Introducing Oura Ring 4: the latest evolution of the
revolutionary smart ring. Oura Ring 4 brings you closer to what
matters most — your health. The updated all-titanium design is
powered by Smart Sensing, a new sensing platform that doesn’t
just measure your biometrics, it adapts to you, providing
insights into over 50 health metrics including sleep, readiness,
activity, heart health, stress, metabolic health, and women’s
health. Oura Ring quietly and comfortably monitors your health
and with 5 to 8 days of battery life — you can forget it’s even
on. With multi-ring support, change Oura Ring 4 styles as easily
as changing your outfit. If you have two or more Oura Ring 4
styles, you can now switch easily between different finishes in
the Oura App.
Review: Happily Suprised - I have had this for a week. It is
supposed to track your health better over time as it learns your
baseline. However, I am already blown away by this ring. I made
the purchase because I have insomnia. I have tried other rings
and devices to track my sleep, but they have not worked well. The
Oura app is insanly accurate and intuitive. It even clocked that
I had trouble breathing one night when I was congested. It can
track multiple sleep episodes in one day and naps. It also tracks
sleep debt which is very helpful when I am having trouble
sleeping. I just had to charge it after a week and I have not
taken it off except to shower (you can wear it in shower but I
prefer not to get it full of conditioner). Other features have
also been helpful like stress monitoring. I am frequently
stressed (hence the insomnia) and the ring has clocked that and
even has mini relaxing meditations to help me calm down.
Literally a game changer. I have tried soooo many alternatives.
But this is the one.
Review: Read this review if you are considering the Oura ring! -
Let me start by saying I REALLY wanted to like this ring! I
wouldn’t have spent so much money on it if I wasn’t all in! My
first disappointment came from, just learning/realizing that the
ring did not have the functionality that, I had understood it to
have. Does it track your heart rate? Mmmmm… sort of. If you are
hoping for it to track your heart rate while you are exercising,
you are going to be sorely disappointed. It does heart rate
readings every 10 to 30 minutes. No matter what you’re doing.
That is one reading every 10 to 30 minutes… Which by the way you
have no control of so it might be 10, it might be . So if you’re
hoping to capture your peak heart rate while you are exercising,
good luck. There is a function where you can record your workout
and, I thought maybe that would be a workaround but no, all that
really does is, record your path with GPS tracking to give you a
visual of the route you took. And it’ll take a couple heart rate
readings but, again, not at any meaningful regular interval while
you are exercising. There is a manual function to check your
heart rate which, has to be selected in the app and then it asks
you to stay still for 30 seconds so that it can take your heart
rate… And again, if you’re exercising, and you want your heart
rate being tracked, you can’t stop everything and pull out your
phone every few minutes to force it to take a reading. And, don’t
forget, to also stop and be still so that it can take the
reading.🤦♀️ Does it detect when you are stressed? One of the
features this ring boasts is, tracking your stress. Supposedly,
your body gives off particular signals when you are stressed and,
the App puts a lot of focus on the amount of stress that you’ve
had during your day. The problem is, it’s wildly inaccurate. It
goes further to say that, eating, exercising, or doing things you
enjoy can all give off those same signals as stress lol so, it’s
not really a very useful metric for anything IMO. It will say I
am stressed when I am eating, when I am exercising, but even when
I am doing something relaxing and enjoyable like, in my garden
interestingly enough, it has correctly detected a few times that
I got particular news that sent my stress levels way up. It did
pick those up. But, again, how useful is it if, it picks up so
much of everything else as stress also 😆 I mean unless you are
just a slug and lay around all day, it’s going to report that you
had stress throughout the day 🤷♀️ And how about that
subscription? Does the ring give basic metrics without the
subscription? No. Big fat no. This is my biggest problem with
this ring. I didn’t know if I felt like that the subscription
would be valuable enough to me so I made sure before I purchased
it that, if I didn’t want the extras of the subscription that the
ring would still continue to track the most basic things like,
step count. And, it reports that it does do that. HOWEVER, what
they fail to mention is that, they don’t make that data available
for you to see anywhere anymore lol and, it no longer updates
Apple health or whatever other app you are integrating in with.
So, it does NOTHING without the subscription. The only thing it
will do is give you these silly readiness scores for your day. If
it feels like you got a good nights sleep then it will give you a
good readiness score for the day and a good sleep score. But you
will see absolutely none of the data that went into building that
score. No more steps, no more heart rate, no more anything.
That’s IT. You can buy a ring for a fraction of the price that
gives you all way more functionality, WITHOUT a Subscription. The
way they make it sound before you purchase is that the
subscription gives you a lot of extras. And I was willing to pay
that if I felt like those extras were really valuable but because
the data is so wildly inaccurate, I didn’t feel like it was
particularly valuable what I thought I was getting as an “extra”
From the subscription. Had I known it wouldn’t do the most basic
thing to count steps without a subscription, and actually show
them to me either in the app or by writing them to Apple health,
I would have never purchased this ring. You’ve been warned! Good
luck!
