If you wear an Oura ring, connect it directly. It provides the richest sleep
data of any source the Workbench supports, and we treat it as the reference
against which other sources are compared.
Connecting
Data Sources → Oura → Connect. You sign in with your Oura account in a
browser window, approve access, and come back. There is no code to copy.
Connect Oura directly, even if it also writes into Apple Health. The direct
connection carries several things the Apple Health route drops entirely.
What you get
- Sleep with full stages, and Oura’s own sleep score
- Time to sleep — which Apple Watch cannot provide
- Sleep efficiency, restlessness, and time awake
- Movement during the night — a strip showing how much you moved, and
currently the only source that provides it
- Resting heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, blood oxygen
- Body temperature as a nightly deviation from your own baseline
- Naps, alongside overnight sleep
- Activity and steps
Temperature works differently here
Oura reports temperature as a deviation — how far tonight sat from your own
normal — rather than an absolute reading.
That is the more useful form. An absolute skin temperature depends on the room,
the bedding and where the sensor sits; a deviation from your own baseline is
comparable night to night. It needs a few nights to establish that baseline
first.
Naps
Oura records daytime sleep, and the Workbench shows it.
Naps are drawn but never scored — they do not affect your sleep score or
SHI. Scoring them properly is deferred, and we would rather show them honestly
than fold them into a number that does not yet handle them.
If you also wear a watch
A common and useful combination: Oura for sleep, watch for everything else. That
is precisely what choosing your sources is
for.
Known quirks