- Oura, the company behind the Oura Ring, has redesigned its companion app
- The app has a new look, layout, and AI-powered insights
- New features include a Cumulative Stress metric and advanced AI-powered Cycle Tracking
Oura Ring 4 and Oura Ring Generation 3 users are getting a redesigned app with AI-powered features pushed to the forefront.
The new-look app promises, according to an Oura press release, ‘deeper personalization’ and ‘intelligent curation’ – in other words, you’re getting less of a static interface and more features, metrics, and advice selected and generated by AI. It’s not just a new coat of paint: the makers of one of the best smart rings have designed an app that changes, front-loading what it believes is the most relevant metric for you in that moment.
The redesigned app, is quite reminiscent of Fitbit’s redesign back in March, in that you now have three tabs: Today, Health, and Vitals.
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Today is said to focus on ‘one big thing’ that matters to you right now: if you’re particularly stressed, Oura will show you a metric relevant to that. On the other hand, if you’re primed for exercise, it might show you your Readiness score.
The My Health tab is your long-term view at how your metrics have changed over time, offering insights on trends and ‘areas of opportunity for proactive care’ – i.e. where you need to improve. A new Habits and Routines section helps you log behaviors similar to Garmin’s Lifestyle Logging.
Finally, Vitals shows all your current core metrics beyond the ‘one big thing’ in the Today tab, allowing you to switch between daily, weekly, monthly and yearly views. It’s color-coded to immediately signal how you’re doing on any given day.
New AI-powered features
It’s not just the layout that’s changed. Oura has added a bunch of new features, including a new metric: Cumulative Stress. A stress score measured by your last month of sleep, heart rate, and activity data and updated weekly, Cumulative Stress marks a shift towards long-term stress rather than an at-the-moment score.
Dr. Ricky Bloomfield, chief medical officer at Oura, said in a press statement: “By combining rigorous research with continuous, real-world data, we can identify early patterns that often go unnoticed in traditional healthcare settings.
“The Cumulative Stress feature marks an important step forward in translating science into everyday guidance – helping people recognize how small physiological changes today can influence long-term health outcomes.”
Oura’s also expanded its women’s health tracking Cycle Insights feature. Oura says it can start predicting menstrual cycles after just one day of wearing the Oura Ring 4, while it’s expanding its insights from a monthly view to an annual one to help you plan ahead.
Even though it says the Ring 4 can predict your cycle after a day, Oura’s VP of consumer software Jason Russell confirmed to me separately that the longer you wear it, the more accurate those insights get.
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