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Three kinds of competition are built around a goal instead of a raw total. Hosting any of them needs a Membership or Pro. Anyone can join. They work the same on iPhone and Android.

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Personal Goal: everyone picks a fair target

The host picks Steps, Calories, or Exercise Minutes and sets a range, such as 6,000 to 12,000 steps. The top of the range can be at most 3 times the bottom. After you join:
  1. Open the competition.
  2. Pick a goal inside the range.
  3. Tap Set my goal.
Your daily score is how much of your goal you reached, as a percentage, up to 100. Your goal locks once you set it, so pick one that’s a stretch but realistic. Until you set one, you score 0. Example: you pick 10,000 steps. A 7,500-step day scores 75 points. A 10,000-step or 12,000-step day scores 100. A friend who picked 6,000 and walked 6,000 also scores 100.

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Stick To It: one daily goal for everybody

The host picks a metric and one daily goal for everyone. On iPhone this is Hit this every day. On Android it’s Set the daily goal. Reaching it earns 1 point for the day. Going over doesn’t earn extra, and missing a day costs nothing. The host also sets how many days the group is aiming for (On how many days? on iPhone), such as 20 of the 30 days. It’s a target to show progress against. It doesn’t change points. Example: the goal is 30 exercise minutes a day. Anyone who reaches at least 30 minutes earns that day’s point, whether they did 30 minutes or 90.

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Collective competitions

A Collective competition is one number the whole group chases together. Nobody is ranked. There’s no leaderboard, no scoring method, and no teams. Everyone’s activity during the competition dates adds up toward the goal. To host one:
  1. Open Compete, tap + (Add competition), then Create competition.
  2. On What kind of competition?, pick Collective.
  3. Name it.
  4. On What are you adding up?, pick Steps, Calories, or Exercise. Then set the number under Together, reach.
  5. Pick dates. Collective competitions don’t repeat.
  6. Choose public or private, invite people, and tap Create competition.
Once it’s live, the competition screen shows the shared goal bar and how much you’ve added. When the competition ends, the bar shows whether the group made it. The host can change the Together, reach number until the competition starts. What you’re adding up can’t change after you create it.

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Older competitions with a race and a shared goal

You used to be able to add a shared goal on top of a race. New competitions are one or the other: pick Compete for a race or Collective for a shared goal. Competitions made with both keep working. They show the Shared Goal bar above the leaderboard, and everyone still earns their own points.
A Collective competition is different from a Group Challenge, which is a big race split into teams.

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Which one should I use?

  • Personal Goal when people have very different fitness levels and you want everyone to have a real shot.
  • Stick To It when everyone should reach the same daily number.
  • Collective when the group should work together on one big number instead of ranking each other.

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