Features → Leagues
A new league every Monday.
30 people. Your level. 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. Free on every account.
Why leagues exist.
Ring closures are a one-person loop. Today either you hit your move ring or you didn’t. There’s no seven-day arc, nothing to climb, nobody nearby to chase.
Leagues add local comparison — not the global #1 (unreachable), but 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 matters at the margin.
It’s the same mechanic Duolingo uses for streaks-and-leagues, which drove +25% lesson completion in their data. It works for the same reason here: the leaderboard you’re trying to win is small enough to win, and refreshes 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. Somewhere to go.
Climb ten tiers from Walker to Legend.
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.
How a week works.
The whole league system runs on a single Monday-morning moment. Globally synchronized. Same instant for everyone.
Monday 00:00 UTC
Reset moment.
- 1.Last week's cohorts are scored. Top N promote. Bottom 5 demote (with protection where applicable). Middle holds.
- 2.Final rank + outcome saved to your league history.
- 3.New cohorts form — up to 30 movers at your fresh tier.
- 4.Your score resets to zero. The new week starts.
Tokyo: Monday morning. LA: Sunday evening. Same instant.
During the week
Live updates as you move.
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.
Three zones. Three colors. Easy mental model.
Every row in your cohort lives in one of three zones depending on current rank. The zone updates live as activity comes in.
Promotion zone
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.
Safety zone
Everyone in the middle. You hold your current tier next week. No tint. Cohort starts fresh, you keep your badge.
Demotion zone
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.
Raw points. Goal-independent.
Same formula across Leagues, Friends, and Global leaderboards. Sum across the seven days of the league week.
Goal-independent
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.
All three movement signals count
Move calories rewards effort. Exercise minutes rewards sustained activity. Steps reward all-day baseline movement. Any mix wins.
No bonus multipliers, no streak bonuses
What you do is what you get. Ties break alphabetically by display name — same rule the Friends leaderboard uses.
The safety net
One bad week protected.
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.
First-time demotions are the most psychologically punishing moment in a league system. The protection takes the edge off without removing the stakes — you only get one in the bank, so you can’t coast.
Push notifications you’ll see.
Leagues notify you when something on the leaderboard meaningfully changes for you. All 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 actually 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
Walker is friendly on purpose.
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 tab and you’re assigned automatically. The bar tightens as you climb: top 12 at Jogger, top 10 at Runner, and so on down to top 3 at Master.
Move Leagues, briefly answered.
Do I need to do anything to join a league?
No. Open MoveTogether, log activity, you're in. Cohort assignment is automatic on your first leaderboard view. No opt-in, no setup.
Are leagues free?
Yes. Move Leagues is a core feature on the Free tier — no paywall, no Pro requirement. The 10-tier climb, the weekly reset, the demotion protection, and the push notifications are all included.
When exactly does the week reset?
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. There's a live countdown on the Leagues tab.
How are cohorts formed?
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).
How is scoring calculated?
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.
What if I take a week off?
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.
Can I be in a league with my friends?
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.
What happens at Legend?
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.
Can I lose Walker?
No. Walker is the floor. The bottom 5 of a Walker cohort stay in Walker — you can never drop below tier 1.
Which wearables count for league points?
All of them. Apple Watch, Google Fitbit, Garmin, WHOOP, Oura, Strava, Polar, Suunto, Ultrahuman, plus the no-wearable Apple Health path. All connected sources contribute to the same points pool — every move counts.
How is this different from the Friends and Global leaderboards?
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.
Start in Walker. Climb to Legend.
Free on the App Store. Your first cohort assigns the instant you open the Leaderboard tab. The first Monday reset is the start of your climb.