Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've used Oura's since my first Gen 3 Heritage edition several years ago. The improvements they've made to the amount of health tracking and data in the Oura app has been impressive, and I knew I'd want to upgrade my Gen 3 at some point. When I read that the Gen 5's were supposed to be smaller and thinner, I knew I wanted to make the move. Just with other Oura products, the first thing you'll want to do is get a sizing kit, find your size, and wear it for about a day. This ensures that you pick the right size. Oura also recommends, in order, using your index, middle, or ring fingers. My Gen 3 was sized for my right hand's ring finger, but I knew that Oura really recommends the index, so I opted for the 12 for my right index finger. I've worn it for over a week now, and compared to the Gen 3, I can definitely say that this is much smaller and more lightweight. It's also worth noting that the charging base was redesigned for the Gen 5, so you can't use an older charging stand for your Gen 5. You can also pick up a portable battery charging case for an extra purchase if you want. The health insight from this thing are great! I also have it synced with Apple Health and Apple Fitness. This means that health and exercise tracking is shared across multiple fronts. My favorite feature of the Ouras is the Symptom Radar. Introduced earlier, the Symptom Radar helps give you a heads up when your body is under a degree of strain and change in body temperature.

After spending weeks and times with the ring, the Oura ring is a great device but it barely compares to a good smart watch if you already have one of those. The general build quality of this is actually amazing and quite premium. I dropped mine in a parking lot and I think it might have gotten ran over but it’s still working great with a few blemishes. The functionality is good granted you’re not doing any actual strenuous activities that use your palms or hands. My smart watch was able to track my activities better than an Oura ring and when lifting, it’s not really doable with a ring. But where this excels is getting you health information from day to day activities especially sleep. I cannot sleep with a wrist watch on, but a ring is barely noticeable. It works great in that sense and the app does well in tracking your results. The app itself is very confusing to use even after using it for a while and using it to track the ring is even worse because it doesn’t actually actively track where your ring is. I lost my ring several times and it was a pain trying to find it because the app tells the location of the ring when it was last opened versus the actual location of the ring. The ring is good but it’s lacking basic quality of life features.

Wearable technology over the last 10 years has exploded. People now more than ever are using devices to monitor their health and well-being. I’ve previously monitored some of my stats with an Apple Watch but felt the data the watch provided was very baseline information. The main thing that turned me off from those products was battery life. If I’m supposed to wear a watch to monitor my stats, what good does it do if I must constantly take it off to charge the battery. Enter the Oura ring. The last few years I’ve seen more of my friends and family wearing the Oura ring, and they raved about the amount of data it gives you along with the length of the battery life. So, when I found out the new Oura Ring 5 was being released, I had to get my hands on it and see for myself what all the hype is about. And I have to say it’s left me very impressed! Read on for the full review! First thing that you need to do for the Oura is figure out your ring size and what finger you plan to wear it on. Best Buy has an Oura ring display in store that allows you to choose the right size or they have a ring sizing kit that’s 10 dollars that they give back to you on a gift card and you can wear that for 24 hours to make sure you have the right fit. I was told to pick my non dominant hand and that the index finger gives the best results, so I went with the Stealth color in size 13. The ring showed up a week later in a small discreet box with a small charging pad! I was immediately impressed by the size and weight of the ring. I expected something bulky and heavy considering there’s batteries, Bluetooth and sensors all over it, but the ring feels lightweight and well-made and has a beautiful dark grey texture to it. Next steps were to download the Oura app and pair it to my phone, which was seamless and straightforward. I created my account and joined the membership and off we went! The Oura ring and app work seamlessly together to deliver information throughout the day. The App is broken down into different sections, Readiness, Sleep, Activity, Heart Rate and Stress. Readiness considers all the activities you’ve done for the previous day and gives you an overall wellness score on how your body should feel. Sleep monitors when you sleep and how well you’re sleeping (R.E.M. and Depp Sleep) and for how long. It also analyzes sleep lost over the week. Activity tracks exercise and activity throughout the day, tracking steps and calories burned and guesses when you’re doing activity based on elevated heart rates. You can go back afterwards and edit your timeline to specifically tell it what you were doing to ensure accuracy. Heart Rate monitors your heartbeat throughout the day. It can measure HRV along with giving detailed information on when you’re stressed and how long you’ve spent in recovery. Most of these items take at least 30 days to give true data, but I’ve been impressed by how accurate everything is so far. The app can also suggest if it thinks you’re starting to catch a cold, and I even read that during Covid the ring was able to be a device of early detection. The app also comes with an AI advisor that will analyze your data and speak to your wellbeing on a weekly or daily basis. It also has On Demand Medical AI guidance that’s included with your membership. I’ve been blown away honestly with how much data there is on this app. Stats on their website state that 88% percent of users see their health improve after using the device and I believe it. A brief history on Oura, they started in 2013 with a desire to focus on sleep and recovery as nothing in the general wearable landscape was tracking it and how it affects the body over time. What started as a Kickstarter has blossomed into a wearable powerhouse. They’ve been testing and collecting data for over 10 years now with over 130 peer-reviewed contributions to advancing science and over 14 active collaborations with academic and clinical institutes, along with having 30+ PhD’s on staff. And that’s what really intrigued me to try out this product. This isn’t just another company trying to sell you a chintzy product, this is real data and science that’s trackable and useable for your own good. Using the Oura for the last few weeks I am really impressed. The battery life is exceptional. It seems to last forever, I’m never concerned about it running out of juice, which is a huge improvement from my previous apple watch. It has seamlessly blended into my life, and I don’t mind wearing it at all. The ring is comfortable and surprisingly very scratch resistant; I have yet to put a scratch on it! I am a very active guy and workout every day and I don’t have to remove the ring when I use workout gloves which is a huge plus. The one activity I have found isn’t comfortable to wear is Golf, but that’s a minor gripe. Overall, I have been very impressed with how accurate and fleshed out the entire product is. The Oura and app paired together act almost like a life coach. You have all the data your fingertips to identify any daily issues or problems that your body is telling you that you wouldn’t know otherwise. I had never even considered Sleep Loss throughout the week as something that could stress my body out, so I can appreciate how this product identifies and reminds you to be vigilant to your health. In conclusion I can’t recommend the Oura 5 enough. It is in my opinion the best wearable device on the market today. It’s discreet in appearance and robust in features. In a busy chaotic world, it reminds you to focus on yourself. I can see why 88% of people see improved health after using the device because it actively engages you in your health journey, which is something I think a lot of people can benefit from. Go out and buy the Oura 5 immediately if you’ve been considering it, you won’t regret it!

Smart rings have transitioned from niche wellness novelties to mainstream fitness accessories, but one hurdle has persistently dogged the category: bulk. Even the highly praised smart rings currently in the market, while exceptionally polished, still have a noticeable, slightly chunky "tech aesthetic" on the finger. With the release of the Oura Ring 5, Oura has delivered its most aggressive generational leap yet. By shrinking the internal components to make the ring 40% smaller by volume than its predecessor without compromising on tracking performance, Oura has achieved the holy grail of smart wearables: invisible technology. Oura has been the benchmark from the very start, and I think with Gen 5 they have kept their title. From a real-world perspective, my wife and I have spent the last few weeks testing the Ring 5. I am an eager user of health-metric sensors and always wear a smartwatch. My wife, however, has historically shied away from smart rings and watches, finding them too bulky and heavy for her smaller fingers. Upon trying the Ring 5, her reaction was immediate: "It finally feels like a real ring." It feels premium, well-built, and something that can be donned every day under almost all settings. The titanium-made "Stealth" colorway that I have been using is noticeable without feeling gaudy. It’s supposed to have a very good coating, and weeks of continuous use involving cooking, doing household chores, cleaning, and gardening didn’t diminish the luster at all. Furthermore, the sensor array, including a small dimple on one side, does not create any discomfort at all. In terms of performance, it has been doing a stellar job of tracking sleep cycles and overall passive health tracking, including skin temperature variations, resting heart rate, and blood oxygen levels with incredible precision. I really like the sleep quality information I get in the morning, and this insight has proven helpful in my recent doctor’s visit. In terms of activity tracking, this is where a smartwatch is more useful in terms of automatic tracking. With the Oura Ring, I had to initiate it myself with the app to get meaningful data. However, even without initiation, it does tell if I was doing some activity when it detects a higher heart rate, so it’s not all bad. Now for some of the caveats. Even though Oura tells me that it should last a week on a single charge, I’ve yet to get that. The most I could get was just over 4 days. While this isn't a deal breaker on its own, charging this frequently does create a hindrance in my daily routine. Basically, I have to train myself to remember to charge it overnight every fourth day (and hence miss out on sleep metrics for that night). The second is more of an annoyance: during the night, the sensor lights up pretty brightly (from my perspective), and I actually woke up completely during the first few days it happened. My wife even noticed it on a few nights, adding to the confusion. Overall, as a smart ring, the Oura Ring 5 is definitely more user-adaptable for continuous wear. It’s a premium device for a premium price, especially with the subscription required to make it more useful. However, it’s far more usable for sleep and other passive tracking compared to a smartwatch.

Yes, technically, you don't have to have a subscription to use the app with the ring, but without a subscription, all you get are three numbers without context or trending. You might as well look in the mirror and ask yourself how you feel that day. With a subscription, though, you get a pretty rich user experience. You can stick with a high-level overview, or you can dive deeper into the data and trends. There's also pretty good synchronization with Apple Health, where the Oura app will pull in workout data to show in your timeline. I actually prefer reviewing my workouts in the Oura app. It's a little more cumbersome to get to the resting heart rate and heart rate variability data and trends, but it is there. I was more accustomed to my old ring (that didn't require a subscription) featuring that data up front, and then drawing conclusions from it. Oura starts with the conclusions, then lets you drill down into the data. The hardware itself is a definite improvement over earlier models. It's significantly thinner and lighter, and I find that it stays "out of the way" better. So far, it does also appear to be more scratch-resistant. I think the only downside is that they made this model more narrow, which makes it look slightly less masculine to me. I prefer a wider band, but you may not. Overall, it's a definite improvement, but you'll want to factor in the ongoing cost of a subscription when deciding whether to buy.