The membership is the key to everything the Whoop app offers, including all metrics, trends, reports, and community posts. You can pay for one or two years upfront and get a discount, but it still comes out to either $240 or $300 for each year of use. Whoop markets the 4.0 as "free" but with a mandatory $30 monthly subscription. This is a new strategy for Oura-and one that I hope it moves away from-but Whoop has used a subscription model with its past devices. Advertisementīoth Oura and Whoop require a monthly subscription. But to cut through the Instagram-fueled hype and see if the recovery-focused wearables are worth your time (and monthly subscription fee), we spent several weeks putting these odd little devices through their paces.
With no built-in GPS and no way to track your activities without a phone, neither device is ideal as a traditional fitness tracker. And both come from fast-rising companies-though they aren't exactly household names, Oura was reportedly valued at $2.5 billion in April, while Whoop was valued at $3.6 billion in 2021. Both lack any sort of screen and require subscriptions for their data, and neither is cheap. Whoop's marketing aims more narrowly at optimizing training for athletes, while Oura casts a wider net.īut both focus more squarely on recovery assessment than typical activity tracking and aim to tell you how your activity, sleep, and recovery rates intertwine. They look nothing alike-the former is, well, a ring, while the latter is an unassuming little wrist module. The Oura Ring (Gen 3) and Whoop 4.0 are two buzzy, celebrity-endorsed fitness wearables built using these sorts of "health and performance optimization" insights. Like other features of this type, it's locked behind a paywall-in this case, the $10-a-month Fitbit Premium subscription service. Fitbit’s recently launched Daily Readiness Score, for instance, measures your sleep quality, activity levels, and heart rate variability (HRV) to quantify whether your body is prepared for an intense training session or if it needs a break. Recently, some wearables have started to place a heavier emphasis on recovery and restoration between exercise instead of just tracking more common activity metrics. The feature wasn't live during our testing, so we've updated the text to reflect its inclusion. Update: Whoop now integrates with Apple Health.
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