Personal Health Monitoring – Sleep, Fitness, and More

Trackables can be clunky. Watches, wristbands, and other trackables that strap to your arm can get covered in sweat, catch on weights, and be a bother more than an aid. The Oura Ring packs all that clunkiness down into a single ring that users can wear around their index or middle fingers.

The Oura Ring is built to help measure rest and sleep metrics and is less focused on fitness and activity tracking. The Ring’s app translates your data into a Readiness score, or how well you’ve recovered and what type of activities you’re ready for.

To form your Readiness score the Ring uses a variety of metrics including stress indicators like body temperature, resting heart rate, and heart rate variability on top of measures of sleep patterns.

The Ring connects with an app and is viewable on any computer, tablet, or smart phone. From the app you can monitor and manage your data and view your Readiness score. The Ring App is loaded with detailed stats on your waking and sleeping periods, biometrics like heartrate during the night, and suggestions on how you can improve your rest and recovery.

With this data you can use the app to find the perfect sleeping routine, so you get even more from your rest. The App is aesthetically pleasing and can be customized with gorgeous backdrops to help wake you up or keep you resting. An Oura membership is required for full use of the app.

Bonus: The Ring App offers guided and unguided meditation courses to calm your mind throughout the day and night.

The Whoop Fitness tracker is worn around the wrist and focuses on rest and recovery metrics to help you take on your next workout. The collected data and metrics are applied across three pillars of performance: strain, recovery, and sleep. Strain utilizes the Borg Scale of Perceived Exertion to map your score, recovery uses your resting heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, and respiratory rate, while sleep is measured in duration, latency, stages, disturbances and more. These three pillars help Whoop users recover faster, rest better, and perform better during exercise.

The Whoop App uses your data that to assess your overall fitness in the three pillars of sleep, strain, and recovery. These scores are displayed and sortable, allowing you to focus on targets within the three pillars.

The Whoop App compares your data against other anonymous users to help make suggestions like taking the stairs instead of the elevator. You can use the in-app journal to track habits like caffeine intake or calories consumed and compare it to your data for better workouts and recovery. The App’s design is austere, and data driven, in other words – not very pretty. You must have a Whoop membership to access the app and data.