WHOOPLife – 12-Month Membership – MG Device – Health & Fitness Tracker – Blood Pressure Insights, Activity Tracking – ECG Software – 14+ Days Battery Life

I bought this device today after reading some promising articles about it. Delivery was fast, and the hardware seemed solid. But once I installed the app, the problems started. I purchased the most expensive version (MG), which was supposed to include their premium membership, but the app didn’t recognize it. It left me with the basic plan, and now it’s asking me to pay another $200 to unlock the features I already paid for.

I ordered the WHOOP Life membership, but when I paired the device, it automatically connected to my existing account and only gave me the Peak membership. I’m hoping it’s just a glitch since this is a new product, and I’ve already opened a support ticket. Just want to make sure I actually get the Life membership I paid for.

I received the whoop mg quickly, but there was no renewal code for whoop life. When switching from my 4.0 to life. It updated to the new mg device and kept the app at whoop peak access.

Just got it today, so this is a review of just initial impressions and will be updated over time.What I love:-The Healthspan feature is awesome. I’ve been a Whoop customer for about a year, so this is an upgrade for me, and the whole reason I became a customer was to improve my longevity/lifespan. So this feature is a great start because it breaks down logically how you would age based on metrics such as sleep, heart rate, strain, etc. It uses an algorithm to determine your age and speed of aging. How accurate is it? I am skeptical it is accurate because you can’t really prove it, but hey, at least it does give something to track against, which to my knowledge, hasn’t been invented yet.-The battery life supposedly lasts 14 days. Now I got it this afternoon and 8 hours later of wearing it, the battery health is at the same percentage. So I believe it so far. This is a huge upgrade.What I dislike:-So apparently you need a cuff to measure your baseline blood pressure. I had no idea about this. Once you get into the blood pressure feature, it tells you to put a cuff on. What cuff? Was it supposed to come with this? Am I supposed to just have one handy? Where’s the directions for this?-So as a previous customer, I already bought a water resistant band that fits the 4.0. Now that band does not fit the newer versions. And what is hilarious, is that the old band is about 1mm too thick for the new whoop, so it won’t fit. No design change, exact same style, just 1mm thicker. Why do they do this? It’s obviously so that you’ll have to buy a new band and they can make more money. They could have made it 1mm thinner to help their already loyal paying customers. Not even Apple, the king of ecosystem trapping, does this. Their Apple Watch bands fit all generations.-On top of this, Whoop once promised a free upgrade to their loyal customers (check out online articles), then decided to charge an upgrade fee or yearly membership instead of the free upgrade. Now I know they don’t stick to their word, which is making me skeptical whoop will change their plans down the road, whether that be pricing, features, etc. So, I’ll definitely think twice before renewing my membership.I want whoop to make more money and I want them to succeed. I like what they are doing and I like their app and hardware.My advice to whoop is to sacrifice short term costs for long term subscriptions. You should stick to the original free upgrade plan (and just make the hardware in general be very low cost) because then it would force users to gift their old whoop to someone, which a percentage will then subscribe. Now, users will think twice to upgrade. Your app is the reason your customers love your product and the bulk of margin is probably in the subscription. So maximize lifetime subscriptions. Doing moves that infuriate your customers, such as incompatible previous bands and misleading free upgrades will cause loyalty drop off.

I'm new to Whoop, and this is an awesome product. The 14 day battery life means that I barely have to think about charging. The heart health and longevity capabilities are super cool. I'm really looking forward to using this more over the coming weeks. And the product looks great.

This model uses the same heart rate sensor as version 4.0, so it's useless for weight training. The additional subscription charge for old subscribers was also not an honest move, so I'm returning it.

BUYER BEWAREWhoop will change the terms on you.They promised that Whoop members would receive new devices after 6 months for FREE.Now they’ve gone back in their word.The promise of a new device for free? Stripped from their site.But web archives still show it.How do you know it won’t be the same in the future? You can’t.Whoops promises mean NOTHING.

I have been a longtime whoop. Whoop is a subscription membership based device and the company used to say that members got the newest device for free when it launched no strings attached! Well they changed that with the whoop 5.0 and asked users to pay an upgrade fee or add 12 months to their membership even if we had 2 years pre-paid banked. Now I understand having 3 new membership tiers and they added a lot to this device but changing their policy is shady. One reason I bought my whoop membership was because I knew I would always get the latest technology and instead they either wanted me to add another year to my already 2 years I have left or pay $79. So great device but don’t expect much from the company or support (which is an AI bot btw).Edit: Whoop backpedaled a bit and now if you have over a year left you get an upgrade to their middle tier members with a new device however the whoop MG is still $79 and if you get it they pro-rate your membership 3 months of old for 2 months of new. Their old promise was the latest and greatest tech for free which is the most expensive plan. So I think still a bit shady.