A Better YCBT Life Alternative
If your smart ring came with the YCBT Life app, you can keep the ring and swap the app. Ringlo pairs with the exact same hardware — no new ring, no re-buying anything.
What is the YCBT Life app?
YCBT Life is one of the default companion apps bundled with a large number of affordable smart rings sold on AliExpress, Temu, and Amazon. It connects over Bluetooth, pulls your heart rate, sleep, SpO2, steps, and blood-pressure estimates off the ring, and shows them in a dashboard. The name comes straight from the YCBT protocol the ring speaks — the same protocol behind SmartHealth, HBand, and Wearfit — which is why a different YCBT app like Ringlo can read the very same ring.
Why do people replace the YCBT Life app?
- Rough translations. Menus and labels are often machine-translated from Chinese, so buttons and metric names can be confusing or wrong.
- Sleep math that doesn't add up. Sleep stages are often summed incorrectly — totals that exceed the hours you were in bed, or nights split into odd fragments.
- A dated, cluttered interface. The layout feels generic and crowded, and the numbers you care about are buried.
- Ads, upsells, and permissions. Promotional content and broad phone permissions clutter what should be a simple health dashboard.
How is Ringlo better than YCBT Life?
Ringlo was built around the same data the ring already sends — just presented honestly and clearly. You get a clean dark-mode dashboard, plain-English explanations of your readiness, HRV, and sleep, and sleep tracking that's been carefully corrected so durations and stages reflect the night you actually had. No ads. No machine-translated menus. Hand-localized into 14 languages.
Will Ringlo work with my YCBT Life ring?
Same ring, better app. If your ring pairs with YCBT Life, it uses the YCBT protocol — exactly what Ringlo is built around. That covers most affordable AliExpress, Temu, and Amazon rings (DL110 and similar, on the Actions Semiconductor ATS8266 BLE chip), with full heart rate, SpO2, blood pressure, sleep, and steps. Colmi R02, R03, R06, and R10 also work — on either firmware, whether they shipped with a YCBT app (SmartHealth/HBand/Wearfit/YCBT Life) or with QRing/Colmi Fit (the BlueX protocol); on the QRing/Colmi Fit path you get heart rate, SpO2, sleep, and steps (not blood pressure). Not sure about your model? Check smart-ring compatibility or just download Ringlo and tap scan to verify in ~10 seconds.
How do I switch from YCBT Life to Ringlo?
It takes under a minute:
- Download Ringlo from the App Store or Google Play.
- Open it, pick your language, and choose the features you want.
- On the "Pair Your Ring" screen, tap Scan with the ring within a foot of your phone.
- Tap your ring when it appears and wait ~15 seconds for the handshake.
- Done — your dashboard fills in and the ring starts measuring.
You can leave YCBT Life installed. Just don't run both at the same time — a Bluetooth ring connects to one app at a time.
See the difference side by side
Our stock-app vs Ringlo comparison lays out the trade-offs feature by feature. If you haven't bought a ring yet, the compatible smart rings list shows which models work, and the Ringlo homepage covers everything the app does.
Ringlo is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the makers of YCBT Life, SmartHealth, HBand, or Wearfit. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners.