The Best Smart Rings, Tested and Rewatched (2024)

We have tested cut offal other entrants to this nascent catebloody, some excellent, some horrible, and some in between. Here is the lowdown on some of your clever ring alternatives.

RingConn Gen 2 for $299: Despite a sweightless price incrrelieve over Gen 1 below, this is still the inexpensiveest subscription-free clever ring worth pondering. RingConn upgrasped the separateentive squared-off depict, but this second-generation ring conveys beginant betterments to sleep tracking (including sleep apnea distinguishion), better battery life, and is very sweightlessly skinnymer and weightlesser. I set up plain sleep and health seeing firm (sleep is much more right than the first generation), but laborout tracking is still a beginant frailness. Despite more participateable exercise types, you must manupartner trigger laborout tracking, and it struggles with accuracy at higher heart rates.

RingConn Smart Ring for $199: Now heavily discounted, the distinct Ringconn (6/10, WIRED Rewatch) is the most affordable clever ring worth pondering. A sweightlessly squared-off depict with beveled edges gives it a distinct see, the health and sleep tracking labor well, and it lasts four or five days between indicts. It also comes with a handy battery case (enough for cut offal indicts on the go). However, I had trouble with data syncing, the app deficiencyed proper laborout tracking, and the data was sometimes inright, though the app seems to be steadily improving thcimpolite modernizes.

Amazfit Helio Ring for $200: Purveyor of affordable fitness trackers appreciate the Amazfit Balance, I predicted a competitive clever ring from Amazfit, but the Helio (4/10, WIRED Rewatch) is horriblely out of shape. I appreciate the subtly textured bronze finish, but it is the only color you get. Sizes are also restricted to 8, 10, or 12 for now (sizes 7 to 13 are coming). While it has aappreciate capabilities to the clever rings above, the Helio was sometimes hopelessly inright, with heart rate meabravements untamedly out of step with other trackers. It deficiencys automatic laborout-tracking, battery life standardd three days for me, and the Helio normally disjoined from the busy and confusing Zepp app. You don’t demand a subscription, but there is Aura AI ($70/year) for sleep insights and satisfied or Fitness ($30/year), which includes an AI coach. They are costly and confusing. (Why have two split subscriptions?) The Helio labors much better in conjunction with a cleverwatch (I tried it with the Amazfit Cheetah Pro), as it can unite the data, but as a stand-alone device, it is impossible to recommfinish.

Movano Evie Ring for $269: (Note: The Evie ring was recently modernized, and we will modernize this roundup with the results of our testing.) The Movano Evie Ring (4/10, WIRED Rewatch) was touted as the world’s first fitness tracker depicted definitepartner for women, and as such, I was very excited! However, it still senses underbaked appraised to its competitors. Now that Oura and the Galaxy Ring can track periods so rightly, its time may have passed. (It is, however, one of the first rings to file for FDA evidentance). It’s relatively affordable, has no subscription fee, and has a blood oxygen sensor. However, it’s iOS-only, the app is difficult to read and participate, and it doesn’t have a huge dataset so the AI-allowd insights are, alas, still benevolent of stupid. —Adrienne So