Whoop
A wearable fitness tracker that monitors sleep, strain, and recovery with detailed health metrics.
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How Whoop compares
12 creators weighed in
Oura Ring
Direct rival
smart ring health tracker
Both track HRV and recovery using similar methods. Whoop adds journaling, AI, and doctor video chats; Brad notes neither shares its algorithm openly.
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Both track HRV and recovery using similar methods. Whoop adds journaling, AI, and doctor video chats; Brad notes neither shares its algorithm openly.
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"I started recording in my Whoop. It has a journal. When I put in my journal that I had electrolytes or creatine, or I slept with a dog or an eye mask or I took a flight, it tells you how that affects your recovery. If I drink my electrol..."
Mentioned alongside Oura Ring and Apple Watch as wearable health trackers
"Whoop, everyone's favorite fitness wearable is bringing clinicians into their application via video chat. Whoop now let you do blood panels in it. They have an AI in it. And now, you know, I want a doctor. I want my doctor to start with ..."
Leading consumer healthcare alongside Oura, Function, and Superpower
"You don't need an Oura Ring. You don't need a Whoop. You don't need sleep tracking."
Mentioned alongside Oura Ring as optional sleep tracking devices; Eight Sleep is the one Codie endorses
"Have you ever worn an Oura Ring or a Whoop strap or any of those things?"
Mentioned alongside Oura Ring as a comparable health tracking wearable
"I look at Whoop versus Oura. Like we're so proud to be in both, but sooner — Oura has been a very quick journey."
Compared to Oura Ring — Whoop took longer due to hardware complexity, resulting in more dilution
Apple Watch
Different focus
Apple's smartwatch
Whoop skips the screen to focus on sleep and recovery scores. One creator said Apple Watch should be more like it.
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Whoop skips the screen to focus on sleep and recovery scores. One creator said Apple Watch should be more like it.
"The Whoop plus getting your blood test, just self-directed healthcare with AI, man — you're going to get some early wins and then when you do go talk to your doctor, you have it right there. Whoop just added blood panels. So now your sle..."
Mentioned alongside Apple Watch as a complementary or alternative wearable option
"Putting the wearables in there is going to be really interesting — the Ouras, the Whoops, the Fitbits, Apple Watches. You start correlating that data with the blood work. I noticed Whoop offering labs now through Quest."
Mentioned alongside Oura, Fitbit, and Apple Watch as wearables that could feed data into health platforms
"The market for screenless fitness trackers has more than doubled in just the past year alone, and that's been thanks to Whoop, who's more than half the market. The Whoop gives you a sleep score and a recovery score, so you have an idea o..."
Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Health app are being positioned as direct competitors to Whoop
"I think they should make an Apple Watch that's kind of like the Whoop — less like a watch and more just like dedicated health monitoring."
Used as a model for what a more health-focused Apple Watch should look like
Eight Sleep
Different focus
smart temperature-regulating mattress
Both track sleep indirectly. Andrew says Whoop, worn on the wrist, can misread sleep stages due to limb movement.
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Both track sleep indirectly. Andrew says Whoop, worn on the wrist, can misread sleep stages due to limb movement.
"We monitor REM through like an Eight Sleep or a Whoop or some other device through changes in heart rate and breathing."
Mentioned alongside Eight Sleep as an example of indirect REM monitoring, contrasted with a new direct eye-movement-based sleep mask technology
"Whoop as a hardware product you know has some amount of lock in."
Example of hardware moat alongside Eight Sleep
"A lot of the wristbands and rings for tracking sleep, while they can be quite good and are quite good, WHOOPs and Ouras being the two most popular ones, they can get movement wrong because of movement of limbs."
Less accurate than Eight Sleep for sleep staging
venture capital firm
Both are used as benchmarks for success in their fields, not compared as rival products.
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Both are used as benchmarks for success in their fields, not compared as rival products.
"It's clearly aiming at the Whoop to be a puck on your wrist that is comfortable, that doesn't have a screen to distract you, and that has all the functionality of tracking you all the time. This is why people don't like Whoop."
Used as the benchmark that both Garmin CIRQA and Casana Smart Seat are competing against; criticized for its subscription fee
"It never got to mass consumer adoption like an Oura Ring or a Whoop band or anything like that."
Used as a benchmark for successful mass-market wearable adoption, contrasted with Leap Motion
Fitbit Air
Direct rival
Fitbit's fitness tracking band
Both are health tracking wearables. Marques wears Whoop 24/7 for its screenless, lightweight design; Joanna notes Whoop users are now eyeing Fitbit Air.
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Both are health tracking wearables. Marques wears Whoop 24/7 for its screenless, lightweight design; Joanna notes Whoop users are now eyeing Fitbit Air.
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"I have a lot of friends, I play Ultimate Frisbee, friends and teammates who all wear Whoops. It's this screenless, lightweight puck in a thin band with all these sensors on one side that you just wear 24/7."
Compared extensively to Fitbit Air and Apple Watch throughout the video
"Everyone wears their Whoop bands and now is very interested in the Fitbit Air."
Mentioned alongside Fitbit Air as health tracking devices
What creators say
"My Whoop doesn't record this, correct? So this is a unique device."
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"I woke up and my Whoop was — fire alarms going off. My respiratory rate, my skin temperature, everything. It's like you're dying."
"It says reading in my Whoop is a way to sleep better. So I was like, let me just get some of these short books and I'll start reading them."
"I've got maybe 1,500, maybe 2,000 nights on Whoop tracked right over the years. And you're just always sleeping less than you think you are. If you don't have money to buy a wearable, just the rule is you're sleeping less than you think you are."
More from Chris Williamson →+2 more mentions from Chris
"I think that's the number one realization that people get from wearing a sleep tracker like a Whoop and using an Eight Sleep or something, which is..."
"But when you see in data too and because I track everything with Whoop, it was a 30% increase in HRV. a 30% increase in HRV overnight and that held..."
"I'm with Whoop again. Well, I've been with Whoop for — I've worn one of these since pre-COVID. So I've always worn them."
More from William Goodge →
"This is not a plug, but I'm an investor in a company called Whoop. And on there they have the stress measure. Again, it's not a perfect measure and nothing is a perfect measure, but I was looking at our differences in the stress response according..."
More from Steven Bartlett →"If you knew venture in 2026, dude, you'd know that we wear a Whoop and we don't drink martinis because it impacts our sleep score."
More from Harry Stebbings →+2 more mentions from Harry
"I sold a Whoop. OpenAI or Anthropic?"
"Your Whoop or your Oura must absolutely hate you and your sleep score must be terrible, respectfully."
"The last couple of years I've been just using my Whoop here on the bicep as kind of during the races. It's accurate enough, I think. It's better to use a Garmin in terms of getting the full picture, but I get the picture and that's kind of what I'..."
More from Johannes Klæbo →"I got the Whoop. I need eight hours of sleep. Eight. Solid. I need it."
More from Joey Diaz →"The whoop, I don't really wish we could wear it during games. All summer, that's how I really track my daily life. I think it's amazing because you can track everything that you need, your sleep, your workout, your stress, your strain"
More from Kyle Kuzma →
"I mean I you know I have a Whoop. I love it. I definitely check it every morning, but I try to have an armslength uh relationship with how I let that data impact me"
More from Rich Roll →+1 more mention from Rich
"I look at my Whoop data and I see the stress levels and I see the impact on my HRV"
"I use a Whoop to track my sleep, but you don't need it."
More from Ali Abdaal →+1 more mention from Ali
"I wear a Whoop. I've got like a I've been using this for the last like 380 days or something. I've got a 380-day streak on it and so this gives me ..."
"Usually I have my Whoop on because I used to have the Oura, but it hurt like I couldn't train with it."
More from Brendan Allen →"The Whoop plus getting your blood test, just self-directed healthcare with AI, man — you're going to get some early wins and then when you do go talk to your doctor, you have it right there. Whoop just added blood panels. So now your sleep data, y..."
More from Jason Calacanis →+1 more mention from Jason
"Putting the wearables in there is going to be really interesting — the Ouras, the Whoops, the Fitbits, Apple Watches. You start correlating that da..."
"Right now your Whoop, your Oura, your Eight Sleep, they're not measuring REM directly."
More from Andrew Huberman →+4 more mentions from Andrew
"We monitor REM through like an Eight Sleep or a Whoop or some other device through changes in heart rate and breathing."
"Whether it's a Whoop or it's an Oura, it's your Eight Sleep — it's measuring heart rate and body motion mainly. Accelerometers, HRV. The HRV is the..."
"The market for screenless fitness trackers has more than doubled in just the past year alone, and that's been thanks to Whoop, who's more than half the market. The Whoop gives you a sleep score and a recovery score, so you have an idea of how well..."
More from Marques Brownlee →+2 more mentions from Marques
"It's clearly aiming at the Whoop to be a puck on your wrist that is comfortable, that doesn't have a screen to distract you, and that has all the f..."
"I have a lot of friends, I play Ultimate Frisbee, friends and teammates who all wear Whoops. It's this screenless, lightweight puck in a thin band ..."
"People don't wear the glasses all the time, whereas a wristband like a Whoop, people wear that all the time."
More from John Coogan →+4 more mentions from John
"If it was Oura Ring or Whoop or something like that, we'd be very impressed. Selling 7 million units of a new product — it could probably be like a..."
"It never got to mass consumer adoption like an Oura Ring or a Whoop band or anything like that."
"If you have like a Whoop strap or a ring or anything like that, it'll show that you've had an incredible recovery from a hyperbaric chamber session."
More from Joe Rogan →+2 more mentions from Joe
"Have you ever worn an Oura Ring or a Whoop strap or any of those things?"
"if you're wearing an Oura ring or a Whoop strap or something along those lines you get much better recovery"
"You don't need an Oura Ring. You don't need a Whoop. You don't need sleep tracking."
More from Codie Sanchez →"I look at Whoop versus Oura. Like we're so proud to be in both, but sooner — Oura has been a very quick journey."
More from David Frankel →"None of these devices — Oura Ring, Whoop — none of them release their quote-unquote proprietary algorithm. And I just think that human performance is so much more complex than an algorithm. I've also met people that said, 'I used to have two to th..."
More from Brad Stulberg →"If you look at Whoop or Oura, anything kind of like health-based, that category has been awesome. The wave of consumer hardware startups that have actually succeeded over the past several years is very understated."
More from Jeff Morris Jr. →"Most people nowadays, like myself, through wearables, like Oura Ring, Whoop, Apple Watch. The Oura and the Whoop use RMSSD versus an Apple Watch, which uses something else that'll be slightly higher."
More from Salim Najjar →"If you're the sort of person that's reading Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power and is thinking about what time they get up and tracking their Whoop scores, you've already pre-selected — you're not going to be in the just-do-it bin by nature."
More from George Mack →"You see all the wearables like Whoop and other companies like that."
More from Ivanka Trump →"Everyone wears their Whoop bands and now is very interested in the Fitbit Air."
More from Joanna Stern →
"Will Manitis says, 'It brings me no joy to report I spent a year wondering why I was constantly sleepy and had a low sleep score on my Whoop. That was totally cured by simply stopped wearing the Whoop.'"
"They're wearing Apple watches and the fucking everything is whoop neck. They had to do with a fucking whoop neck brace. It was like it kept updating on his watch. It's like your neck's still broken or whatever."
"oh my my Whoop score is not 100 now I'm going to be sleep deprived... I think it actually causes anxiety in a lot of people"
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