WHOOP - 5.0 MG
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Based on 1 year's data from Jan 28, 2026 How it works
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"battery lasts me forever, I charge it once a week and I game every day."
"especially because of the battery life. ... The mouse I had right before this was the steelseries super light one, that was an every other day charge at minimum. Whereas this one is like once a week at most - and I work from home and game all night."
"Oh, and the battery lasts days even when exercising a lot (weeks without excercise)."
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"More importantly it saved my life a couple of years ago when I had an Atrial Flutter episode. ... I got notified of a completed activity I wasn’t doing anything and hadn’t for a bit. ... Opened Whoop and it was showing 5 activities at 20/21 over the past 5 hours. ... Checked my current HR and was in zone 4. ... Had no symptoms and went to the ER, got an ablation and was all good."
"I have heart and BP issues and have found the BP the MG predicts to be bang on with the expensive gear used at the cardiologists."
"If you are looking for highly accurate HRV and recovery information, you should use WHOOP. ... whoop provides more accurate data. ... Whoop main focus on recovery and vitals ... according to him whoop provides more accurate data. ... If you are really after the best data on recovery, whoop is imho the best offer on the market."
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"I like the screen less design, I can jam it in cracks without an issue, and I like how it feels on my wrist. I don’t even notice it anymore."
"Additionally Whoop is simply comfortable to use 24/7."
"Why didn’t you try Whoop? This is exactly what you want"
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"It’s been great for balancing strain/recovery/sleep. ... so having Whoop tell me which days I should go harder or lighter has made such a difference in my training regiment!"
"I do like the sleep metics. ... It’s not as simple as “did I sleep well” or “did I get enough sleep”. To me anyway, actual numbers are more informative. ... And keeping up with the journal helps — I found that my sleep was generally worse on work-from-home days, for example. Then I could modify and be sure I was active during the day."
"I’d say the behavior journaling/insights is a killer feature that distinguishes whoop from its competitors. ... a ton of whoop users reduce their alcohol consumption substantially because this feature is great at showing you how alcohol impacts recovery. in money saved on booze, whoop probably pays for itself for a good chunk of its users."
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"wireless charging while in use"
"the battery lasts an honest 14 days ... to charge it, you don’t need to take off your whoop. It includes a little portable battery you charge separately and snap onto the device when you want to charge it."
"Denn ein wirklich praktisches Feature ist das kabellose laden: du lädst einen kleinen schwarzen Akkupack am Kabel auf, den du danach für ~20 Minuten "huckepack" auf das Whoop klemmst. ... In der Zeit lädt er dann das Whoop selbst kabellos auf. ... Danach kannst du den Pack wieder abnehmen und hast ~14 Tage (bei meiner Version 4.0 noch ~4 Tage) Ruhe. ... Man muss das Whoop selbst also nie abnehmen."
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"Support had me go through all the usual troubleshooting steps — no fix. ... I was told a replacement had been “processed” and would ship. ... It’s now been nearly two weeks and my order is still showing as “processing”. ... I’ve exchanged 24+ emails with Support. The replies are all scripted apologies and vague “please wait” responses. ... Their site promises 3–5 days for new orders, yet for a replacement I’ve paid almost $500 for, I’ve received nothing. ... I’ve asked for a refund policy and escalation, but I keep getting ignored."
"Ecovacs has the worst after sales of any company in any place of the world I have ever experienced. ... The company won’t take responsibility and goi around in circles. ... They wasted more than 6 months after talk to multiple people and site visits and it was escalated till the head of the after sales who I will name clearly: Tanmay Gangani, who is an absolute unprofessional and blatant liar with no sense of responsibility and ethics."
"I have never faced such a horrible service from any products in my life. ... Their service is ridiculous. ... The technician would come home and then inspect the device and raise a ticket for the spare part. So the spare part will be couriered to the customer directly after 2 or 3 weeks. Once this reaches your home, the technician will come again and replace that part. This is ridiculous. ... They don't provide service, they don't provide warranty. ... n one of my friends case, they had denied warranty saying there is fungus on board and its caused by water damage."
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"The thing whoop is giving me is wildly inaccurate HR readings. ... Did a casual bike ride with my child yesterday afternoon and whoop gave me a 187 high HR. This was a really slow like 4 block bike ride. ... AW said 108hr peak. Ive biked hard, ran as hard as possible doing max HR tests with my H10 chest strap and never hit above high 160s. ... Im not sure whats going on but its been doing this type of odd HR readings all week."
"I had Whoop for three months and it started showing a very bad data. Like catastrophicly bad. ... Bought Polar chest strap to check my HRV, it was VERY different and was showing me my normal data, data that whoop originally showed to me as well until three months into use it stopped."
"HR reading on Whoop are known for being absolutely aweful. ... Better having an accurate reading every 5 minutes than multiple bad readings every seconds. ... Whoop has awesome software and data analysis, but makes it somehow unusable because of bad hr data in. ... If HR accuracy is not a problem for you, and only follow "very general trends", yeah Whoop is a cool product. But if you are at some minimal point serious about HR accuracy, for real sport / performance / improvment, you cannot relly on it. ... If a Polar device, Garmin, apple watch says it's at 80 with readings every minute or so, and whoop says 65 every seconds, your "constant readings" are not worth anything. Garbage in, garbage out. ... Even counting it manually with a timer and my finger on my neck would be more accurate. ... their linear HR sensors are poor quality, and not the ideal way of positioning them (VS circular patern)."
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"got rid of the monthly subscription too"
"I simply cannot fathom spending the $360 yearly ask for the MG."
"the constant subscription 😭"
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"you can't use your old accessories suckers!"
"none of the bands are compatible with the new 5.0 or MG? ... none of these accessories are compatible with the new models, meaning sinking even more money into new accessories. ... don’t waste money on the accessories if they are never compatible with the next model"
"That the 5.0 don't let me use my bands I bought last year is so fucking bad..."
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"Because whoop doesn't give me real time pace/ability to change music/things I like to see whilst running on my wrist on a screen"
"something that won’t even tell me the time."
"Whoop doesn’t have a screen. ... having your live stats on the watch is extremely valuable"
a-a-ronious 1.0I can’t stand my Apple Watch. It always turns off during my workouts and counting “exercise minutes” is literally pointless. I bought an Ultra 2 because I wanted to have the best shot at success with it and that thing is a POS for health tracking. The whoop is so much more comfortable and consistent at tracking with better data analytics. I have the 5.0 and the band is fine. Idk what everyone is complaining about. Is it something you would wear to dress up an expensive outfit? No, but that’s not really what it is intended for. Personally, I would wear it with a suit without thinking twice because I don’t really care what other people think.
Accomplished-Gene796 1.0Not really sure what really negative things you’ve heard other than things that whoop doesn’t include in its hardware(telling time, seeing messages like an Apple Watch) it’s data capturing is superior to competitors in most instances and I’ve been using one for 2 years, just upgraded to the 5.0 and have had 0 issues. My only qualm would be that the new tier system costs a bit more. The “one” tier is cheaper than the previous monthly package and the “peak” is the same amount as previous generations with much more insights. Even still, it pales in comparison to the cost of an aura ring at baseline.
ActuatorSlow7961 1.0I am receiving my Whoop Mg today, after wearing the trial one for 20 or so days. I'm under no illusion that it's a full on medical device, however understanding the info displayed based on my daily activities has been a great experience. I can't fathom sleeping with a giant apple watch on my wrist. It took a little bit for me to get used to wearing the whoop band to sleep.. i'm used to it now and it's really not too bad.
Advanced_Ad_8722 1.0I feel like a bum for buying the 5.0 now
Afro-Pope 1.0I was pretty pissed off but it looks like the new device IS free, the wording is just super bad - I need to confirm with customer service, but it looks like if I can upgrade to the 5.0 for free and my subscription will renew again in January at the same price, *or* I can upgrade to the Mg and then renew at the higher price. If they want me to pay all that shit up front, then it's a hard pass. And all that said, it's still nickel-and-diming bullshit. I'm struggling to articulate this via text, but like, I am confident that making two devices and multiple apps have associated costs. They could have kept their costs down by making one device and then recouped it by making the app slightly more expensive, right? I think most of us would have been fine with the Mg being the only device and "hey, we've made the app and the device track all these extra things and it's going to cost an extra $5/mo or $25/yr or whatever from here on out as a result" versus the absolute mess of a rollout we got.
I was pretty pissed off but it looks like the new device IS free, the wording is just super bad - I need to confirm with customer service, but it looks like if I can upgrade to the 5.0 for free and my subscription will renew again in January at the same price, *or* I can upgrade to the Mg and then renew at the higher price. If they want me to pay all that shit up front, then it's a hard pass. And all that said, it's still nickel-and-diming bullshit. I'm struggling to articulate this via text, but like, I am confident that making two devices and multiple apps have associated costs. They could have kept their costs down by making one device and then recouped it by making the app slightly more expensive, right? I think most of us would have been fine with the Mg being the only device and "hey, we've made the app and the device track all these extra things and it's going to cost an extra $5/mo or $25/yr or whatever from here on out as a result" versus the absolute mess of a rollout we got.
I canceled my Whoop subscription the day they announced their new bullshit. When they wouldn't refund me, I filed a chargeback with my credit card company. I just want very basic and accurate tracking of a few different health metrics with no screen (I like wearing analog watches) and Polar has been a trusted name in that market for a long time. For less than the cost of a Whoop subscription, I'll give it a shot.
Aggravating_Diet7393 1.0Ditto re the battery life. I have next to no set routines so for a space cadet it is bloody brilliant… I lost my charger for over a week and a half and it’s still cruising along - vs my Apple ultra, which drives me mental with how often it needs a lifeline.
Agreeable_Orchid442 1.0I think converting the remaining months to fewer months for MG is wrong (we already paid for that time, 18 months in your case, and it does seem like breach of contract since they said upgrades are free). That being said, if they want to increase the membership cost for future not yet paid for months that we may opt to buy, they're well within their right to do that and the hardware is still free. But the converting our existing months to less time feels icky and I'm not sure what the point is because this is just annoying and it's a temporary source of cash for them at best.
I don't think it's Will who's driving this, it's SoftBank lol. If it'd been up to Will, everyone would have gotten the MG. That was OG Whoop vibes, the best data for all. Tiered approaches are a classic private equity play because they allow for capture of more of the market.
andreaSA89 1.0I’m not one of the haters, and it’s helped me a lot, but I’m not going to renew once my membership is up. The MG in particular is not worth the price in the slightest! If it was cheaper, I’d probably renew but there are so many options that are just as good (if not better) for a lot cheaper. All of my friends have now left Whoop for alternatives and none of them regret it. Whoop has served me very well but it’s time for me to move on. It was innovative 3+ years ago, but not anymore.
AndyOne1 1.0It's not bad, the 5.0 is a very lackluster "upgrade" from the 4.0 but it's still a good tracker if you are ok with the subscription and being locked in for at least 12 month at a time. All the chaos was because of the new tiered subscription approach and wanting an upgrade fee from people if they don't commit another 12 months upfront.
anon_chieftain 1.0I have 11 months left on mine (have subscribed for 6+ years) and I don’t get a free 5.0
I have an Apple Watch Ultra 2 as well and a Withings blood pressure monitor so idk if it’s worth it for MG tbh If there was a good app with good analytics that can leverage the data from Apple Watch I would prob dump the whoop tbh
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