Ring Pulse is free and good. This page is written by the person who makes Vitra, so read it with that in mind — the point of it is to be accurate about where the two differ, not to talk you out of the free one.
Ring Pulse is a free web dashboard built by Keegan Donley after Oura announced it was retiring Oura on the Web, and it is good: daily summaries, correlations with r-values, CSV export. If you want a browser tab that replaces the one you’re losing and you don’t want to pay anything, take it — genuinely.
Ring Pulse describes itself as operating “as a proxy to securely make API requests on your behalf” — your Oura data passes through their server on the way to your browser. Vitra talks to the Oura API from your own machine. Nothing sits in between.
Ring Pulse caches in your browser’s storage. That is gone when you clear site data, and it isn’t there in a private window, on a different browser, or on a new laptop. Vitra keeps a database on your computer. If you are replacing a dashboard you used every morning for years, that difference shows up the first time you switch machines.
Both need an active Oura membership. Neither gets you out of the subscription — no third-party tool does, because the official API requires it.
Beyond those two, there is scope. Both are ways to read your Oura data; Vitra also puts a layer on top of it, all computed on your own machine. It interprets rather than only displays: it tells you what a night or a trend means, suggests what to do about it, and cites the research behind the suggestion so you can check it rather than take it on faith.
Underneath that: correlations that name which of your habits actually move your sleep and recovery against your own baseline, self-experiments that give a change a real verdict, a biological-age and pace-of-ageing estimate from your own metrics, your own bloodwork logged alongside your ring data, a 90-day PDF to take to a doctor, and a one-click CSV of your whole history — arranged as one structured, plain-English screen you read in order.
If what you want is your numbers laid out well, you do not need any of that. If you want them interpreted, that is the part you would be paying for.
If the thing you want is a free browser tab to replace the one you are losing, take Ring Pulse. That is the honest answer, and no amount of arguing changes it.
Vitra is the pick when the structural differences matter to you — when you would rather your Oura data went straight from Oura’s API to your own machine with nothing in between, and when you want a history that lives in a database on your computer rather than in a browser cache that a cleared site-data dialog can take with it — or when you want the numbers read for you rather than presented to you. It is a one-time €19, with a 7-day trial first, and no Vitra subscription on top of your Oura one.
Local AI on your Mac or PC. One-time purchase, 7-day trial, no Vitra subscription.
Download Vitra →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.