GoJoe: social fitness

GoJoe

About this app

GoJoe is the social fitness app for work and play. Exercise on your own, but not alone. Highly motivational virtual fitness through:-

Team-based activity challenges;
Content from world-renowned experts including high profile sportspeople, personal trainers and health professionals; and
Health and fitness communities.

We bring people together and empower them to supercharge their mental and physical health, GoJoe-style.

GoJoe is used the world’s biggest brands to help engage their staff across all pillars of wellbeing, all year-round, as well as with groups of friends looking for a bit of friendly competition.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re an ‘ordinary joe’ (like us here at GoJoe) or elite athlete. Every activity counts. It’s all about teamwork and encouraging each other to get active.

Ready. Set. GoJoe!

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◆ CHALLENGES OF ANY SIZE

Run team-based, fun and inclusive virtual fitness challenges of any size or scale. Participants work together – their solo workouts count towards their team via the app.

GoJoe automatically weights and converts activities to points in the background. Team and solo leaderboards can be accessed in real-time as well as enhanced data insights and awards. Participants engage via team and challenge chat channels.

Whilst GoJoe specialises in global events with an unlimited amount of teams and participants competing in the same challenge, a free version can be accessed in-app which is limited to two teams and up to 10 people per team.

◆ ACTIVITIES FOR ALL

From walking to gym sessions (and many more), activities added to GoJoe are automatically synced and weighted - with no steps or manual conversions in sight - so that everyone is motivated, engaged and on a level playing field.

There’s 40+ activity types to choose from including:-

Movement: Running, Walking, Wheelchair
Biking: Cycling, Spinning, Handcycling
Water sports: Swimming, Canoeing, Kayaking, Paddleboard, Rowing, Surfing, Sailing
Snow sports: Skiing, Snowboarding, Ice Skating
Combat sports: Boxing, Martial Arts
Gym/studio: Strength, HIIT, Yoga, Pilates, Barre, Dance
Racket sports: Tennis, Squash, Badminton, Pickleball
Team sports: Football, Rugby, Netball, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Hockey, Volleyball
Other: Golf, Climbing, Horseriding, Skating, Skateboarding

◆ SYNC OR ADD ACTIVITIES WITH EASE

Whether using GoJoe as a fitness tracker, social training tool or virtual event, adding activities is really easy.

You can add workouts to GoJoe in one of three ways - you can either:-

Sync – by connecting Garmin, Fitbit, Wahoo, Polar, Suunto or Apple Health (to record Apple Watch activities);
Use GoJoe’s in-app GPS tracker; or
Manual input – with controls to prevent cheating.

◆ FIND YOUR COMMUNITY

We know that people are social animals – as they say in Game of Thrones “the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives”. It’s all about the community at GoJoe, whether that’s your team-mates in a challenge, training partner mates at home or dance partner colleagues at work. We’ve built GoJoe around such communities including:-

Team and challenge chat groups - engage with friend or foe in a one-off event;
Organisation groups – to help workplaces bring staff together all-year round; and
Shared interest groups – open to all but connected by things in common.

◆ PERFECT FOR WORKPLACES

Put health and fitness in the hands of the staff - and watch as engagement goes supersonic. At last, a wellbeing app that everyone wants and loves. GoJoe allows you to build a health and fitness community within your workplace at GoJoe.

Trusted by the world’s best companies to help put wellness on autopilot, delivering real and measurable results.

Ratings and reviews

I have been using this app for 2 weeks as I'm participating in a city wide fitness challenge. The app never tracks my distance while walking or running. It will track my time but will show .2km distance regardless of the time I'm out, or if it does track my distance for a majority of my time, when I try to finish the workout the data disappears. I make sure GPS signal appears before I go. I doubt I will keep this app when the challenge is over. Such a hassle when other apps track without fail.

We implemented the app and a GoJoe challenge as part of a work wellness initiative and it was a resounding success!! The self-serve set up was so easy and we were able to rollout to the wider business and track performance and progress. We set mini challenges within the main one to give everyone a chance to achieve and the feedback was fantastic. So much so we are just about to take on a year contract and have mapped out multiple challenges throughout the year. Great for engagement!

Worst user experience. Every day someting either doesn't work or it is so slow that I am confused if I had press the button or not. Unable to upload a profile picture from my android gallery. When recording a activity pressing pause and restart sometime the log get lost of it is registered without points. Search for a team mate, doesn't trigger my keyboard screen to pop, can't search. The app is a really great idea just poorly executed.

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements