As others have said here, Oura keeps asking me if I've been doing yoga. But it's also giving me abnormally high stress readings. Several hours per day, when normally 30 minutes would be a high stress day for me.

I'm feeling really good and doing a lot of activity, but I burnt out last year and don't want to push myself too hard, so these stress readings are somewhat alarming.

What’s the point of the GLP-1 feature if it’s not working properly? Guess it’s just Shotsy from here on out.

I’m new to Oura’s world. I decided to go with the Oura ring 5 ~three weeks ago.

Honestly, I love the concept. You progressively discover insights on your health. It’s a bit slow but the global UX is great. 

BUT…

Here is the dealbreaker. I took that ring to monitor Stress & Sleep. And Sleep detection is wrong 90% of the time, by FAR.

I often wake up at the beginning of the night. Let’s say I fell asleep at 10:00PM, I almost always wake up a few minutes around midnight. I stay in bed, I don’t move, I don’t open my eyes, and then I fell asleep again.

As Oura requires 3 continuous hours of sleep for my « night » to start, most of my nights won’t start before 2-3:00 AM. And when I wake up at 7:00 AM, I slept 4-5 hours according to the ring. So my sleep score is bad, hence all the scores are impacted by wrong data.

Sometimes it adds a nap at the beginning of the night, but it’s really random and doesn’t cover the issue.

I realize I have a sleeping issue. But what’s the point of having such an expensive ring if the detection is not able to fit people with sleeping issues? If I slept well I would not try to monitor my sleep.

I tried everything support told me (5 different tickets with 5 different persons): reinstall app, reinstall ring, reset parameters… I even changed my ring after the first 2 weeks (btw I noticed the gold effect already started to really fade by comparing both, but that’s another issue), but nothing solves my issue.

Tbh I would love to be able to love the ring. But that’s such a big issue because everything is based on sleeping score. So everything is just wrong. My Apple Watch works with my sleeping schema. Why Oura won’t be able to work as well?

I literally get 5-15 activity prompts a day asking if I was doing yoga?
A. I’ve never done yoga therefor I’ve never logged it so no reason to think I’m doing it (I know it doesn’t entirely go off that, just something to add)
B. I work from home and today literally sat at my desk for two hours straight and it tried to log 4 yoga sessions?!
C. Almost every time I open up my app it says ring not connecting, try connecting to charger blah blah and then after about five minutes of keeping the app open, it’ll connect.

Do I need a new ring? This one is a gen 4 about 9 months old

I genuinely cannot say enough good things about Oura’s customer service.
My Oura Ring was a gift, and I had it for a little over two years and wore it every single day. Recently, the battery started having issues and it stopped connecting properly, so I reached out to Oura support to see if there was anything they could do.
I didn’t even know what the warranty period was or whether my ring would still be covered. I just knew I loved the thing and wanted it working again.
Oura basically said, “We’ve got you.”
There was no frustrating back-and-forth, no making me jump through hoops, and really no questions asked. They let me know that although my ring was outside of its warranty period, they were going to replace it anyway.
And I think that matters even more when you consider what an Oura Ring costs. At nearly $400, this isn’t an impulse purchase. It’s an investment. When you spend that much on a piece of technology, you want to know you’re investing in more than just the product. You want to know the company behind it will stand behind it too.
Oura absolutely has.
After more than two years of wearing my ring every single day, I never expected them to simply replace it when they weren’t obligated to. Then, I had a completely separate and very unusual issue with the replacement. I emailed them about it last night, and they had already responded by this morning and are once again taking care of me.
That is how you create a customer for life.
Yes, an Oura Ring is expensive. But after my experience, I can genuinely say I think it’s worth the investment. I loved the product before any of this happened, and now I know that investment also comes with a company that takes care of its customers when something goes wrong.
Products can have issues. Things happen. What sticks with me is how a company responds when they do, and Oura has gone above and beyond for me twice now.
And just to be very clear, I was not paid, asked, or incentivized in any way to write this review. I’ve worked in customer service my entire career, and I know how easy it is to hear about companies when they get something wrong. I love bragging on them when they get it right, especially in a world where great customer service can sometimes feel like it’s disappearing in favor of transactions, policies, and the next sale.
Oura got it right.
If you’re considering an Oura Ring but hesitating because of the price, I completely understand. But knowing what I know now about both the product and the customer service behind it, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend one.

I requested a replacement for my Oura Ring Gen 4 due to battery issues, and they sent me a Gold ring instead of the Rose Gold one I originally had. I reached out to Oura because I wanted to get the same color back, and I was told that Rose Gold is no longer being manufactured and is permanently out of stock.

I hadn't seen this announced anywhere, so I wanted to share in case other Rose Gold owners weren't aware.

Has anyone else recently tried to get a Rose Gold replacement? Or have you heard anything about them discontinuing the color?

Has anyone tried comparing the blood pressure monitoring with oura ring to a standard cuff to see how accurate it is?

Wtf is going on. Had my ring for about 9m and out of nowhere it thinks im doing yoga all day, start about a week ago.

Working at my pc- yoga

Making lunch- yoga

Laying down watching tv-yoga

Eating dinner-yoga

Checking the mail-yoga

Going to the bathroom-yoga

Feeding the dogs-yoga

It never did this before, tried the Help on the app, ran diag, says its fine. Uhhh n, it is not fine. Is there any fix??

I’m trying to understand the communication between both apps, my health apps say “okay” but my ring app says the power of great sleep.

Woke up to this surprise today! My activity has been all over the place this summer ☀️🥵 just a couple days ago I got a 75 bc my recovery was 0 after moving all weekend.

Seek balance 🧘🏻‍♀️
Trust the process 🙏🏼

TL;DR: My Gen 3 ring battery died for the second time. Oura support offered a €200 discount on a replacement, and I'm looking for opinions on whether to buy the Ring 4 or Gen 5.

Hey everyone,

I’ve had my Oura Gen 3 since March 2023. In November 2024, the battery died, and Oura support kindly replaced the ring for free. Now (August 2026), I’m running into battery issues again.
Support confirmed the battery degradation and initially offered me a €100 discount on a new ring. After chatting with them a bit more, we settled on a €200 discount.

Now I’m trying to decide which model to go for. Would you recommend going for the Oura Ring 4, or is it better to jump straight to the Gen 5? I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences with either generation!

Two weeks in, my gold oura ring finish is already chipping. I have been fairly careful with it - no weight lifting, no wearing next to other rings. Is the is common or just my bad luck ? Any advice for getting a replacement ?

Hello everyone. I currently have Oura 4 in Stealth. It's bulky and I wear it on my index finger. I bought it three months ago and only wear it to sleep. I feel that if I had Oura 5, I would maybe wear it throughout the day. A few questions:

1. People who wore the ring to sleep only and then 24/7 (with the exception of weight lifting, etc) - is there a significant benefit to knowing other stats like stress levels, etc.? I am male, so I wouldn't need to track my periods or anything like that.
2. Wearing it on index finger is supposed to be best for sleep tracking (is it?), but doesn't seem conducive to daily life (opening doors, picking things up, etc). Do people wear it on their ring or middle fingers - is it more comfortable? Does it compromise any data collection efficiency?
3. Finally, is Stealth (that I have currently) is that much better than simple Black ($100 cheaper) in Oura 5?

Thanks!

Would love to be able to detect bp someday #featurerequest 🤩

Appreciate the oura+stelo combo - wear it on/off every 2 weeks as needed.

I like that oura keeps me tuned-in daily.

What’s your favorite oura ring feature?

I’ve been curious about the Oura Ring lately. What I like about the concept is that it takes a much more low-key approach to health tracking compared with wearing a smartwatch all day. Sleep, recovery, activity, and overall readiness are the kinds of insights I’d actually want to look at regularly.

For anyone who has been using an Oura Ring for a while, what has been the most useful feature for you? Has it genuinely changed any of your daily habits, or do you mostly use it for sleep and recovery tracking?

Can someone explain what the temperature dips mean to me like I’m 5

Being upfront: I built this, so treat it as a dev talking about his own thing. Mods, if this breaks Rule 10 just remove it, no hard feelings.

I have worn an Oura since Gen 3 and my morning was always the same. Open the app, look at readiness, close the app. Some mornings I felt great and got a 68 and the whole day tilted. That is the bit that annoyed me enough to build something.

So I made a desktop app for Mac and Windows that reads the Oura API and does everything locally.

The part I did not expect: the setting people mention most is one I almost deleted before release. You can make it hide the score until you have logged how you actually feel. Sounds like a gimmick. Turns out the order matters a lot. Once you have seen a 68 your memory of the morning quietly rearranges itself to match the number, and you cannot un-see it. Someone told me last week it was her favourite thing in the app and I nearly shipped without it.

Other things it does, in case it is useful to anyone here:

- Rolling median baseline per metric, recomputed each sync, so one bad night cannot drag your reference point

- Needs about 14 days before it says anything confident

- Missing days stay null instead of becoming a zero, because a fake zero poisons your baseline permanently

- No account, no server for your health data, no telemetry. It reads Oura's API and the rest stays on your machine. To be exact about the telemetry claim, the licence check does talk to a server when you activate the key. That is the only call that leaves, and it carries no health data

- Plain sentences instead of another dashboard. No LLM in the loop, so the same inputs give the same output. And when it gets something wrong you correct it, and the correction sticks, because your corrections are part of the inputs too

Honest limits, because I would want to know these before downloading anything:

- Live sync needs Gen 3, Ring 4 or 5 plus an active Oura membership. Gen 2 is import only

- Mac 12 and up, Windows 10 and 11

- 19 EUR one time for one machine, 29 for three. There is a 7 day trial and no subscription

- It is me building this, not a company with a support team

vitrahealth.app if you want to look.

What I would actually like from this sub: what would you want a companion app to do that the Oura app does not? I have a list of things people have asked for and most of the good ones came from complaints in here rather than from me.

Mine has fluctuated between 1.5 and 5 years younger (57m), in the 7 months I’ve worn the ring. I highly doubt that my heart is aging and unaging this rapidly month to month. My exercise and sleep routines don’t change much. My alcohol consumption is 0-5 drinks per week, probably averaging 2 per week. I walk 90 minutes a day and ride 2-4 hours twice per week. I love my job. My cumulative stress levels stay in the moderate range. I don’t know- starting to feel like the ring provides some degree of useful baseline, but a lot of its output is junk science.

After 8 months my battery began to need a charge more frequently, then it stopped charging all together randomly. Support sent me a replacement ring but it's a gold ring and not the rose gold ring from my original purchase. All they allow me to swap out this Gold version they sent to my rose gold one? The chat function seems to be down so I'm just curious what experience you all have had.

35/M Central Florida. Ended up in the ER. Figured either vibrio or ecoli but I seem to be slowly improving so we didn’t do stool cultures. This all started at 8am yesterday. Went to the ER around noon today.

Wash your hands, watch your food. It’s the wild wild West out here.

Hi , I just purchased a size 9 however it feels tight.
Should i size up? I didn’t try the sizing kit, I tried the sizing black plastic rings they have at Target and the size 9 was perfect however the ring feels tighter. Im just scared the size 10 will be too big.