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There you’re clearly shown, through numbers and graphs, how all of your personal metrics (10 related to sleep, 5 to readiness, and 7 to activity) are fluctuating on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Tap the hamburger icon in the top left corner, and then click Trends. Unless you know where to find it, you could easily miss one of the most useful sections of the Oura app: Trends. Other notable features include: Trend reports

Readiness Score indicates how much you and your body can handle at the moment by accounting for sleep, activity, and signs of overall stress.

Activity Score analyzes how well you're balancing your activity, inactivity, and rest based on factors such as your calorie burn, step count, heart rate, and training frequency.

Sleep Score encapsulates your most recent night of sleep by breaking down your deep sleep, REM sleep, time to sleep, the timing of sleep, restfulness, and nightly heart rate.

At the most basic level, that translates to three daily scores, which you can dive further into in the dedicated tabs located at the bottom of the app:

Becky Wade FirthĪs mentioned above, Oura Ring uses 24/7 heart rate monitoring and seven temperature sensors to get a continual read on what’s happening inside you. Sleep Score encapsulates your most recent night of sleep by breaking down your deep sleep, REM sleep, time to sleep, the timing of sleep, restfulness, and nightly heart rate.

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Lastly, Oura Ring is Bluetooth Low-Energy equipped, EMF-Safe, and Airplane Mode friendly.

It’s also safe to wear in a wide range of temperatures, ranging from ice baths and cryotherapy chambers to hot tubs and saunas. The ring is water-resistant up to 100m, which means you can wear it in the shower and pool without worry. You can also check the battery life in the top right-hand corner of the app.Ī few final tech specs worth mentioning: Unlike some materials, the inner molding of Oura Ring is non-allergenic and non-metallic. The charger is about the size of a fat potato chip and has an indicator light that lets you know where it is in the charging process. I can verify both, having charged mine every 4 or 5 days for the amount of time it took me to shower and get ready for the day. Oura claims the charge lasts 4 to 7 days and only takes 20 to 80 minutes to refill. Even though it looks a little gaudy, especially on small hands like mine, the ring still takes up way less real estate than any health or fitness tracker I’ve seen.Īnother area in which Oura Ring shines is its battery life. Made of titanium with a PVD coating, it’s about as thick as a wedding band (2.55mm), and actually weighs less than a conventional ring (just 4 to 6g, depending on the size). On larger fingers, it could pass as an inexpensive wedding band, the type you might wear while working out or traveling. One of the best parts about Oura Ring is its relative subtlety. You’ll lose the ability to see your contributors, tailored insights, features, and other in-app content that makes the ring such a powerful tool. You can choose to cancel your membership, but then the app will only show your three daily Oura scores (Readiness, Sleep, and Activity), ring battery, basic profile information, and app settings.

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If you’re considering buying one, keep in mind that once you’ve swallowed the cost of the ring, you’re still looking at $72 per year to take full advantage of it.

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Rather than motivate users to move more, sleep better, or lose weight, its purpose is more meaningful: “to improve the way we live our lives.”Īt $299 for the ring plus a $5.99 monthly membership (after the first six months, which are free for new users), Oura Ring is not a casual purchase. That’s because Oura Ring does way more, and a way better job, than its “competitors.” It also has a different mission entirely. But if I’m being honest, I assumed Oura Ring was essentially a more compact and high-tech version of a Fitbit, useful mostly for tracking steps and sleep and holding me accountable to goals in both areas.Īfter five weeks of wearing it - the first two of which were spent establishing my personal baseline - I realize that it’s a disservice to lump Oura Ring together with Fitbit, or any other wearable I’ve tried, for that matter.

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As a professional marathoner for nearly a decade, I’ve always loved my stats, and I was doubly curious about how my new gig as a mom might be impacting them. Oura Ring Generation 3 ($299) Becky Wade Firthīefore Oura sent me an Oura Ring Generation 3 to try out, I was cautiously optimistic.