Many of us want to feel engaged in our health and motivated to meet our goals. Knowledge is power. And we can use it to make positive changes and feel our healthiest.
If that sounds like you, chances are you're part of the 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. who regularly track their health information using apps or wearables.
But it's tough to stay committed when it can take months, or years, to see results. That’s why some are asking: what is Evidation and how can it help me meet my health goals?
The Evidation app is helping millions of people from all over reach their health goals by rewarding them for tracking their health and making healthy choices.
What is Evidation?
Evidation is a free health app available on Android and Apple devices. It lets you earn money for engaging in health-promoting activities and choosing to participate in research.
Positive reinforcement for healthy choices
Many of us already take health surveys, track our exercise, log what we eat, read health articles, or use a fitness tracker. If you do, too, then you could be earning Paypal funds and gift cards for activities you may already do.
Your current fitness tracker may reward you with badges and encouraging messages. That's nice.
But in addition to these intangible rewards, you could earn a little passive income—even while you sleep.
Staying more accountable to yourself
Evidation can motivate you not only to take health-promoting steps, but it encourages you to turn those activities into healthy lifelong habits.
Simply track to meet and exceed your fitness goals and earn points doing it.
You’ll eliminate the very human impulse to "fib to yourself" about how much you actually exercised this week, etc. The data doesn't lie.
Track healthy activities over time to see how you improve and gain unbiased insights into steps you can take to achieve your health goals. And when you do have a tough week because you’re sick or feeling unmotivated, you can feel supported with suggestions for taking care of yourself.
Choosing to support healthier communities
Every time you use the Evidation app, you're logging valuable health information that you can choose to share to help others like yourself overcome health challenges and reach their health goals. If or when you choose to take part in research on the app, we compile and aggregate or tokenize the Evidation community's real-world health data so that it can be used to further health research.
Your contribution could help researchers learn how to help people live at their healthiest, whether they're ready to tackle the next marathon or feeling limited by a chronic condition. And if you’re not comfortable with that, there are still many other ways for you to enjoy the Evidation app.
Learn more about how we protect your privacy and data here.
How does it work?
Let's take a closer look at how this works! You get rewarded with points for engaging in health-promoting activities. This positive reinforcement can help you build healthy habits that stick over time. To start, just connect the app to one of many fitness-tracking apps you probably already have. Then tracking your activity is easy. You can earn automatically and turn those points into a payout. Plus, when you answer questions and respond to surveys in the app, we compare your responses to your activity data and share back insights you can use to recognize patterns, understand where you’re at, and take control of your health.
How it works:
- Visit your device’s app store to download the Evidation app.
- Provide some basic information for your profile. This information is important to connect you with opportunities and provide you with curated information.
We do not share your health data without permission. Our Privacy Notice can give you more insight into our privacy principles and how we collect, handle, and protect your personal information and data. You can also learn more by contacting our Privacy Office at privacy@evidation.com.
- Connect the Evidation app to one of dozens of fitness-tracking apps.
- Come back to the app daily to answer health-related questions, track your mood, sleep, and more, and receive personalized health tips and related articles.
- Earn points for your daily activity and for actions you take in the app.
- Cash out through Paypal or gift cards.
Compatible health trackers
When you download the app and sign up, it will automatically identify compatible health fitness apps you already use on that device. All you have to do is choose the one, or more, you want the Evidation app to pull your data from.
You don't even have to have a wearable tracker. You can also log your data in the free health-tracking app of your choice. It then communicates directly with Evidation, so you never miss out on points.
Some compatible wearables include:
- Fitbit
- Apple Watch
- Garmin
- Misfit
- Oura Ring
Some other compatible health-tracking apps where you may already log health and fitness information include:
- MyFitnessPal
- Apple Health
- Strava
- Withings
- Daily Mile
- MyLife
- Qardio
- MapMyFitness
- MapMyHike
- MapMyRide
- MapMyRun
- MapMyWalk
- RunDouble
- RunKeeper
- Samsung Health
- Record
When you sign up, you can choose categories of information you want to share. And if you want to do more and participate in research or a program, we’ll ask you if you want to and whether you’d like to share your data for those purposes before it starts. If we don’t hear from you, we take that as a, “No”. So, you control the data you share—always.
Why is health research so important?
According to NIH.gov, "Health research has high value to society. It can provide important information about disease trends and risk factors, outcomes of treatment or public health interventions, functional abilities, patterns of care, and health care costs and use."
A lot of health research occurs in labs in a controlled environment. On the one hand, this helps researchers gather consistent and reliable information.
But lab studies are also limiting.
For one, the number or makeup of participants in the study may not represent the population as a whole. At the same time, observer bias can occur.
That's where people act differently because they know they're being watched. They want to meet the expectations of the observer (the researcher). It's a recognized issue that can change (or bias) a study's outcome.
All methods of scientific research have strengths and weaknesses. That's why it's so important to perform different kinds of research in various settings to get the whole picture—and to learn how specific differences can impact outcomes.
By tracking the data of thousands or millions of people in their everyday lives, researchers can see how people act when they're not actively aware they're being observed. That's the gap the Evidation app can help to fill by collecting this real-world data and sharing it with researchers.
And remember: you get to choose when to share your health data.
Additionally, the data collected through the Evidation app looks at a wider swath of the population. So, this data can be more representative of the population as a whole.
This allows our researchers to identify subsets of individuals (anonymously) that require further research. Researchers make connections that can improve doctors' abilities to provide more personalized and effective care for patients.
Every time you choose to participate in health research, you contribute toward valuable societal improvements. You help yourself and others live at your (and their) healthiest. You're also powering the future health innovations that could positively impact people for decades to come.
And we think you deserve to be rewarded for that!
Earn Evidation rewards for making health-promoting choices
You can earn rewards passively by sharing the data your fitness tracker logs automatically with the Evidation app. Earn points just for logging:
- Sleep
- Exercise
- Meditation
- Weight
- Body fat percentage
- What you eat
- And more
If you already have a wearable tracker or smart scale, you may not need to do anything extra to earn your points. Just connect it to the Evidation app and start earning.
However, you can earn points even faster and receive valuable health insights by reading health-related articles, taking surveys, and participating in health research through the app.
10,000 points = $10. And with so many ways to earn, those points can add up fast.
Every health-promoting choice matters
At the end of the day, getting healthier and achieving optimal health both come down to hundreds of little choices you make every day.
It's hard to see the benefits—or negative impacts—of choices in real time. This makes staying motivated more difficult. The Evidation app provides instant feedback because you can see your earned point balance rising.
Make healthy choices a habit
A lot of people want to make healthy decisions for their life and improve their health. A recent survey published by Gov.UK found that 80% of adults had been motivated to get healthier due to the recent pandemic. The global sentiment has been much the same.
But for this motivation to stick, people must form healthy habits. A behavior has to become automatic and that’s easier said than done.
Research shows an activity will "become habitual when it is frequently and consistently performed in the same context."
The Evidation app provides real motivation to stick with the health-promoting activity until it becomes a habit.
For example, instead of allowing you to earn endless points by doing all your health-promoting activities in one day, the app caps you out at a certain number of points for each healthy activity each day. This encourages you to come back tomorrow and do it again. And again.
The repetition and consistency make it a habit.
Are you wondering, "is Evidation legit?" We invite you to see how real people like you are taking charge of their health and contributing to health research with us. We think you’ll love the inspiring stories from our community of Evidation Members.
Benefits of making healthier decisions
Regardless of where you are health-wise, the little choices you make matter. Making healthier decisions consistently can deliver several immediate and lasting benefits:
- Stay accountable with unbiased data
- Use data to optimize athletic performance
- Lower your risk of developing various lifestyle diseases
- Improve management of a chronic condition you live with
- Lessen the impact disease symptoms may have on your life
- Promote physical, emotional, and mental health and wellness
- Reach your health goals
- Make it easier to develop healthy habits for life
So, what is Evidation's role in all of this? We give you rewards for tracking your health and wellness information every day, and we share back with you trends and insights based on your data and how you respond to daily check-ins and surveys. We also share personalized health content and tips. As a result, you have the potential to realize these and other benefits of making healthy decisions.
