Oura 4+

Flawless

Now I don’t normally do reviews unless I’m moved to do so. But it was only in reading another review whilst upgrading the app software that I realised something. The ring and app are flawless. I realised yes, I too have not had any bugs, no app issues, no rebooting or resetting. 12 months on, the ring is just taken for granted and just takes what seem to be the most accurate and meaningful data in any wearable. It’s not a fitness tracker per se, but the recent upgrade to recognising activity was smooth and welcomed. The sleep tracking is world class and the readiness score matches the whoop band I had, with no bulky wrist worn tech. The rest function is excellent when you need it and to me Oura just do what they do incredibly well and it’s as if day by day my body is just kicking out stats, so unintrusive is the ring to wear. Would I like to be able to see my heart rate when exercising? You bet.... but that’s nit-picking. I’ve worn Fitbit, whoop, Garmin and Samsung tech. This was the best switch I ever made. Beautiful tech beautiful app.

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Good product but problems

I’ve been using Oura for nearly 3 years, and when it first came on the market it was impressively and truly innovative. The Oura team do continue to release upgrades and new features, most of which are good. But considering sleep is the primary focus of the product, their sleep algorithm has always been patchy, and recently a new algorithm release has been really awful. True, they did beta test it for a long while. But I consistently saw the original algorithm much closer to my experience of my actual sleep than the new one. The new one is so, so bad, it’s making me wonder if I should even bother with this product any more. It consistently takes off about an hour of sleep every night, regardless of how well you’ve slept. It throws in random wake up events that simply haven’t happened. Further, if you reduce the amount of time it says you were awake before you go to bed, it cuts down your sleep time even more, even if you are just cutting out solid awake time!! And when you complain to Oura, they say it’s perfect and your perception is incorrect (classic techie user error blaming). I wish they would roll back this update, it is so disheartening to see poor sleep scores when you know you’ve slept well, and beyond that, the data is just bad and they should be embarrassed.

Very impressive hardware and software

It is hard to find faults the Oura product and service. Having tracked their development for years, it is obvious that they are a product-first company. This means that both their hardware and software are excellent and the customer experience of using the ring & app daily is actually a pleasure. The main areas of improvement now are in the advice, information, and dissemination of Oura collected data.

After 5 months, I have yet to encounter any app bugs or crashes, and only after a week long holiday have I needed to think about charging the ring (place it on the charger during my morning shower). I have scratched the ring a little but there’s no impact on it’s function, I wear it while swimming, cycling, and playing ice hockey.

Hands down the best complete package for a subtle and screen-less smart wearable device that actually produces accurate and actionable information.