Customer Ratings & Reviews

Love this ring, helped me so much to get insights about my sleep and overall health!

As someone passionate about tracking heart rate variability (HRV) for health and resilience, I put the Oura Ring and RingConn head-to-head—and Oura left me both impressed and frustrated. What Oura Does Well Recovery-Grade HRV: Oura is as accurate as anything outside a hospital, measuring HRV (rMSSD) at night for deep recovery. If you want insight into your autonomic nervous system—stress, strain, and rest—Oura’s data is solid and beautifully presented. Sleep Tracking: The ring’s sleep stage analysis and readiness score are helpful for seeing how your body bounces back, especially if you’ve been under stress, sick, or training hard. Where It Falls Short Paywall for Wellness: After the trial, you have to pay $6/month for most features. Without a subscription, you lose access to HRV trends, detailed sleep, temperature, and more. That means the $350–$500 you paid just gets you the hardware—wellness is extra. Luxury Pricing, Questionable Value: The base price is steep, and the gold version costs even more (and yes, the gold can tarnish—search the reviews!). You’re paying for a brand and a shiny finish, not extra function. Opaque Data: Oura only shows your lowest HRV average at night, not your highest, nor your real-time ups and downs. If your number seems low (mine is often ~19 ms), that’s by design—it’s showing your most “strained” period, not your day’s average. This can be confusing and discouraging. Step Count Drift: After recent updates, Oura’s step count dropped (sometimes undercounted), while RingConn overcounts. Neither is perfect. RingConn: A Cheaper, Broader Lens All-Day HRV: RingConn measures HRV continuously, so you can see how stress, calm, and even emotions affect you throughout the day. No subscription required. Half the Price: $200, with core metrics, including HRV, and no recurring fees. App Needs Work: No way to see weekly/monthly HRV trends (at least as of this writing), which makes long-term improvement hard to track. What Companies Should Learn Stop Gating Health Data: HRV isn’t new; HeartMath has offered this tech for decades, focused on healing, not profits. Wellness shouldn’t be locked behind a luxury paywall. Transparency and Choice: Let users see all their HRV data—lowest, highest, averages, and real-time—and empower them to interpret it meaningfully. Price for Access, Not Exclusion: These rings could transform public health if made more affordable. Apple and Oura, why not partner with mission-driven orgs and make HRV tracking a right, not a privilege? Bottom Line If you want the most validated HRV data for overnight recovery, Oura is still the gold standard—but it comes with a monthly toll, luxury pricing, and data “curation” that hides more than it reveals. If you want more raw, day-long HRV (with some trade-offs in accuracy), RingConn is a worthy challenger at half the price. If I could, I’d blend Oura’s science with RingConn’s access and HeartMath’s spirit. Until then, Oura gets 2–3 stars from me—not for lack of innovation, but for putting wellness behind a velvet rope. Pros: Clinical-grade overnight HRV Solid sleep tracking Comfortable, stylish design Cons: Expensive hardware plus required subscription Gold finish can tarnish HRV and steps not always transparent or accurate Locks key wellness metrics behind a paywall Wellness is a journey, not a gated community. Here’s hoping the next wave of rings is for everyone—not just the privileged few.

I had tried the gen3 before switching to the gen4 and honestly the fit is SO much better. Since the sensors are more flush with the ring nothing presses into your finger like it does with the gen3. So comfortable and I love the insights it gives me as well as the battery life.

I have had all 4 version and love the battery on this one. Finally can get a good 2 weeks w/o charging.

I bought the Ring for my husband with the expectation that it would be a convenient option for notifications and activity tracking, and in terms of basic functionality, the product does its job. It’s comfortable and practical for monitoring certain functions, but for us, it fell short in the features we were looking for. The performance is good, notifications come through without issue, and the battery life is adequate. However, the device doesn’t offer as many options or customization as we had hoped, making it less useful for my husband’s daily needs. Pros: Basic functionality works well Comfortable and easy to use. Good battery life. Cons: Limited in terms of additional features. Not as versatile as other similar devices. Overall, the Ring could be useful if you’re looking for a simple device for notifications, but if you’re after something with more features, it may not be the ideal option.

Cute. Good idea in theory. However I prefer my Apple Watch. No subscriptions. Tells time. And is strapped on and does not need to be adjusted every second. The main thing I liked was it can track your sleep score, and the Apple Watch is to bulky to wear to bed, and you can log your food.

The part I really like about the ring is that I can get information when I sleep. My watch is too bulky to wear at night. Plus with days of power reserve, I don't worry about it not lasting the night. This really allows me to get full day feedback on my health metrics.

I love the ring it’s not only a cute accessory, but it really tracks everything I need to be tracked. Battery life is great as well!

This is a great tool. Especially if you are trying to get your sleep in line with your fitness and health.

The ring looked nice at first and the design is not bad, but after just a couple of weeks the color changed and it started to look worn out. It also got many scratches very quickly, even though I was careful with it. Unfortunately, the quality didn’t meet my expectations.

Amazing little piece of tech. For me I wanted the data but prefer my mechanical watches over the apple watch I had been wearing. This solved that and its more comfortable than my orginal wedding ring which was a concern. If your on the fence go for it, 100% worth it

I gave this to my grandson for Christmas. So far he really likes it. Great battery life and good metrics. He gives it a 4.9 out of 5 with the only deduction being that he wished they had half sizes.

Totally worth it! Very accurate, great to keep track of a lot of things

A gift for my sister. She loves this ring. Wears it everyday& says how much she loves it everytime I see her. You can track so many differnt things like a fitness watch but even more in depth. Great purchase.

I love my ring. The battery last extremely long and I can go days without having to charge it. I recommend sizing up.

Ring serves its purpose and fits well. Battery life is superb. Highly recommend!

BEAUTIFUL ring I will gladly wear and not be concerned about looking like a weird techie person because you can barely tell it would not just be a normal ring.

In a class unto itself!! Between the app, the appearance, comfort, and overall performance, this is by far the best biometric ring on the market! A little pricy, but worth every penny! Checks all vitals in a very non-interference basis. Highly recommend!

Love that it tracks with the Health app. I would recommend getting the ring covers to prevent scratches.

Love my oura ring way more than i thought i would. Love for tracking sleep, cycle and exercise