Oura has announced two new features designed to help women navigate hormonal shifts across different life stages: Hormonal Birth Control support and Menopause Insights. The features, which begin rolling out globally on May 6, mark Oura’s most significant expansion into hormonal health and are aimed at providing science-backed tools for tracking and understanding how hormones affect daily well-being. Oura’s new Hormonal Birth Control feature adapts its existing Cycle Insights for members using pills, patches, IUDs, implants, and other hormonal methods. The company claims this is a first-of-its-kind view into how biometrics shift across hormone and hormone-free days, allowing women to connect what they are feeling to physiological changes tracked by the Oura Ring. Within Cycle Insights, members can log their birth control method, selecting from more than 20 unique combinations spanning pills, patches, IUDs, and implants. The feature shows the impact of hormonal contraception on temperature patterns, sleep, and recovery, while also allowing users to track bleeding and symptoms over time. Oura says this helps distinguish expected shifts from changes that fall outside typical patterns. The feature includes tailored education that connects method choice to real-world experiences, helping members understand what is normal for them. In the U.S., Oura is also partnering with Twentyeight Health, a provider-led women’s healthcare platform, to allow members to move directly from insights to care. Members who opt in can connect with licensed clinicians for same-day appointments, sync their cycle and sleep trends for contraceptive counseling, and receive prescriptions with home delivery.
Oura Builds on Existing Women’s Health Features
Hormonal Birth Control Support and Menopause Insights build on Oura’s growing suite of women’s health features, including Cycle Insights, Fertile Window, Pregnancy Insights, and a recently released custom women’s health model—a domain-specific AI model designed to interpret women’s health questions and data through a more clinically grounded lens. Through partnerships with Maven, Progyny, and Twentyeight Health, clinicians can incorporate Oura reports on sleep, cycles, and perimenopause into care plans. Ongoing research collaborations across pregnancy, menstrual health, and midlife hormonal change use continuous biometrics to deepen understanding across diverse populations.
The features will begin rolling out globally on May 6, 2026. Pricing and availability details for the Indian market have not been disclosed.
Menopause Insights Introduces Proprietary Impact Scale
Oura is also launching Menopause Insights, which the company says addresses one of the most overlooked phases in women’s health. Despite more than 1 billion women worldwide being in perimenopause or post-menopause, many navigate years of fragmented symptoms with limited guidance on how those changes affect their quality of life. At the core of Menopause Insights is the Menopause Impact Scale, a proprietary, research-driven clinical questionnaire built by Oura. The company says it establishes a new standard for measuring menopause’s impact on quality of life, replacing a decades-old legacy tool that was developed using a small, clinic-based sample. The scale asks structured questions across domains like sleep, mood, cognition, and daily functioning, helping members understand how strongly perimenopause is affecting their daily lives. After completing the symptom assessment, members receive a personalized dashboard that translates their symptoms into an overall impact level, outlining contributing domains and how each symptom affects daily life and routines. Members can follow those patterns over time in a refreshed My Health view in the Oura app, seeing how lifestyle changes, stress, and interventions relate to shifts in both symptoms and objective data. Results can also be saved and shared with clinicians to support more informed conversations about treatment options.
Chris Curry, MD, PhD, clinical director of women’s health at Oura and board-certified OB/GYN, explained the approach: “Too often, women are left to piece together symptoms from search results, social media, and brief check-ins that don’t capture the full picture of their health—especially in perimenopause. Menopause Insights brings each member’s long-term biometric patterns together with what they’re experiencing day to day.”
