Manually add activities within your Oura App to ensure you receive credit for all of your daily movement. The app supports a variety of activity types and lets you add, edit, delete, or customize activities.
What Is Manually Adding an Activity?
How to Manually Add an Activity
Edit or Delete Activity
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What Is Manually Adding an Activity?
Most activity recognized by your Oura Ring is automatically recorded within the app, and counts toward your Activity Score. Activity is one of the key components of calculating your Readiness Score through the "Previous day activity" and "Activity balance" contributors. Capturing all types of movements helps improve the Oura activity detection algorithm and provides better insight messages.
However, the app does not automatically detect some unsupported activities, activities under ten minutes in duration, or activities you undertake while not wearing an Oura Ring (unless imported from a third-party app). Manually adding an activity provides a way to fill in these gaps.
Note: Activity added between midnight and 4 AM may appear in the Oura App as a previous day's activity. This is a known issue due to the discrepancy between the app timeline, which runs from 12 AM to 12 AM, and the activity detection timeline, which runs from 4 AM to 4 AM.
How to Manually Add an Activity
To manually add an activity:
- Tap the + button in the bottom right of the Oura App's Today tab
- Select "Add an activity"
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Choose an activity type
- Your three most recent activities will be displayed at the top. (If this is your first time manually adding an activity, these choices default to "Running," "Walking," and "Cycling")
- Select "More activities" for a searchable list of 50+ options
- If you don't see the desired option, select "Other" (at the bottom of the list) and enter an activity name for it
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Add "Start time," "Duration," and "Intensity" details
- Activities can be added to the current day or to previous days
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Select "Done" in the upper-right corner to save your activity
- Confirmed activities appear on the home screen of the Oura App, and under "Activities" on the Activity screen
The calorie value associated with an AAD or Activity Heart Rate-recorded session is calculated from the selected activity type, duration, and intensity (based on heart rate). If heart rate is not available during the session, the intensity defaults to "moderate" and the calorie value is calculated based on average calorie burn rates for that type of activity. Activity intensity cannot be edited for AAD or Activity Heart Rate sessions.
For manually added activities, the calorie value is calculated from the selected activity type, duration, and intensity (easy, moderate, or hard, as selected by the user). Manually added activities can be edited afterwards to adjust their intensity levels.
Edit or Delete Activity
To edit or delete an activity in the Oura App:
- Tap on the activity in the Timeline on the app's "Today" screen or from the list of activities in the Activity screen
- Scroll down and select Edit activity at the bottom of the screen
- Edit the type of activity, and its time started or duration as needed
- Select Done to save changes
Activities can also be deleted from the Edit activity screen. Deleting an activity will remove its impact on any of your scores and contributors.
Activities can be manually added, edited, or deleted at any time on any day, including previous days. For activities imported from a third-party integration, only the activity type can be edited in the Oura App.
