1/5 — Broken

*2025-04-11, version 2.7.7*

You broke connectivity with pretty much every app yours feeds with the last update and I just don’t have the energy to ask you to fix it yet again

## Frequently asked questions about Shapa

### What does the Shapa app do?

The Shapa app is part of a unique platform that pairs a numberless scale with a user-friendly app to motivate healthy lifestyle changes. It provides a personalized program based on your personality, habits, and environment to help you achieve long-term weight management success. It focuses on metrics like Shapa Color and Shapa Age rather than just weight.

### What are the key features of Shapa?

Key features include a numberless scale that provides Shapa Color and Shapa Age as health metrics, personalized daily activity recommendations called Missions, progress tracking, integration with fitness devices and Apple Health, a vacation mode, Shapa Streak for weigh-ins, community sharing, and Amazon Alexa integration.

### How does Shapa help with weight management?

Shapa takes a behavioral science approach, understanding the psychology behind weight management challenges. It guides users toward long-term success through personalized programs and healthy milestones, focusing on holistic health metrics and daily actions rather than just traditional dieting or exercise.

### Is Shapa compatible with other fitness devices?

Yes, Shapa allows you to sync with the Apple Health app and many other fitness platforms. This integration helps record your fitness data, which Shapa then uses to provide additional feedback about your activity in the Progress Review screen.

### What is the cost of Shapa?

The provided data indicates the app is free with in-app purchases and has ads. The Shapa platform typically involves purchasing the physical numberless scale, which then unlocks the full app experience and its features.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.8.8 — 2026-09-01

Improved support for syncing blood pressure measurements with Apple Health.

### 2.8.7 — 2026-07-27

Bug fixes and small improvements!

### 2.8.6 — 2026-06-17

Fixed a bug that prevented data syncing with Apple Health.

### 2.8.5 — 2026-06-08

Implemented support for biometric login if the user opts-in to use it.

### 2.8.4 — 2026-05-28

Fixed an issue with the Apple Health integration. Some users reported seeing a white popup on the dashboard that wouldn't go away. This issue is resolved in this new release.

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