Inside the Circular app, there is a feature that most users only notice after a few weeks of wearing their ring. This part of the app is updating in the background while the rest of the app does what it always does: track sleep, read heart rhythms, observe recovery, and translate signals into insights.

That feature is the Leaderboard. Every month, it recognizes the three Circular users who showed up for their health most consistently. And every month, it resets to zero.

Here is how it works.

What the Leaderboard Is

The Circular Leaderboard is a monthly global ranking of every Circular user, ordered by Wellness Score from highest to lowest. Participation is automatic. Every Circular user is included by default. The user with the highest Wellness Score at the end of the month takes first place. Second and third positions follow.

It is not a performance competition. No one reaches the top because they ran the fastest mile or hit the highest VO2 Max. The Leaderboard celebrates something quieter and, in practice, harder to sustain: consistency.

On the last day of each month, the top three users are recognized. The Leaderboard then resets. Last month's first-place user begins the new month at the same starting line as everyone else.

How the Wellness Score Works

The Wellness Score is the metric behind the Leaderboard. It measures how consistently users engage with their health across four pillars.

• Heart Health. HRV tracking, resting heart rate observation, ECG checks completed, and coherence sessions practiced.
• Sleep. Cycles tracked, timing kept consistent, recovery quality monitored.
• Energy and Stress. Breathing sessions completed, stress patterns understood, energy trends observed.
• Activity. Daily movement, sport sessions logged, step consistency over time.

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The score is weighted toward consistency rather than peak numbers. A user who engages modestly with all four pillars every day will outscore a user who performs exceptionally in one area but ignores the others.

The score updates in real time, throughout the month, based on what the Ring 2 and the Circular app observe. No manual input is needed. No logging, no forms.

How Participation Works

Every Circular user is automatically part of the Leaderboard. There is nothing to sign up for, nothing to configure.

Wearing the Ring 2 and using the app as normal is what builds the score. The Ring 2 observes more than 140 metrics across its 13+ features, and the relevant signals are translated into the four pillars behind the Wellness Score.

The Leaderboard itself can be opened from its own tab inside the app. Users can see the global rankings, their current position, and how their score compares to the top ten at any moment. Kira AI, the in-app health coach included with the Ring 2 at no additional subscription cost, can also provide context on which pillars are driving a user's score and where attention might be most useful.

What the Top Three Receive

Each month, three users are recognized.

• First place receives a $150 Amazon gift card and an invitation to share their story in a featured blog interview on the Circular website. The interview becomes part of the Circular community archive, a record of what consistent health looked like for one real person.
• Second place receives a $75 Amazon gift card.
• Third place receives a $25 Amazon gift card.

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Recognition is sent through the app and email shortly after the month closes. The blog interview is arranged separately, over email, with the first-place user.

Why the Monthly Reset Matters

The Leaderboard resets to zero on the first day of every month. This is intentional.

A reset means last month's winner holds no permanent advantage. A user who missed the top three in April has the same chance of reaching it in May as anyone else. The race is short enough to feel achievable and long enough to reward real habits, not single-day sprints.

It also means that recognition is not reserved for a small circle of elite users. Different people reach the top three in different months, depending on what their lives allowed that month. The Leaderboard is shaped by life as it actually happens, with its busy weeks and its quieter ones.

Why the Leaderboard Exists

Consistency is the hardest part of caring for the body. Most users already know what their body needs. They know sleep matters, that stress accumulates, that the heart benefits from being paid attention to. What is difficult is doing those things on ordinary days, the ones where nothing particular is happening and motivation is low.

The Leaderboard was built to recognize that effort. Not to gamify health and not to reward optimization, but to give a small, quiet signal that showing up matters. And that somewhere in the Circular community, other users are showing up too.

For most Circular users, the Leaderboard is not the reason they chose the Ring 2. They chose it to understand their sleep, their stress signals, their heart rhythm, their recovery. The Leaderboard is simply one of the reasons they are still wearing it six months later.

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