The Best Smart Rings Probably Know More About Your Health Than You Do Featured in this article The best Smart rings will slip easily onto your finger to track your activity, health, and sleep—in addition to offering nice-to-have features like meal-logging, AI capabilities, and cycle tracking. Equally important, though, is what these devices don't force you to deal with: distracting screens, a bulky smartwatch banging you in the face while you're deep in REM sleep, or seemingly constant charging time. Once the preserve of wealthy wellness buffs, top-of-the-line smart rings are becoming increasingly more affordable and widely available.

Although our top pick remains from Finnish pioneer Oura with the Oura Ring 4 (from $349), the company is now hardly the only fish in the smart-ring sea, thanks to upstarts like Ultrahuman and RingConn, established fitness-tracking brands like Amazfit, and even tech giants like Samsung. I expect to see more entrants in the coming months, but for now, these are the best smart rings you can buy. For more wearable recommendations, check out WIRED's guides to the Best Smartwatches, the Best Fitness Trackers, and the Best Fitbits.

Updated May 2026: I've updated product information and specs for all top picks. I've also added pros and cons, included my testing methodology, a comparison chart, and an FAQ section. I removed discontinued products, and confirmed prices and links are up-to-date.

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- How I Test Smart Rings Compare Top 3 Smart Rings Honorable Mentions We have tested several other entrants in this category, some good, some bad, and some in between. Here is the lowdown on some of your smart ring alternatives. Leep Ring for $199: A British smart ring that's affordable, subscription-free, and offers simplified, accessible stats on your activity, sleep, and stress.

The Leep Ring is slim and stylish, with a subtle diagonal indent to help you line up the knobbly internal sensors. It comes with a handy charging case that’s supposedly capable of providing an extra 60 days of charge. A fully charged ring is meant to last up to eight days.

(I’ve been getting closer to five.) The app is straightforward and gives you a score out of 100 for sleep, balance (stress), and activity. Sadly, sleep is woefully inaccurate and tends to report that I’ve been asleep for my entire time in bed, even if I was watching TV or reading. One night, it suggested I slept 8 hours 43 minutes (Oura says 6 hours 52 minutes).

The activity and stress scores seem a bit more accurate, with step counts that were mostly within 100 or so of my Oura and Apple Watch (it was out by 1,000 one day). But the app could use some polish. For example, it doesn’t take into account that it’s only a couple of hours into the day before telling me my movement for today is “Bad.” I also lost data on the first night it ran out of battery, and there was no warning notification to tell me to recharge.