Step Count
Definition
The number of steps you take in a day, counted by the motion sensors in your watch, tracker, or phone. The popular 10,000-step target began as a pedometer marketing campaign in 1960s Japan rather than as a scientific threshold.
How MoveTogether uses it.
Steps are the third of MoveTogether's rings, and the default goal is 8,000. In competitions, steps are one of the numbers Head to Head can race. Head to Head on steps awards a point per step, and the highest total wins.
No wearable is required. Your phone counts steps whenever it is on you, and MoveTogether reads them from Apple Health on iPhone or Health Connect on Android. One exception worth knowing: Strava through Apple Health or Health Connect brings workouts, not all-day steps.
Steps are easy to compare and easy to distort by accident. A phone in a bag misses steps, and pushing a stroller hides arm swing from a watch. If a competition comes down to a few hundred steps, call it a tie.
See step count in action.
MoveTogether is on the App Store and Google Play. Bring any device that syncs to Apple Health or Health Connect, or just your phone, and start your first competition this week.