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Oura's AI health coach is live for everyone - here's what it can do for you
Oura Advisor is now in the Oura app, ready to answer your health questions and provide guidance. Starting Monday, Oura app subscribers will have a personal health assistant available for questions and conversations. Oura's personal health chatbot, Oura Advisor, which was previously available only to Oura Labs users, is getting a permanent spot in the Oura app. The Advisor uses the biometric data Oura collects and tracks through the smart ring to provide daily and weekly guidance and answer health queries. Also: The best smart rings you can buy The AI-powered health coach arrives in the Oura app with several feature improvements to encourage frequent and widespread use. These include improved memory from the Advisor, which helps the AI remember previous conversations and make further connections about trends and user behavior. Speaking of trends, the Advisor can now detect and communicate trends through its new access to long-term health data, and it will now display these trends with data visualizations like graphs and charts. The Advisor's tone can now adjust depending on user feedback and responses. Lastly, the Oura Advisor can generate topics while the user isn't interacting with the AI. Oura Advisor was previously available in beta through Oura Labs, an experimental tab where users can test and provide feedback on in-development features. During beta testing, Oura found that 60% of Oura Advisor users interacted with the assistant multiple times a week, and 60% reported that the AI helped them understand their metrics. Oura Advisor is the second Oura Labs feature that earned a permanent spot on the app, with the first being Symptom Radar, a tool that helps track and detect strain in the body and warn users of possible illness. Also: Oura has competition: I tested a smart ring that is half the price with no subscription I've used the experimental Oura Advisor through Oura Labs a couple of times, and it's been helpful to report how I'm feeling about my activity levels, sleep, or nutrition instead of solely relying on the health data metrics. Just this morning, I told it about my past few days of healthy eating and activity habits and my wariness about breaking that streak to go out to eat with friends tonight. It told me that balancing my social life and well-being is important and that I should make choices while dining out that align with my well-being goals. It also said, "Well-being includes nourishment and enjoyment, so savor the evening without stress." Pretty wise, huh? Oura Advisor is now available globally in the app in the English language. Looking for the next best product? Get expert reviews and editor favorites withZDNET Recommends.
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Oura Is Taking Its AI-Powered Wellness Advisor Out of Beta
All good things must come to an AI end. Oura, the company behind the Oura Ring, which popularized smart rings and gave Samsung a reason to make a fuss, has announced it's taking its AI-based Oura Advisor out of beta and making it available to current Oura subscribers. The Oura Advisor is a contextual chatbot, through and through. You can talk to it about your feelings and get advice on what to do. For instance, I admitted to it that I gave myself a migraine by going to a concert and not drinking enough water. Rather than lambast me, the Advisor reminded me that all those things trigger migraines and offered me hydration tips. That's the other thing about the Oura Advisor: you can choose between three tones of voice. They all aim to deliver the data you need, but you can decide whether you prefer the AI to be direct or soften the blow. I've only been wearing the Oura Ring 4 for a month and a half as part of a long-term review, so I'm still early days on giving Oura Advisor enough data, but it's easy to see how AI will help organize and present all the information that Oura collects. In my short time wearing the smart ring, I've often been overwhelmed by the amount of data presented in the app and it's nice to have an option to ask for what I'm looking for. Oura Advisor remembers everything you chat about and stores it as "Memories" to refer to later, which you can view and delete as they're stored. It will also offer long-term trend analysis and charts over time. The Oura Advisor has been in beta in the Oura Labs for nearly a year. Previously, the feature had to be flipped on if you wanted to try it out. This is the second of Oura's beta features to go live after last year's debut of the Symptom Radar. Other features currently in beta include periodic heart check-ins and meal tracking. Like other health and wellness wearables, and even Samsung Health, which adopted AI-powered suggestions based on aggregated data, Oura is leaning into the next era of wellness coaching offered through generative AI. The edge that Oura has to stand out will be whether its insights are worth its $7/month subscription plan. Samsung is also expected to start charging for subscription features, though not until it works out the kinks in this niche new product category. Any company adopting AI as a central core of its product will have to make its utility seem so worthy that users can't help but pay for it. And Oura might be the first.
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All Oura Ring users now have access to a smart health advisor
The smart ring market's front runner is moving full steam ahead with AI wellness coaching. Today, Oura officially launched Oura Advisor, relocating the feature from the Oura Labs program to a permanent spot in the Oura app. After months of beta testing, the tool is currently available to all users, with several notable upgrades now that it is a full-time feature. One of the key improvements of the AI-powered feature is an upgraded chat experience, which includes long-term trend analysis and visualizations. This makes it easier for users to understand their health and fitness tracking data and identify key patterns that may not be obvious on a daily basis. Oura Advisor highlights changes in a user's health over time and offers personalized advice on how to improve. Like the rest of the Oura app, the tool continually adapts to each user. By using Memories -- details stored from past interactions -- it tailors its recommendations the more it learns about your habits. Oura Advisor also uses an adaptive tone, responding to users' tonality and ensuring conversations feel natural rather than robotic.
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Oura Ring brings its AI health coach to all users
Google Pixel Watch's March 2025 update brings delayed notifications and other bugs Summary Oura Ring had earlier introduced an AI health coach in beta for better analysis of health data, where 83% of users found AI responses reliable. Oura Advisor is now available for all Oura Ring 3 and Ring 4 users, offering in-depth health insights just like a personal coach. The feature will be available in the Oura app. It will be rolled out to all eligible users over the next couple of weeks. AI is becoming an inescapable part of our digital lives, and it's steadily making its way into our smart wearables, too. Samsung introduced AI-assisted fitness tracking last year, making insights more digestible in its latest lineup of fitness trackers. Oura has been working on something similar -- a built-in AI health coach designed to help users make better sense of their data. Now, that AI-powered feature, Oura Advisor, is officially out of beta and rolling out to all Oura Ring users. Related 6 reasons I'm skipping the Oura Ring 4 Not because it's bad Posts 4 Oura Advisor has been in testing through Oura Labs for quite some time. The company last mentioned it when the Oura Ring 4 launched in October 2024. Now, the feature is ready for prime time and will be available to both Oura Ring Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 users in the coming weeks (via Android Authority). Oura hasn't yet confirmed, but there's a strong chance you'll require the $6 a month Oura subscription to access these AI-enabled health insights, but we've reached out to the company for confirmation. Health-tracking devices already make complex metrics simpler with things like readiness and sleep scores, helping users spot patterns and course-correct when needed. Oura Advisor takes that a step further, offering a more in-depth analysis of your health data with driven insights from AI. Instead of merely presenting numbers, it acts like a personal health coach, interpreting your stats and flagging patterns that may need attention. Oura has demoed some of Advisor's various capabilities (screenshots below), such as its ability to answer user queries about fluctuations in their sleep score or any areas of improvement. The AI scans historical data and highlights recent variations worth noting -- something that's difficult to track manually. Advisor also aims to be a one-stop wellness tool, assisting with meal planning so you don't have to switch over to ChatGPT for advice. Close Source: Oura In early testing, Oura found that 83% of users considered AI's responses reliable, while 60% said it improved their understanding of health metrics -- promising results for a newly launched feature. What Oura has to say about user privacy Like any AI tool, Oura Advisor relies on user data to provide tailored insights. Oura assures that any health data shared with Advisor stays private and isn't shared with third parties. Additionally, much like ChatGPT, you have access to AI's memory settings, allowing you to view or erase stored data at any time.
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Oura's new AI Advisor moves from 'labs' to full feature
Initially available to a small set of users through Oura Labs, Oura Advisor is now available as a full feature in the app. The AI Advisor takes a couple of forms throughout Oura's health suite, but the main functionality comes from a conversational feature where users can get help understanding their health trends. As far as smart rings go, Oura has held a prominent spot as one of the best options for users. It comes at a hefty price -- around $349 -- but it's a solid piece of gear with the backing of a well-built app. Data tracked by the ring itself is disseminated into tons of data for the user, but that's where it can be a little overwhelming. Oura Advisor's purpose is to make health tracking easier for users, and it's now available for every Oura user. It acts as an LLM that takes every bit of data collected by the Oura Ring, and it is trained to understand trends. With that, the AI Advisor is equipped to break down any bit of data it's tasked with dissecting. That comes in the form of a chatbot, where ring-wearers can ask questions about their activity, sleep, readiness levels, and more. Oura says that the goal is for Oura Advisor to run throughout the app and create personalized summaries for different aspects of women's health, heart health, and more. Ideally, the feature would dissect information on each topic page. For instance, the sleep page could include a personal note that could tell you what needs to be done to achieve better sleep. The company notes that the feature is being further developed and will roll out updates as they become available. For now, the AI Advisor will be available for all users via the "+" icon and under "Advisor." There, the chatbot can answer any questions you have or have an AI-like conversation about what your data looks like. It'll also display visual data, like charts. There's certainly an argument to be made about AI being shoved into apps and tools it doesn't need to be in, but it could be argued that an AI LLM is actually a useful addition to a health suite like Oura's. There is a plethora of information in the app, all gathered by the Oura Ring. A lot of that data is hard to understand if you're trying to get a grasp on your body's health state. The Advisor could eventually act as a guide for all users. Oura notes that Advisor is rolling out over the next two weeks and will be available as a full-fledged feature outside of Labs for Oura Ring Gen3 and Ring 4 users.
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Oura Ring's AI-powered 'Advisor' is rolling out now -- here's what it means for you
Oura's new AI-powered feature, dubbed 'Oura Advisor' is rolling out over the next two weeks to Oura Ring Generation 3 and Oura Ring 4 members. The feature uses artificial intelligence to provide wellness tips, look at your long-term health trends, and create plans to help you reach your goals. Oura's app already gives you a great deal of information about your sleep, readiness score, activity levels, and menstrual cycle, but the Oura Advisor feature will allow you to ask questions about your data, should you wish. The brand describes the feature as a "personal wellness coach", allowing you to make sense of your data by providing tips and advice. Here's what it means for you, and how you'll be able to use it. Once the Oura Advisor feature rolls out, you'll need to update your Oura app to use the functionality. Before getting started, you'll be able to customize the Advisor's tone of voice -- conversational (Oura says this is a supportive, encouraging voice), or direct (a more goal-orientated approach). You'll also be able to customize how often the Advisor checks in with you -- if you're totally put off by AI, you can turn it off completely, or choose between weekly, three times a week, or daily. Oura Advisor is currently only available to users who have selected English as their app language, with more languages rolling out later this year. If you want to ask the Advisor a question, you can use the plus function in the bottom right-hand corner, where you would normally log your period, or add an activity or tag. You'll also see 'Dive in with Advisor' in the Today tab. If you're not sure how to use this new feature, Oura has written some prompts for you to get started. It might be that you want to see a quick graph of your sleep scores over a week, or see if there are any new trends you should be aware of. The pre-written prompts make it easy to get started. The advisor can also do things like help you create meal plan suggestions to improve your diet and meet your goals, or take steps to achieve a goal, like running a marathon, or just getting up earlier. The more you use the feature, the more personalized the recommendations will be -- more on that below. The Oura Advisor tool will store memories, remembering old conversations to make the answers more tailored to you. For example, I am currently a year postpartum, and have found my menstrual cycle has not yet fully returned and my sleep score is dramatically affected thanks to my toddler waking me multiple times each night. Oura Advisor would remember this information, and tailor future answers with this information in mind. You can also share information like the fact you're recovering from a surgery, or being treated for an injury, and the Advisor will take this into account when giving you advice. You can remove items from the Advisor's Memory, or opt out of it entirely, at any time. Like with all AI features, Oura has promised the tool will "grow with knowledge" over time. If you're an Oura user, you can expect to see the feature appear in your app over the next couple of weeks.
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The Oura Ring's AI-powered wellness advisor just got a major upgrade, and I can't wait to use it more
It works alongside the classic Oura tracking experience by letting you ask about data points and get more context I've worn an Oura Ring daily for well over three years at this point, and one of the best parts of the experience that keeps me coming back is excellent, accurate data that's always contextualized. Thanks to my sleep score, I know how well I slept the night before, how I'm looking forward to the day ahead, and how I can track my activity throughout the day. It's quite handy and helps to make the whole health and activity tracking experience a bit more actionable. That's why I was so intrigued when Oura announced a beta AI-powered wellness chatbot, Oura Advisor, in July 2024. I've used it plenty since it launched in beta, and evidently, many other Oura users have too. It's now ready for primetime, as the wellness brand is making it a full-fledged feature in the app for paying members. I've used it quite a bit during its beta testing period - the company has dubbed its beta program Oura Labs - and I like how it can complement the regular Oura experience. Do you have a question about your readiness score, or want to provide more context for why you were a little less active? The AI Advisor can tell you. You can chat with Oura Advisor by typing things out, and it can even make recommendations for activities to help. Though, of course, with any software or AI-powered health feature, it's not a doctor. It is designed, however, to be a conversation, controlled at your directive, about your health - combining the data tracked within Oura and the company's scientific models with generative AI. In the full release, Oura's upping the experience, which makes me more excited to give it even more of a try. For one, rather than just referring to a trend it might have picked up on - more active on a given day - it can also pull up visuals and provide them as answers. Beyond just pulling up a chart, Oura says that Advisor now has 'Trend Detection,' allowing it to quickly pull data and access metric baselines or learned detected trends. Oura's expanding Advisor's memory function promises that beyond remembering something, you expressly tell it, say that you're recovering from an injury, and it will better weave in information from previous chats into the current one. While echoing a film or a Disney theme park ride, Oura promises it will be a more coherent storyline or conversation. When you set up Oura Advisor, you will still have three styles to choose from - supportive, mentoring, or goal-oriented - but it's now dynamic, allowing the generated responses to be more empathetic, joyous, or even determined on the fly. It will be interesting to see how much improvement this offers to the service I tested in beta. Just like during the Oura Labs testing period, you can set notifications to remind you to interact with Advisor or pull it up on-demand when in the Oura app for iOS or Android. In its full-launch mode, Advisor is available globally in English. While the feature was in beta under Oura Labs, the company says that 60% of folks who enrolled in Advisor used it several times a week, and 20% used it daily. I'm in the former of that group, but these changes could have me calling on the Advisor for a conversation more.
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Oura's 'AI Advisor' Is Out of Beta Testing, but Is It Worth Using?
The Oura Advisor, an AI feature formerly tucked away in Oura's beta testing program, is now rolling out to all Oura Ring customers. It takes the form of a chatbot that you can start a conversation with at any time from within the Oura app -- plus the Advisor promises to "check in" with you daily, weekly, or three times a week, depending on what you request. But do you actually want it to do any of those things? Honestly, this seems to be a pretty standard fitness app AI -- meaning that all it really does is restate metrics from the app in a more conversational tone. The Advisor itself told me that it "analyze[s] your Oura data to provide insights and guidance tailored to your health goals." Its language is in the same style as the little encouraging sentences you get on the Oura home screen, and it tends to repeat the same kinds of advice. When you open a chat with the Advisor, it asks what you'd like to talk about. So far I haven't gotten it to tell me anything that wasn't already obvious from other screens of the app. When I asked why my resting heart rate has been high lately, it gave a generic list of reasons that a resting heart rate might be high for anyone. When I asked it for an "insight" (since it told me that its job is to provide insights), it told me my cardiovascular age, which is a metric that also appears on my app home screen. Until recently, you had to opt in to Oura Labs (the beta testing program) to access the Advisor. It's still rolling out to all users, so if you want to try it in the meantime, you can turn on any Oura Labs features you like by going to the menu in the top left corner, selecting Oura Labs, and choosing what "experiments" you'd like to turn on. (There is currently a meal tracking feature, and a "heart check-in.") You do have to use the app in English, although Oura says they're planning to offer the Advisor in other languages in the future. Once the Advisor is enabled, you can tap the "+" in the bottom right corner (the same place you would add an activity or start a meditation session) and choose Advisor. This opens up the chat, and from this screen you can also adjust the Advisor's settings. In the chat, you can tap a settings icon in the upper right corner of the screen. The available settings are: There is also a button to "reset" the advisor, which means all settings, conversations, and memories will be deleted. To test what it's getting from its memories, I asked the advisor if its data suggested I was getting sick. With the "memory" of my illness, it said yes, and suggested I might want to focus on recovery today. After deleting that memory, I asked the same question again. It said that my resting heart rate suggests I've been under some stress, and that I might want to focus on recovery today. So far I haven't seen the Advisor hallucinate data or say anything inappropriate, but it also hasn't told me anything I would consider an "insight." I tried asking it about data that I can't easily read from the app -- like my long term resilience trends -- and it said it didn't have that data available. On the Oura subreddit, most posts about the Advisor seem to be complaints that it isn't doing anything interesting, but one user said they were able to get the Advisor to talk to them about their meal choices logged with the Meals feature, which is still in beta. One user said the Advisor helped them to improve their resilience score, but they didn't provide much information about how it did that, just that they gave the advisor specific information about things like their sleep schedule. Now that the feature has rolled out to more users, perhaps we'll find out whether more people find it useful.
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Oura, the smart ring company, has officially launched its AI-powered health coach, Oura Advisor, for all subscribers. This feature aims to provide personalized health insights and guidance based on user data.
Oura, the company behind the popular smart ring, has officially launched its AI-powered health coach, Oura Advisor, for all subscribers. Previously available only to Oura Labs users, this feature is now a permanent addition to the Oura app, accessible to both Oura Ring Gen3 and Ring 4 users 123.
Oura Advisor utilizes the biometric data collected by the smart ring to provide daily and weekly guidance and answer health-related queries. The AI-powered tool offers several key features:
During beta testing, Oura found that 60% of Oura Advisor users interacted with the assistant multiple times a week, and 60% reported that the AI helped them better understand their metrics 1. The tool aims to simplify complex health data and provide actionable insights, acting as a personal health coach 45.
Oura assures users that health data shared with the Advisor remains private and is not shared with third parties. Users have access to AI memory settings, allowing them to view or erase stored data at any time 4.
Oura Advisor is now available globally in the Oura app in English. The feature can be accessed via the "+" icon and under "Advisor" in the app 5. Oura plans to further integrate the AI throughout the app, creating personalized summaries for various health aspects such as women's health and heart health 5.
The launch of Oura Advisor reflects a growing trend of AI integration in health and wellness wearables. Other companies, such as Samsung, have also adopted AI-powered suggestions based on aggregated data 2. This move towards AI-driven health coaching may set a new standard in the wearable technology industry, potentially influencing subscription models and user expectations 24.
As Oura continues to develop the Advisor feature, users can expect updates and improvements over time. The company aims to make the AI a comprehensive guide for understanding and improving overall health based on the wealth of data collected by the Oura Ring 5.
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