Oura

Update: make it possible to edit the sleep duration as much as I want. The ring sometimes discharges so it messes up my stats. Fix please otherwise I’ll destroy it. Most of the wearables focus on exercise, but this one is focused on recovery. It is super important because it’s quite easy to bring yourself to work out, but it’s much harder to find time to slow down and rest, to increase one’s quality of sleep. What I also like is that it’s not just giving you data, but also provides an advice as to what could be done to improve your stats. It would be great to have haptic feedback from the ring to be able to set alarm or to know when you’re crossing into the cardio heartbeat zone or when the battery is about to run out (it lasts a few days though), but otherwise I’m quite happy with the range of functions. Well done!

Waited for Christmas to open. Set up fine. 2 days in and no longer connects to phone. Slow support. 30 Ian and still waiting to resolve issue.

Used to be a great app - unfortunately it’s changed for the worse and what used to be helpful and useful in viewing previous progress, seems to be painstakingly impossible. Progress can only be mentally noted, if you can view the previous days steps and exercise. I can no longer do this, or you’ve just made it too complicated to find. Please fix - I’m losing faith with something that’s run so smoothly for years!

Tracking is not accurate. I have compared against my usual tracker. Sure, you might argue my old tracker is the one that’s incorrect however I know my body and I physically feel when my heart rate spikes - but Oura has been consistently failing to record those spikes despite a good fit on the index finger. I hate the fact that day resets at midnight. I live a different shift, so my activity score gets split into two days and sometimes it mashes up the sleep together into one day showing nonsense readings like “you spent 17 hours in bed”. Because of the midnight reset I wasn’t able to track my moods as the prompt only appears before “bedtime”. Which is another thing that Oura failed to comprehend - if you go to bed past midnight it thinks your schedule is irregular so it doesn’t calculate your optimum bedtime. Oura has been around for YEARS and yet they can’t introduce this simple feature that many of the budding companies have had from the start. Plus the app menu is contra intuitive, which is something a lot of users have been complaining about but yet again, Oura doesn’t really care about what we need or want. Their instagram is full of people complaining that Oura doesn’t reply to emails and messages. I have sent my ring back. It’s an expensive bit of tech that requires monthly subscription and the app / performance is just inadequate. It should either cost less or be much more advanced.

The lack of a method of correcting false readings renders the data worthless. A very expensive of utterly unreliable kit which could be massively improved by an adjustment feature.

Creates a deeper understanding of how your health metrics vary according to habits such as exercise, sleeping hrs, meditation, drinking and food intake. Nudges you gently towards looking after your health even better, by allowing you to correlate new habits with new outcomes. Love it.

Amazing app and best fittness sleep tracker

This was an amazing product. It offered clear distinct insights that were easy to leverage towards health goals in daily life. Sadly, they've added thing after thing after thing. The app is basically unusable unless you have a solid 30 minutes a day to poke through it to find information. If this isn't corrected very soon, I'll be ending my subscription and switching to one of the dozens of alternatives available today.

This is the most significant development in wearable technology to provide health metrics in the last decade. I have every confidence that the information I am receiving is highly accurate. The research has also convinced me that the algorithm is churning out evidence-based data to move health and fitness forward utilising the metrics taken from a community of people that care about their health.

I’ve been a user of the Oura Ring on and off for almost 3 years, unfortunately the fact that it’s an on going subscription and provides inaccurate data, including but not limited to, not being able to tell me I was coming down with COVID nor identifying naps during the day, I decided no data (from the Oura ring) was better than any data. Additionally, the ring is exceptionally poor quality, I have the Oura 3 and with daily use (as the product is intended) the gold has scratched and looks incredibly worn out. Unimpressed. It’s time to officially completely retire the Oura.