Features → Leagues
Up to 30 people at your level, for one week. Top finishers climb, bottom finishers drop.
Up to 30 people at your level, for one week. Move Leagues drops you into a fresh cohort of ~30 movers at your tier every Monday. Top finishers promote. Bottom finishers demote. Climb ten tiers from Walker to Legend. Included with Membership.
The Move League screen
Your league is a table of real people at your level. As your activity syncs, your points land and your row moves past the people around you. The bar under your rank shows the zones: green moves up, red moves down.
Aisha A.82 left2,515pts
Tobias L.2 left2,470pts
Rosa F.2 left2,290pts
You6pts
Yuki T.2 left2,060pts
Closing rings is a one-person game. There’s no seven-day arc, nothing to climb, and nobody nearby to chase.
Leagues add local comparison: the person one spot ahead of you in your own 30-person cohort, reachable in one workout. Every user is always near a zone boundary, so every workout can change your rank.
It’s the same mechanic Duolingo uses for its leagues. The leaderboard you’re chasing is small enough to win, and it resets weekly, so a bad week never sinks the long-term arc.
And the ten-tier climb from Walker to Legend gives long-term fitness a narrative with somewhere to go.
You start at Walker when you sign up. Tiers are cosmetic: they don’t gate features, they just signal where you stand. The bar tightens as you climb: half the Walker cohort promotes, but at Master, only the top three reach Legend.
The expected path for a typical engaged user is roughly 1-3 tiers per month at the bottom of the ladder, slowing as you climb. Reaching Legend is a months-long arc.
The whole league system runs on a single Monday-morning moment. Globally synchronized. Same instant for everyone.
Monday 00:00 UTC
Tokyo: Monday morning. LA: Sunday evening. Same instant.
During the week
Your rank recalculates whenever the screen loads or you pull to refresh. The cohort list shows everyone, sorted by current score.
Each row is tinted by predicted outcome if the week ended now: green for promotion, red for demotion, gray for safety. You always know exactly where you stand.
Every row in your cohort lives in one of three zones depending on current rank. The zone updates live as activity comes in.
Top N of the cohort. You'll move up a tier next Monday. The row tint is green. N varies by tier: top 15 at Walker, top 3 at Master.
Everyone in the middle. You hold your current tier next week. No tint. Cohort starts fresh, you keep your badge.
Bottom 5 of the cohort. You'll drop a tier next Monday unless your demotion protection is in the bank. Tinted red so you can see it coming and react.
Same formula across Leagues, Friends, and Global leaderboards. Sum across the seven days of the league week.
points = move_calories + exercise_minutes + ROUND(step_count / 100)
Two users with very different ring goals can compete fairly. A user who set easy goals can't out-rank an ambitious user just by closing rings.
Move calories rewards effort. Exercise minutes rewards sustained activity. Steps reward all-day baseline movement. Any mix wins.
What you do is what you get. Identical weekly scores tie on a fixed server rule (user ID order), same as the Friends and Global leaderboards, so ranks stay stable.
The safety net
Every user has 1 demotion protection available at any time. If you land in the bottom 5 and you have a protection in the bank, it consumes automatically and you stay in your current tier instead of dropping. You don’t pick when to use it: it just absorbs the next demotion.
The protection refills over time so a single rough week (vacation, illness, life) doesn’t undo weeks of climbing.
It takes the sting out of a first demotion without removing the stakes: you only get one in the bank, so you can’t coast.
Leagues notify you when your standing meaningfully changes. Alerts are rate-limited, so a back-and-forth jostle doesn’t fire repeatedly.
Someone passed you
“Sam just passed you in your league cohort.”
When another mover overtakes your rank during the week.
So close
“You're one workout away from the promotion zone.”
When you're 1-2 spots away from promoting. Fires during the week so you have time to react.
Slipping
“You're slipping toward the demotion zone.”
When you're 1 spot away from the bottom 5 but not in it yet.
In the demotion zone
“You've fallen into the bottom 5. Pull it together this week.”
When you drop into the bottom 5.
Weekly result
“You promoted to Runner this week.”
After the Monday reset: single summary push of how the week ended.
Starting out
New users start at Walker (tier 1). Half the cohort promotes (top 15 of 30) so you feel forward motion in your first week. And there’s no floor below Walker, so you can’t drop.
You don’t need to do anything to join: open the leaderboard and you’re assigned automatically. The bar tightens as you climb: top 12 at Jogger, top 10 at Runner, down to top 3 at Master.
No. Open MoveTogether, log activity, you're in. Cohort assignment is automatic on your first leaderboard view. No opt-in, no setup.
Yes, with no Pro requirement. The 10-tier climb, the weekly reset, demotion protection, and notifications are all included.
Monday 00:00 UTC. Globally synchronized: same instant for everyone on Earth. If you're in Tokyo your week starts Monday morning; in LA it starts Sunday evening. Your league leaderboard shows a live countdown.
Every Monday, MoveTogether places you into a fresh cohort of up to 30 people in your same tier. You don't pick: cohorts fill in the order users join during the week. You typically won't be in a cohort with your friends; that's by design (use the Friends leaderboard for direct friend competition).
Move calories + Exercise minutes + ROUND(step_count / 100), summed across the seven days of the league week. Same raw-points formula used by the Friends (daily) and Global (top 100 weekly) leaderboards. Goal-independent: you can't out-rank someone by setting easier targets.
You'll score zero and almost certainly land in the demotion zone. Your one demotion protection absorbs a single week. Two consecutive weeks off drops you a tier.
Not by design. Leagues are about local comparison against people at your level, usually strangers. If two friends happen to be at the same tier and join near the same time, they might land in the same cohort, but it's not guaranteed. Use the Friends leaderboard for daily friend-only competition.
Legend is the top tier: there's no tier 11. The top finishers in Legend don't promote (nowhere to go) and they hold their Legend badge. The bottom 5 still demote back to Master. So holding Legend week-over-week takes real ongoing effort, not a one-time push.
No. Walker is the floor. The bottom 5 of a Walker cohort stay in Walker: you can never drop below tier 1.
Any device that syncs to Apple Health on iPhone or Health Connect on Android, including Apple Watch, Garmin, WHOOP, Oura, Polar, Strava, Ultrahuman, Fitbit, Pixel Watch, and Galaxy Watch. A phone on its own works too. Everyone scores on the same formula.
Friends is daily, scoped to your friend list, resets at local midnight. Leagues is weekly, scoped to your 30-person cohort of strangers at your tier, resets Monday 00:00 UTC. Global is weekly, scoped to the worldwide top 100. Same raw-points formula across all three: they're three different scopes of the same competition.
Included with Membership. Your first cohort is assigned the moment you open the leaderboard. Your climb starts at the next Monday reset.
