QALO launches a screenless smart band that works with its smart ring

The screenless SL-1 is designed to complement QALO’s smart ring, letting users move between the two while keeping one continuous health profile.

Published on Oct 2, 2026 by Jake Heyen

QALO is giving its health-tracking platform a second way to wear it.

The brand just launched the SL-1 Smart Band, a $199.95 screenless wearable that tracks sleep, activity, recovery, and health metrics from the wrist. It offers 12+ days of battery life and, like QALO’s smart rings, doesn’t require a subscription.

A screenless tracker for your wrist

The SL-1 tracks heart rate, HRV, SpO2, stress, skin temperature, movement, and sleep, including sleep stages and a daily Sleep Score. During workouts, it can also track live heart rate, elapsed time, and steps, with the data available in the QALO app.

The SL-1 Smart Band syncs with the QALO app to turn health, sleep, and activity data into a daily Q Score.

The band also includes women’s health tracking, with menstrual cycle insights across the follicular, ovulatory, and luteal phases, along with period prediction, fertility awareness, and pregnancy-related insights.

QALO’s Daily Q Score pulls sleep, HRV, movement, and stress into a single 1–100 score designed to give users a simpler snapshot of how they’re doing each day.

Two ways to wear the same platform

The bigger differentiator is how the SL-1 works alongside QALO’s existing SR-2 Smart Ring.

Both devices connect to the same app and contribute to one continuous health profile, so users can switch between the ring and band without starting over or separating their data.

That gives users more flexibility depending on the activity. QALO positions the ring as a lighter option for sleep, work, and everyday wear, while the band can make more sense for activities like strength training, CrossFit, or manual work where wearing a ring may be less practical.

Screenless wearables keep growing

The SL-1 also fits into a broader trend — wearables are increasingly losing the screen.

Instead of adding more notifications and information to your wrist, devices like smart rings and screenless bands are designed to collect data quietly in the background and leave most of the interpretation to the app.

QALO’s approach adds another layer to that idea by letting the actual device change depending on what you’re doing, while the underlying health profile stays the same.