Oura Ring 5 review: smaller, refined, and still the best smart ring you can buy

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For the past few years, recommending a smart ring has been fairly easy. If someone asked me which one to buy, I almost always pointed them toward Oura. The only hiccup was deciding whether the ring’s premium price and ongoing subscription were worth it. In other words, some wearable lines need a reinvention to stay relevant, but the Oura Ring wasn’t one of them.

Rather than chasing a flashy new health metric or gimmicky feature, Oura spent this generation refining what already worked and delivered a dramatically smaller device without sacrificing accuracy or battery life. The story isn’t just about what the Oura Ring 5 () can do (which is a lot), but how much easier it is to wear around the clock.