What could your FitScore be?
Adjust your steps and weight-training duration to see an illustrative daily FitScore.
Fitness technology has given us more numbers than ever. The awkward bit is that most of them cannot be compared.
Apple has Move and Exercise rings. Garmin has Intensity Minutes and device-specific training metrics. Fitbit has Active Zone Minutes. Other platforms have strain, effort, readiness or proprietary point systems. They can all be useful, but they answer different questions, run on different scales and often remain tied to one ecosystem.
We built FitScore to answer a simpler question inside Fitcoin: how active was this person's day?
Why we made FitScore
A step-only rewards app is easy to explain, but it gets fitness wrong. Ten thousand steps count. An hour of strength training may count for almost nothing. A swim, cycle or boxing session may produce few steps despite demanding far more effort.
Using active calories alone creates another problem. Calorie estimates vary with hardware, body data and manufacturer algorithms. Requiring one brand's proprietary activity score would exclude everyone using something else.
Fitcoin needed a shared unit that could sit above the wearable brands. It had to recognise ordinary walking, reward structured exercise, work on iPhone and Android, and remain simple enough to understand at a glance.
How FitScore works
FitScore currently combines two broad inputs: everyday steps and recorded workouts. The app turns those records into a common activity strain, then applies a diminishing-returns curve to produce the daily score.
- Your chosen health hub supplies permitted records. On iPhone, that is Apple Health. On Android, it is Health Connect.
- Steps create a movement contribution. Fitcoin accounts for walking sessions to reduce obvious double counting between workout time and the steps produced during that walk.
- Workouts create an activity contribution. Compatible sessions are weighted using the activity type and duration. A run, cycle, swim, strength session or yoga workout does not need to produce the same number of steps to count.
- The contributions share one curve. Steps and workouts are not two separate scorecards. They push the same daily total towards 20.
- The result is rounded to one decimal place. That gives useful progress without pretending the source data is clinically exact.
What the 0 to 20 scale means
FitScore is deliberately bounded. A score can never exceed 20 in one day, and getting close to the top becomes progressively harder.
These are guideposts, not medical thresholds. Somebody returning from injury may have an excellent day at 4. A conditioned endurance athlete may regularly score above 12. The useful comparison is your own pattern over time.
Why FitScore uses diminishing returns
A linear score would let one very long workout create a huge total. That would make weekly rankings less readable and would encourage volume for its own sake.
With diminishing returns, the first meaningful movement matters, a solid active day remains achievable, and extreme volume does not grow the score without limit. The design also gives steps and workouts one shared ceiling, so no single activity can run away with the scale forever.
How different wearables can contribute
Fitcoin does not need to reproduce an Apple, Garmin, Fitbit or Samsung score. It reads supported underlying records after the user grants permission.
On iPhone, a compatible wearable's companion app can write workouts and activity into Apple Health. On Android, compatible apps can write structured records into Health Connect. Fitcoin then works from the supported records available there.
This is an important qualification: wearable-agnostic does not mean every device automatically shares every metric. The manufacturer app must support the relevant health hub, write the required record types, and have permission to do so. If a source keeps its data inside a closed ecosystem, Fitcoin cannot invent access.
What activities count?
Supported steps count, as do many recognised workout sessions. Current activity mappings include common categories such as walking, running, cycling, swimming, strength training, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, rowing, hiking, tennis, football, basketball, boxing, dance, martial arts and climbing.
Different workouts receive different baseline weighting because an hour of stretching is not the same activity load as an hour of running. We keep these mappings consistent between iOS and Android and review them as the product develops.
Is FitScore perfectly fair?
No universal activity score can be perfectly fair. Consumer wearables estimate some measurements. Workout labels can be broad. Two people can complete the same session with different effort, fitness and physiology.
FitScore is designed for consistent motivation, not laboratory measurement. We favour comparable inputs available across platforms over one device's richer but exclusive metric. That trade-off lets more people participate, but it also means FitScore should not be read as a direct measure of athletic ability.
We also cap daily totals, remove obvious duplicate contributions where possible, exclude manual workout entries from scoring, and keep the mobile implementations aligned. Those controls reduce easy inflation without claiming fraud can never occur.
How FitScore powers Fitcoin
The score is not just a ring on the home screen. It is the common unit behind several parts of the app:
- Rewards: recorded activity can become Fitcoin and unlock partner offers.
- Leagues: seven-day FitScore averages rank people in weekly rooms, with promotion and demotion between tiers.
- Challenges: some challenges use daily or accumulated FitScore targets.
- Achievements: active days and longer-term FitScore milestones recognise consistency.
- Friends: one daily number makes mixed activity easier to understand without exposing a full workout diary.
You can read more about the weekly competition in our guide to Fitcoin Leagues.
FitScore and health-data privacy
Health access is permission-based. You choose which supported categories Fitcoin can read, and you can change those permissions in Apple Health or Health Connect.
Fitcoin uses the activity data needed to calculate and verify app features. It stores calculated daily score components and relevant activity summaries so your history, rewards and rankings can work across sessions and devices. It does not sell health data.
FitScore is not a medical record, diagnosis or health recommendation. For the full legal detail, read the Fitcoin Privacy Policy.
Will the formula change?
It may improve as we learn from more activities, devices and edge cases. Any scoring system that refuses to evolve eventually becomes unfair in a different way.
Our principles should remain stable: one understandable daily scale, parity across iPhone and Android, broad compatibility, diminishing returns, reasonable anti-inflation controls and no dependence on buying one particular wearable.
FitScore in one sentence
FitScore turns compatible steps and workouts from different activities and wearable ecosystems into one daily 0 to 20 score for motivation, rewards and fairer competition.
It does not tell you how fit you are. It gives your movement a shared language.
FitScore is a motivational activity metric and is not intended to diagnose, treat or assess any health condition. Recorded results depend on source-device accuracy, app compatibility and permissions.