The daily step game that gets your family and friends moving — and laughing.
Create a group, share a 6-character code, and every step you take becomes ammunition in a daily battle for the crown. 👑
Download on the App Store Free · iPhone & Apple Watch · No accounts, no subscriptionsMost fitness apps are about you: your goals, your streaks, your stats. Cardio Clowns is about them — the four or five people you love just enough to never, ever let win.
Create a group, share a 6-character code, and every step you take becomes ammunition in a daily battle for the crown. No accounts, no feeds full of strangers, no subscriptions to a "wellness journey." Just your people, a live leaderboard, and the perfect excuse to take the stairs.
Every day is a fresh competition. The leaderboard updates live from your iPhone and Apple Watch, shows exactly how many steps you need to pass the person ahead of you — "Almost there! +312 to pass Mom" — and crowns a daily winner 👑 for the whole group to see. Or resent.
Long-press anyone on the leaderboard to send a playful message — and the app knows the situation. Up by 1,000 steps? "Stay down there 😏" About to get caught? "Don't choke now 👀" It's the group chat energy fitness apps are missing, delivered straight to your rival's wrist.
Every member of your group is a 7-day matchup: win–loss records, win streaks (🔥 W3), an animated tug-of-war rope showing who's pulling ahead, and stats like your biggest blowout and your most painful loss. You're not chasing an abstract goal — you're settling a score with your brother.
"Dad just passed you! Time to fight back! 😤" Pick your intensity: Chill mode only pings you for the big moments and stays quiet at night, while All In mode keeps the pressure on all day.
A full Apple Watch app — leaderboard, history, head-to-head matchups, and messaging — plus watch-face widgets showing your live rank, so one glance tells you whether it's time for a victory lap or a panic walk.
One 6-character code gets everyone in — kids, parents, grandparents, the college group chat. Country flags next to every name mean the competition works across borders, too. No friend requests, no public profiles, nothing to manage.
Take first place and the screen erupts in fireworks. Yesterday's winner wears the crown all day. Cardio Clowns turns 8,000 steps into a story your group talks about at dinner.
Effective Date: June 12, 2026
Your privacy is important to us. Cardio Clowns is designed to share as little as possible: just your step count, with just your group. This policy explains how the app handles your information.
In short: Cardio Clowns has no accounts, no ads, and no tracking. Your daily step count and display name are shared only with the members of the group you join, so the leaderboard works. That's it.
Cardio Clowns collects only what the game needs to run:
With your permission, Cardio Clowns reads your daily step count from Apple Health. Step data is used solely for the group leaderboard and head-to-head matchups. We never write to Apple Health, and we never share health data with third parties.
Daily step totals and group information are synced so your group's leaderboard stays live across devices. Leaving a group removes you from its leaderboard, and deleting the app removes all locally stored data.
Cardio Clowns does not integrate with any third-party analytics, advertising, or data brokers.
Cardio Clowns is designed for families. The app collects no personal information beyond a chosen display name and step counts, requires no account, and shares data only within private groups joined by invitation code. The app complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar regulations.
If we ever update this privacy policy, changes will be reflected on this page with an updated effective date.
You can leave a group at any time to stop sharing your steps, revoke Apple Health access in iOS Settings, or contact us to have your data removed entirely.
Have questions, feedback, or need help with Cardio Clowns? We'd love to hear from you. (Trash talk about your leaderboard rank also accepted.)
Email: hello@cardioclowns.com
We'll do our best to respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.