Oura

I love the app, especially the sleep analysis.I don’t think the workout analysis is super in depth, could do with Zone information. Would love for the graphics to include more ‘congratulatory’ messaging for activities. Please make the tagging process easier. There are no prompts and it feels hidden away so I am not maximising my data interpretation. It would be good to have more guidance on tags too. I.e if I’m drinking alcohol, do I set the start and end time as my first and last drink? Or do I guess at how long I felt the effects of alcohol? Prompts at the end of the day would be helpful to do the tags, for tracking mood, appetite, etc.

The workout recording would greatly benefit by showing an additional set of data around altitude. Currently, the app assumes the world is flat. But the app does not yet show how a run or hike or bike workout and related heart rate is impacted vs altitude gain and loss. This is a very easy fix/addition given the app is using gps to track route.

I loved that widget, it was everything I wanted And you took it away. Why? Give it back plz.

My Oura App and Apple Health data isn’t aligned. I am specifically talking about the Steps count. At first I found that apple health is also taking data from the phone itself. I then turned off the tracking from the phone. But the problem still remains. Also whenever it is after 12am. My activity page on the Oura app won’t show anything until I wake up in the morning. Also for some reason I always get a few steps from the Oura ring in the future, when I check my data from apple health. Meaning I am getting a few steps tomorrow when I am in today.

No idea what the app is even supposed to do. All I see are just adds, not walking distance, no steps, nothing about my sleep. 👎

The app never seems to crash. There have been several updates to fix any bugs and they keep on innovating. The data has really helped me improve my sleep and track lots of things like levels of stress and signs of illness. It has genuinely helped me lead a more active and healthier life. My experience with customer support has been great too. I had an issue with a charger we they resolved without quibbling. Some take issue with the membership fee, but in my opinion, it’s worth it with the amount of innovation and support.

Fed up with repeatedly trying to update this app. It's the only app I have this issue with.

I’ve had an Oura ring for years now, and I’m a lifetime member (no subscription charges), so bear in mind I only pay for the device itself, unlike new customers/subscribers. While it has its niggles, and will always be a work in progress, along with device iteration, I must say this is head and shoulders above any other wearable I own or have used (with the exception of my Apple Watch). Oura particularly excels at sleep tracking: Other functionality does not seem as advanced, useful or accurate to me. I’m completely fine with that, as I have other wearables which also tend to have a specialism, or which excel in particular use case scenarios. It’s probably the most expensive wearable in this category however, in my opinion, the whole package of device and user experience feels worth the premium in comparison to their peers. I look forward to Gen 4!

Gen 2 misses a lot of sleeping time. Particularly poor at catching sleep after being awake for an extended period. Seems to have only got worse over time. Not interested in the subscription model for the Gen 3.

Honestly for £300 and an ongoing subscription, after nearly a year of usage I would expect far better reliability. The app and the ring are notoriously buggy collecting and analysing my data. It consistently misses my naps or workouts. Sometimes it picks up a workout a whole day later. No ability to accurately manually record most other types of workouts eg swimming so I have to select ‘indoor running’ when I do record it. If I don’t manually record my swimming sessions it won’t pick up much of it if at all. So it’s not accurate, unlike for instance my friend’s Whoop. Support take a long long time to respond to you and when they do, it’s always a generic either: ‘you’re probably not wearing it correctly [i am]’ or ‘we’re already working on this issue, thank you for the feedback’. The UX leaves a lot to be desired too, extremely cluttered, the sections from the nav at the bottom are weird such as the resilience tab - what is this tab really about? How is the ‘Resilience’ tab really that different from ‘Readiness’? Why weren’t they merged? Most of the resilience scores come from the readiness data…?!! And then..what am I supposed to do with the information in the resilience tab? Rather than just tell me things about my ‘resilience’, whatever that means, and my stress, how about give me tools and videos to improve my scores rather than hiding all of those valuable resources inside the randomly named ‘explore’ menu option and chucking that all inside a cluttered and confused burger menu? Surely if the resilience section is where you’re telling me about my stress then you should give me relevant meditations and videos to help me fix the stress you’re spotting for me? Sleep tab… give me the sleep meditations inside that too.. stop lecturing me about my scores and help me improve them. Often the graphs don’t make much sense where they don’t let you click on them to expand. Other inflexibilities with graphs: eg when my data isn’t properly tracked, I have to try to manually add it or manually adjust the graphs - often tricky, would much prefer to directly manipulate the graph to mark things like workouts rather than adjust an abstracted time scroll wheel. In some cases (sleep graph) I can’t adjust that at all other than to reduce my sleep!? UI design- pretty ugly, outdated and extremely masculine. But that’s just personal taste. Would I recommend? Honestly, day to day I vacillate between giving this 2 stars and 3 stars. If I were to describe this in two words: expe