Fitbit is an excellent fitness tracking watch, but it lacks a smart ring in its collection. On the other hand, Oura is the new way to keep track of your health. It’s a total contrast to putting a tracking watch on your wrist. Oura does it from a finger.
Besides the stunning aesthetics, minimalism, and tech-savvy vibes that come from Oura, it still has a lot of boxes to tick to win against Fitbit. Similarly, Fitbit isn’t a pre-determined winner in this comparison. So you are up for an excellent head-to-head match between Fitbit Vs. Oura. Keep reading till the end to see who wins.
Overview
Finger is a great place to put a heart rate monitoring tracker. Plus, it’s a new and innovative way of tracking your health. However, Fitbit is synonymous with the wrist. It’s also a good option to track fitness, but does it rhyme with tech and innovation?
We think we’ve had our fair share of fitness tracking watches, and perhaps it’s time to welcome a new innovation to this industry? But rings aren’t a preferred choice for everyone. Plus, are we diving into a world where wedding rings are made by Oura? Keep on reading to learn the difference between Fitbit and Oura.
Speakers and microphones
Both these devices couldn’t look any different from one another. One sits on the finger while the other takes over your wrist. We won’t dare think about wearing both of them simultaneously because how would the smart speaker keep up then?
Oura
As per our findings, Oura ring doesn’t have a speaker installed. Plus, it won’t connect to a speaker device.
Fitbit
Taking the lead in this first round is Fitbit, with a hard blow to the innovative and stylish Oura. The latest models of Fitbit are equipped with speakers and a microphone so you can connect with smart devices in your home like Amazon Alexa. It’s a step in the right direction because why not connect smart devices when we have the tech for it?
Fitness tracking capabilities and accuracy
So we have established that these two trackers are poles apart. But how do they compare in terms of what they are supposed to do?
Oura
The ring comes equipped with a gyroscope and an accelerometer that track your motion and counts your steps. These are standard fare in fitness trackers, but Oura surprised us with a feature we didn’t know we needed.
Oura ring can track your body temperature and alert you when you are experiencing mild symptoms of a fever. The company says this innovation is possible thanks to infrared lights attached to the ring.
These lights are more accurate in penetrating the skin and collecting heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and body temperature. Plus, infrared light is efficient in penetrating through different skin tones.
Fitbit
Fitbit offers a fair amount of features in fitness tracking, probably due to its large form factor. This fitness tracking wristwatch has several sensors and features you’ll find in the Oura ring except for the fever monitor.
Other than that, Fitbit is capable of tracking your heartbeat and sleep patterns. The newer models of Fitbit are capable of continuously monitoring your heart rate and work in the heart rate zones during a workout.
Sleep monitoring
One of the best features of both devices is the sleep monitoring option. However, we are here to find out which device takes the crown.
Oura
Oura uses several of its onboard sensors to collect tons of data on your sleep. The device will track your deep sleep, light sleep, and REM. Plus, you’ll be updated about your sleep score the following morning.
In addition, Oura also tracks your activity to measure whether you are in good shape for the day. If you stress out yourself, the ring will tell you the ideal sleep time to keep you fresh and glowing in the morning.
Fitbit
As for sleep monitoring, Fitbit has always been the best in the market. Like Oura, Fitbit participated in a raft of validating sleep studies and has held the winning position in sleep monitoring.
This is perhaps one of the strongest points of Fitbit. However, wearing a large watch on the wrist sometimes becomes uncomfortable, especially for people who have tried the Oura ring. Regardless, Fitbit sleep tracking sensors are precise and leading the market.
Battery life and durability
Both devices have excellent sensors and tracking capabilities, but Fitbit might have taken a slight lead in the sleep monitoring part. Now let’s move to battery life and durability.
Oura
In terms of battery life, the Oura ring promises 1 week and a full charge within 20 minutes. This is because of the small form factor and screen size. However, 1 week without fail battery is a huge promise.
Fitbit
Fitbit has always been the best in terms of battery life. You can expect a week from this device if you don’t open its screen every 10 seconds. However, the average battery life of Fitbit devices is between 5 to 7 days.
Price comparison
In terms of battery life, Oura took the lead with a bold promise. But does this ring fit in everyone’s finger?
Oura
The price of the Oura ring is $340 for its balance and heritage design. But if you want to marry your fitness enthusiast girlfriend, you can propose to her with a diamond Oura ring. However, the cost of this ring might not be in everyone’s budget because it’s around $1,137.
Oura ring might fall a bit short on durability because it doesn’t come with replacement – not for anything. One drop, and you might crack your ring. But we didn’t see any visible or internal damage when the ring dropped from our finger during the comparison review.
Fitbit
Fitbit pricing options start from $69.95 and go all the way up to $300 for its iconic smartwatch. The price of this wristwatch fitness tracker is fairly reasonable considering you can buy Fitbit iconic watch for the price of the Oura balance and heritage model. But it depends on personal preference.
Fitbit is prone to occasional wear and tear, but you can replace its bands, so there is nothing much to worry about.
Final verdict
Putting both devices side-by-side, we can see they aren’t exactly the same. If we consider them in terms of performance, Oura takes the lead in battery life but falls short in sleep monitoring catching back with durability. But in terms of innovation and design, Oura has a huge advantage because it’s the new way of tracking health.
