Connecting Oura lets Kenso read your Oura readiness score, HRV, resting heart rate, sleep (including deep and REM stages), respiratory rate, and blood oxygen, and fold them into your readiness reading. It's available to anyone, on web or the iPhone app.
Where to find it
Settings → Health & Connections → Oura Ring → Connect.
Connecting
Tapping Connect opens Oura's own consent screen (your browser on web, or the system browser on the native app) where you sign in and approve access. Once approved, you're returned to Kenso and the connection shows as active, with your recent Oura history pulled in shortly after.
What syncs
Readiness score, HRV (including Oura's HRV balance contributor), resting heart rate, sleep hours with deep and REM stages, respiratory rate, and blood oxygen. Oura's own readiness score is trusted as-is rather than recalculated: it's used directly as one of the signals behind your Kenso readiness reading rather than being re-scored.
How it stays current
Kenso keeps your Oura data current in two ways: a regular pull that checks for new data, and Oura notifying Kenso directly when new readings (like your morning readiness) are ready. Between the two, a new night's data typically reaches Kenso without you needing to do anything, though tapping Sync now next to the Oura card always forces an immediate check.
Reconnecting and disconnecting
If the connection expires (usually after a long period without opening Kenso), the Oura card in Settings shows "Connection expired"; tap it and reconnect the same way you did the first time. To stop syncing entirely, tap Disconnect from the same card. Disconnecting revokes Kenso's access and stops all further syncing; it doesn't touch anything already recorded in your Oura account.
Good to know
If you connect both Oura and Whoop (or Apple Health), see Apple Health, Oura, and Whoop together for how Kenso picks between them, and Readiness for how the reading itself works.