Ultrahuman Ring Air Smart Ring Review

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Knowledgeable’s Ranking

Professionals

• Very gentle and cozy
• Stable core health and sleep monitoring
• No subscription required
• Helpful notification prompts

Cons

• Susceptible to scratches
• Not constructed for exercise monitoring

Our Verdict

The Ultrahuman Ring Air gives a robust sensible ring package deal with a largely likeable design and software program that feels as smooth as Oura’s to make it a sensible ring price placing on.

Value When Reviewed

$349

Greatest Costs At the moment: Ultrahuman Ring Air

$349

The Ultrahuman Ring Air emerges as one other sensible ring that wishes to show you don’t must pay for a month-to-month or annual subscription to place a helpful health and wellness tracker in your finger.

It goals to take the identical sensors we’ve already seen crop up in different rings and wrist-based trackers to make use of knowledge like sleep, coronary heart charge, and train that can assist you make higher selections about your day.

On paper, the Android and iOS-friendly ring has all of the makings of a real Oura Ring Gen 3 rival and surprisingly delivers each an identical core expertise with a number of components that make it really feel distinctive as effectively.

Design & Construct

• Accessible in 5 colors
• Water-proof as much as 100 metres 
• Free ring sizing equipment

The Ring Air is a totally round sensible ring that’s comprised of titanium with a tungsten carbide carbon coating to toughen up a hoop that sadly hasn’t remained as scratch-free as the primary time I put it on my finger.

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Whereas it’s a pleasingly gentle ring (2.4-3.6g relying on dimension), making it comfy to put on all day and at evening, it has noticeably picked up a good quantity of scuffs and scratches over time, which actually seems to be worse on the matt black model I needed to take a look at. That’s occurred regardless of remembering to take it off earlier than going to the gymnasium for a weights session and usually making an attempt to maintain it out of hurt’s method.

There are 5 ring colors in complete to choose from right here – Uncooked Titanium, Aster Black, Matte Gray, Bionic Gold and House Silver, and all can be found with a free sizing equipment to be sure you get a great match. Regardless of taking the sizing equipment route, I did discover the sizing just a little off for me, the place the ring had initially come off on a number of events. That’s been much less of a problem over time, however what’s clear is that not all sensible rings are constructed the identical in relation to match.

On the inside lies the sensor array and a medical-grade resin to stop the ring from irritating the pores and skin. I’ve had no motive to take the ring off aside from to cost it and for gymnasium weights, so it will get the thumbs up when it comes to being a hoop that feels skin-friendly.

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

As a package deal, it’s waterproof as much as 100 metres depth and I’ve worn it within the bathe and for swims and the ring has saved on monitoring with out challenge. Finishing the setup is the proprietary charging cradle to drop the ring on and a Kind-C to C cable to connect with that cradle.

It’s a sensible ring that actually delivers when it comes to being one thing that feels gentle and discreet to put on, although does really feel just a little plain-looking subsequent to rings just like the Oura Ring Gen 3 and cheaper rings just like the RingConn Good Ring.

Health Monitoring & App 

• Tracks steps, coronary heart charge, temperature and sleep
• Works with apps like Strava and MyFitnessPal
• Personalised notification nudges

The Ring Air, like different sensible rings, is a health tracker at coronary heart and goals to softly immediate you into making higher selections about your day, that may in flip purpose to enhance features like your sleep and even restoration from train.

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

It does that with some staple health tracker sensors, together with a 6-axis movement sensor to trace steps, normal actions throughout the day and to allow the automated sleep monitoring. There’s additionally room for a PPG sensor that may seize coronary heart charge and monitor blood oxygen saturation.

You’re additionally getting what Ultrahuman refers to as a medical-grade pores and skin temperature sensor that can be utilized to point out how your physique is reacting to your health or if you is likely to be feeling below the climate.

When you’ve accomplished the two-week baseline knowledge interval you’ll then really want to start out to concentrate to what the ring is making an attempt to let you know. You’ll additionally obtain telephone notifications to advocate easing off stimulants like espresso or lowering publicity to vivid gentle to enhance your possibilities of getting a great evening’s sleep.

These prompts, whereas not groundbreaking, assist Ultrahuman’s monitoring method really feel completely different to different sensible rings.

Crucially, the core monitoring feels dependable as effectively too, I’ve been monitoring knowledge like step counts with an Oura Ring Gen 3 and two different health monitoring smartwatches and the day by day counts by no means felt wildly out from the opposite gadgets and on some days had been a number of hundred steps out from one another.

I additionally discovered steady coronary heart charge readings properly in step with the monitoring with sports activities watches I do know from expertise provide dependable wrist-based steady monitoring on most days. Some real-time readings although felt excessive, as a lot as 10bpm out at instances, which gave the impression to be tied to the match of the ring.

It performs effectively as a sleep tracker with knowledge like sleep period, sleep stage breakdowns just like what I captured with Oura’s dependable sleep monitoring. It’s additionally excellent at capturing naps.

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

What actually underpins the robust expertise is the companion smartphone app, which is slick and whereas is getting busier as Ultrahuman provides extra options, continues to be very nice to interact with and largely presents essentially the most helpful knowledge in a user-friendly method.

Like different sensible rings, exercise monitoring isn’t a energy. There’s at present a exercise mode in beta testing the place it’s acknowledged coronary heart charge monitoring may not be as correct as at relaxation. That’s completely my expertise of utilizing it. The excellent news is that Ultrahuman gives already fairly in depth third social gathering app integration with apps like Strava and Garmin Join supported to assist fill within the train monitoring knowledge gaps.

General, the method to monitoring and placing that monitoring knowledge into context feels similar to what I’ve skilled with Oura. It feels completely different sufficient to not really feel like an actual clone. The app is well-designed, although there’s additionally a good bit of bloat that could possibly be ditched or higher hidden to make it unnecessarily busy.

Battery Life & Charging

• As much as 6 days battery life 
• Makes use of Oura-style charging cradle 
• Expenses in 2-3 hours

The Ring Air features a 24mAh that Ultrahuman claims can keep powered for as much as 6 days from a single cost.

These claims nonetheless are beneficiant based mostly on my testing. I discovered it averaged 3 days with scope to push to 4 days, however by no means on any event made it to six days.

The app will fireplace notifications to your telephone to remind you when the battery is operating low, and you then’ll have to seize a proprietary charging cradle that clearly takes some design inspiration from the cradle that accompanies the Oura Ring Gen 3.

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Powering it up from 0-100% is a bit sluggish and might take so long as 3 hours, which is greater than another sensible rings. Whereas it doesn’t higher the RingConn, which gives the most effective sensible ring battery life on the market, it does not less than go toe-to-toe with Oura.

Value & Availability

The Ultrahuman Ring AIR is in the stores now and is being offered on Amazon and the official retailer (additionally fulfilled by Amazon).

It’s a subscription-free sensible ring, which implies you solely have to pay for the ring itself and that can value you £329/$349.

That offers it a extra pricey standalone worth than the Oura Ring Gen 3 (£238/$299). It’s additionally costlier than the RingConn Good Ring (£220/$279) and the Round Ring Slim, which prices £225 and like Ultrahuman and RingConn, doesn’t require an extra subscription.

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Mike Sawh

Do you have to purchase the Ultrahuman Ring Air?

The Ultrahuman Ring Air is the sensible ring that comes closest to the Oura Ring when it comes to what it gives in {hardware} and software program so far (in fact Samsung will need to change that with the Galaxy Ring quickly).

It supplies robust core monitoring and a companion app the place knowledge and insights are properly offered and continues to enhance as Ultrahuman provides options to make the Ring Air extra helpful. It additionally does it with barely higher battery life than the Oura Ring Gen 3.

It’s not resistant to the identical type of points as different sensible rings, although, like conserving the outside trying pristine and having to lean on third-party app integration to fill in some knowledge gaps. 

In the end although, that is the standout various to Oura the place you don’t want a subscription to reap the complete sensible ring advantages.

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