---
title: Leaderboards
canonical_url: "https://trophy.so/features/leaderboards"
description: "Purpose-built app gamification for perpetual and repeating leaderboards. Rank users by metrics, points, or streaks and drive healthy social competition."
---

# Create friendly social competitions with in-app leaderboards

Purpose-built app gamification for managing perpetual and repeating leaderboards at scale. Rank users by metrics, points, or streaks without a custom leaderboards engine.

## A purpose-built leaderboards engine

Build perpetual and repeating leaderboards using a flexible ranking engine. Rank by metrics, points, or streaks without constant releases.

- **Flexible ranking methods** — Rank users by metrics, points systems, or streak length to match how competition works in your product.
- **Perpetual and repeating schedules** — Run all-time rankings or reset on daily, weekly, monthly, or custom intervals so new users can compete.
- **Fair across time zones** — Trophy finalizes runs with time zone awareness so users worldwide get an equal chance to compete.

## Drive participation with segmented leaderboards

Group users by location, cohort, or any custom attribute into smaller, more socially connected competitions.

- **Custom breakdown logic** — Group participants into discrete leaderboards based on location, cohort, or any custom user attribute.
- **Automatic grouping** — Trophy automatically adds and removes participants as their attributes change, keeping segments up to date.
- **Higher engagement at scale** — Smaller, socially connected groups drive more participation than large global leaderboards alone.

## Measure the impact of your leaderboards

Track participation, competition intensity, and score distribution to optimize leaderboard design and drive engagement.

- **Track participation growth** — Monitor unique participants over time and understand how leaderboard reach expands across your user base.
- **Understand competition** — Analyze rank changes to see how competitive dynamics shift and where users are gaining or losing ground.
- **Balance score distribution** — See how scores cluster across ranges to keep competition feeling fair and avoid winner-takes-all dynamics.

Docs: https://docs.trophy.so/features/leaderboards

## Gamification software for modern product teams

The only gamification platform built for the modern era. Control via API or MCP and wire into your development workflow across multiple environments.

- [Get API key](https://app.trophy.so/sign-up)
- [Read docs](https://docs.trophy.so)

### First-class APIs for fast-moving teams

Idempotent, retry-safe, time-zone aware. Designed to feel obvious the first time you read the docs.

### Control everything via MCP

Connect Trophy to MCP clients like Cursor and Claude Code and configure features without touching the dashboard.

### Connect your stack via webhooks

Trigger workflows in third-party tools and internal systems in real time based on changes in Trophy.

### Develop, test, and deploy across environments

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## Scale with confidence

Trusted by startups and enterprises alike. Scale seamlessly from your first to your millionth user.

### Scale from first user to millionth

Latency, throughput, and uptime that hold up as your user base grows.

### Secure by design

Encryption in transit and at rest, scoped API keys, and privacy-first defaults out of the box.

### Reliable at scale

Fault tolerance, rate limits, and idempotent APIs keep gamification logic dependable under load.

### Serving teams on 4 continents

Powering gamification experiences for 1M+ users across the globe with consistent low latency.

## Loved by consumer product teams

*Customers*

Learn why growing product teams are increasing engagement with Trophy.

- [RevisionDojo](https://trophy.so/customers/revisiondojo.md) — With Trophy, RevisionDojo powers a fun and engaging study experience for 350,000 students — integrated in 1 week with a 9% boost in retention.
- [Lexioo](https://trophy.so/customers/lexioo.md) — Integrating Trophy took Lexioo just 3 days, helping their English learning app reach 1M+ downloads with consistent daily progress.
- [Campfire](https://trophy.so/customers/campfire.md) — Campfire was set up in about an hour with Trophy, helping 300,000 authors build weekly writing habits with a 22% increase in 14-day retention.
- [CyberPatient](https://trophy.so/customers/cyberpatient.md) — CyberPatient added gamification to virtual clinical training in 5 days, making long cases more engaging for medical students.

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