Customer Ratings & Reviews

INITIAL IMPRESSIONS I’ve never owned an Oura ring but have several friends that do and rave about them. As a long-time smart watch user, it was a nice change to have a more eloquent jewelry appearance. SETUP The app was easy to install, and it was very straightforward to link the ring to my account. The app is intuitive and very easy to use. The charger is compact and works with any USB-C charging cable. Initial charge took about an hour, and the ring was ready for use. The charger will turn green when ring is fully charged. USE Having never had a smart ring, I was a bit concerned about the comfort. I am not much of a jewelry wearer so getting used to it was probably more difficult than most. I did use the sizing-kit and it was very accurate. Due to all the sensors and features the ring is very thick. At first it was very uncomfortable, and I did not think I would be able to keep it for any length of time as it was more of an annoyance than I felt helpful. It took around 2 days for me to get used to wearing it and now I forget that I have it on. I do love the ceramic on the ring as I feel like it makes it more elegant and lowers the chance of scratching the ring with normal wear and tear. Also, I love that it is water resistant, so I don’t worry about leaving it on the counter while washing my hands. Oura claims a 5-to-8-day battery life. I have used the ring for five days and received a notification that I was at 22%. Recharging took approximately 45 minutes to get back to 100%. I love the battery life as I’ve owned some smart watches that need charged every day and because of this inconvenience I found myself missing out of the sleep activity. The Oura ring tracks so many things including sleep, activity, stress, readiness and women’s health. My two favorites are sleep tracking and readiness. While I have a competitor’s watch that tracks sleep, I love that this one tracks more sleep attributes. The Oura tracks total sleep, efficiency, restfulness, REM sleep, deep sleep, latency and timing. All of those are calculated to give you a sleep score and suggestions on how to improve your sleep. It also measures your average blood oxygen, your heart rate, your average HRV and lets you know if you are breathing regularly. I will say that compared to my watch my sleep score with the Oura is much higher, but it also measures far more data points to compute the score. I love the latency feature as I never knew in the past how long it took me to fall asleep. My time ranges from 5-20 minutes. At first, I was impressed until I read that target should be 15 to 20 minutes and less than 5 minutes is a sign of being overtired. The app also gives tips on how to get to sleep if having issues. My second favorite feature is the readiness tracking. This tracks your resting heart rate, your heart rate variability, your body temperature, and respiratory rate. They combine this data with your sleep, sleep balance, activity balance and recovery index to give you a readiness score between zero and 100. Since it is the weekend my readiness score was higher than the past week. Today it offered encouragement by saying I gave myself downtime and my body and mind thanked me for it. With the fast-paced life we live it is nice to get encouragement for taking a break to recharge. The activity tracker is standard with tracking steps, total calories burned, activity time and it sets a calorie burn goal for you and tracks progress towards that daily goal. The step count is within 200 steps of my watch so I would say, the Oura is very accurate. Heart rate and stress tracker are also standard and includes tracking your restorative time, stress (the amount of time your body has felt a high level of physiological stress), sleeping and activity to give you a stress time. CONCLUSIONS I am quite impressed with the Oura ring and all the features that come in such a small package. I am also impressed with the aesthetic of the Oura, it is fashionable and functional. I love all the data that is collected. I wake up and check it first thing to see how I slept and what my readiness is to prepare me for the day. There were two negatives with the Oura. First like I said prior I do not like are the initial getting used to wearing the ring and it was uncomfortable for the first 48 hours. I feel like it is thick due to all the sensors, so thick it makes my fingers seem un-natural as my pinky can’t touch my ring finger. The second thing I do not love is the annual fee to get the data. The ring is pricy compared to a smart watch and I do not get texts, or phone calls on the Oura. Even with these two negatives, I would purchase an Oura ring. I feel like the data collected is invaluable, incredibly insightful and helpful. RECOMMENDED

Oura - Ring 4 Ceramic - Smart Ring The Oura Ring 4 ceramic color choices are: Midnight, Tide, and Petal. I chose the color Cloud for its ability to be neutral with all palette colors. Be sure and take your time and find the right fit for your ring by taking advantage of the ring-sizing kit. The ring sizes are from 4-15 with no half sizes. It is recommended that you use one of the three middle fingers to wear your ring since they offer the best skin contact for the ring. I started out by putting my ring on my ring finger but during the night it would spin around. The literature states that the ring can turn up to 30 degrees on the finger and still get readings, I decided to put it on the preferred index finger for the best accuracy. The company offered a free ceramic polishing pad, and I took advantage of that offer. The battery life statistics show the Oura ring lasts between five (5) and eight (8) days. I never concerned myself with how many days the battery would last since my routine is to charge it while I am taking my morning bath. It takes about 20 minutes, and the app on my phone notifies me when it is fully charged. The app is available for iOS or Android. I have an iPhone and the process to download the app and opt to pay a monthly/yearly fee to access all resources and insights available with the ring is very straightforward. There are other available paid integrations that I might take advantage of later, but the primary membership opens a ton of ring abilities for $5.99 per month or $69.00 per year. I am not a swimmer or diver just a bath and shower taker so although the ring is waterproof it wasn’t the most important factor to me, but I really love to read about technological triumphs and I think when sports enthusiasts read about the ability to use the ring in a water environment it will be a plus for them (you might read up on this). My whole reason for wanting to obtain the Oura ring was to help me understand my sleep pattern I had developed. I wanted to improve to a more restful and restorative sleep situation. I was concerned how insomnia was affecting my health. Be prepared to be intrigued and amazed how changed sleep habits can make a real difference in your daily life. My personal journey took me from insomnia to a full 8-hour sleep pattern with a good amount of REM sleep. When I first started wearing the ring I had about 43 minutes of REM sleep. Now I am averaging over 2 hours of REM each night. The app encourages a regular daily pattern of going to bed and getting up in sync with your normal body rhythm. From my experience it takes time to adjust but I kept using the app’s Advisor, one of my favorite aspects of the ring, to help guide me. There are various reasons why different people may have trouble getting to sleep. But once you start getting enough sleep with the ring’s help as shown through the Advisor, you will be ready to get up and tackle other options that the ring has to offer. I have also started taking advantage of logging in meals for the nutritional and meal timing insights the app offers. You can take a picture of your plate of food, and it will give you information on your meal selection such as whether changing some of the items will be more helpful in my health goals. I still have much to learn. Don’t think a reviewer can give you full details of what there is to offer with this ring because it takes time to use the ring and discover where you are health-wise and what you might be able to add on as far as integrations to bring you to a more optimum health state. When you first begin your journey to a better you the app may tell you it needs several weeks of data from the ring’s information to give you feedback in some areas. There is much you can read and learn through the app about written scientific articles available. I also plan to take advantage of the Testing Hub. My first result regarding caffeine came in today. I am excited to see how having my last cup of coffee 6 hours before bedtime will affect my statistics over the next couple of weeks. Take advantage of the Get Help tab in the app along with the virtual assistant articles and additional integrations that are available or that will be coming in the near future. I have read that the Oura app will continue to have updates which is awesome. Looking forward to what is next. I could write so much more but the whole point of a review is how well the device is working and is it as beneficial as they say in order to pay the price that they are asking for it. In my personal life within just a few weeks I am already reaping the rewards. So, I give this Oura ring high marks. As far as any negatives the only one I would like to do an integrative meal plan but that is behind a paywall and that isn’t in my budget yet!

So light weight and easy to wear! Love the color cloud. It goes with everything! Battery life is good and charges super quick.

Love all the health benefits and what you can integrate with it. Excited to see how my blood work syncs with app

I love this oura ring so much. It tracks sleep and cycle so well!

Fitness rings are awesome and hard at the same time. Overall, I love having a fitness ring, I had one for about a year before I was forced to switch to the Iphone and that ring was no longer compatible with my phone. I think one of the struggles with smart rings is you can’t just resize like a normal metal band so customizing is hard, also, you want it snug so it can read your vitals but if it is too snug it can be an absolute pain to take off if your fingers change size often like my fingers seem to. It’s not an issue for my wedding band as I rarely take it off but the finger I would most like to put the Oura on is always too small for the size 11 but often too big for the size 10. I used the sizing kit for a week prior to making the choice, but I think I would have gone the size 10 looking back as the size 11 fits just a fraction bigger than the sizing kit and that fraction would have made the difference taking it on and off in the size 10, so if you think the sizing ring is just a hair too small you might be alright with the real ring, or maybe it is just the material difference as metal does slide on and off easier than plastic. I was at another store, and their sizing rings look different and fit basically identical to the ring I had on my finger compared to the sizing kit I received. The size 11ring I move between three different fingers depending on what feels comfortable that day, my two index fingers or my middle-left finger. I mostly like the ring because it tracks blood oxygen at night and I’m annoyed it doesn’t input that data into apple health, I’ve seen a few work arounds but unless you have some technical knowhow. The added bonus that does a good job of tracking that I realized is actually accurate is the stress, sleep score and readiness. I really never considered these as being something that could actually be accurate. But as I’ve used it more and more the numbers have started giving me feedback that is usable. The most surprising one is the stress as that has never really been super accurate but Oura seems to have nailed it and I can see that graph that correlates to a stressful call at work or an incident I need to respond to… mostly this is just interesting feedback to me, I can’t really do anything to make the situation less stressful but I like having the data. The sleep score and readiness score work give me insight on why i am so tired or if I am feeling great, I can see when I went to bed and when I got up. The sleep score is helping me make better decisions… I’ve noticed if I eat too heavy of dinner my deep sleep seems to suffer and I start losing energy through the week… same if I don’t get a good night’s sleep by heading to bed when it’s time. I’ve learned by I seem to function great on 7 to 7.5 hours of sleep but going to bed at 9 vs 11 is giant for my sleep score and I’ll be up by 5 to 530 without an alarm if I’m asleep by 930 vs fighting to get out of bed at 630 if I go to bed at 1030 even though that is actually a little bit more sleep. This will sounds little crazy but I’ve started using the readiness score to motivate myself. Going running in the morning is hard, so I will look at the score in the morning and if it is in the 80s not matter what my mind is trying to tell me, I can be like, the data says I can run… I need to go running. Inversely if I score in the 60s or 70s, I’ll be like, yeah, time to take a break this morning. The Timeline feature is interesting, but it isn’t the most usable to me. I need a food log but this one isn’t my favorite though I like how it estimates the calories based off the picture and seems to be accurate but will miss things. Depending on what you’re looking for in a food tracker this might be right up your alley. The steps counter is mostly accurate, if you’re getting a ring to count steps… I’d think twice. It disagreed with my apple watch especially when I did a couple of 4 mile runs. I’m not sure how much I really trust my apple watch either… At the end of the day, it will tell you if you’ve been active that day and that is what I really care about. The design of this particular ring is interesting. I’m used to metal rings and up till now my smart rings have been metal. The material feels a little different and I’ve gotten several marks on it that I can never remember where they came from, the ceramic polishing pad is a must have if you want those to go away and they do come right off. The white is definitely a cream color not white and just kind of blends into my hand as it isn’t too far off from my skin tone. Overall, I really like having a ring to track my fitness more holistically and I do like the ceramic type of design of the ring versus metal. I love the ability to track my health more closely. I think the part I like most about it is the ability to arm my brain with facts when I really don’t want to get out of bed to do the things I need to do to get and stay healthy.

Pro: -More comfortable than previous gen -Accurate sleep tracking -Week long battery life Con: -Almost useless without subscription -The thickness can get in the way The Oura 4 Ceramic gives a different look to the ring compared to the metal ones. It has a deep shine like it has two layers of glossiness, looking very much like a new coffee cup. While I do like the look, being ceramic, I’m concerned about its finish long term since they tend to dull over time. On the inside are sensors, increased from the previous generation. The sensors no longer protrude making it more comfortable to wear. The ring is still thicker than a typical ring and it can definitely get in the way. I wear it mostly on my middle finger and it presses into the other fingers. It can also get snagged on my pockets or hit against surfaces. The tracking is mostly accurate from what I’ve seen. It tracks activity, sleep, and body signals which it uses to present them as Readiness, Activity, and Sleep scores. The sleep tracking is very accurate and shows exactly when I wake up and the total time I’m actually asleep. The activity tracking can seem off at times. Sometimes I feel like I’m moving around more than what is tracked and other times it seems to track more than what I’m actually doing. For instance, I was just walking around the house not doing that much and it wanted to log it as an activity for over an hour. What is shown on the app’s main page can seem like it’s too simplified in some areas. On the main page, it displays your activity goal, scores, and timeline for the day. You have to go deeper in the pages to see more information. Something like steps or calorie burned should probably be on the main page. However, once you do open up each tab, there’s a lot of information and graphs giving a more detailed breakdown of the scores. Being able to see all the details can help motivate you to improve your habits. The big negative is that it requires a subscription for the tracking, and without one, it’s practically useless. Without one, it will only give you the three main scores without any other information. If you don’t want to pay a subscription, then this is not for you. The battery life lasts about a week, maybe a little less. On day six, it was down to about 25%. It also charges very quickly, maybe about 30 minutes to full charge. Whether this is worth it or not depends on the user. If you don’t like having a thick ring on all the time, or if you need tracking without the subscription, then there are other devices. If you want something smaller and more discrete then it may fit your needs. It may take some getting used to having a ring this size on all the time. From what I’ve seen so far, sleep and vital tracking are accurate, but activity doesn’t seem to be as much.