Comparison

Monitor Your Weight vs Happy Scale

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Monitor Your Weight

Track your weight and body measurements to achieve your fitness goals. This app offers detailed statistics, personalized ideal weight suggestions, and the ability to manage multiple profiles. It supports various units and integrates with digital scales and HealthKit.

Highlights
  • Track single or multiple profiles
  • Track body measurements
  • Calculate ideal weight
  • Full screen progress graphs
  • BMI and body fat calculation
  • Daily calorie intake calculation
  • Integration with digital scales and HealthKit
Features
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Award Winning Weight Tracker App developed as a tool mainly to help motivate a person following a diet and/or exercise program to reach their desired target weight within a predefined period. * Best App developed in Kuwait - Annual Informatics Awards * * Winner of 7th Annual Best App Ever Awards under Health Category * As the name indicates, you will be able to enter your weight on a regular basis and monitor your progress accordingly through means of statistics and graphs. You may also enter and track multiple profiles as well - monitor the progress of your family members, spouse, friends, colleagues - or simply create more than 1 profile for yourself to set partial targets until you reach your ultimate goal. This app will also suggest your ideal weight and recommend the amount of time needed to reach that target based on your current weight, height, body frame, gender and age. You may, of course, choose to alter the suggested targets based on your own plans. Main Features: - Tracks single or multiple profiles - Track various Body Measurements in addition to weight - Option to synchronize your data between multiple devices or backup to our server - Measurements may be represented in Kilos, Pounds, Stones, Meters or Feet - Calculates ideal weight based on age, height, gender and body frame - Full screen graph that shows your overall weight loss progress over time - BMI (Body Mass Index) calculated - Calculates daily calorie intake - Calculates percentage body fat - Total Weight Loss calculated - Remaining amount of weight calculated - Average Daily Loss calculated - Average Weekly Loss calculated - Overall progress calculated - Possibility to enter new weights at earlier dates - Displays an indicator to show the quality of your daily progress - PIN lock to secure your privacy - Show the remaining weight on the App Icon - Multiple Language localisation supporting over 15 languages - Possibility to export all your recorded data - Integration with Digital scales: Garmin, Withings, Aria, WiT - Integration with HealthKit to share data with Apple Health app

About

Happy Scale

This app helps you understand your weight loss journey by analyzing scale fluctuations. It smooths out daily variations to reveal your true progress, predict future weights, and break down goals into manageable milestones.

Highlights
  • See true progress with mathematical analysis
  • Smooth out weigh-in fluctuations
  • Predict future weight
  • Break down goals into milestones
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • BMI calculator
Features
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Dieting is hard enough. But when you work hard, hop on the scale, and see a number that’s higher than yesterday? Well, that’s just not fair! It’s time to tame the scale! Happy Scale helps you make sense of the frustrating ups and downs of weigh-ins by using mathematical analysis to make sense of your scale weights. You’ll: • understand your true trend, • take the sting out of plateaus, and • be able to predict what you’ll weigh for an upcoming event • SEE YOUR TRUE PROGRESS: Happy Scale uses sophisticated math to learn the true trend of your progress. You can see what you’re really losing each week. • NO MORE PLATEAUS: Use the moving average progress tracking options to see steady progress every day! • SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE: Have a lot to lose? Break your weight loss goal into small, incremental milestone goals so you can focus on short-term, achievable goals! • THE PERFECT SUPPLEMENT: Use this app in conjunction with other popular apps. Weight entries can be automatically imported from apps that support exporting to the Apple Health app, and Happy Scale will export all your weights to Apple Health so other apps can see them. • IMAGINE YOUR SUCCESS: See predictions about what you’ll weigh in the future if you keep up your current trends, and set commitment goals for yourself! • KNOW YOUR NUMBERS: Our new BMI calculator shows you exactly where you stand and what weight ranges you need to hit for different health categories. No more guessing if you’re almost there! • WORKS ON ALL YOUR DEVICES: Seamlessly sync between your iPhone and iPad! So, have your previous diets failed because you lost motivation? Try Happy Scale today and join thousands of users who use this app to TAME THE SCALE! ------------------ This app optionally integrates with Apple Health. It is an opt-in feature that’s accessible from the Settings menu. ------------------ If you purchase a monthly or yearly subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Your account will automatically be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://happyscale.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://happyscale.com/terms

Screenshots

Monitor Your Weight4 screens
Happy Scale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Monitor Your Weight at free with in-app purchases against Happy Scale's subscription. Monitor Your Weight also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Happy Scale's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (91% vs 74%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Monitor Your Weight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Happy Scale sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Monitor Your Weight against 4.9 for Happy Scale. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23K and 58K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Monitor Your Weight's written reviews are positive against 91% of Happy Scale's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monitor Your Weight ships an update every 4 days, Happy Scale weekly. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Monitor Your Weight versus Happy Scale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonitor Your WeightHappy Scale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (23K ratings)4.9 (58K ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.6% of reviews91.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23K58K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
Best chart rank—#188 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB65 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHusain Al-BustanFront Pocket Software LLC

Customer experience

Monitor Your Weight

All ratings23,465 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews549 reviews
Positive73.6%
Neutral5.5%
Negative20.9%

Happy Scale

All ratings57,904 ratings
Positive98.2%
Neutral1.2%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews715 reviews
Positive91.5%
Neutral1.7%
Negative6.9%

User reviews

Monitor Your Weight

From 23K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 📊 Helpful graphs and data visualization
  • 🔒 Secure with password protection
  • 🔗 Syncs across devices
  • 💪 Motivating for weight loss journey

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with syncing and data loss
  • 📏 Suggested weight targets may be unrealistic
  • 🔍 Difficult to edit past entries
  • 🔘 Limited customization options

Happy Scale

From 58K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Excellent weight loss support tool
  • 👍 Motivating and engaging to track weight
  • 👍 Provides great insights and predictions
  • 👍 Smooths out weight fluctuations
  • 👍 Breaks down weight loss journey into milestones

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Reminders don't work for some users
  • 💰 Subscription model is expensive for some

Bugs and requests

Monitor Your Weight

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Notifications feature not working as expected
  • Landscape mode not functioning properly
  • Occasional crashes or freezes

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to add notes and comments with weight entries
  • Extend graph/history beyond current goal
  • Provide more detailed body measurement tracking
  • Improve accessibility and screen reader support

Happy Scale

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Reminders don't work for some users

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to track body measurements and body fat percentage
  • Provide more chart/graph options (60-day, 6-month)
  • Add a watch app or complication for easier access
  • Implement more celebratory features when reaching goals

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Monitor Your Weight

One-time1
  • Synchronization Option$0.99
8 purchases

Happy Scale

Subscriptions2
  • Happy Scale Deluxe (Monthly)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Happy Scale Deluxe (Yearly)7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time6
  • Tip $1$0.99
  • Tip $3$2.99
  • Tip $5$4.99
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  • Tip $10$9.99
  • Happy Scale Premium (Lifetime)$39.99
  • Happy Scale Deluxe (Lifetime)$39.99

Questions

Is Monitor Your Weight free?
Monitor Your Weight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Happy Scale free?
Happy Scale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Monitor Your Weight or Happy Scale?
Happy Scale is rated higher. Monitor Your Weight averages 4.8 out of 5 from 23K ratings, while Happy Scale averages 4.9 from 58K ratings.
Do Monitor Your Weight or Happy Scale have ads?
Monitor Your Weight shows ads; Happy Scale does not.
Which is updated more often, Monitor Your Weight or Happy Scale?
Monitor Your Weight ships an update every 4 days, and Happy Scale weekly. Most recently, Monitor Your Weight was updated on September 24, 2026 and Happy Scale on September 24, 2026.

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