OURAOura Ring 4 - Rose Gold - Size 9 - Size Before You Buy

I know the Oura Ring comes at a steep price but I truly think it is worth it. I have had it since February and I only ever take it off to charge it. The biggest con is that the rose gold coating has a few chips on the outer edges and I have scratched it up pretty good. I have put this ring through a lot though so I’m not that surprised. You can buy clear silicone “cases” for it but it dulled out the brightness of the color itself. I still get compliments on how pretty it is even though I have been rough with it. The first week wearing it was an adjustment. At first it felt heavy and bulky but after the second week I stopped noticing it. I got a size 8 and it’s the perfect fit and feels comfortable. It doesn’t ever slip off but it’s easy to remove. My main reason for getting the Oura Ring was to help me keep track of my cycles and ovulation. I love the app and everything it has to offer. Overall the quality is great and I recommend this ring to all of my family and friends.

I’m an Apple user, and the Oura Ring 4 has been the perfect addition to my setup. The design is sleek and comfortable — I barely notice I’m wearing it. What really makes it stand out, though, is how well it tracks sleep and overall recovery.The insights on sleep quality, readiness, and activity have helped me better understand my rest and how it connects to my daily strength and energy. The data feels accurate, and the app is clean and easy to use, syncing smoothly with my phone.If you’re already into health tracking, this is a fantastic companion to the Apple ecosystem. For me, it’s been a game-changer in monitoring my sleep and keeping a closer eye on my recovery.

The Oura Ring looks sharp and feels solid. The health tracking and long-term trend data have been extremely helpful — especially for sleep, recovery, and overall wellness. One of the biggest perks for me is that I can still wear my regular watches while keeping fitness and health stats monitored throughout the day.That said, sizing was a real hassle at first. I used their printable sizing chart and landed on a size 10, but it ended up being too tight. Even after having my finger professionally measured at a jewelry store (they said I was a 10.5), sizes 10, 11, and even 12 didn’t fit comfortably. Eventually, I ordered Oura’s $10 sizing kit — and it turns out I needed a 13. Once I got the correct size, the ring was perfect.Bottom line: I highly recommend the Oura Ring for anyone looking for subtle, reliable health tracking — but do yourself a favor and order the sizing kit upfront. It’ll save you the hassle of multiple returns.

Note: This is a long term review, after owning the ring for 10 months.It disappoints me to have to give this a 1 star review, because when the ring works, it works. It’s very convenient, accurate, un-intrusive to wear, and gives you a ton of valuable data, especially related to your cardiovascular system.But, out of the blue about 10 months into my ownership, battery life has cratered, and even when it doesn’t run fully discharged, it has randomly started disconnecting, meaning it’s not harvesting the data that I expect and want it to, and even worse, without full days of data, it won’t build any trends, meaning the limited data it does collect is useless. Reading online it seems I am not the only person experiencing this disappointment.Oura’s customer service is non existent. I have yet to figure out how to get in contact with a human there. All their customer service is routed through “Finn” their AI assistant.After trying everything that “Finn” has recommended numerous times, and getting nowhere, it would be an understatement to say I am frustrated. One of “Finn’s” suggestions is to fully wipe the ring and app from your phone and reinstall it, and if that doesn’t work, the implication from the system is that it will then elevate it to a customer service rep. The issue with that is when you do that, a hard reset and reinstall, the record with “Finn” also seems to go with it, so the system will never engage a human, it comes across almost like it’s intentional firewall in their service.I am coming up on my 1 year membership renewal. I am at the point where I need to decide if I need to make the $72 annual investment again. I would gladly spend that again, but I’m not really looking at a $72 investment. Given my current ring performance, this means buying another ring. Between the membership and a new ring, with taxes, shipping, etc, etc, etc that’s a near $500 investment; and since it only made it 10 months, that really means it’s effectively closer to $600 a year.Battery powered wearables have a limited life; I went into this understanding that, but, I don’t think that after less than a year of usage, going from ~5 days of battery life and collecting non-stop data to less than 24 hours of life with random crashes is in any way acceptable. Apple or Garmin or Google would have mass recalls or replacements on their hands if their wearables behaved like this.Good health is priceless. The ring helped me tremendously in my fitness journey. I have lost over 65 lbs with its help. At this point, however, given I have hit and am maintaining my weight goal, and from my current experience as well as based on what I read from others online, I refuse to spend any more money with Oura, simply because of their poor customer service and poor product life.My final thoughts: the ring makes your fitness journey significantly easier. Data is king when you’re committed to self improvement. For that, I give it 5 stars; but if you buy one, understand that it most likely will not make it to a year without some sort of collection or battery issue. You have to decide for yourself if $500 for 10-ish months of data is a fair price to pay.