Weight Watcher’s Scanner

Hi guys! Has anyone been using the new Weight Watcher’s scanner app? What is it exactly? Well…it’s a cool app for iPhone & Android users-you also need to pay for e-tools with Weight Watchers. All ya do is scan the barcodes on packages and boxes of the foods you already have in your home- or ones that you might be wanting to get as you are in the store shopping.

First off let me say this is just my opinion on the app- I do not work for WW or was I asked to take part in a review.

I was excited when the app became available last week and I got busy scanning! I did my yogurt, string cheese, salad dressings, and I thought I’d take a few pics to share with you my cottage cheese scan.

Ya see the black app titled WW SCANNER? Well that is it! Right there next to my WW Mobile app!

This app is really easy to use! I love a user friendly tool! Open the app up…..

Select SCAN at the bottom of the menu and this screen comes up-

Get your item ready to be scanned out….



Hover the camera of you phone over the barcode and you will see it focus on the numbers & lines.

Then you hear a SNAP…. like it took a picture…or maybe that’s just on my iPhone? lol THEN….
TADA!
The PointsPlus value appears before you!

It gets saved in your HISTORY-

Or you can add it to your FAVORITES list that automatically syncs with WW mobile and e-tools! Love this!

They also have a SHOPPING LIST! But my list is empty right now…


You can see from this screen that you can TRACK THIS ITEM-

and then another menu offers a few options-

EDIT SERVING SIZE is something that I find handy in this app! What if I don’t want a 1 Cup serving of cottage cheese for 3 PP? Well ya just adjust the wheel to make it whatever size you want to have! Here I selected 1/2 C for 1 PP!

Once ya hit DONE you can hit ADD TO TRACKER! EASY!

This app also has the PointsPlus CALCULATOR built in too so you don’t need to switch to the WW Mobile app to use it.


So for me this is a handy app to use occasionally. I really don’t have a lot of foods that have barcodes on it to scan but I think about the yogurt section at the grocery store for this being an easier way to find a low PointsPlus option! lol

Previously I used another version not WW related and found it to be less accurate than this one. Not everything I scanned was in this system…I think a carton of Egg Beaters came back a mystery, but ya can’t expect every item to be listed.

So have you been scanning? What do you think?
Happy scanning!
BYE!

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