Does WHOOP One include Health Monitor? No — and here's what you lose
No. Whoop's own support article is unambiguous: “Health Monitor is available for WHOOP Peak and WHOOP Life members. WHOOP One members do not have access to this feature.” The band still records the data — it just isn't shown to you in the app.
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What Health Monitor actually contains
Whoop lists six metrics under Health Monitor: live heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, blood oxygen (SpO2) and skin temperature. Four of those are the ones people buy a recovery band for. On the entry plan you do not get the panel that shows them.
This is the clearest example of a distinction that trips up almost every wearable comparison: the device measures it, the app shows it and the API exposes it are three different claims. Whoop 5.0 hardware records blood oxygen and skin temperature. WHOOP One simply does not surface them.
The part almost nobody mentions: the export still has it
Whoop's data-export article states that WHOOP One, Peak and Life members all receive standard data exports, and that the Physiological Cycles CSV includes SpO2 and skin temperature for WHOOP 4.0 and newer, with respiratory rate in the Sleeps file. So on the cheapest plan the numbers can be downloaded as a spreadsheet even though the in-app panel is locked. If you are on One and want those readings, the export is the route.
What each Whoop tier costs
On the EU storefront at the time of writing, WHOOP One is €199 a year and WHOOP Peak €264 a year, each including a WHOOP 5.0 device. WHOOP Life is €399 a year and includes a WHOOP MG, which is the only Whoop hardware with ECG — Whoop states plainly that WHOOP 5.0 does not include ECG or Blood Pressure Insights. There is no way to buy a Whoop device outright; the hardware only exists inside a membership.
So which tier do you actually need?
If you want sleep, strain and recovery, One does that. If you want to watch blood oxygen, skin temperature or respiratory rate day to day inside the app, you need Peak. If you want ECG and irregular-rhythm notifications, you need Life with the MG — and Whoop notes those are medically regulated features that are not available in every region.
Worth saying plainly: none of this makes Whoop bad. It makes the tier chart something you have to read carefully before buying, because the marketing for the band and the feature list for the plan are not the same document.
How this compares to the rest of the market
Whoop is the only device in our comparison with no standalone purchase option at all. Everything else — Polar, Garmin, Samsung, Ultrahuman, Withings, Apple — can be bought once and used without a recurring fee. Oura sits in between: the ring is a one-time purchase, but Oura requires an active Membership for API access on Gen3 rings and newer.
Frequently asked questions
Pedro Thomaz builds Vitra, a desktop app that reads Oura data against your own baseline instead of a population average. He has worn a ring daily for years and reads these same numbers every morning — which is where most of what is written here comes from. Vitra is not a medical device and nothing on this blog is medical advice.
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