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Works with your wearable

Best with Apple Watch. Works with other wearables and apps that sync to Apple Health. Auralo reads Apple Health, so if your ring, band or watch syncs there, Auralo can use it. Here's what each brand shares, and what you'll get.

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Best with Apple Watch

Apple Watch writes everything Auralo's scores use to Apple Health, and Auralo has its own Watch app on top:

What each wearable shares with Apple Health

✓ shared · ✗ not shared · partial: see the note · ? not confirmed. Based on each company's help pages and press, checked 2 October 2026. Companies change what they share; check your app's Apple Health settings.

Wearable (app if different)Sleep stagesHRVResting HRWorkoutsStepsWhat you'll get in Auralo
Apple Watch✓✓✓✓✓Full recovery score, plus the Watch app
Oura Ring✓✗✗✓✓Sleep score with stages. Recovery from sleep and recent strain only (no HRV or resting HR shared), at a lower confidence
WHOOPpartial: asleep and awake, no stages✗✓✓?Recovery from resting HR and sleep (no HRV shared). Sleep score without stages
Fitbit, Pixel Watch (Google Health 5.05+)✓✗✓✓✓Recovery from resting HR and sleep (no HRV shared)
Garmin (Garmin Connect)? sleep is shared; stages not confirmed✗?✓✓Sleep, steps and workouts. Recovery from sleep and strain, plus resting HR if your app shares it (no HRV shared)
Coros? sleep is shared; stages not confirmed✗✓✓✓Recovery from resting HR and sleep (no HRV shared)
Ultrahuman Ring?✓?✓?Recovery with HRV and sleep, compared with your own Ultrahuman baseline
Amazfit (Zepp)?partial: Balance 2 series only?✓✓Steps and workouts. Recovery with HRV on Balance 2 watches; others from sleep and strain
Polar (Polar Flow)✗ duration only✗✗✓✓Steps, workouts and sleep time. Recovery from sleep and strain only, at a lower confidence
Withings????✓Steps, plus whatever your Withings app shares. Not confirmed; check its Health settings
Suunto✗✗✗✓✓Steps and workouts for strain. Sleep needs to come from another device or app
Samsung Galaxy WatchGalaxy Watch4 and later don't work with iPhoneNot supported, because the watch can't pair with an iPhone

Whatever your wearable shares, Auralo also uses your iPhone's own steps and anything else in Apple Health, such as sleep from a sleep app. Some brands also share respiratory rate (Oura, WHOOP) or blood oxygen (WHOOP), which Auralo uses for its vitals checks.

How to turn on syncing

Turn on sharing in your wearable's app first. Then, in the Health app › tap your picture › Apps › Auralo, allow the categories you want Auralo to read, and pull down to refresh in Auralo. Menu names can differ between app versions.

Oura without a membership

Does Auralo work with Oura without a membership?

Maybe, depending on your ring. Without a membership the ring keeps working and you keep Oura's basic daily scores. Oura's help page says Apple Health sharing on Gen3 rings and later needs an active membership, while some third-party guides report the sync keeps running after it lapses. If sync is still on, Auralo gives free scores from what Oura shares: sleep with stages, heart rate, respiratory rate, steps and workouts. Oura doesn't share HRV or resting heart rate with Apple Health, with or without a membership.

  1. In the Oura app, open the menu › Settings › Data sharing › Apple Health and turn it on.
  2. Allow sleep, heart rate, respiratory rate, steps and workouts.
  3. The next morning, check that last night's sleep shows in the Health app, tracked by Oura.

Oura changes what's free from time to time; check the sync still runs on your ring. Checked 2 October 2026.

Switching from WHOOP

Does Auralo work with a WHOOP strap after the membership ends?

Not once the membership ends. WHOOP says new data isn't synced until a membership is active again, so nothing new reaches Apple Health and Auralo has nothing to read from the strap. If you have an Apple Watch, Auralo gives you recovery, sleep and strain scores from it for free, with HRV included.

No wearable? iPhone alone works

Auralo uses your iPhone's steps and activity, and sleep from any app that writes to Apple Health. Recovery is a rougher estimate without overnight heart data, and every score says how sure it is. You can add a wearable any time and Auralo picks it up.

Questions

Does Auralo use two devices at once?

For sleep, no. Auralo picks one device for each night, so stages aren't counted twice. It prefers a device that recorded sleep stages, and if two did, it prefers Apple Watch. The night's HRV comes from that same device. Steps, workouts and other data are read from Apple Health as usual, and each card says which device it's tracked by.

Different brands measure HRV differently. Does that matter?

Apple Watch saves HRV as SDNN, and most other wearables calculate RMSSD, so the numbers aren't comparable across brands. Auralo never compares you with other people or other devices. It compares each night with your own baseline from the same device, so a change in the number means a change in you, not in the formula. More in HRV explained.

My wearable doesn't share HRV. Do I still get a recovery score?

Yes. Recovery uses whatever is there: HRV, resting heart rate, last night's sleep and yesterday's strain. Without HRV, the score leans on the rest and shows a lower confidence, and it tells you why. See how a recovery score works.

Do I need a wearable at all?

No. With iPhone alone, Auralo uses your steps, activity and sleep from any app that writes to Apple Health, and gives a rougher recovery estimate that says so.

Get Auralo at launch

Auralo will be free on the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch. Join the waitlist and we'll email you on launch day. Comparing apps? See Auralo vs WHOOP, Oura and Bevel.

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Sources, checked 2 October 2026

Apple, Apple Watch, iPhone and Apple Health are trademarks of Apple Inc. Oura, WHOOP, Fitbit, Pixel Watch, Google, Garmin, Coros, Ultrahuman, Amazfit, Zepp, Polar, Withings, Suunto and Samsung Galaxy Watch are trademarks of their owners. Auralo isn't affiliated with them. Auralo gives wellness information, not medical advice. For medical concerns, contact a health professional.