The Best Smart Rings, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

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We person tested respective different entrants to this nascent category, immoderate good, immoderate bad, and immoderate successful between. Here is nan lowdown connected immoderate of your smart ringing alternatives.

The Best Smart Rings Tested and Reviewed

Circular Ring 2 for $349: This ringing is very pretty, pinch rounded edges that make it somewhat look much for illustration jewelry than nan Oura aliases Ultrahuman rings. I besides for illustration nan closed charging case, which intends you tin bring it while walking and recharge without a USB-C cable, and I besides for illustration that nan ringing pings maine passim nan time erstwhile I'm successful my champion area for productivity, moving out, aliases caffeine. However, during my two-week testing period, I was plagued pinch persistent server issues and information processing delays that made it difficult to double-check immoderate of my wellness metrics for accuracy, for illustration bosom rate, SpO2, aliases slumber data. It besides makes it difficult to urge this ringing correct now. I will clasp onto it for now and spot if this improves. —Adrienne So

Movano Evie Ring for $269: When it first came out, nan Movano Evie Ring was touted arsenic nan world's first fittingness locator designed specifically for women. I was very excited! It was precocious updated to merge pinch Apple Health (in nan iOS type of nan app) and you tin now spot your rhythm time connected your location page, manually log your basal assemblage temperature, and manually adhd workouts. However, these caller features are beautiful underbaked compared to those offered by its competitors. Now that Oura and nan Galaxy Ring tin way periods truthful accurately, its clip whitethorn person passed. But it's comparatively affordable, has nary subscription fee, and has a humor oxygen sensor, truthful that's benignant of nice. —Adrienne So

RingConn Gen 2 for $299: Despite a value summation complete Gen 1 below, this is still a comparatively affordable, subscription-free smart ring. RingConn retained nan unique squared-off design, but this second-generation ringing brought awesome improvements to slumber search (including slumber apnea detection), amended artillery life, and is very somewhat slimmer and lighter. I recovered basal slumber and wellness monitoring coagulated (sleep is overmuch much meticulous than nan first generation), but workout search is still a awesome weakness. Despite much disposable workout types, you must manually trigger workout tracking, and it struggles pinch accuracy astatine higher bosom rates.

RingConn Smart Ring for $139: Now heavy discounted, nan original Ringconn is worthy considering. A somewhat squared-off creation pinch beveled edges gives it a unsocial look, nan wellness and slumber search activity well, and it lasts 4 aliases 5 days betwixt charges. It besides comes pinch a useful artillery lawsuit (enough for respective charges connected nan go). However, I had problem pinch information syncing, nan app lacked due workout tracking, and nan information was sometimes inaccurate, though nan app seems to beryllium steadily improving done updates.

Luna Smart Ring for $300: The Luna smart ringing is simply a caller titanium smart ringing pinch 5 days of artillery life that purports to connection galore caller AI features, for illustration menstrual wellness coaching and nutrition advice, successful summation to by-now-standard humor oxygen and tegument somesthesia measurements for rhythm tracking. However, it would not enactment connected to nan app and—I'm sorry for really dumb this sounds—it doesn't beryllium connected nan charger well, truthful I perpetually kept uncovering it uncharged, which was highly irritating. —Adrienne So

Amazfit Helio Ring for $150: Purveyor of affordable fittingness trackers for illustration nan Amazfit Active 2, I expected a competitory smart ringing from Amazfit, but nan Amazfit Helio is severely retired of shape. I for illustration nan subtly textured bronze finish, but it is nan only colour you get. Sizes are besides constricted to 8, 10, aliases 12 for now (sizes 7 to 13 are coming). While it has akin capabilities to nan smart rings above, nan Helio was sometimes hopelessly inaccurate, pinch bosom complaint measurements wildly retired of measurement pinch different trackers. It lacks automatic workout-tracking, artillery life averaged 3 days for me, and nan Helio often disconnected from nan engaged and confusing Zepp app. You don’t need a subscription, but location is Aura AI ($70/year) for slumber insights and contented aliases Fitness ($30/year), which includes an AI coach. They are costly and confusing. (Why person 2 abstracted subscriptions?) The Helio useful overmuch amended successful conjunction pinch a smartwatch (I tried it pinch nan Amazfit Cheetah Pro), arsenic it tin merge nan data, but arsenic a stand-alone device, it is intolerable to recommend.

How Do I Choose nan Right Smart Ring Size?

Some smart rings travel successful modular sizes, but location is variation, and half sizes are rare, truthful it's worthy taking immoderate clip to guarantee you get nan correct ringing size. Most manufacturers will nonstop you a free sizing kit, enabling you to deterioration a dummy ringing for 24 hours. (You whitethorn person to bargain nan ringing straight from nan shaper to get this kit for free.) You should perfectly do this. Bear successful mind that your fingers swell and shrink passim nan day. Your smart ringing should beryllium snug to alteration nan sensors to measurement accurately, but you will person to region it regularly to charge, truthful you don’t want excessively tight a fit.

Which Finger Should I Wear My Smart Ring On?

You tin deterioration your smart ringing connected immoderate finger, but astir manufacturers urge wearing these gadgets connected your scale finger, though nan mediate aliases ringing digit tin besides work. These 3 fingers each person ample humor vessels for much meticulous beat monitoring. What’s really important is that nan ringing fits tightly and securely astir nan guidelines of your chosen finger, truthful if you person a large knuckle and a narrower digit guidelines (more communal pinch nan mediate aliases ringing finger), this tin beryllium tricky. I urge wearing it connected nan scale digit of your little ascendant manus because I recovered wearing it connected my correct scale finger, arsenic a right-handed person, led to much harm connected nan ringing and scrapes connected immoderate things I touched.

Which Smart Ring Finish aliases Color Is Best?

All nan smart rings we tested mixed reliable titanium pinch a sensor array connected nan inside, but nan coatings and colors vary. If you are difficult connected rings, a metallic aliases golden decorativeness will apt suit you best, arsenic location is little consequence of damage. My Oura and Ultrahuman rings pinch achromatic finishes person visible scratches and chips aft a fewer months. The Oura and Amazfit rings person mini dimples to thief you align nan sensors. While I for illustration nan soft decorativeness of nan Ultrahuman, I fishy correct placement immunodeficiency accuracy enormously.

How Do I Care for My Smart Ring?

Most smart rings are durable, but if you want to debar damage, you should region your ringing erstwhile moving pinch tools, weight lifting, washing pots and pans, aliases moreover cleaning nan sink. If your ringing is apt to swipe against a surface, return it off. I recovered this was a bigger problem wearing a ringing connected my scale digit than pinch nan mediate aliases ringing finger. I scratched nan Oura and Ultrahuman rings erstwhile gardening, moving boxes, and utilizing a dumbbell. Titanium is besides reliable capable to harm surfaces successful your home. I gouged nan porcelain of my descend and marked nan wrong of a mug pinch nan angular Ringconn. All nan smart rings we tested are h2o resistant, truthful you tin aquatics aliases ablution without taking them off.

How Often Do I Need to Charge My Smart Ring?

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Smart rings travel pinch a charger and cable, but you will mostly person to supply your ain wall adapter. From dead, they return anyplace from an hr and a half to 3 hours to afloat charge, but you should debar letting nan artillery tally down completely, aliases you tally nan consequence of losing wellness data. We tested nan smart rings supra pinch each nan bells and whistles turned on, truthful our artillery life estimates are little than nan manufacturer's claims.

What Smart Ring Features Should I Look For?

Most smart rings will way your sleep, bosom rate, and temperature. If you want to support an oculus connected your slumber and get wellness insights unobtrusively and comfortably, smart rings are ideal. Fitness search varies, pinch astir smart rings offering basal measurement counts and movement, immoderate offering manual workout tracking, and others offering automatic workout recognition. But you tin expect much extent and accuracy from a traditional fittingness tracker aliases smartwatch. Combining a smart ringing pinch an Apple Watch aliases Fitbit makes for a seamless experience, allowing you to return disconnected nan watch and fto it complaint astatine nighttime without gaps successful your tracking.

Smart Rings aliases Smart Watches?

In nan past fewer years, we've fielded galore questions astir why personification would get a smart ringing alternatively of, aliases successful summation to, a regular fittingness tracker. Here are a fewer reasons why you mightiness see it:

Better artillery life. A smart ringing is smaller and usually (if not always) has amended artillery life. It's a adjuvant summation to your repertoire if you dislike missing a mates hundred, aliases a thousand, steps while you're charging your smartwatch each day.

Sleep tracking. It's nary coincidence that our favourite slumber tracker is simply a small, unobtrusive ring. Maybe you're tired of having your tremendous Apple Watch Ultra smack you successful nan look each clip you move over. (Or possibly you're charging it instead!)

Cycle tracking. Many watches and fittingness trackers now characteristic a tegument somesthesia sensor that's delicate capable to observe erstwhile you're sick aliases drinking alcohol. However, successful Adrienne's testing truthful far, only nan Samsung Galaxy Ring and nan Oura person been meticulous capable to way her menstrual cycle.

Finally, fashion. Watches are a connection and a position symbol; a smartwatch often says thing much astir your preferences and choices too “I don't for illustration missing meetings.” Almost everyone we cognize who has bought a smart ringing has done truthful because they person a hand-me-down Cartier Tank, aliases a fun Casio aliases Swatch, that they don't want to springiness up. If this is you, bully for you! And get a ring!

We person been wearing smart rings continuously for respective years (sometimes 2 aliases 3 astatine a time), truthful we person a bully grip connected what makes a smart ringing worthy buying. Every smart ringing we trial has been worn for astatine slightest a month, usually longer, and we ever comparison its search information against our apical prime (Oura) and pinch different smartwatches and fittingness trackers (Apple Watch).

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