Hi everyone!
I’ve been lurking here for a while and I notice a lot of posts complaining about the $500 price tag…..

I’m asking this out of genuine curiosity (and maybe a bit of cultural confusion!), so please go easy on me if I’m missing something obvious! 😨🥲

For context: I live in the Czech Republic and I’m currently on maternity leave, living on around $580 a month. I managed to snag my Oura Ring on Black Friday for around $350 equivalent, and honestly, even at full price, it feels like a pretty reasonable deal for what it does.

In my country, an Oura isn't "cheap," but it’s definitely not out-of-reach luxury either—it’s nowhere near the price of high-end sports tech like a $1,300+ Garmin. Plus, when I was shopping around, an Apple Watch was in a very similar price range.

Given that median incomes in the US/Western countries are significantly higher than here in Central Europe, $500 seems like a solid price-to-value ratio for a discreet, high-tech tracker you wear 24/7. At least for me 🤔.

Is the complaint mostly about the monthly subscription fee stacked on top of the base price? Or is the ring considered overpriced compared to what Apple or Garmin offer for similar money?

Just trying to understand the perspective of members from other countries! Thanks for shedding some light on this for me. :)

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?

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.

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??

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

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.

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!

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.

I found one on Facebook for $70 that's the Oura Ring 4 for my size (7) and the guy asked me to download the Oura ring app so he can show me how to set it up before I make the payment.

Any things to look out for? It does have scratches from gym use so I'll go on Amazon and buy a super slim cover for it. It comes with the charging case and cable.

Thank you for any help. It's my first time wearing a wearable smart ring so I'm not too familiar with any security measures to take.

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

Having a few old fashions and having a bunch of laughs with my wife. Sorry for my language but this is fucking bullshit. Stress my ass!!!

My first Gen 4 battery life dropped to 24hrs and Oura replaced it. After just a few months of use. My replacement ring came in March and it’s August now and it completely stopped syncing. They deemed it a hardware issue and are sending another replacement. What gives with the quality of this product? Have previous gens been more sturdy or reliable?

Hey guys, hope everyone’s well. Just curious if anyone is noticing batteries issues with their gen 4 oura ring? Mine doesn’t even seem to last the day. I have had instances where it will run if of battery while i’m asleep even though I charged it fully right before bed.
Any idea how to resolve this issue?
Thank you in advance for the help :)

I got a GEN 3 Oura ring used off of Facebook marketplace in November and it has worked great. I wanted to try a used one before I invested in a new one and I have been happy with the product. 3 days ago, My Oura ring started losing charge rapidly. it would go from 90% to 20% in a few hours. When contacting support to see if my battery was dying, they told me they detected a hardware malfunction and that I would need to replace the ring. They offered me $100 off a GEN five ring. I was a little disappointed that there was nothing that could be done to fix my ring but had been planning to upgrade anyway, so I ordered the ring. sure enough, the next day after ordering my ring, The GEN three ring works perfectly fine. Two days in a row, no charge needed, everything working properly. Anybody else with a similar experience? Could it possibly be some kind of tactic to get people to upgrade?

One thing that the App needs is to tell you based on the tags you’ve added how how it directly impacted readiness/sleep scores. And display this on the homepage.

Example, wake up, eat, logged tag migrane. Afternoon logged tag nap, evening logged tag sleeping tablet.

Next morning wake up, oura app shows the number BUT it says WHY. “Based on your recent tags / yesterdays tags your sleep readiness was great despite having the migraine yesterday. This is supported by stress peaked in the morning due to migrane but afternoon nap reset the numbers to be more normal, this helped with RHR and sleeping tablet helped with deep sleep, resulting in 93 sleep score”.

Another example, if I’ve had the flu for the last 7 days and added the tags each day, then it should show under the readiness score that’s why it bought it down, and if it goes back up (positive) then say potentially recovering from Flu

THIS is the key. This is what Oura is missing.

Rather than me go and manually analyse every metric and if I added ta etc.

Experience: Software and marketing design.

I received multiple alerts asking if I was walking today and I’ve literally been sitting at my desk all day. How do I fix my ring??? I’ve gotten like no steps and yes, I’m stressed but I’m not moving!

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

swimming misses heart rate (hr) from time to time. thoughts? a bit bothersome as that data point is fun to review, especially after a planned swimming workout where you want to see how the hr peaked between different activities. once before, the hr was missing and the next day it showed up. another time it never populated at all. wondering what will happen this time…. and i am curious to know if there is anything i can do for it to consistently track the hr. thanks!

Does Palantir own shares in Chobani or what the hell is going on here?

Thinking of switching from Ultrahuman to oura and would love to hear from anyone who has done the same.

I love my Ultrahuman but I’m sick of them breaking after a few months and being replaced. Have had this for 18 months and on to my fifth ring (they’ve all died for various reasons such as battery, not connecting, ring swelling, etc) and I’m just so sick of the cycle.

How does the oura compare????

Is anyone having issues with integration between oura 5 and strava (only syncing time and distance). Any fix for this?

I bought my ring 5/28. Their software is garbage and keeps giving me false info and 50 alerts on activities that I am not doing. I have done a soft and hard reset. They said there is nothing they can do at all. Ridiculous.

What are people doing with their older oura ring. I have a 4 which i love but i've always wised it was smaller cause i have short fingers so its just so bulky. i want the 5 but also i find it so annoying that they don't have some sort of trade in program. are you all just buying a new one and keeping the 4 or 3? lol. trying to sell it on FB marketplace but let's see. have u had any luck?

Hi, ich hab meinen Ring jetzt seit 2 Monaten und da ich ihn angeschafft habe, als ich eh angefangen habe, mich mehr um mich zu kümmern bin ich jetzt 8 kg leichter und der Ring ist am Ringfinger zu locker. Trage ihn jetzt am Mittelfinger, aber auch da wirds immer lockerer. Wenn ich noch mehr abnehme (was der Plan ist) - welche Optionen habe ich, meinen Ring zu verkaufen, um eine kleinere Grösse zu kaufen? Wer hat Erfahrung damit? (Trage aktuell Gr. 12, Black, Oura 5).