It is clear that in the post-Covid era, everyone is looking to constantly track their vital statistics. And tech companies have rushed in a number of gadgets that promise to do so. However, Deepinder Goyal has come up with one that is totally different. Still, people want to know how different it is from other fitness trackers. Basically, Temple vs Whoop comes down to adhesive grips swapped every few days versus a strap-and-battery setup that lasts over two weeks, each claiming to survive workouts, showers and sleep.
So, almost all wearables have a favourite real estate, and it is your wrist. Temple, the brainchild of Deepinder Goyal, takes a hard left turn from that tradition and parks itself at the side of your head. Whoop 5.0 sticks to the script as a screenless band that is strapped on the wrist. These are two very different places, and that's exactly what makes the comparison interesting.
Temple's launch edition is coming in six colours, with pre-orders expected as early as next week. Whoop already has a price tag and a membership attached. So which one is actually tracking what?
Temple's whole pitch is brain blood flow. Its BrainFlow system is meant to pick up blood-flow-related changes around the temple, and it also tracks a metric called Entropy, which Goyal calls the body's "cost of being alive."
It updates every second on a scale of 1 to 250, where 1 is the deepest rest ever recorded and 250 is peak physical output and flow.
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Whoop looks elsewhere. It reads heart-rate variability, resting heart rate, respiratory rate and skin temperature, then turns them into a Recovery score.
Add a Strain score out of 21, VO2 Max, heart-rate zones and women's hormonal insights, and the idea is simple: Whoop tells you what your body can handle next. The Peak version also adds Healthspan, Whoop 5.0 Age and real-time stress monitoring.
Temple skips the strap and sticks to the skin with single-use adhesive Grips. Goyal says it stays on through workouts, showers and swimming, with scuba diving the reported exception.
Grips should be swapped every two to three days, though some users may stretch to seven, in line with the battery life. These are company claims, not independent clinical advice. As for the price, Temple could reportedly cost between Rs 75,000 and Rs 80,000, according to an Economic Times report.
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Whoop 5.0 can also go through workouts, showers and sleep, with a battery that lasts 14+ days and a PowerPack that charges it while you wear it.
Whoop 5.0 One costs Rs 21,990 and the Peak Rs 28,990, both with 12 months of membership, which stays non-negotiable after the trial. Temple's price hasn't been shared yet.
Then there's the comment that made us go woah. When a user asked if a future Temple could read intent and open the phone app as they lift it, Goyal replied, "We have a research team working on thoughts to text, but that looks like a few years away. Maybe the 3rd of 4th version of Temple." If that holds, this Temple will become the talk of the country, if not globe.