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How it works

One weekly goal. Free when you hit it.

Pick your activity minutes for the week. Hit them and steps.org costs nothing. Miss them and your monthly price goes up, and all of it goes to carbon removal. Here is everything that happens, from your weekly goal to where the money goes.

The five steps

  1. Pick your minutes for the week

    Create your account and choose from 60 to 300 activity minutes a week. The default is 90 minutes of cardio: runs, rides, walks, swims. A week runs Monday 12:00 a.m. to Sunday 11:59 p.m. in your time zone.

  2. Choose your stakes

    Keep the standard ×1, or raise the stakes to ×2 or ×3. Either way you start at $0 a month.

  3. Connect Strava and start your plan

    steps.org reads the activities your watch, bike computer or phone already sends to Strava. Nothing to type in, nothing to upload. Starting your plan saves your card with Stripe, at $0.

  4. Move. Your price moves when the week ends

    Record your workouts as usual. Your new price shows the moment the week ends, Sunday at midnight. Your first week is a warm-up, so nothing counts against you until the next Monday.

  5. You're charged once a month

    For the month just ended, at your price on that day. At $0 you pay nothing.

Minutes a week you can pick

Pick one. Your activity minutes are the moving time from your Strava activities, any sport, added up over the week.

Minutes a weekLooks like
60 minAbout 20 minutes, three times a week
90 minDefaultAbout 30 minutes of cardio, three times a week
120 minAbout 40 minutes, three times a week
150 minAbout 30 minutes, five times a week
210 minAbout an hour, three or four times a week
300 minAbout an hour, five times a week

Count your cardio: runs, rides, walks, swims, anything Strava records. These are just defaults, so pick what you'll keep and change it any time. For reference, the WHO's 2020 guidelines say adults should do 150 to 300 minutes of moderate activity a week, or 75 to 150 of vigorous.

WHO guidelines on physical activity, 2020

How your price moves

steps.org starts at $0 a month. Each week you hit or miss changes your monthly price, and the new price shows the moment the week ends, Sunday at midnight.

At the standard ×1

Miss a week
+$10 a month
Hit a week
−$5 a month
Never below
$0
Never above
$50 a month

Raise the stakes (optional)

For when ×1 isn't enough to get you out the door.
  • ×1Miss a week +$10Hit a week −$5Never above $50
  • ×2Miss a week +$20Hit a week −$10Never above $100
  • ×3Miss a week +$30Hit a week −$15Never above $150
StakesMiss a weekHit a weekNever above
×1+$10−$5$50
×2+$20−$10$100
×3+$30−$15$150

The floor is $0 at every level.

An example at ×1

Example
  1. StartYou start at$0
  2. Week 1Missed$10
  3. Week 2Hit$5
  4. Week 3Hit again$0
Two misses in a row
  1. Start $0
  2. Missed $10
  3. Missed $20

Miss one week in three and your price stays flat. Hit more than that and it falls to $0.

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What counts

Moving time from any sport counts toward your minutes, added up over the week. steps.org checks every activity Strava sends, and it counts only when all three are true.

  • Recorded by a deviceA watch, bike computer or phone recorded it.
  • With heart rate or a GPS trackThe device recorded your heart rate, your route, or both.
  • Started during the weekIt began between Monday 12:00 a.m. and Sunday 11:59 p.m. in your time zone.
  • Typed in by hand?Activities entered into Strava by hand don't count.
Synced late? It still counts

Workouts that reach Strava up to 48 hours late still count for the week you did them, and your price is corrected.

Your first week is a warm-up

Start your plan any day. Your first counted week starts the next Monday. Until then your activities show up, but nothing counts against you.

  1. Any day

    Start your plan

    Pick your minutes and your stakes, connect Strava and save your card. Your price is $0.

  2. Until Sunday

    Warm up

    Your activities show up so you can see how your week adds up. Nothing counts against you.

  3. Next Monday

    Your first counted week starts

    From here, each week you hit or miss moves your price.

When you're charged, and where the money goes

When you're charged

Once a month, for the month just ended, at your price on that day. Your card is saved when you start your plan, and at $0 you pay nothing.

Example: Ana joined on Monday, August 17
Sep 17For Aug 17 to Sep 16
$5.00
Oct 17For Sep 17 to Oct 16, at that day's price
$0 if this week is hit, $15 if missed

Where the money goes

100% of what you pay, after VAT and card fees, goes to carbon removal through Stripe Climate. steps.org never keeps any of it.

  1. You're charged for the month just ended, only if your price is above $0. VAT and card processing fees come off first.
  2. 100% of the rest goes into one fund, two days after paying, once any refund has happened.
  3. When the fund covers a metric ton, we buy one through Frontier. Frontier's fee, about 3%, is part of the order.
  4. Frontier and an independent third party check every metric ton before it's delivered.
More on carbon removal

Changing or canceling your plan

Change your goal any time

Starts next Monday

Too hard, or too easy? Change your minutes or your stakes from Settings. The week you're in stays as it is.

Cancel any time

Ends at the end of the month

You pay that month at its last price. Nothing after that. Start again within a month and your price picks up where it ended; after a month, it starts at $0.

Privacy and Strava

Only you see your week

Your week, your activities and your price show only to you, when you're signed in. steps.org has no public pages, and nothing it reads from Strava goes to analytics or to any AI.

Privacy, in plain words

Strava stays connected

  • Strava stays connected while your account is open.
  • To disconnect it, close your account. We delete what we hold from Strava and email you to confirm.
  • If you remove steps.org in Strava's settings, your weeks count as missed until you reconnect.
  • If no activity reaches Strava for 90 days, your account closes and everything is deleted, with an email 7 days before.

Ready for your warm-up week?

Start your plan any day. Your first counted week starts next Monday, at $0 a month.

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