So on top of the $300 ring you get to pay a $6 monthly fee…for a ring that is entirely inaccurate. I wear my smartwatch and ring to bed; the smartwatch has consistently been more accurate with my sleep. The main reason I ordered this ring was to see my “readiness score” as I am someone who regularly struggles with low energy and would like to know what days to take it easy. Every day my readiness score is more or less the same and it hasn’t detected my energy crashes. I’ve worn this ring almost daily for nearly 2 months now. Still paying the subscription fee in hopes to get some value out of this app…because if I don’t that means I wasted $300 on the ring. Lol, if I could go back, I would have spared the trouble and never would have purchased it. I don’t understand the good reviews. I have seen some people want this ring because it will track their body temperature for the Natural Cycles app, my thoughts on that are 1. Based on my current experience with this ring and inaccuracy, I really would not trust it with something as important as birth control and 2. Natural Cycles is another subscription fee, so that’s another monthly commitment your bank account will be making. Once again I’ve learned the lesson that if something sounds too good to be true, it likely is. Best just save your money and stick to a smartwatch.

Dec 2023 update: something quirky going on with the new Tagging feature. I added a tag to yesterday but it’s associating it with today. I try to go and delete the tag from yesterday and can’t find where to do this. There is no “Summary” for the day for me to select and see the Tags as their website suggests. Previous and still valid review: My primary issue is that the ring thinks I’m sleeping or napping when I’m not. I’ll be fully awake and it will think I’m sleeping- it even believed that I’m in deep sleep! I’m not sure why- I do have a very low heart rate. But then I’ll have a decent nights sleep (just based on my lack of insomnia and the the feeling of being alert and rested) and it will tell me I had no deep sleep. And currently the app is only letting me adjust my bedtime and not my wake up time. So it essentially thinks I go to bed at 530p and get up at 930a. Even when I’ve successfully adjusted the times, the app will revert back to the original times. Arghh! But I like the ring enough to have gone ahead and upgraded to the new Gen 3. I like seeing my HRV, HR and body temp. It has helped me realize how bad it is to eat late.

I got this ring to pair with Natural Cycles. Prior to this week it would take literally forever for my temperature to sync with the app (sometimes an hour!). Interestingly enough as soon as they had competition in the new Apple Watch they fixed the issue people have been complaining about for months. Crazy how that works 🤪. Overall the app insights are super interesting, I have an infant that obviously wakes during the night and this helps me to keep up with her wakings as well as mine. It’s also cool to see the heart rate and stress tracking. The workout tracking is only mildly accurate I would say but that’s not what I bought the ring for. I’m the most disappointed in the new subscription thing they’ve got going on. “Spend $500 on our ring with all these features, and then you can pay us even more money to use them! Isn’t that fun???” It makes me question why in the world I spent the extra money on the newest ring when the old one has the same features as you get without the subscription for less cost. It’s just a shame to see the greed in these companies. I don’t know if I would recommend it to other people moving forward. At the least the Apple Watch has other features, and you don’t have to pay monthly to use them!