diff --git a/packages/effect-fc/src/hooks/Hooks/useInput.ts b/packages/effect-fc/src/hooks/Hooks/useInput.ts
index 4780f97..e5444ea 100644
--- a/packages/effect-fc/src/hooks/Hooks/useInput.ts
+++ b/packages/effect-fc/src/hooks/Hooks/useInput.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { type Duration, Effect, Equal, flow, identity, Option, type ParseResult,
 import * as React from "react"
 import { useFork } from "./useFork.js"
 import { useOnce } from "./useOnce.js"
-import { useRefFromState } from "./useRefFromState.js"
+import { useRefState } from "./useRefState.js"
 
 
 export namespace useInput {
@@ -22,14 +22,12 @@ export namespace useInput {
 export const useInput: {
     <A, R>(options: useInput.Options<A, R>): Effect.Effect<useInput.Result, ParseResult.ParseError, R>
 } = Effect.fnUntraced(function* <A, R>(options: useInput.Options<A, R>) {
-    const internalState = React.useState(yield* useOnce(() => Effect.andThen(
-        options.ref,
-        Schema.encode(options.schema),
-    )))
-    const [value, setValue] = internalState
+    const internalRef = yield* useOnce(() => options.ref.pipe(
+        Effect.andThen(Schema.encode(options.schema)),
+        Effect.andThen(SubscriptionRef.make),
+    ))
     const [error, setError] = React.useState(Option.none<ParseResult.ParseError>())
 
-    const internalRef = yield* useRefFromState(internalState)
     yield* useFork(() => Effect.all([
         // Sync the upstream state with the internal state
         // Only mutate the internal state if the upstream encoded value is actually different. This avoids infinite re-render loops.
@@ -58,6 +56,8 @@ export const useInput: {
         ),
     ], { concurrency: "unbounded" }), [options.ref, options.schema, options.debounce, internalRef])
 
-    const onChange = React.useCallback((e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => setValue(e.target.value), [])
+    const [value, setValue] = yield* useRefState(internalRef)
+    const onChange = React.useCallback((e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => setValue(e.target.value), [setValue])
+
     return { value, onChange, error }
 })
diff --git a/packages/effect-fc/src/hooks/Hooks/useRefState.ts b/packages/effect-fc/src/hooks/Hooks/useRefState.ts
index ad9efb0..6cc3980 100644
--- a/packages/effect-fc/src/hooks/Hooks/useRefState.ts
+++ b/packages/effect-fc/src/hooks/Hooks/useRefState.ts
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ export const useRefState: {
     ), [ref])
 
     const setValue = yield* useCallbackSync((setStateAction: React.SetStateAction<A>) =>
-        Ref.update(ref, prevState =>
-            SetStateAction.value(setStateAction, prevState)
+        Effect.andThen(
+            Ref.updateAndGet(ref, prevState => SetStateAction.value(setStateAction, prevState)),
+            v => setReactStateValue(v),
         ),
     [ref])
 
diff --git a/packages/example/src/routes/dev/input.tsx b/packages/example/src/routes/dev/input.tsx
index 2e18881..7946fe0 100644
--- a/packages/example/src/routes/dev/input.tsx
+++ b/packages/example/src/routes/dev/input.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { Container, TextField } from "@radix-ui/themes"
 import { createFileRoute } from "@tanstack/react-router"
 import { Schema, SubscriptionRef } from "effect"
 import { Component, Memo } from "effect-fc"
-import { useInput, useOnce } from "effect-fc/hooks"
+import { useInput, useOnce, useRefState } from "effect-fc/hooks"
 
 
 const IntFromString = Schema.NumberFromString.pipe(Schema.int())
@@ -23,11 +23,13 @@ const Input = Component.makeUntraced(function* Input() {
 
     const input2 = yield* useInput({ schema: IntFromString, ref: intRef2 })
 
+    const [str, setStr] = yield* useRefState(stringRef)
+
     return (
         <Container>
             <IntTextFieldInputFC ref={intRef1} />
-            <TextField.Root value={input2.value} onChange={input2.onChange} />
             <StringTextFieldInputFC ref={stringRef} />
+            <TextField.Root value={str} onChange={e => setStr(e.target.value)} />
         </Container>
     )
 }).pipe(