I used a clever free tool and Gemini’s smarts to unlock the Oura Ring’s full potential

The Oura Ring 4’s app is one of the best health trackers available, and it’s quick and easy to see your daily metrics. What if you want more?

While you can dig into long-term trends and reports, it’s not easy to share these with a health professional, or for an AI to analyze and provide feedback.

An Oura Ring owner has come up with an ingenious online tool to make both these activities far easier, and it’s free to use. I gave it a try, and the results were very interesting.

Simple Wearable Report

A clever, free tool

The Simple Wearable Report is the tool you have been looking for. It was created by an Oura Ring owner who posted about the tool on the Oura Ring subreddit. The user wrote:

The tool is free to use, connects to the Oura Ring API to sync your own personal data, and then produces an easy-to-read and crucially, easy to share report showing trends and individual data points collected over the last 30 days.

What’s different to Oura’s reports?

Easily shared

Oura provides excellent trend-related reports in the Oura app, found under the side menu, and while the graphs presented are easy to interpret, and the app provides its own trend indicators, they’re not very easy to collate and share.

The only shareable report relates to sleep, and leaves out key data such as blood oxygen, body temperature, and heart rate.

This is where the Simple Wearable Report comes in.

Through it, you can share all major data points collected by the smart ring, and see seven-day averages, a trend indicator, and where Oura sets your baseline. This is an interesting metric on its own, as it’s not one Oura shares.

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Gemini provides more depth

Many wear a health tracker because of a fascination with data, and the Simple Wearable Report presents the data collected by the Oura Ring in a new, and easier-to-share way.

It doesn’t extract different information, or tell you anything really new over the Oura Ring app, but it does allow you to do more with that data outside the app.

For example, the full report is downloadable and can either be directly shared with a healthcare professional, or given to an AI chatbot to analyze.

The creator of the tool even shares some simple AI prompts around recovery, physiological condition, and a concise weekly summary to get more from the data.

Does it work?

More insight helps

After creating my own report in the tool, I downloaded the file and gave it to Google Gemini, with a request to analyze it and provide guidance on anywhere improvements can be made, and if it can identify any areas which may suggest an unhealthy habit.

Gemini’s response was fascinating. It already knows my profession, and took this into account when examining my long periods of inactivity, along with my varying levels of activity on days when I am up and about.

I liked how Gemini summarized its advice, with pointers focused around your questions and preferences, so if you have specific areas of concern be sure to make it clear.

My request was for general advice, and its feedback on several potentially unhealthy habits to monitor was interesting and relevant.

Gemini also adds the option of exporting its advice to Google Sheets, giving you another easily shared data sheet.

Understanding your own data

Context is essential

Data is nothing without context, and neither Oura nor Gemini knows the real-world situations behind your in-app scores or raw data.

Armed with this information, the Simple Wearable Report, and Gemini’s interpretation, you can really see how life affects your activity, sleep, and readiness.

For example, Gemini noted periods of low recovery, increased inactivity, and signs of exhaustion, and these all coincided with an illness and a day when I definitely over-exercised, allowing me to understand why Oura had recorded these scores.

It should also be noted that during these periods, the Oura Ring’s Symptom Radar feature flagged a Minor Signs warning, showing the smart ring is very good at understanding your body after it has established a baseline.

I’ve worn the Oura Ring 4 for more than a year, helping it understand my body’s responses.

Using the Oura Ring’s app, the Simple Wearable Report, and Gemini gave me a deeper understanding of not only my recent health and activity, but also what data is actually collected and analyzed. It has been a very interesting exercise.

What about your own data?

Privacy concerns answered

Before you rush off to try all this out for yourself, it’s important to understand what you’re sharing. The Simple Wearable Report tool is not associated with Oura, and is not approved by the company either.

The creator goes to some length explaining how your data is managed when shared with the tool, but you must remember you’re sharing your personal data with an unknown entity, and therefore should be careful.

If you decide to log in and try it for yourself, the “disconnect Oura” option will subsequently delete your account and any saved reports, giving you some peace of mind after you’ve finished with the tool.

However, if you’re at all concerned, the best thing to do is not use the tool at all. You do so at your own risk.

Get more from your smart ring

The app doesn’t have to be the end

If you do decide to trust the Simple Wearable Report tool, you’ll likely find the data it presents interesting, even though it uses the same points as the Oura app. The value comes from the way it’s shown, and how simple it is to then feed it to an AI assistant.

Even if you don’t have a specific health concern, getting an overview like this, along with an AI analysis, could be beneficial.

If you have health concerns and feel your Oura Ring’s data can highlight it for a healthcare professional, the report is a great way to get a shareable version.

The Oura Ring 4 is the best smart ring you can buy, especially the recently released Oura Ring 4 Ceramic version, and it’s great to see a member of the community create an interesting, helpful tool around the data it collects.

8.5/10

Heart rate monitor

Yes

Notification support

No

Battery life

Up to 8 days

Sensors

Heart rate/HRV; blood oxygen; skin temperature; accelerometer