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What Move Leagues are

Every Monday, you’re placed in a fresh cohort of up to 30 movers in the same tier as you. You compete for a week. Top finishers promote to a tougher league, bottom finishers demote a tier, and everyone in the middle holds their tier. There are ten tiers in total, from Walker up to Legend. Leagues are free for everyone — no paywall, no opt-in. Open the app and log activity, and you’re in.

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The 10 tiers

You start at Walker when you sign up and climb naturally as you compete. Tier badges are cosmetic — they signal where you stand but don’t unlock or restrict any features.
#TierPromote (top N)Demote (bottom 5)
1WalkerTop 15— (can’t drop below)
2JoggerTop 12Bottom 5
3RunnerTop 10Bottom 5
4StriderTop 9Bottom 5
5AthleteTop 8Bottom 5
6SprinterTop 7Bottom 5
7ChampionTop 6Bottom 5
8EliteTop 5Bottom 5
9MasterTop 3Bottom 5
10Legend— (top of the ladder)Bottom 5
The promote counts above are the maximums, reached when a cohort is full (around 30 movers). Promotion is always capped at half the cohort, so smaller groups promote proportionally fewer — a 10-person Jogger cohort promotes its top 5, not 12. Demotion scales down the same way in small cohorts, and there’s always at least one safe spot in the middle. Walker is friendly on purpose — up to half the cohort promotes, so new movers feel forward motion right away. The bar tightens as you climb. Legend is the top tier, so no one promotes out of it, but the bottom 5 still drop back to Master each week. Holding Legend takes real effort.

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How a week works

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Monday 00:00 UTC — reset moment

A single global reset for everyone. There’s a live countdown on the League tab. At that instant:
  1. Last week’s cohorts are scored. The top N promote, the bottom 5 demote, and your result is saved to your league history.
  2. You’re placed in a fresh cohort. Up to 29 other people in your current tier. You can’t pick your cohort or your tier-mates — placement is automatic.
  3. Your score resets to zero and the new week begins.
The reset is the same instant worldwide. If you’re in Tokyo, your week starts Monday morning. If you’re in Los Angeles, it starts Sunday evening.

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During the week

Your rank inside the cohort updates live as you log activity. Pull to refresh, or just reopen the screen. Each row in the cohort list is tinted by where that person would land if the week ended right now: green for promotion, red for demotion, untinted for safe.

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Quiet weeks

Leagues only shuffle tiers when there’s a real race. If a cohort has too few movers in it that week, no one promotes or demotes — everyone holds their tier until the group fills out. When that’s the case, your League card says so instead of showing a promotion or demotion zone.

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How scoring works

Move Leagues uses a single, straightforward formula across the full week: 
points = move calories + exercise minutes + (step count ÷ 100)
That’s it. Summed across all seven days. The formula is goal-independent, so two movers with very different ring goals can compete fairly. It also rewards every kind of movement — calories for effort, minutes for sustained activity, and steps for all-day baseline movement. You can win a league with any mix. Ties are broken alphabetically by display name, the same rule used elsewhere in the app. The Friends leaderboard (daily) and the Global leaderboard (top 100 weekly) use the same formula. Same points system, three different scopes.

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The three zones

Every row in your cohort sits in one of three zones, based on current rank:
  • 🟢 Promotion zone — top N of the cohort (up to half the group, varies by tier). You’ll move up next Monday.
  • ⚪ Safety zone — middle of the cohort. You’ll stay in your current tier.
  • 🔴 Demotion zone — bottom 5. You’ll drop a tier next Monday, unless you have a demotion protection in the bank.
Example. A Jogger cohort of 30:
  • Ranks 1–12 promote to Runner
  • Ranks 13–25 stay in Jogger
  • Ranks 26–30 demote to Walker (unless protected)

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Demotion protection

Everyone gets 1 demotion protection they can carry at a time. If you finish in the demotion zone but have a protection, it’s used automatically and you stay in your current tier. You don’t pick when to use it. The system grants additional protections over time as your engagement warrants — exact replenishment is tuned in the background. The protection is there so a single rough week (vacation, illness, anything) doesn’t undo weeks of climbing. It softens the blow without removing the stakes — you can only bank one at a time, so you can’t coast.

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Push notifications you’ll get

Leagues send notifications when something on the leaderboard meaningfully changes for you. All are rate-limited so you don’t get spammed. Overtake — “Someone just passed you in your league cohort.” Sent at most once per overtake event with a short cooldown. Near-miss alerts (three flavors)
  • So close — you’re 1–2 spots from the promotion zone.
  • Slipping — you’re 1 spot from the demotion zone.
  • In the demotion zone — you’ve fallen into the bottom 5.
Weekly result — a single notification on Monday summarizing whether you promoted, stayed, or demoted.

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Where it lives in the app

The Leaderboard screen has three tabs:
  1. League (default) — your current cohort, your tier badge, your rank, your zone, and a countdown to the next Monday reset.
  2. Friends — daily ranking among the friends you’ve added. Resets at local midnight.
  3. Global — the top 100 movers worldwide for the week.
You reach the leaderboard from the Compete tab via the leaderboard launcher card at the top.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need to do anything to join a league? No. Open the app, log activity, and you’re in. Cohort assignment happens automatically the first time you open the Leaderboard tab. Are leagues free? Yes. Move Leagues are a core feature on every plan, including Free. Can I be in a cohort with my friends? Not by design. Cohorts are filled by tier and the order people join during the week. If two friends happen to be at the same tier at the same moment, they might end up together — but it isn’t guaranteed. For direct friend competition, use the Friends leaderboard. What if I take a week off? You’ll score zero and almost certainly land in the demotion zone. Your one demotion protection covers a single week. Two weeks off in a row, the second drops you a tier. What counts as “activity” for the score? Anything that produces move calories, exercise minutes, or steps in your connected health data source — Apple Health, Fitbit, Garmin, WHOOP, Oura, Strava, Polar, Suunto, or Ultrahuman. All wearables feed into the same points pool. Can I lose Walker? No. Walker is the floor. The bottom 5 of a Walker cohort stay in Walker. What happens at Legend? Legend is the top tier, so there’s nowhere to promote to. Top finishers hold their Legend badge, and the bottom 5 still drop back to Master — so staying in Legend takes work week after week. How is this different from the Friends leaderboard? Friends is daily, resets at local midnight, and is scoped to people you’ve added. Move Leagues is weekly, resets Monday 00:00 UTC globally, and is scoped to 29 strangers at your tier. Same scoring formula in both. How is this different from the Global leaderboard? Global shows the top 100 movers worldwide for the week. Leagues shows your 30-person cohort — a local, winnable comparison. Same scoring formula and same week boundaries.