Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal drops $50 off Oura smart ring (Gen3 Heritage)

By John Alexander and Briley Kenney Published November 30, 2024

A man wearing the Rose Gold version of the Oura Horizon. — Image used with permission by copyright holder

We might be in the fourth iteration of the Oura smart ring but that’s no reason to shun the previous generations. They’re still fantastic smart devices by our standards. Thanks to some of the better Black Friday deals, and early Cyber Monday deals now’s a great time to save on the Oura ring. Our top pick is the Oura Ring Heritage — saving you $50. As the name suggests, it’s a ring rather than something that goes around your wrist, and it looks super stylish. Such style also comes with some impressive health and fitness monitoring features. But you’re going to need to be fast as the Oura ring deals end soon.

Why you should buy an Oura Smart Ring for Black Friday or Cyber Monday

The health insights of an Oura Ring are quite vast. For starters, Oura Rings know our chronotype, if we’re morning people or night owls. While this isn’t too impressive (you likely have an idea of your chronotype already) it can give us scientific backing for our assertions that, no, we aren’t ready to get out of bed in the morning. Honestly, that’s something I need to help me prove I’m not a morning person. I don’t like morning people, or mornings, or people. I digress.

Where it gets more interesting is how the Oura Ring sees things like your skin temperature, pulse, and Oxygen levels and then combines them with sleep quality measurements to compute things like your daily activity readiness. If our Oura Ring 3 review hadn’t been conducted by a male, he’d also have been able to report how it uses these factors to predict periods, too. They have a unisex design and come in a wide variety of sizes, to fit any finger.

This Black Friday and Cyber Monday offer brings the Oura Smart Ring Gen3 Heritage or Horizon down to $249. Since the Heritage is usually $299, and the Horizon is usually $349, you’re saving up to $150 on these deals. Those deals are available across several retailers including Amazon , Best Buy , and Oura's own website .

Either way, these are some great deals on a unique smart wearable that we know, for a fact, will give you quite an interesting experience. Don’t miss out on these deals if you’ve been eyeing one of Oura’s smart rings because we don’t know how long they’ll stick around or when they’ll be back, if ever.

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