This app started when two brothers who lived in two different countries wanted to lose weight and wanted to inspire each other. They both agreed that the common ways of getting fit wasn’t good enough so they decided to bet on each other. They bet each other $100 that they could each stick to their workout plan
These brothers noticed that people are more likely to be motivated and more likely to change when there is money involved, so they created the app Spryfit. This app includes money to help people to become more fit just like what the brothers did with each other and it came out in October of 2017.
Within this app you make charges. The range of chargers you can make and on the app start at 5 dollars being the lowest and 39 dollars being the highest. So far there are 3,000 people included in this app. There have been 1.7 million steps already used on this app.
How this app works
- There are many different games on the app and you pay for the game
- One game could cost about 29 dollars and that is your entry fee
- You have to complete whatever was stated for the certain game you paid for. For example you have to complete more than 15,000 steps over a one week period
- If you do not complete it then you loose your money you paid for
- If you do complete it, you get your money back and you get some of other peoples money back who didn’t complete it
This is a different type of fitness app than Spryfit, but is also similar in a way. This app tracks costumers physical activity and uses sweatcoins to use as an incentive. For example every 1,000 steps someone takes, they receive a .95 sweatcoin
When people obtain these coins they have the choice to use their sweatcoins right then and there and get little things such as magazines. Or people can save their sweatcoins and save them up for something big such as an apple watch.
You can earn up to 5 of the sweatcoins a day and once you get enough of them you can bump up a level to be able to make more sweatcoins a day. This app is completely free and it just involves the sweatcoins.
Some more things you can buy with your sweatcoins are
- Amazon cards
- Paypal subscriptions
- Sunglasses
- Shoes
- Food boxes
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