Oura redesigns the app with improvements for cycle analysis and stress management

Oura Health, a Finnish company known for the production of smart rings Oura Ringtoday announced a major expansion of its health prevention ecosystem with the new feature Cumulative Stress and a redesign of the app. Let’s find out all the details, including availability, on the innovations introduced by Oura which are presented as follows by Tom Hale, CEO of the company:

“Health is not limited to what happens in the doctor’s office, but is built through the choices we make every day. Our latest innovations are designed to help Oura members prevent potential problems by understanding how subtle changes in stress, biomarkers and cardiovascular function can evolve over time. By translating silent signals into clear, actionable information, ŌURA enables people to adopt a proactive and conscious approach to one’s well-being”.

The Oura app gets a makeover

The app Oura is completely renovated with a modern visual languageone greater possibility of customizationessential to “bring to life” the health history of each user, and one greater fluidity. Here are the main news:

• The card Today has been revised to put the most important things front and center, presenting the most relevant scores, insights and findings, thus serving as a clear overview for the entire day.
• The new tab My health offers users a clearer view of long-term well-being, showing strengths, trends and “areas of opportunity”. There is then space for a section designed to connect daily habits to measurable health parameters to make users more aware and proactive.
• The card Vital parameters offers an overview of the main health parameters (sleep, stress, cardiovascular trend) in daily, weekly, monthly or annual views. The color of the various metrics changes based on the various biometric data, providing an at-a-glance indication of what’s OK and what’s not.

Oura is also expanding the type and amount of information it provides Oura Advisor (the AI-powered personal health assistant, available since last spring) can interpret. The Assistant now better integrates data from across the app, including sleep patterns, changes in physical activity, and diet information.

The latest news related to the redesign of the app concerns theCycle analysisimproved function to support more informed (and long-term) decision-making about reproductive health. From the monthly view, you will switch to the 12-month view for forecasts of the menstrual cycle and fertile period. Furthermore, the personalized data will appear after just one night (and no longer after 60 nights) and then refine over time.

The new Cumulative Stress function is official

Another great innovation announced by Oura concerns stress management which is enriched with the introduction of Cumulative Stressa feature designed to help users understand how their body accumulates and responds to chronic stress over time.

This parameter provides an objective physiological signal, measured on the basis of data from the previous month and updated on a weekly basis, it has been validated against standard measures such as Perceived Stress Scale (PPS, standardized self-assessment questionnaire of perceived stress) and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI, validation tool to measure burnout levels which focuses on personal area, professional area and social relationships).

The Cumulative Stress It is based on five key factors (sleep continuity, cardiac response to stress, sleep micro-movements, temperature regulation, impact of physical activity) to understand how the body manages prolonged stress and the recovery phase.

All metrics regarding stress will be aggregated in the section Stress management which will offer data on daytime stress, resilience and cumulative stress within a single dashboard.

Blood pressure profile study

Then there is something new that Oura has developed specifically for US users, the result of a collaboration with the FDA (Federal Food and Drug Administration).

This is one blood pressure profile study which aims to develop a functionality capable of identifying the first signs of hypertension: the result, i.e. the data provided by the study to users, is the combination of the data collected by Oura Ring with the information collected from a medical history questionnaire.

Availability of these new features in the Oura app

Having exhausted the information related to these innovations announced by the Finnish company, all we have to do is discover the details related to their availability in the Oura app, obviously for owners of the two most recent models of the smart ring (Ring 3 and Ring 4).

The new version of the app which includes improvements toCycle analysis and the new function Cumulative Stress they will be available globally (including Italy) in the coming weeks, on both iOS and Android devices.

The blood pressure profile study (which will be available in the coming months, premiering on Oura Labs) will only affect US users. It is unclear whether their availability will ever be expanded to other markets.

How to download or update the Oura app

The app Oura it is available for both Android and iOS devices and can be downloaded for free from the official stores:

• For devices of Green robotsimply reach the page dedicated to the app on the Google Play Store (via the badge below) and then select “Install” or “Update”.

• For devices from Bitten applesimply reach the page dedicated to the app on the App Store (via this link) and then select “Get” or “Update”.