Stride: Team Step Challenge

Stride turns the walking your team already does into something they talk about. Your employer sets up a group. You join with a link, and your steps appear on the board beside everyone else's. Day, week, month, all time — and a chat where the ribbing happens. HONEST STEPS Most step apps count the potholes. A phone in a boda or a car over a rough road produces a rhythm that a pedometer reads as walking, and a leaderboard built on that is one nobody believes twice. Stride watches for when you are travelling and takes those steps back off before anything is sent. Steps you walked are the only steps that count. WHAT YOUR TEAM SEES • A board for the day, the week, the month and all time • Medals for the top three, and how many steps you need to pass the person above you — the number that decides whether you take the stairs • Streaks for the days you reach your goal • Group chat, with one-tap cheers and nudges — and taunts, if the group leaves them switched on • Pinned announcements from whoever runs the group • A Monday recap telling you what last week came to, beside the week before • Mystery mode, which shows the ranking but keeps everyone's counts hidden until the next day, so a challenge stays alive to the last morning FOR WHOEVER RUNS IT Set the group's daily goal, give it a start and an end, decide who can post, hand out the invite link, make someone else an admin, and remove people who have left. All from your phone. WHAT YOUR EMPLOYER DOES NOT SEE Stride sends one number a day: your steps. Not where you were, not when you walked, not your heart rate. An admin of a group sees exactly what every member sees — names, step counts and places. There is no report anybody can pull that shows anything more. Leave a group and you come off its board straight away. Your history is yours and stays with you. Close your account from inside the app and all of it goes. WHAT YOU NEED An Android phone with Health Connect, which most phones running Android 8 or later either have or can install free from Play. Stride asks for permission to read your step count and to tell walking from travelling. Nothing else.