The best sleep trackers of 2025: These sleep trackers improved my sleep

Why we like it:The Oura Ring is the best sleep tracker for a few reasons. It’s discreet and far more comfortable to wear to bed compared to a health band or smartwatch.

Oura’s data capture is accurate, with its sleep staging algorithm matching the performance of a polysomnography sleep lab test. The objective sleep and readiness scores it provides after I wake up often are in line with how I’m feeling on a day-to-day basis.

It also isn’t hardcore about getting perfect sleep, which allows for normal people who may be working later, raising kids, or experiencing health conditions to use the smart ring and not feel disheartened. One night, I received a sleep score of 68. The ring notified me that this was below my typical range but told me that it’s normal to have nights like these, “so be gentle with yourself.” Then it prompted me to reflect on the influencing factors of my poor and reminded me “it’s about progress, not perfection.”

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Another reason the smart ring is my favorite sleep and health tracker is because it takes your daily biometrics to paint a fuller, long-term picture of your health through features like Resilience and Cardiovascular Age. If I am consistent with my sleep, I see how it translates into “Solid” or “Exceptional” resilience, which further encourages me to keep up the trend. A week of poor sleep takes a year off my Cardiovascular Age of below seven years. This data is great for already active and health-conscious individuals, but it may overwhelm someone who’s just getting into health and sleep tracking.

Still, if you’re ready to learn more about your health in the context of sleep, activity, and stress, the Oura Ring is health-tracking’s top dog. Plus, the smart ring can track your meals and pair that data with glucose insights with a Dexcom Stelo CGM. This can tell you right as you’re getting sick, as it did for me during one nasty week of spring allergies, through its Symptom Radar feature.

Who’s it for:This is a sleep tracker for people who want to improve their sleep quality and their overall health. The ring offers both short-term sleep tracking that examines your rest, as well as long-term sleep and health-tracking that paints a holistic picture of wellbeing.

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The ring starts at $350 and comes with a $70 annual subscription. The smart ring is best for people who are willing to pay this high price and who will regularly check and find use in their biometric data. If you get easily overwhelmed looking at your biometric data, the Oura Ring may offer too much information.

Who should look elsewhere:If you don’t want to be graded on your sleep, readiness, or activity levels every morning, I’d recommend the Apple Watch. The smartwatch doesn’t use sleep or readiness scoring mechanisms. Instead, you can check if your wrist temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, and sleep duration are within a typical range through the Apple Watch’s Vitals app.

Android users could look for the Galaxy Ring instead if they want a similar smart ring sleep tracker but don’t want to pay the monthly subscription fee.

Oura Ring Gen 4specs:Up to eight days battery life| Sleep cycles| Bluetooth | Up to 100m water resistant | Blood oxygen, skin temperature sensor, heart rate monitoring| iOS and Android compatible

Why we like it:If you want a sleep tracker that will keep your athletic goals in mind, the Whoop is your best bet.

Whoop delivers daily sleep and recovery scores, but it also gives you a strain target you’re encouraged to meet, based on the night’s sleep and morning’s readiness. I’m currently following a weight-training and diet regimen, and I’ve found the strain target invaluable. The Whoop’s daily outlook tab summarizes my morning data and then provides me with exercises and durations for hitting my strain target. For example, one morning it prescribed me either a 30-minute run, a 70-minute elliptical session, or a 30-minute weightlifting session to reach my 13.5 strain target. The tracker made these recommendations after it registered my 88% sleep score and 80% recovery score.

The Whoop is another reliable, accurate sleep tracker. One study performed by Central Queensland University found that the Whoop was 99.7% accurate in measuring heart rate and 99% accurate in measuring heart rate variability during sleep. Compared to polysomnography, the Whoop also correctly identified sleep and calculated total time spent asleep.

The sleep debt feature is also a great way to keep track of your caught-up — or not-caught-up — sleep. Whoop tells you once you’ve reduced or gained sleep debt and encourages more or maintained rest. It also comes packed with graphs displaying weekly averages, your sleep hours versus your sleep need, performance, and consistency. Unlike Oura, which employs separate tabs for daily and weekly sleep data, I enjoy how all my sleep data is available in one place.

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Who’s it for: Whoop just announced its three new annual subscription tiers starting at $200 and going all the way up to $360.

At $200, the Whoop One membership is the least feature-rich option with only sleep, strain, and recovery tracking. It also features V02 max and heart rate zone monitoring, alongside hormonal health insights. For $240, Peak has all the aforementioned features, plus Whoop’s new Healthspan and Pace of Aging feature, a Health Monitor feature, and stress monitoring.

Life is the most expensive tier at $360. This tier adds blood pressure and ECG monitoring, as well as advanced health sensor tech. The Life tier comes with a Whoop MG — medical grade — band, while the One and Peak tiers come with the Whoop 5.0 band.

In short, it’s going to cost you at least $200 a year to use this device. You could buy an older generation Apple Watch for that very price and never have to pay a subscription on it. The ideal customer for the Whoop is someone who is an avid health and fitness junkie, kind of like a more intense Oura user. This person is actively training and refining their athletic performance and also wants to learn more about their body’s capacity through features like Healthspan or Pace of Aging.

The Whoop will be an effective sleep tracker for people who want to optimize their training regime for a steep price.

Who should look elsewhere:The Whoop is the most expensive sleep tracker on this list. If you want a sleep tracker with similar functionalities but a cheaper or nonexistent subscription, I’d recommend the Oura Ring 4. The ring costs $350 and then $70 for an annual subscription that offers full access to all your health data. Some users are even happy with the limited access provided without a subscription.

If all this health data is overhwelming, I’d also recommend the Apple Watch Series 10 instead or even an earlier model if you wanted a cheaper sleep tracker. The Apple Watch Series 8 and later include the Vitals app, which is essential for sleep tracking.

Whoop 5.0specs:Up to 14 days battery life| Sleep cycles| Bluetooth| 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.45 inches | IP68 water resistant | Blood oxygen, skin temperature sensor, heart rate, menstrual tracking| iOS and Android compatible

Why we like it:The Galaxy Ring is a discreet, comfortable sleep-tracking solution with Samsung Health integrations. If you do own a Galaxy Watch and use it for fitness, your sleep data will be stored in the same place on the app.

Out of all the sleep trackers I’ve tried, the Galaxy Ring provides the highest sleep and energy — its version of readiness — ratings. The smart ring is ideal for people who don’t want to feel terrible about their rest while they track their sleep. Its battery life is also comparable to the Oura Ring at around seven days.

The ring’s app doesn’t have a lot of the other special touch features that some of its competitors. It keeps the metrics it monitors simple and doesn’t stray from sleep, activity, energy, and stress. It’s a great smart ring for people who just want to track their sleep on a daily basis and don’t need in-depth health insights.

Who’s it for:The Galaxy Ring is best for Android users who want to keep their data within the Samsung ecosystem. Additionally, it’s a great smart ring for those who are intrigued by the Oura Ring — but not the subscription price tag. Unlike the Oura Ring, whose price increases depending on the ring’s finish, every Samsung Galaxy Ring finish costs the same, sweet price of $400.

Who should look elsewhere:This smart ring is only available to Android users, since the data is stored on the Samsung Health app. So, iOS users should look to the Oura Ring 4 or Ultrahuman Ring Air instead.

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Samsung Galaxy Ring specs: Up to seven days battery life| Sleep cycles| Bluetooth | Water resistant | Blood oxygen, skin temperature sensor, heart rate monitoring| Android compatible

Why we like it:The Apple Watch Series 11 is the most approachable sleep-tracking option for people who want a general sense that they’re hitting their sleep goals. WatchOS 26 comes with a new Sleep Scores feature that rates your sleep out of 100 based on bedtime consistency, interruptions, and duration. The scoring on Apple’s Sleep Scores is a bit more generous than other picks on the list that factor in when a user’s heart rate lowers at night or their previous day’s activity, among other factors that complicate getting a high sleep score.

The Apple Watch shows you your time spent awake, in REM, core, and deep sleep, as well as whether your sleep duration has increased or decreased over the past week. The Vitals app is going to be your Apple Watch’s best friend if you want some biometric-tracking mechanisms. The smartwatch app displays your sleeping wrist temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, and sleep duration on a graph. It will also notify you whether these datapoints are in or out of your typical range.

We chose the Apple Watch Series 11 because it is the thinnest and most comfortable smartwatch Apple’s produced. This makes it a little easier to sleep with compared to its bulkier counterparts in the Apple Watch lineup. It also comes with several sleep-friendly functionalities like a bedtime reminder feature that automatically goes into do not disturb at your set bedtime. For those with breathing disturbances, the smartwatch has an FDA-cleared Sleep Apnea Detection feature that can help catch the often-undiagnosed condition. The watch also includes a new FDA-cleared Hypertension Detection feature that monitors your blood pressure over a 30-day period to alert you of possible hypertension.

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Who’s it for:Apple owners, first and foremost. Unlike the other picks on this list, the Apple Watch has a screen and is your iPhone’s personal assistant first and a health tracker second. You can take calls, set timers, send texts, create reminders, and even use it as a de facto wallet. Secondly, it’s for people who don’t mind the feel of wearing a smartwatch to bed. This might be the most comfortable smartwatch Apple’s ever made, but it’s still pretty bulky and distracting.

The smartwatch is a great solution for people seeking a subscription-free health tracker with medical grade, yet simple and judgement-free, features. Apple updates its firmware regularly and adds new health-minded features yearly, so you can get a lot out of keeping this smartwatch around your wrist.

Who should look elsewhere: At 24 hours, the Apple Watch Series 11 battery life adds six more hours of battery life compared to its Series 10 predecessor, but it’s still shorter than the other options on this list. You’ll have to charge your smartwatch everyday if you want around-the-clock usage. If that’s you, I’d recommend the Whoop instead, since it’s a similar wrist band form factor but with a 14-day battery life and a wearable charging case.

Review: Apple Watch Series 11

Apple Watch Series 11 specs:Up to 24-hour battery life| Sleep cycles and sleep apnea-tracking| Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and/or cellular options| 42mm and 46mm models | IP6X dust and water resistant | Blood oxygen, hypertension detection, body temperature sensor, EKG, irregular heart rate alerts | iOS only

Why we like it: When I tested the Pixel Watch 4, I was happily surprised by how the company has made the device enjoyable to use like extending the battery life, faster charging, advanced sleep tracking, and temperature sensing. Google says the Pixel Watch 4 hosts the most advanced sleep tracking on its smartwatch lineup to date.

The watch has a wonderfully long battery life. During my testing, I charged it to 100% one Sunday night and woke up at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday morning to find the watch’s battery at 35%. Additionally, Google upgraded its charging port for a quicker connection and 25% faster charge.

Pixel Watch 4 debuted with retroactive fitness detection, a feature that regular exercisers will enjoy. It does a great job at accurately capturing a workout when a user hasn’t logged it on the app.

Who’s it for:The Pixel Watch 4 is a smartwatch with sleep tracking, exercise capturing, and communication capabilities best suited for Android users. You can send messages, accept calls, ask Google questions, record workouts, and track your sleep. If you use it for sleep tracking, you might need to get used to its bulkier, thicker watch face.

Who should look elsewhere: If you don’t want to sleep with a bulky watch but still want an Android tracker, I’d recommend the Galaxy Ring instead. The Whoop and the Oura Ring are also compatible with the Android phones, but those devices come with annual subscriptions for full data access.

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Pixel Watch 4 specs: Up to 30-hour battery life| Sleep cycles and sleep apnea-tracking| Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and/or cellular options| 41mm and 45mm models | Gemini integration | IP6X dust and water resistant | Blood oxygen, body temperature sensor, EKG, irregular heart rate alerts | Android only