Read this article to learn how you can create your own challenge for a small group or just for yourself.
In HeiaHeia, every user can now create their own challenges. Challenges can be created for friends to foster friendly competition, or they can be set as personal goals for individual tracking. Starting a challenge is easy, and you can track exercise hours, distance, amount of activity types, or steps.
In the HeiaHeia Pro version, you can start your personal challenges alongside company-wide challenges, as these are designed for small groups (1–20 members). In our free version, challenges can be started for 1–4 participants.
Please note: The new challenges will replace the "verbal target" and "Weekly Exercise target" (green card) features.
Friend Challenges
Friend challenges are ideal for small groups and offer fun, playful competition. You can engage in friendly competition by tracking who accumulates the most steps, explores the highest number of different activities, or achieves the longest skiing or running distances.
Individual Challenges
Individual challenges are personal, enabling you to monitor your personal achievements, including the number of steps taken, distance traveled in kilometers, or various sports activities you've participated in.
Creating a Challenge
You can create challenges from the HeiaHeia app’s homepage by tapping "Start" on the "Create a Challenge" banner OR from the “My Challenges” section in the fourth page of the app by tapping the +Create button.
Tap on Start and fill in the following details:
- Challenge title
- Challenge description (optional)
- Participants
- Friend challenge: Invite up to 20 participants who are members of the same (organization) community. Invited participants will receive a notification in the HeiaHeia app. The challenge is only visible to the invited participants once they accept the invitation.
- Individual challenge: If you want to create a challenge just for yourself, simply do not invite anyone to join. You are by default taking part to the challenge and the challenge will be visible only to you in HeiaHeia.
- Start and end dates
- Challenge unit (choose one):
- Exercise hours: Choose All exercises, All exercises & hobbies, or Your own selection.
- Distance (km): Choose All exercises, All exercises & hobbies, or Your own selection.
- Number of different activity types
- Steps
Finally, choose the background color for the challenge and press "Create."
Useful Tips
- Admin rights: The creator of the challenge acts as the admin and can make changes or delete the challenge.
- Editing: The admin can edit the challenge by opening it and selecting "Edit." You can edit the same details as when creating the challenge.
- Deleting: The admin can delete the challenge by opening it and pressing the three dots icon in the top right corner.
- Top list: While the challenge is running, participants will see themselves and four other participants in the front-page top list. The full leaderboard is available by pressing the "Open" button on the challenge card.
- Challenge participants: Every participant in a challenge can see how many people have accepted the invitation to join the challenge. The admin, however, can see who is yet to accept.
- Multiple challenges: Users can create multiple challenges, however only up to 10 challenge cards will be visible on the screen at a time. In our Free version, you can create up to three challenges.
- Challenge end: A completed challenge will remain visible for a week before being removed.