- Achievements & Badges System: Earn and collect 37 unique badges across Lifetime Milestones, Monthly Challenges, and Leaderboard Victories! - Interactive Achievement Gallery: Track your progress toward locked badges, view your unlocked collection, and claim new awards. - Badge Sharing: Easily share your earned achievement badges to friends and family. - Member Trophy Cases: Visit fellow group members' profiles to view their earned achievements and celebrate their progress together.

Seamless Activity Syncing: Your steps, distance, flights, active calories, and activity rings now sync automatically in the background, even when the app is closed! Leaderboard standings stay updated in real-time, giving you instant notifications the moment you change ranks.

What's New - Group Message Reactions: React to chat messages using a fun new emoji picker. - Chat Bubbles: Consecutive messages from the same sender are grouped together for a cleaner look. - Detailed Profiles: View your lifetime stats and see full-screen, uncropped profile photos. - Offline Chat Notifications: Get instant notifications when you receive chat messages while offline. - Group Share Tooltips: Easily copy group invite codes with new helper tooltips. Improvements & Fixes - Guest Mode Profile Editing: You can now upload profile photos and edit your name even without creating an account. - Redesigned Chat Settings: Simplified controls to easily manage your notification preferences. - UI & Layout Fixes: Fixed overlapping reaction bubbles on smaller screens and improved screen transitions. - Stability Improvements: Resolved issues with message loading and group settings.

* Enhancements to Chat feature, introducing Chat reactions, notification settings and presence control to choose whether to allow others to see you online or not. * AI characters are now more training more realistic ally, no more exersicing in the midnight.

What's New Real-Time Group Chat: Message your fitness group in real-time Apple Health Rings Challenges: Sync your Apple Health Rings directly to the leaderboard. Track active ring bonuses and view unachieved daily bonuses to stay motivated. Challenging AI Characters: Add smart AI opponents with distinct walking personalities and difficulty tiers (Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme) to keep the competition active. User Avatars & Detailed Profiles: Upload a custom profile picture and view detailed member cards with lifetime stats. Group Renaming & Management: Group admins can now easily rename their groups and access management options directly from the group screen. Stale Sync Indicators: Leaderboard profiles show a realistic spiderweb when they haven't synced steps in a while. Improvements & Fixes Apple-Compliant Chat Security: Restricts group chat participation to users signed in with Apple accounts to align with App Store guidelines. Smart Group Navigation: Tap the active group bottom tab to quickly scroll back to the top or refresh the feed.

- Fixed a bug that caused users syncing steps from multiple sources (like Apple Watch and iPhone) to have their step counts significantly under-reported on the leaderboard. - Fair Play Enforcement: Excluded manually entered values from step, distance, flights, and calorie challenges to ensure competition remains fair and automatic.

What's New - Redesigned Active Challenges: Completely redesigned the Active Challenge card layout on the group dashboard to provide a gorgeous premium visual aesthetic. Consolidated information seamlessly with integrated rankings and a clear progress bar, eliminating interface clutter. - Live Local Countdowns: Added real-time countdown timers directly on the Group dashboard to help you track exactly how much time remains in an active challenge down to the minute, synchronized cleanly to your local time zone. Improvements & Fixes - Pinpoint Number Accuracy: Rebuilt the internal counter mechanics for the leaderboard's animated numbers. Eliminated intermediate step rounding math to ensure that the moment the counting animation finishes, your exact synchronized health metrics are rendered with perfect accuracy. - Calorie Units Clarified: Updated our unit terminology across the interface from "kcal" to "cal" for a cleaner, more universally recognized presentation during energy-based challenges.

- Anonymous Challenges: Admins can now enable "Anonymous Mode" for any challenge. Participants will be assigned fun, random animal nicknames (like "Jumping Jaguar" or "Epic Elk") to keep the focus on the fun while maintaining privacy on the leaderboard. - Better Challenge Management: Streamlined the way challenges end and are archived. Admins now have better visibility into challenge states, with clearer prompts to finalize and celebrate completed challenges. Improvements & Fixes - Smart Rank Tracking: Improved the reliability of rank-change notifications, ensuring you're accurately alerted when you pass a friend (or get passed!). - Stability Boost: Improved the performance of the group dashboard and leaderboard.

What's New - Instant Startup: We've polished the app's launch experience to get you straight to your challenges faster than ever. - Refined Profile: Improved the Profile screen for a cleaner layout and clearer app information. Improvements & Fixes - Performance Boost: Optimized the app to make group and challenge loading feel faster and more responsive. - Better Stability: Fixed minor layout issues and improved overall app reliability for a smoother experience.

What's New Anonymous Joining: Jump straight into the action! You can now participate in challenges immediately without having to create an account first. Simpler Group Codes: Sharing just got easier. We've switched to short, 4-letter codes that are much simpler to type and remember. Branded Share Links: When you share your group, it now looks better than ever with beautiful link previews and your group's unique code. Direct Feedback: Have an idea or found a bug? Send us feedback directly from your Profile screen—we’re all ears! Faster & Leaner: We've optimized the app's performance and trimmed down the size, so it starts faster and takes up less space on your phone. Improvements & Fixes New Look: Check out our refreshed app icons and our brand-new marketing website! More Reliable Sync: We've simplified how your steps sync to make the leaderboard faster and more accurate. Privacy First: We’ve further anonymized our tracking and updated our policies to keep your personal info even more private. Better Stability: Fixed several bugs and updated our internal systems to make the app more reliable and secure.

Anonymous Account Support: You can now create or join groups and start tracking your fitness immediately without signing in. Secure your progress with Apple Sign-in anytime by tapping the new "Sign in" badge on your home or group screen.

What's New in This Update: We're constantly working to make your fitness challenge experience better! This update brings robust group sharing, powerful new challenge features, smart notifications, and lots of quality-of-life polish. Group Sharing & Invites Share Your Group: We've added a brand-new Group Sharing experience! Admins can now easily share group invite codes to loop friends in. Lonely in your group? If you're the only member, you'll now see a handy banner to quickly invite friends and kickstart the competition. Join Request Alerts: Group admins now get push notifications for new join requests, and users get an instant alert when their request is approved! Challenges Supercharged Live Countdowns & End Buttons: We added a live countdown timer for active challenges so everyone knows exactly how much time is left. Admins also get a dedicated button to formally end challenges. Never Miss a Beat: You'll now receive push notifications when a new challenge is created and as soon as a challenge officially finishes. Quick Access: Added a direct "Challenge" Call-to-Action button right on the Group screen. Archived Challenges: Polished the interface so you can look back at past challenges smoothly. Smoother Experience & UI Smarter Notification Prompts: Redesigned notification permissions! We've added helpful guides and made sure we won't constantly pester you if you choose to opt out. Bug Fix: Squashed an annoying bug that sometimes caused duplicate push notifications. Navigation Polish: Scrolling horizontally between your different groups on the bottom bar is now much smoother! Silent App Updates: Your app will now seamlessly download minor fixes and tweaks securely in the background, so you always have the best experience without having to think about it. Keep stepping and thanks for using the app!

What's New Redesigned App UI: Complete overhaul of the app for a much better look and feel, providing a premium experience. Animated Leaderboard: Introduced animated change of numbers in the leaderboard on sync for a more dynamic and engaging view. Flexible Push Notifications: Stay updated with challenge progress and rank changes. New notification controls allow you to choose between Off, Limited, or All notifications to match your preference. Logout Option: Added a logout option to the profile page for better account management. Improvements & Fixes Background Sync: Reliable background synchronization of health data to keep your progress updated effortlessly. User Experience: Polished notification prompts and refined challenge archive warnings for improved clarity.

What's New - Multiple Groups Supported! You can now join and participate in up to 5 different challenge groups simultaneously. Challenge your family, your coworkers, and your friends all at the same time. - Secure Sign-In with Apple: We've introduced Apple Authentication to keep your account safe and synced across your devices. You will no longer lose your progress or groups when changing phones or reinstalling the app! - Customize Your Display Name: You can now easily edit your display name directly from the group screen, and your changes will reflect instantly for everyone. - Upgraded Group Dashboard: Your group list just got smarter. We've added member counts, "Admin" labels for groups you run, and notifications for pending requests if you are a group administrator. - Over-the-Air Updates: Say goodbye to always visiting the App Store for minor fixes. Many new improvements and swift bug fixes will now arrive magically behind the scenes! Improvements & Fixes - Performance Overhaul: We've optimized the engine to make the app significantly faster, more performance, and snappier than ever before. - Smart Member Sorting: The member list is now stably ordered, so jumping around the screen is a thing of the past. - Reliable Data Syncing: Fixed issues around data consistency—if you link your Apple account, your identity remains consistent across all your challenges! - Thank you for using Fitness Challenge! As always, if you have feedback or need support, reach out to us at michaelyta@gmail.com Keep stepping!