Apps That Work With Oura Ring (2026): Every Integration and What Syncs

“Works with Oura” can mean four different things. An app can be one of Oura’s direct partners, it can read what Oura writes to Apple Health or Health Connect, or it can pull your data through the Oura API. Each route carries different data, and the differences decide whether an app ever sees your HRV or your Readiness Score.

The short answer: Oura lists 18 direct partner apps in its support center, from Strava and Cronometer to Natural Cycles and Clue, and says the Oura App “syncs with hundreds of health and fitness apps via Apple Health and Health Connect by Android, including Flo and My Fitness Pal.”¹² On a Gen3 ring or newer, the Apple Health, Health Connect and API connections, and some partners, need an active Oura Membership.¹³⁴⁵

Every integration, data type and price below was checked on 1 November 2026 against Oura’s own support articles and API documentation, the partner apps’ own pages, the App Store and PubMed. SensAI makes a competing training app that reads Oura data through Apple Health, so we say where other apps get more from your ring than SensAI does.

What apps work with Oura Ring? The short answer

Oura-compatible apps connect four ways: 18 direct partners, Apple Health on iPhone, Health Connect on Android, and the Oura API. Apple Health gets sleep, heart rate and workouts but not HRV or scores; the API carries Readiness, HRV and temperature. On Gen3 and later, the hubs, the API and some partners need an active membership.¹³⁴⁵

Route	Who uses it	What Oura data crosses	Needs membership (Gen3+)
Direct partner integration	18 apps in Oura’s list: Strava, Cronometer, Natural Cycles, Clue, Headspace and others1	Depends on the partner, from temperature only (Natural Cycles) to scores, HRV and temperature in Cronometer67	“Some of these integrations require an active membership”1
Apple Health (iPhone)	Hundreds of iOS apps, including SensAI18	Sleep with stages, 1-minute heart rate, active energy, steps, respiratory rate, workouts. No HRV, resting heart rate, temperature or scores38	Yes, “Gen3 or later with active membership”3
Health Connect (Android)	Android apps that read Health Connect4	Activity, distance, exercise, steps, sleep, heart rate and heart rate variability4	Yes, “Gen3 or later with active membership”4
Oura API v2	Third-party apps outside Oura’s partner list that sync directly, such as TrainingPeaks, intervals.icu and HRV4Training91011	Daily Readiness, Sleep and Activity, sleep HRV, heart rate, temperature deviation, SpO2, workouts and more12	Yes: partner apps “do not have access to the data of Gen3 and later users who do not have active Oura Membership”5

Oura support articles last updated between August 19 and October 29, 2026, and the Oura API v2 specification, checked 1 November 2026.

The pattern matters more than the list. Your three Oura scores (Readiness, Sleep and Activity) never reach Apple Health. An iPhone app that reads Apple Health can rebuild a picture from raw sleep and heart rate, but it cannot show your Oura score unless it is an API or partner app.³¹²

What are the best apps to use with Oura Ring?

It depends on the job. For training with your Oura HRV, TrainingPeaks or the free intervals.icu. For nutrition, Cronometer. For fertility, Natural Cycles or Clue. For glucose, Stelo (US only). For sharing workouts, Strava. For an iPhone coach that adjusts to your sleep and heart rate, SensAI, though without Oura’s HRV.^91076113148

If you want to…	Best fit	What it gets from Oura	Cost of the app
Train with Oura HRV in your plan	TrainingPeaks	Sleep, HRV and stress scores in Health Insights9	Health Insights is a Premium feature9
The same, for free	intervals.icu	Sleep, HRV, readiness and other wellness fields10	“Free online training platform”10
See how food affects sleep	Cronometer	Sleep and Readiness Scores, sleep HRV, temperature, heart rate, activity7	Free sign-up7
Birth control or fertility	Natural Cycles	Temperature trend only6	Needs its own subscription6
Cycle tracking	Clue	“Sleep, RHR, HRV, and temperature trends”1	Not stated by Oura
Glucose with your ring data	Dexcom Stelo	Glucose into Oura, US only13	Needs a Stelo account and Oura Membership13
Share workouts with friends	Strava	Workouts both ways, Readiness and Activity Scores14	Oura names no Strava plan requirement14
A coach that adjusts sessions to sleep (iPhone)	SensAI	Sleep, overnight heart rate and workouts via Apple Health; no HRV or scores8	$6.99/month or $69.99/year after a 7-day trial15

Each app’s own page, Oura’s support articles and the US App Store, checked 1 November 2026. On Gen3 or later rings, Apple Health, the API, Strava, Natural Cycles and Stelo all need an active Oura Membership, and Oura says some other partners do too.^13514613

Oura’s official partner integrations: the full 2026 list

Oura’s Partner Integrations article, last updated October 7, 2026, lists 18 direct partner apps in five categories: Additional Sensing (Dexcom Stelo), Fitness, Nutrition, Stress & Resilience, and Women’s Health. You find them in the Oura App’s menu under Integrations, and “some of these integrations require an active membership.”¹

Partner	Category	What it does with Oura data, per Oura
Dexcom Stelo	Additional Sensing (US only)	Glucose readings from the Stelo biosensor appear in the Oura App113
CorePower Yoga	Fitness	Shows “Oura readiness, sleep, and stress data” in the CorePower Yoga app1
Strava	Fitness	Workouts both ways; Readiness and Activity Scores sent to Strava14
The Sculpt Society	Fitness	Uses “Oura Readiness Scores to provide daily workout suggestions”1
Cronometer	Nutrition	“Improve your nutrient intake with synced sleep and activity data”1
Zero	Nutrition	Fasting data and Oura biometrics “in correlated graphs”1
Apollo Neuro	Stress & Resilience	Vibration wearable for “sleep and stress-relief”1
Headspace	Stress & Resilience	“Fifteen of Headspace’s breathwork and meditation tracks are integrated into the Oura App”1
Migraine Buddy	Stress & Resilience	Layers “sleep and cycle data” onto migraine logs1
Open	Stress & Resilience	Imports sleep data to track “how mindfulness practices impact your Sleep Score”1
Alloy Health	Women’s Health	Shares Oura biometric data with your menopause-care doctor1
Clue	Women’s Health	Receives “Sleep, RHR, HRV, and temperature trends”1
Mira	Women’s Health	Combines “Oura sleep and temperature trend data” with hormone readings1
Natural Cycles	Women’s Health	Temperature trend data only, for its FDA-cleared fertility algorithm6
Oova	Women’s Health	Combines Oura data with “daily hormone insights”1
Peanut	Women’s Health	Uses “Oura Sleep data to support postpartum users”1
Stardust	Women’s Health	Syncs “your cycle and biometrics for daily insights”1
Twentyeight Health	Women’s Health	Birth control and women’s health platform integration1

Oura, “Partner Integrations,” last updated October 7, 2026. Oura also lists Health Panels, its own lab-testing service, under Additional Sensing; it is not a third-party app, so it is not counted here.

Two things stand out. Women’s health is the largest group, with eight of the 18 partners. And only a handful of partners are training apps: Strava, CorePower Yoga and The Sculpt Society. If you want Oura recovery data inside a structured training plan, most of your options sit outside this list, on the API (see below).

What does Oura send to Apple Health, and what stays behind?

Oura writes active energy, heart rate in one-minute intervals, respiratory rate, sleep with stages, steps, workouts, workout routes, height, weight and mindful minutes to Apple Health. It does not write HRV, resting heart rate, body temperature or its Readiness, Sleep and Activity Scores. Gen3 and later need an active membership.³⁸

Data	Oura → Apple Health	Apple Health → Oura
Sleep (duration, start, end, stages)	✅	✅ Sleep
Heart rate	✅ One-minute intervals	✅
Workouts	✅ Manual, Activity Heart Rate or auto-detected	✅
Active energy	✅ Excluding BMR	✅
Steps	✅	✅
Respiratory rate	✅ Nighttime average	✅
Height, weight	✅	✅
Workout routes	✅	✅
Mindful minutes	✅	—
Blood pressure, body fat, lean mass, cardio fitness, resting energy	—	✅
HRV	❌ Not exported	—
Resting heart rate	❌ Not exported	—
Body temperature	❌ Not exported	—
Readiness, Sleep, Activity Scores	❌ Not exported	—

Oura, “Apple Health Integration,” last updated October 14, 2026: the “Exported from Oura to Apple Health” and “Imported from Apple Health to Oura” lists. ❌ = absent from Oura’s export list.³

That export list matches SensAI’s Help Center, which says Oura “does not write HRV or resting heart rate.”⁸ It also explains why the same night can look different in two apps. Oura itself warns that “your sleep stages and heart rate graphs may appear differently in the Oura App compared to Apple Health,” because Apple may round or use different time intervals.³

Why doesn’t Oura send HRV to Apple Health?

Oura doesn’t say. It simply leaves HRV off its Apple Health export list, though it does send HRV to Android’s Health Connect. One possible factor: Oura’s dashboard HRV is rMSSD, Apple Health stores SDNN, and HRV values from different metrics and recording lengths are not interchangeable.^3481617

Shaffer and Ginsberg’s review of HRV metrics stresses that measurement context, including recording length, changes the values, and cautions that “24 h, short-term, and ultra-short-term normative values are not interchangeable.”¹⁶

Cao and colleagues found Oura’s own dashboard metric, RMSSD, tracked a medical-grade ECG with “relatively low error variance,” while SDNN computed from the ring’s beat intervals had wider confidence intervals in 5-minute windows.¹⁷ So even where the data could move, an rMSSD number and an SDNN number are not the same measurement.

For an iPhone user, the practical result is simple. Any app that only reads Apple Health will not see your Oura HRV. To use Oura HRV in another app, that app needs the API or a partner integration. We cover the HRV-specific options in the best HRV apps that work with Oura Ring and WHOOP.

Does Oura work with Android Health Connect?

Yes. On Android, Oura writes activity, active calories, distance, exercise, steps, height, weight, sleep, heart rate and heart rate variability to Health Connect, and reads blood pressure, heart rate, power, VO2 max, weight and calorie data back. Gen3 and later need an active membership. Oura’s Google Fit integration “is no longer available.”⁴

This is the one place where Android users get more than iPhone users: HRV is on Oura’s Health Connect export list but not on its Apple Health list.⁴³ Oura’s article was last updated August 19, 2026, and says Health Connect “stores data on your mobile device instead of the cloud.”⁴

Do you need an Oura Membership to use other apps?

On Gen3 and later rings, yes. Apple Health, Health Connect, Strava, Natural Cycles and Stelo all list “Gen3 or later with active membership,” and API partner apps cannot see data from Gen3+ members without one. Membership costs $5.99 a month or $69.99 a year in the US. Gen2 rings need no membership.^3451814613

	Gen2 ring	Gen3 and later, with membership	Gen3 and later, no membership
Apple Health / Health Connect	✅	✅	❌
Strava, Natural Cycles	✅	✅	❌
Stelo glucose	❌ Not on Gen2	✅ (US only)	❌
Oura API and API partner apps	Not stated	✅	❌
What you see in the Oura App	Gen2 features	Everything	Readiness, Activity and Sleep Scores, battery, profile, settings, Explore
Download your data	✅	✅	✅ CSV via Membership Hub

Oura support articles on Apple Health, Health Connect, Strava, Natural Cycles, Stelo, the Oura API and Oura Membership, last updated August 19 to October 29, 2026.^3451814613

Oura’s membership article says that without an active membership “you’ll only be able to see your three daily Oura scores (Readiness, Activity, and Sleep), ring battery, basic profile information, app settings, and the Explore content,” and that “you cannot access the Oura API, but you can still download your personal data through the Membership Hub.”¹⁸

New members get one included month, and “there currently is no option to purchase or upgrade to a Lifetime Membership.”¹⁸

One more change for 2026: “Oura on the Web has been discontinued as of October 5, 2026.” Your data stays in the app and in the Membership Hub export.¹⁸

Free apps that work with Oura Ring

“Free” usually means the other app is free, not the connection. On a Gen3 or newer ring, Apple Health, Health Connect and the API all need a $5.99-a-month Oura Membership. With one, Apple Health and Health Connect cost nothing, intervals.icu is a free training platform with direct Oura sync, and many Apple Health apps are free to download.³⁴¹⁸¹⁰

App	Price of the app	How it gets Oura data	What it gets
Apple Health	Free, built into iPhone	Oura’s Apple Health switch	Sleep, heart rate, workouts, steps, energy, respiratory rate3
Health Connect	Free, Android	Oura’s Health Connect switch	Adds HRV to the above4
intervals.icu	“Free online training platform”10	Direct auto-sync from Oura10	Sleep, HRV, readiness and other wellness fields10
Welltory	Free download, US App Store19	Apple Health or Health Connect	Sleep and activity; Oura is “No” for HRV in Welltory’s table20
Strava	Oura’s article names no Strava plan requirement14	Direct partner	Workouts both ways, Readiness and Activity Scores14
Cronometer	“Sign Up – It’s Free”; its Oura post doesn’t say whether the sync needs Gold7	Direct partner	Sleep and Readiness Scores, sleep HRV, temperature variation, respiration, all-day heart rate, activity and workouts7

Prices from each app’s own page or the US App Store, checked 1 November 2026. Natural Cycles and HRV4Training are not free: Natural Cycles needs its own subscription and HRV4Training costs $9.99.⁶¹⁹

If you already own a Gen2 ring, it needs no membership and keeps Apple Health, Health Connect, Strava and Natural Cycles (which needs its own subscription). But Gen2 cannot run newer features such as Stelo glucose.^341814613

Which third-party apps read Oura through the Oura API?

API apps get the most Oura data: daily Readiness, Sleep and Activity scores, nightly HRV, heart rate, temperature deviation, SpO2, workouts, VO2 max and more, through OAuth2. Personal access tokens “were deprecated in December 2025,” so home-made scripts now need a registered app. TrainingPeaks, intervals.icu and HRV4Training advertise direct Oura connections; HRV4Training says it uses Oura’s API.^12591011

App	What it says it reads from Oura	Caveats
TrainingPeaks	“Sleep, HRV and stress scores” into its Health Insights dashboard9	Health Insights is listed as a TrainingPeaks Premium feature9
intervals.icu	Sleep, HRV, readiness and other wellness fields; “auto-sync from … Oura”10	Free platform10
HRV4Training	“HR, HRV and sleep data from Oura,” read from Oura’s cloud11	Its own 2022 post called the link “very unreliable” and recommends Manual Input21
Cronometer	Readiness and Sleep Scores, sleep HRV, temperature, heart rate, activity; official partner71	Nutrition app; not a training planner

Each app’s own page, checked 1 November 2026.

The API’s OAuth scopes show what an app can ask for: email, personal info, daily summaries “of sleep, activity and readiness,” time-series heart rate, workouts, tags, sessions, SpO2 and heart health.¹² Its sleep records carry an average_hrv field, and its readiness records carry temperature_deviation.¹² That is why an API app can show the HRV and Readiness that Apple Health never receives.

There is one catch. Oura’s support article says “Gen3 and later users without active Oura Membership can’t access their data through the Oura API,” and neither can the partner apps they connect.⁵ Cancel the membership and every API app goes quiet, even though your data stays downloadable.⁵¹⁸

HRV4Training is the clearest example of why “works with Oura” needs a date. Its FAQ says “we integrate directly with Oura’s APIs,” but its August 2022 Manual Input post says the link “has resulted in very unreliable data connection due to Oura’s API having quite a few problems,” and asks Oura users to type in their average night heart rate and HRV instead.¹¹²¹

Does Oura work with Strava?

Yes, both ways. Oura sends Strava workouts recorded with Activity Heart Rate plus your Readiness and Activity Scores, and imports Strava workouts so they count toward your Activity Score. Imports run for the current day only, and auto-detected or manually added Oura activities are not exported. Gen3+ needs membership.¹⁴

Oura’s Strava article, last updated October 14, 2026, adds that “activities cannot be imported retroactively,” and that a workout recorded on both platforms “will only appear once in the Oura App with the most reliable recorded data.”¹⁴ On Android, GPS maps “will not initially export from Oura to Strava.”¹⁴ For the device-by-device view from Strava’s side, see what syncs with Strava in 2026.

Which nutrition, cycle and glucose apps work with Oura?

Nutrition: Cronometer and Zero are direct partners, and MyFitnessPal connects through Apple Health or Health Connect. Women’s health: eight partners, including the cycle and fertility apps Natural Cycles, Clue, Mira and Oova. Glucose: only Dexcom’s Stelo biosensor, US only, with glucose flowing one way into Oura.¹⁶¹³

Natural Cycles receives “only temperature trend data… No period data or other Oura metrics are transferred,” and you need a Natural Cycles subscription.⁶ Clue gets more: “Sleep, RHR, HRV, and temperature trends.”¹

The temperature signal these apps rely on is real. In a study of 26 women over a full cycle, Oura-measured distal skin temperature and heart rate during sleep “showed a biphasic pattern,” rising in the mid- and late-luteal phases.²²

Stelo’s link is narrow. Oura’s article says “we currently integrate only with the Stelo biosensor. Other sensors or continuous glucose monitors, including other Dexcom devices, aren’t supported,” and “Oura does not send any data back to Stelo.”¹³

How accurate is the Oura data these apps receive?

Good for sleep timing and overnight heart rate and HRV, weaker for sleep stages. Independent ECG work rates Oura Gen4 HRV at a concordance of 0.99, and polysomnography studies report sleep-wake accuracy of about 92–96%, though the earliest found only 48% specificity for wake. Many validation papers are Oura-employed or Oura-funded.^23242526

Study	What was tested	Key finding	Funding / COI
Dial et al., Physiol Rep 202523	Nocturnal RHR and HRV, 5 wearables vs ECG, 536 nights	HRV: Oura Gen4 CCC 0.99 (MAPE 5.96%), Gen3 0.97; WHOOP 0.94; Garmin 0.87; Polar 0.82	Authors declare no competing interests
Cao et al., J Med Internet Res 202217	Oura nocturnal HR/HRV vs chest ECG, 35 adults, at home	Low mean biases; RMSSD had “relatively low error variance”	None declared
Kinnunen et al., Physiol Meas 202027	Nightly HR and HRV vs ECG, 49 adults	r² = 0.996 (HR) and 0.980 (HRV); bias −0.63 bpm and −1.2 ms	First author affiliated with Oura Health
de Zambotti et al., Behav Sleep Med 201926	Oura vs polysomnography, 41 adolescents/young adults	96% sensitivity for sleep, 48% specificity for wake; deep sleep underestimated ~20 min, REM overestimated ~17 min	NIH-funded (NCANDA); Oura supplied technical details and epoch data
Svensson et al., Sleep Med 202424	Gen3 with OSSA 2.0 vs multi-night PSG, 96 adults	Accuracy 91.7–91.8%; staging 75.5% (light) to 90.6% (REM)	Financial support from Oura Health Oy
Altini & Kinnunen, Sensors 202125	440 nights, 106 people, PSG vs ring	2-stage accuracy 96%; 4-stage 79%	Both authors affiliated with Oura Health
Robbins et al., Sensors 202428	Oura Gen3, Fitbit Sense 2, Apple Watch 8 vs PSG, 35 adults	Oura stage sensitivity 76.0–79.5%; “not different from PSG” for wake, light, deep, REM	Funded by Oura Ring Inc.; first author on Oura’s Medical Advisory Board
Smarr et al., Sci Rep 202029	Ring temperature and fever, first 50 COVID-19 cases	Illness-linked temperature rises were “observable using wearable devices”	Oura funded; one author an Oura employee

All studies verified on PubMed, 1 November 2026. CCC = Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient; MAPE = mean absolute percentage error; PSG = polysomnography.

Dr. Massimiliano de Zambotti of SRI International’s Center for Health Sciences, who led the first polysomnography comparison, called the early results “promising” but wrote that “future development and validation are needed.”²⁶ Later work by Rebecca Robbins and colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School found Oura Gen3 “not different from PSG” on any sleep stage estimate in healthy adults, in a study funded by Oura Ring Inc.; Robbins also sits on Oura’s Medical Advisory Board.²⁸

The 2025 study, by an Ohio State University and Air Force Research Laboratory team declaring no competing interests, found the two Oura rings (Gen3 and Gen4) agreed most closely with ECG for both overnight resting heart rate and HRV, ahead of WHOOP 4.0, Polar and, for HRV, Garmin; Garmin was excluded from the resting heart rate analysis.²³

For the apps on this page, that means apps that receive Oura’s HRV, through the API, a partner integration or Health Connect, are getting a number that independent ECG testing rates highly.

Should one night’s HRV change your training?

No. HRV is most useful as a trend. In a 2013 review, Daniel Plews (then at High Performance Sport New Zealand) and colleagues recommend “appropriate averaging techniques” because single-day HRV can mislead, especially in elite athletes. Whichever app reads your Oura HRV, judge it by its rolling average.³⁰

Plews’s review notes that in elite athletes “both increases and decreases in HRV” have been tied to poor adaptation, and recommends averaging over several days rather than reacting to one morning.³⁰

HRV4Training’s guidance points the same way: wearables “use slightly different methods and sensing locations,” so their data is “not interchangeable, but the relative changes… are.”²¹

Marco Altini, a co-author of Oura’s sleep-staging paper listed at Oura Health and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on that paper, showed why the extra signals matter: adding autonomic (heart-rate-derived) and circadian features lifted four-stage accuracy from 57% to 79%.²⁵

Where does SensAI fit?

SensAI is an AI coach for iPhone and Apple Watch that reads Oura through Apple Health. From Oura it gets sleep with stages, one-minute heart rate, active energy, steps, respiratory rate and workouts, but not HRV, resting heart rate or Readiness. It costs $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year after a 7-day free trial.⁸¹⁵

SensAI does not link to your Oura account. Per its Help Center, “your device’s own app writes your workouts, heart rate, and sleep into Apple Health on your iPhone, and SensAI reads them from there.”⁸

It adds that “sleep and overnight heart rate from your device shape how hard Coach asks you to push on a given day.”⁸ To set it up, follow how to connect a wearable to SensAI through Apple Health.

The limits are the Apple Health limits above. “Their proprietary scores never cross, and, apart from Apple Watch, neither does HRV.”⁸ If you want your Oura HRV inside a training app, TrainingPeaks and intervals.icu both import it, and intervals.icu also lists readiness; SensAI does not.⁹¹⁰ SensAI is also young: 39 US App Store ratings (4.6 average).¹⁵

Where SensAI is different is what it does with the data it does get: a coach that writes your next session, a plan you change by typing (“Smart Modify can shorten your workout, change its intensity, or shift its focus. Just type what you need.”), and completed workouts synced back to Apple Health.¹⁵ SensAI needs iOS 26 or later.¹⁵

For the full device-by-device Apple Health picture, see Oura, WHOOP and Garmin Apple Health integration: what syncs.

Why isn’t Oura syncing with my other apps?

Often because the Oura App hasn’t run. Oura says integrations may not sync “if both apps were not opened before midnight,” if Background App Refresh is off, or if Low Power Mode is on. Open both apps once a day. A lapsed Gen3+ membership also stops Apple Health, Health Connect, the API and partners that require it.¹³⁵

Symptom	Likely cause, per Oura
Nothing new in Apple Health or Health Connect	Oura App not opened before midnight, Background App Refresh off, or Low Power Mode on34
Steps counted twice	Two devices writing steps; Oura suggests making it the priority steps source or turning its steps off3
Height, weight or age locked in Oura	Imported from Apple Health or Health Connect; unlink to edit3
Old Strava workouts missing in Oura	Oura imports the current day only14
API or partner app stopped updating	Gen3+ membership lapsed5
Calories differ from other apps	Oura records active calories only, not BMR3

If the app you’re fixing is SensAI, its Help Center covers what to check: connect a wearable to SensAI through Apple Health.

Frequently asked questions

What apps work with Oura Ring?

Oura lists 18 direct partners: Dexcom Stelo, CorePower Yoga, Strava, The Sculpt Society, Cronometer, Zero, Apollo Neuro, Headspace, Migraine Buddy, Open, Alloy Health, Clue, Mira, Natural Cycles, Oova, Peanut, Stardust and Twentyeight Health. Hundreds more read Oura through Apple Health, Health Connect or the Oura API.¹¹²

Are there free apps that work with Oura Ring?

Yes, but on Gen3 or later the Apple Health, Health Connect and API connections need a $5.99-a-month Oura Membership. With it, Apple Health, Health Connect and intervals.icu are free, Cronometer has a free sign-up and Welltory is a free download.^1810719

What are the best apps to use with Oura Ring?

TrainingPeaks or intervals.icu for training with your Oura HRV, Cronometer for nutrition, Natural Cycles or Clue for cycles and fertility, Stelo for glucose in the US, and Strava for sharing workouts. On iPhone, SensAI uses your Oura sleep and heart rate to adjust your sessions.^91076113148

Can third-party apps access Oura data?

Yes, three ways: as one of Oura’s 18 partners, through Apple Health or Health Connect, or through the Oura API with OAuth2. On Gen3 or later rings, API apps can’t see your data unless your Oura Membership is active.¹³⁴⁵¹²

Does Oura work without a membership?

Barely. Without one, a Gen3 or newer ring shows only your three daily scores, battery, profile, settings and Explore content, and it cannot use the API, Apple Health, Health Connect or Strava integrations. You can still export your data as CSV. Gen2 rings need no membership.^3451814

Does Oura sync HRV to Apple Health?

No. HRV, resting heart rate, temperature and Oura’s scores are not on Oura’s Apple Health export list. Oura does send HRV to Android’s Health Connect.³⁴

Does Oura work with TrainingPeaks?

Yes. TrainingPeaks says your Oura “sleep, HRV and stress scores” populate its Health Insights dashboard, which it lists as a TrainingPeaks Premium feature.⁹

Does Oura work with MyFitnessPal?

Not directly. Oura names MyFitnessPal among the apps it reaches through Apple Health and Health Connect. Cronometer and Zero are Oura’s direct nutrition partners.¹

Does Oura work with Garmin or Apple Watch?

Oura has no Garmin partner integration on its list.¹ Garmin data and Oura data can meet in Apple Health, and Oura imports Apple Health workouts.³ For Apple Watch, Oura has a companion app and complications that mirror your Readiness, Sleep and Activity Scores, heart rate, HRV and body temperature on the watch (Gen2, or Gen3+ with membership, iOS only).³¹

Can I use the Oura API with a personal access token?

No. Oura’s API documentation says “personal access tokens were deprecated in December 2025 and are no longer available for use.” You now register an API application and use OAuth2.¹²

The bottom line

Most apps that “work with Oura” only get part of it. Apple Health apps see sleep, heart rate and workouts. Health Connect apps add HRV. API apps such as TrainingPeaks and intervals.icu add HRV, and intervals.icu lists readiness. On Gen3 or later, Apple Health, Health Connect and the API all need a $5.99-a-month membership.³⁴⁵¹⁸

Pick the route by what you need. To log workouts and sleep alongside everything else, Apple Health or Health Connect is enough. To bring Oura’s HRV and Readiness into a training plan, use an API app. To have a coach adjust your sessions from sleep and overnight heart rate on iPhone, SensAI reads Oura through Apple Health, minus the HRV and scores Oura keeps to itself.⁸⁹¹⁰

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References

Footnotes

1. Oura. “Partner Integrations.” Oura Support, last updated October 7, 2026 — “Some of these integrations require an active membership”; “The Oura App also syncs with hundreds of health and fitness apps via Apple Health and Health Connect by Android, including Flo and My Fitness Pal”; partner list by category (Additional Sensing: Dexcom Stelo, Health Panels; Fitness: CorePower Yoga, Strava, The Sculpt Society; Nutrition: Cronometer, Zero Intermittent Fasting; Stress & Resilience: Apollo Neuro, Headspace, Migraine Buddy, Open; Women’s Health: Alloy Health, Clue, Mira, Natural Cycles, Oova, Peanut, Stardust, Twentyeight Health). Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10705471244947-Partner-Integrations ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶ ↩²⁷ ↩²⁸ ↩²⁹ ↩³⁰ ↩³¹ ↩³² ↩³³ ↩³⁴ ↩³⁵

2. Oura. “Oura Integrations.” ouraring.com — “Powered by Apple HealthKit and Google Health Connect, the Oura App syncs with hundreds of health and fitness apps.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://ouraring.com/integrations ↩

3. Oura. “Apple Health Integration.” Oura Support, last updated October 14, 2026 — available for “Gen2” and “Gen3 or later with active membership,” “iOS only”; “Exported from Oura to Apple Health”: Active Energy, Heart Rate “in one-minute intervals”, Height, Mindful Minutes, Respiratory Rate, Sleep (duration, start, end, stages), Steps, Weight, Workout Routes, Workouts; “Imported from Apple Health to Oura” list; “The Oura App might not import data from integrations if both apps were not opened before midnight”. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-Apple-Health-Integration ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶

4. Oura. “Health Connect by Android Integration.” Oura Support, last updated August 19, 2026 — “Gen3 or later with active membership”; “Android only”; “Google Fit integration with Oura is no longer available”; exported: activity, active calories burned, distance, exercise, steps, height, weight, sleep, heart rate, heart rate variability. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-Health-Connect-by-Android-Integration ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹

5. Oura. “The Oura API.” Oura Support, last updated October 1, 2026 — “Gen3 and later users without active Oura Membership can’t access their data through the Oura API”; “Partner applications that are integrated with the Oura API do not have access to the data of Gen3 and later users who do not have active Oura Membership.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴

6. Oura. “Natural Cycles Integration.” Oura Support, last updated October 14, 2026 — “You must have a Natural Cycles subscription to use this integration”; “Only temperature trend data is shared between the two apps. No period data or other Oura metrics are transferred.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827-Natural-Cycles-Integration ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

7. Cronometer. “Device Integration: Oura Ring.” Cronometer Blog, November 23, 2023 — “explore how nutrition influences your sleep and recovery”; “How Do I Redeem My 30 Day Free Trial Of Cronometer Gold From ŌURA?”; “Sign Up – It’s Free!” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://cronometer.com/blog/oura-ring/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

8. SensAI. “How to Connect Garmin, Oura, WHOOP, Strava, or Any Wearable to SensAI Through Apple Health.” SensAI Help Center, last updated September 25, 2026 — “Oura writes sleep with stages, heart rate at one-minute intervals, active energy, steps, respiratory rate, and workouts”; “It does not write HRV or resting heart rate”; “Their proprietary scores never cross, and, apart from Apple Watch, neither does HRV”; “Sleep and overnight heart rate from your device shape how hard Coach asks you to push on a given day.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://www.sensai.fit/help/connect-wearable-to-sensai-apple-health ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

9. TrainingPeaks. “ŌURA | TrainingPeaks.” Partner page — “Connect your Oura Ring to TrainingPeaks to see your sleep, HRV and stress scores automatically populate in your Health Insights dashboard”; “TrainingPeaks Premium includes Health Insights, Strength, and TrainingPeaks Virtual.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://www.trainingpeaks.com/partners/oura-ring/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

10. Intervals.icu. “Wellness Integration.” — “Track weight, sleep, HRV, readiness, glucose, menstrual cycle, stress, mood, hydration, SpO2, and many more”; “Auto-sync from Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Coros, Huawei, Amazfit, Oura, WHOOP”; “Free online training platform for cyclists, runners, triathletes and other athletes.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://www.intervals.icu/features/wellness/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵

11. HRV4Training. “FAQ.” — “We integrate directly with Oura’s APIs”; “HRV4Training can read HR, HRV and sleep data from Oura.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://www.hrv4training.com/faq.html ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

12. Oura. “Oura API V2 documentation” (OpenAPI specification openapi-1.43.json) — “personal access tokens were deprecated in December 2025 and are no longer available for use”; OAuth2 scopes email, personal, daily (“Daily summaries of sleep, activity and readiness”), heartrate, workout, tag, session, spo2, heart_health; sleep model field average_hrv; readiness field temperature_deviation. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://cloud.ouraring.com/v2/docs ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

13. Oura. “Stelo by Dexcom Integration.” Oura Support, last updated October 14, 2026 — “available only in the US”; “Gen3 or later with active membership”; “This feature is not available on Gen2 or older”; “We currently integrate only with the Stelo biosensor”; “Oura does not send any data back to Stelo.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/41171836791443-Stelo-by-Dexcom-Integration ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

14. Oura. “Strava Integration.” Oura Support, last updated October 14, 2026 — exported to Strava: “Workouts recorded through the Activity Heart Rate feature” and “Readiness Score and Activity Score”; “Oura syncs activities only for the current day, and activities cannot be imported retroactively”; “Gen3 or later with active membership”. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-Strava-Integration ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶

15. Origami, Incorporated. “SensAI: Workout Planner.” Apple App Store listing, US (id6738963099) — “SensAI Premium Monthly $6.99”, “SensAI Premium Yearly $69.99”; “Get full access free for 7 days. No subscription required to start.”; “Smart Modify can shorten your workout, change its intensity, or shift its focus. Just type what you need.”; “Completed workouts sync back”; “Requires iOS 26 or later”; 4.6 rating from 39 ratings; version 1.1.8, October 30, 2026. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sensai-workout-planner/id6738963099 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

16. Shaffer F, Ginsberg JP. An Overview of Heart Rate Variability Metrics and Norms. Frontiers in Public Health. 2017;5:258. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2017.00258. PMID: 29034226. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29034226/ ↩ ↩²

17. Cao R, Azimi I, Sarhaddi F, et al. Accuracy Assessment of Oura Ring Nocturnal Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability in Comparison With Electrocardiography in Time and Frequency Domains: Comprehensive Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2022;24(1):e27487. doi:10.2196/27487. PMID: 35040799. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35040799/ ↩ ↩² ↩³

18. Oura. “Oura Membership.” Oura Support, last updated October 29, 2026 — “Oura on the Web has been discontinued as of October 5, 2026”; “Oura Membership is available for $5.99/month and $69.99/year in the US”; “Without an active membership, you’ll only be able to see your three daily Oura scores (Readiness, Activity, and Sleep), ring battery, basic profile information, app settings, and the Explore content”; “Gen2 users do not require an Oura Membership”; “There currently is no option to purchase or upgrade to a Lifetime Membership.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409086524819 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

19. Apple. App Store listings, US, via the iTunes lookup and search API — “Oura” (id1043837948): Free, 4.9 stars, about 320,000 ratings; “HRV4Training” (id686923970): $9.99; “Welltory: Stress & Heart Rate” (id1074367771): Free; “Natural Cycles: Fertility App” (id765535549): Free download. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oura/id1043837948 ↩ ↩² ↩³

20. Welltory. “Is my device compatible with Welltory for HRV measurements and activity tracking?” Welltory Help Center — “Currently, only Apple Watch and Samsung Watch can be used for both HRV measurements and activity tracking in our app”; device table: Oura smart ring, HRV measurements “No”. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://help.welltory.com/en/articles/4998580-is-my-device-compatible-with-welltory-for-hrv-measurements-and-activity-tracking ↩

21. HRV4Training. “Manual Input in HRV4Training.” HRV4Training blog, August 7, 2022 — “this link has resulted in very unreliable data connection due to Oura’s API having quite a few problems”; wearables “use slightly different methods and sensing locations”; “the data is not interchangeable, but the relative changes, which are the only aspect that really matters, are.” Accessed November 1, 2026. https://www.hrv4training.com/blog2/manual-input-in-hrv4training ↩ ↩² ↩³

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23. Dial MB, Hollander ME, Vatne EA, et al. Validation of nocturnal resting heart rate and heart rate variability in consumer wearables. Physiological Reports. 2025;13(16):e70527. doi:10.14814/phy2.70527. PMID: 40834291. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40834291/ ↩ ↩² ↩³

24. Svensson T, Madhawa K, Nt H, et al. Validity and reliability of the Oura Ring Generation 3 (Gen3) with Oura sleep staging algorithm 2.0 (OSSA 2.0) when compared to multi-night ambulatory polysomnography: A validation study of 96 participants and 421,045 epochs. Sleep Medicine. 2024;115:251-263. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2024.01.020. PMID: 38382312. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38382312/ ↩ ↩²

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31. Oura. “Apple Watch Complications & Companion App.” Oura Support, last updated October 14, 2026 — available for “Gen2” and “Gen3 or later with active membership,” “iOS only”; “You can see your Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores, heart rate, average body temperature, ring battery level, and more”; Readiness view lists “Heart rate variability” and “Body temperature”. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App ↩