BetterPoints

BetterPoints

About this app

I love love love BetterPoints! I have found the app to be very motivational and it has helped me become more active. – Smartypants011


Be the change you want to see! BetterPoints rewards you for making positive changes like walking instead of taking the car. Join the growing BetterPoints community and download our app, which has helped thousands of people to take those first steps towards a better life.

You can only earn BetterPoints if you’re in a sponsored area but you can still record your activities, see your progress, take part in challenges and win prizes no matter where you live.

In sponsored areas you can earn BetterPoints for walking, wheeling, cycling or taking the bus – or even for attending fitness classes or recycling. BetterPoints can be redeemed against high street vouchers, spent with local independent retailers and exchanged for services such as leisure centre classes. You can donate your points to national and international charities or support local causes you love. Thanks for joining in! 

Ratings and reviews

They advertise that you earn 1 point for every minute walking, but you don't. All I have earned the past month are "better tickets" (entries into prize draws) which are essentially worthless. I've been using the app for 6 weeks now, walking for at least an hour a day and I've only accrued a few pence worth of points. It's a good idea, just needs more funding. Oh and say goodbye to your phone battery if you leave the tracking on! This app eats battery.

After requesting the data they have gleaned from me using the app, I can confirm that when your activities have failed to be recorded, they still have all the actual tracking data, they have just failed to allocate the activity, and thus failed to give you any BetterPoints. My recommendation is to delete the app. In reply to your reply: It is not a setting. I asked for, and you supplied all the data you had stored, and it showed all my movements but stated I was STILL (I.e. not moving).

This has potential to be brilliant, but doesn't track all of the time. It records some bus journeys as cars, even though I don't drive at all, and doesn't allow me to change this as it is never orange. I have read through the FAQ's xhanged battery and app settings, reinstalled the app and can't resolve the issues.

What's new

Bug fixes