Smart rings, compared
A smart ring packs sleep, recovery and heart tracking into a screenless band of titanium — no display, no buttons, a battery measured in days and nothing to charge nightly. It has become the quiet counterweight to the smartwatch: always on your body, never on your attention.
The field splits along two lines. Health rings — Oura, whose patents and market share define the category, against subscription-free challengers like RingConn and Ultrahuman — compete on sensors, battery and whether your data costs a monthly fee. A second, newer front treats the ring as an input device: voice capture and gesture control for AI glasses and XR.
Every smart ring in the index
| Device | Year | Status | Price | Notable hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oura Ring 5 | 2026 | Shipping | $399 | PPG heart rate (next-gen) · Skin temperature · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Blood pressure (signals) |
| Samsung Galaxy Ring | 2024 | Shipping | $399 | PPG heart rate · Skin temperature |
| Ultrahuman Ring Pro | 2026 | Preorder | $479 | PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Skin temperature |
| RingConn Gen 3 | 2026 | Shipping | $349 | PPG heart rate · Skin temperature · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Blood pressure (insights) |
| Garmin Cirqa Smart Ring | 2026 | Rumored | TBD | — |
| Pebble Index 01 | 2026 | Shipping | $99 | Button |
| Circular Ring 2 | 2026 | Shipping | $299 | ECG (single-lead) · PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Skin temperature |
| Even Realities R1 | 2025 | Shipping | $249 | PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Skin temperature · Touch / tap input |
| Vital Signals Signal Ring | 2026 | Preorder | $399 | PPG heart rate · Blood pressure (cuffless) |
| Sandbar Stream Ring | 2025 | Preorder | $249 | Touch / tap input · Haptics |
| Casio CRW-H001 | 2026 | Shipping | $295 | PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Skin temperature · Haptics |
| Vocci Vocci Ring | 2026 | Shipping | $249 | Button · Haptics |
| KiWear Smart Ring | 2026 | Preorder | $249 | PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Gesture sensing · Touch / tap input |
| Prolo Prolo Ring | 2026 | Shipping | $149 | Touch / tap input (thumb pads) · Gesture sensing |
| Spark Ring Spark Ring | 2026 | Announced | $159 | Touch / tap input (double-tap) · Haptics |
| Actxa Core Smart Ring | 2026 | Shipping | $259 | PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Skin temperature |
| Hama Ring One | 2026 | Announced | €129 | PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Skin temperature · Haptics |
| Muse Wearables Ring One 2.0 | 2026 | Preorder | $209 | PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Skin temperature · Blood pressure (cuffless) |
| KSIX Saturn Pay | 2026 | Announced | €109.99 | PPG heart rate |
| Elah Ring S1 | 2026 | Preorder | $199 | PPG heart rate · Blood oxygen (SpO₂) · Skin temperature · Haptics |
Shipping now or on preorder
The world's smallest smart ring — roughly 40% smaller, week-long battery and new blood-pressure signals.
Galaxy-tethered ring for sleep, activity and cycle tracking, and the first smart ring cleared by the FDA for over-the-counter sleep-apnea detection, arriving in a fall 2026 update.
Subscription-free flagship answering Oura with a 15-day battery, redesigned heart-rate sensing and the Jade real-time biointelligence engine; repeated delays pushed shipping to 15 September onward.
Titanium third-gen ring adding vascular and blood-pressure insights plus on-finger vibration alerts, keeping the 14-day battery and no subscription.
Minimalist single-button ring with a mic that captures voice memos transcribed privately on your phone — no health tracking.
Titanium ring built around an on-finger single-lead ECG with AFib detection and PPG-based blood-pressure estimation.
Zirconia-ceramic companion ring that discreetly controls Even Realities' G2 glasses while tracking heart rate, HRV, SpO₂, temperature, activity and sleep, with a four-day battery.
Cuffless smart ring that takes direct systolic and diastolic blood-pressure readings from an optical finger sensor without calibration, with preorders scheduled to ship in October 2026.
Voice-first AI ring — capture thoughts by speaking, or whispering, into your hand; the first two batches have sold out and the current third preorder batch is scheduled to ship in September 2026.
China-only smart ring watch pairing a tiny digital display with heart-rate, SpO₂ and temperature tracking, activity and sleep analysis, and vibration alerts.
Titanium note-taking ring from Gyges Labs, the maker of Halliday's glasses — a single button records conversations that the app turns into speaker-labelled transcripts and summaries across 100+ languages; launch stock now ships within 14 days.
Ceramic gesture ring for controlling phones, computers, TVs and smart glasses, with heart-rate, SpO₂, activity and sleep tracking; its funded Kickstarter targets first-batch shipping in late November.
Wide-band Bluetooth controller ring using discreet thumb taps and swipes for cursor, media, presentation and smart-glasses control across paired devices; more than 5,000 units have shipped.
Subscription-free titanium wellness ring combining heart rate, SpO₂, temperature, sleep and activity tracking with one-minute non-invasive AI glucose-status scans; orders are live with a free sizing kit.
Titanium follow-up to Muse's much-delayed first ring, promising cuffless blood pressure, AFib and sleep-apnea detection, NFC payments and 100m water resistance; its Indiegogo launch is offering a $209 early-bird price.
Faith-centered titanium health ring combining seven biometric signals with user-scheduled prayer cues delivered through vibration and a cross-shaped LED; shipping begins October 13.
Next generations on the horizon
Announced & rumored
Indonesian and Brazilian regulatory filings link Garmin's Cirqa name to a ten-model hardware family consistent with ring sizing, though launch details remain unconfirmed.
Sub-3g zirconia voice-capture ring that starts recording with a double-tap, transcribes on a paired phone, sorts speech into notes, tasks and reminders, and delivers haptic alerts; its Kickstarter launch is set for September 17 with December shipping planned.
Stainless-steel health ring pairing round-the-clock heart rate, SpO₂, temperature and sleep tracking with screenless vibration alerts and a subscription-free app.
Ceramic smart ring combining heart-rate, activity and sleep tracking with phone-free contactless payments; KSIX lists multiple sizes as coming soon.
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Common questions
Do smart rings require a subscription?
Some do, and it is one of the sharpest dividing lines in the category. Oura requires a monthly membership for full insights, while challengers like Ultrahuman, RingConn and Circular sell subscription-free rings where every metric is included in the hardware price.
What does a smart ring actually track?
Sleep stages, heart rate and heart-rate variability, blood oxygen, skin temperature and activity — continuously, from your finger, on a battery measured in days. There is no screen by design: the ring collects, the phone app interprets.
Which smart rings can you buy right now?
16 of the 20 smart rings in the index are shipping or on preorder: Oura Ring 5 ($399), Samsung Galaxy Ring ($399), Ultrahuman Ring Pro ($479), RingConn Gen 3 ($349), Pebble Index 01 ($99), Circular Ring 2 ($299), Even Realities R1 ($249), Vital Signals Signal Ring ($399), Sandbar Stream Ring ($249), Casio CRW-H001 ($295), Vocci Vocci Ring ($249), KiWear Smart Ring ($249), Prolo Prolo Ring ($149), Actxa Core Smart Ring ($259), Muse Wearables Ring One 2.0 ($209), Elah Ring S1 ($199).
← ALL 092 DEVICESIndependent index — figures are approximate and editorial, not official spec sheets. Nobody pays for placement. Methodology. Last reviewed 2026-09-15.