Want or earned a badge or lifetime badge on Fitbit? Learn all about Fitbit’s badges

June 30, 2021

Who doesn’t like getting awarded for good behavior? Quite a lot of people love accumulating Fitbit badges. Badges are an instant recognition of hitting certain milestones in your Fitbit fitness and wellness activity. Plus, your badges are easy to see (and show others) in your Fitbit app!

And everyone in the family can get badges! It doesn’t matter if you are a young child using an Ace 3 or an older adult using a Fitbit Sense. They all track your activity and reward you with badges!

Currently, Fitbit offers badges for your step-based activities (like walking, running, hiking, and so forth), floors climbed, and weight goals.

Unfortunately, at this time, there are no cycling or swimming badges, and any distance traveled on your bike rides or while swimming doesn’t count toward your Fitbit badge progress.

And of course, any activities you manually log into the Fitbit app do not count toward Fitbit Badges.

While Fitbit includes quite a lot of badges (more than 100 badges) to motivate you every day or every week to achieve specific goals, the most prized Fitbit badges are called “lifetime badges.”

Types of Fitbit badges

Fitbit offers you badges to reward you for hitting certain goals for step-based activities, floors climbed, and your weight goals. These include the following four badge categories:

Daily badges for floors climbed and for distance achieved (steps and other step-based activities like running.) You get your first badge when you hit 5,000 steps in a day and go from there, all the way up to 100,000 steps/per day!
Lifetime badges floors climbed and for distance achieved (steps and other step-based activities like running.) When you achieve the length of a marathon of 26 miles, you get your first lifetime badge. And you continue getting badges until you walk or run a combined 12,430 total miles!
Weight goal badges for losing weight and hitting your overall weight goal. You start getting these when you’ve lost your first 5 pounds, and they continue at 5-pound intervals all the way up to 200 pounds (if that’s in your weight goal.)
Fitbit challenge badges and trophies for accepting a challenge or adventure from a friend, family member, Fitbit Community member, or Fitbit itself and meeting that target. Trophies are awarded to winners when multiple people are competing in a challenge! Challenges can last for just a day or a series of days.

Anytime you wear your Fitbit and track your activities, your progress is automatically tracked, and if you achieve a goal, you get a badge.

You can also earn badges multiple times.

What makes Fitbit’s lifetime badges special

Lifetime badges are acknowledgments of long-term fitness achievements! Fitbit offers lifetime badges for achievements in total distance traveled for steps.

You get a lifetime badge when you reach a pre-set milestone in your fitness journey with your Fitbit. All you need to do is wear your Fitbit every day!

Lifetime badges include all activities logged with your Fitbit ID since joining Fitbit!

It doesn’t matter which Fitbit you use or used to use. As long as you exercise, wear your Fitbit, and use the same Fitbit ID, all your step-based activity counts towards your lifetime badges.

What’s the difference between Fitbit badges and trophies?

You earn Fitbit badges as you complete the different distance and climbing goals established by Fitbit–such as earning the London badge by walking or running 250 miles total since joining Fitbit.

Fitbit hands out Badges automatically–you don’t need to set anything up!

You get Fitbit trophies in challenges by coming in the first place, achieving a personal best, or making your step goal for each day of the challenge.

Trophies are awards for challenges.

Challenges are user-created–Fitbit does not automatically create challenges and award trophies. For most challenges, you need at least 2 people. However, you can create a solo challenge for Goal Day and Solo Adventures.

Challenges are made between Fitbit members, including friends, families, and other Fitbit users. These challenges include:

Daily Showdown—who gets the most steps today?
Weekend Warrior—who accumulates the most steps over the weekend?
Workweek Hustle—who steps the most during the workweek (Monday through Friday)?
Goal Day—how many participants reached their daily step goal? You can challenge just yourself or include others.
Family Faceoff—who in your family makes the most steps Monday through Friday?
Solo Adventures—this is a great challenge you can make on your own
Adventure Races—you challenge friends to a real-world finish line!

There are even virtual challenges for folks signed up with the Fitbit premium subscription service!

How do you earn Fitbit badges?

Just wear your Fitbit!

Your steps count whether your walking, running, hiking, or moving around your home, the office, or at the shops! Make sure you put your Fitbit on at the beginning of the day, so all your activity counts.

It’s that simple.

Then, when you reach Fitbit’s set milestones, a badge appears honoring your achievement.

Your Fitbit Badges follow you!

Another awesome feature of your Fitbit badges is that they go with you when you change or upgrade your Fitbit device.

So if you start earning badges on a Fitbit Inspire and then get a Fitbit Sense, your badges show up with that new device. That’s because the badges are tied to your Fitbit user account, not the Fitbit device itself.

As long as you use the same Fitbit user ID, your badges will always show up!

Why doesn’t my manually logged activity count toward a Fitbit badge?

Badges are designed to reward you for step and stair activity when you wear your Fitbit device.

So if you forgot to wear your Fitbit device for the day or the activity, you can manually add it using the Fitbit app.

But since your device wasn’t able to automatically log that activity (and verify it,) manually entered data doesn’t count toward step and climb (floor) badges.

What are Fitbit’s daily badges and their requirements to get one?

For distance activities like steps and runs, there are 18 daily badges plus 3 special Minions daily badges for a total of 21!

For climbing activities like stairs and others, there are 14 daily badges!

Each badge recognizes the activity you completed in a single day from midnight to midnight.

Fitbit’s Daily step and distance badges list

Boat Shoes: Walked 5,000 steps in one day.
Sneakers: Achieved 10,000 steps in one day.
Urban Boots: Got 15,000 steps in one day.
High Tops: Reached 20,000 steps in one day.
Classics: Hit 25,000 steps in one day.
Trail Shoes: Made it to 30,000 steps in one day.
Hiking Boots: Walked 35,000 steps in one day.
Cleats: Hit the pavement for 40,000 steps in one day.
Snow Boots: Succeeded in getting 45,000 steps in one day.
Cowboy Boots: Walked 50,000 steps in one day.
Platform Shoes: Moved 55,000 steps in one day.
Blue Suede Shoes: Trekked for 60,000 steps in one day.
Ruby Slippers: On the road with 65,000 steps in one day.
Spring Loaders: Completed 70,000 steps in one day.
Genie Shoes: Legged it for 75,000 steps in one day.
Futuristic Kickst: Roamed for 80,000 steps in one day.
Rocket Boots: Travelled 90,000 steps in one day.
Olympian Sandals: Walked 100,000 steps in one day.
Minions Stuart: Trekked 12,345 steps in a single day.
Minions Kevin: Accomplished 22,222 steps in a day.
Minions Bob: Made it to 32,100 steps!

Fitbit’s Daily climbing badges list

Happy Hill: Reached 10 floors in one day.
Redwood Forest: Climbed 25 floors in one day.
Lighthouse: Topped 50 floors in one day,
Ferris Wheel: Mounted 75 floors in one day.
Skyscraper: Completed 100 floors in one day.
Rollercoaster: Scaled 125 floors in one day.
Stadium: Ascended 150 floors in one day.
Bridge: 175 floors in one day.
Castle: Topped 200 floors in one day.
Waterfall: Climbed 300 floors in one day.
Canyon: Succeeded in 400 floors in one day.
Volcano: Climbed 500 floors in one day.
Mountain: Scaled 600 floors in one day.
Rainbow: Mounted 700 floors in one day.

What are the names and goals needed to get a Fitbit lifetime badge?

There are currently 18 Fitbit lifetime badges for distance and 9 lifetime climbing (floor) badges. These badges are for step-based activities like climbing stairs, walking, and running only.

Each badge is based on completing a real-world achievement since joining Fitbit–like walking/running/hiking 26 total miles, the same miles as a regular marathon.

Fitbit’s lifetime distance badges explained

All Fitbit smartwatch and tracker models count steps. You gain those steps when walking, running, hiking, or any similar activity.

Marathon: Walked 26 miles
Penguin March: Completed 70 miles
London Underground: Traipsed 250 miles
Hawaiian Islands: Finished 350 miles
Serengeti: Completed 500 miles
Italy: Moved 736 miles
New Zealand: Trekked over 990 miles
Great Barrier Reef: Hit the road for 1,600 miles
Japan: Traveled 1,869 miles
India: Was on the move for 1,997 miles
Monarch Migration: Roamed for 2,500 miles
Sahara: Marched 2,983 miles
Nile: Traveled 4,132 miles
Africa: Explored 5,000 miles
Great Wall: Toured 5,500 miles
Russian Railway: Legged it for 5,772 miles
Earth Diameter: Pounded the pavement for 7,900 miles
Pole to Pole: Hit the trail for 12,430 miles

What happens after you reach Pole to Pole and hit 12,340 miles?

First, congratulations on reaching so many lifetime Fitbit miles!

Once you reach the awesome milestone of 12,430 miles with Fitbit’s Pole-to-Pole lifetime Badge, you are at the pinnacle. There currently aren’t any additional badges that come after this one for lifetime distance.

However, Fitbit does update the badge offerings, so stay tuned. Or better yet, let them know you want more lifetime badges giving Fitbit your feedback.

Fitbit’s lifetime climbing (floor) badges explained

While all Fitbit smartwatches and trackers count your steps (distance), not all Fitbits count stairs and floors climbed.

To track stairs/floors, your Fitbit must include an altimeter to determine your altitude. This altimeter sensor detects when you go up in elevation and counts 1 floor each time you climb 10 feet or 3 meters.

Models like the Fitbit Sense, Versa Series, Charge, and Ionic support counting stairs and floors climbed while the popular Luxe, Inspire, or Alta Series, as well as the Versa Lite, do not support climbing.

If you have a model the supports floor climbing, you get these additional climbing badges. And of course, if your Fitbit model does not support stairs tracking, then you won’t get this data.

Helicopter: Completed 500 floors
Skydived: Reached 1,000 floors
Hot Air Balloon: Soared 2,000 floors
747: Ascended 4,000 floors
Cloud: Rose 8,000 floors
Spaceship: Topped 14,000 floors
Shooting Star: Mounted 20,000 floors
Astronaut: Scaled 28,000 floors
Satellite: Clambered 35,000 floors

How do I get a weight goal badge in Fitbit?

To get a weight goal badge, you need to first establish a goal weight inside the Fitbit app’s Activity & Wellness > Nutrition & Weight features.

You choose a target weight and include if you want to lose, gain, or maintain your weight.

Then, either connect to a Fitbit smart scale or manually log your weight information in the Today tab.

At that point, for every 5 pounds, you receive a badge until you hit your goal weight. At that point, you’ll get the final Weight Goal Met badge.

Where can I see my current Fitbit badges and lifetime badges?

No matter your Fitbit device, you can always see your badges in the Fitbit app and your Fitbit account’s online dashboard.

And for certain Fitbit smartwatches, like the Ionic and Versa Series, you can also view the badges you are on track to earn (but have not yet earned.)

How to view all your badges using the Fitbit app

Open the Fitbit app’s Today tab
Tap your profile picture or icon
Select your Fitbit username or name and tap View Your Profile
Tap Badges and Trophies
Tap Badge Collection to see your collection of earned badges
1. Under each badge, you also see how many times you’ve earned that badge

How to view all your badges using Fitbit’s website

Open your Fitbit account dashboard using a browser of your choice (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and so forth)
In the dashboard, locate the badges tile which showcases your current top badge
Tap on the badge tile and click the forward or back arrow to see more of your top badges. Or hover on the badge tile to see additional options for Quick View and See More.

You can also see all your recent Fitbit badges and trophies by tapping your account profile picture or icon.

To see all currently earned badges and trophies, tap the button See All Badges & Trophies.

Check the badges you are currently working on with your Fitbit Versa or Ionic

On certain watches like the Versa 2 or Ionic, you can also see the badges you are currently working at, including daily and lifetime badges.

Swipe up from the clock face to Fitbit Today
1. Locate the badges tile. Swipe up to find it
If you don’t see the badges tile, swipe up and tap Settings at the bottom of Fitbit Today and turn on the badges.
Swipe left on the badges tile, and you see up to 4 of your upcoming but not yet earned badges.

This feature is not available on the Fitbit Sense or Versa 3 at this time.

I want bragging rights! How can I showcase and share my Fitbit badges with others?

To share your Fitbit badge accomplishments with friends and family (or anyone), you need to make your badges visible to others.

You can change the setting to make badges visible using either the Fitbit app or Fitbit’s online dashboard

In the Fitbit app
1. Go to the Today tab and choose your profile picture or icon
2. Scroll down and tap Privacy
3. Choose Badges & Trophies
4. Change your privacy setting to Friends, Public, or Private
5. Press Save the update your setting
Using your Fitbit online account
1. Open your Fitbit account dashboard using a browser of your choice (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and so forth)
2. Tap the Settings icon (it looks like a gear)
3. Choose Settings
4. From the sidebar, select Privacy
5. Select Badges & Trophies and tap the downward arrow next to your current privacy setting
6. Change your privacy setting to Friends, Public, or Private

How to share your Fitbit badges with friends and others

Don’t want to run out of motivation!

Personally, I’d love to see more lifetime badges–and going with Fitbit’s theme, why not a badge for traversing the earth’s equatorial circumference at 24,901 miles?

And to really pack a punch, how about Earth to Moon lifetime badge for 238,900 miles?

The Fitbit Community has a page all about feature suggestions–so consider adding your voice here or check out what others think!