Oura Ring 1

I had a bunch of coworkers get the oura ring last year with out fsa money. I had other necessities but I thought about it for a year and decided to get a ceramic one. I like that you can buff out the scratches I’ve had in 3 weeks ish and so far I like it. I look at my sleep, period and stress. I have a ton of stress (single mom to a teenager and I work with young children). My Apple Watch battery sucks after 4+years. And I like that the ring isn’t a constant distraction like the ring

Agreed. I’ve V1 Oura and it still tracks my sleep without needing a subscription. I don’t want to get a new ring as it will automatically add the subscription and I need another subscription like I need anal warts. This set up sucks. You’re paying perpetually for a product you already paid for

Smh one time I saw someone with an apple watch, a whoop, and an oura at the same time so you're good Eta I saw another commenter say that they had this and all I gotta say is you better do a writeup with your recommendations

If you had to recommend one to someone who mostly uses their whoop for sleep but does like the daily strain and stress monitor and also lifts often, which would it be?? I've had whoop for so long but i'm curious about oura! I just worry that I would take it off for so many activities that I wouldnt be able to go back and compare my days as well.

I'm very happy with it also. I have also used Whoop, Oura, Apple Watch and Garmin yet Amazfit is what I'm with now. Regarding subscriptions, follow what Bevel is doing. Subscription optional and for advanced AI, but expand and integrate it like they are.

Most rings are useful for more holistic tracking, and most are notoriously bad at fitness tracking. I use tech to track medical conditions, I've used fitbits, apple watches, oura & whoop. I also can manually track all of my data as well and do so on a regular basis (DVM). Apple watches are surprisingly accurate. I also am fairly active, and ex-competitive swimmer (see health issues). Of all of them, I found fitbit the most entry-level user friendly, but their latest versions are quite poor quality. I have an apple watch now which I find tracking data is fairly comparable to fitbit. My HR tends to read low over high though. Everything else is fairly accurate. I can also export out data from my Apple watch into PDF and excel files to send direct to medical care & to see trends (fitness, sleep, etc.). Oura is OK but it's useless for fitness tracking imho. Not when stacked against garmin or apple. It was pretty good at picking up things like sleep quality but it wasn't particularly better(? maybe small improvement). Whoop I actually did like quite a bit, it got similar values to apple watch & garmin, but it has a subscription to keep (including data) which I was not fond of the idea. Same for oura. If you're just starting out, rather than going out and buying something - consider using what you already have. It will probably be enough, so long as you're using the same item, it's a matter of comparison not values - which anything can provide you with. If you've not got something, then consider the ability to manipulate and transfer the data if you choose to change tact.