The OuraRing is one of the few pieces of smart jewelry you can buy, but is it right for you? We'll tell you.
Oura Ring Generation 3 MSRP $299.00 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “The Oura Ring's beautiful design, high-quality build, informative app, good battery life, and overall simplicity set it apart from other health and activity trackers.” Pros Cons This review has been a long time in the making. I have been wearing the third-generation Oura Ring since the end of 2021, starting with the gloss black Heritage version before moving on to the polished silver Horizon model in 2022.
Instead, the Oura Ring tracks your sleep, heart rate, blood oxygen, heart rate variability , and other metrics to provide an overview of your daily health and readiness. Insights into this data help you plan for the day, and understand where you can make improvements. Its closest competitor is the Whoop 4.0, another screenless tracker that highlights design, but its forte is exercise, fitness, and working toward improving yourself in these areas.
The size doesn’t change the basic dimensions of the Oura Ring, which is 7.9mm across and 2.55mm thick. The weight varies between four grams and six grams, and I almost don’t notice it’s there. Initially, you will notice the thickness between your fingers, perhaps less so if you regularly wear rings, but it soon disappears.
It can track three primary activities — walking, running, and cycling — using steps and heart rate, plus GPS location from your phone. You can also manually add in a non-tracked activity, but it’s not ideal, and it does pull in activities tracked by Apple Health and Google Fit and add them to your daily scores. I’ve found the automatic workout detection to be accurate and reliable.
The app generates reports on a regular basis, highlighting your trends over set periods of time, which are presented very well and are very informative. The Oura Ring isn’t a medical device, so it stops short of making actual recommendations or analysis, but it’s good at balancing its interpretation of your data between being too general or glossing over key points. It means I understand what it says, and potentially act on it too.
Wearing and using both may sound like overkill, but you’re not really doubling up on that much functionality. However, you’re only having to wear two devices because of the Oura Ring’s slightly limited feature set. On the more positive side, another consideration is if you’re like me and often wear a traditional non-smart watch, the Oura Ring is great as it doesn’t take up valuable wrist space, yet it still allows health and activity tracking.
The Oura Ring needs to watch out later in 2023, though, as Movano’s Evie smart ring, which has been designed and built specifically for women, is scheduled to arrive. Not all the Evie ring’s features are known yet, but the company has said it won’t have a subscription fee, potentially making it better value than the Oura Ring. It’s one to keep an eye on if you’re looking at smart jewelry this year.
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