Apps like Sweatcoin

People leave Sweatcoin for one reason, and it is not that the app is broken. It counts steps accurately, it is free, and the marketplace works. They leave because after a few months the balance has grown and nobody, including Sweatcoin, can say what it is worth in money. So the useful way to sort the alternatives is not by how much they pay. It is by whether they will tell you what they pay.

What Sweatcoin actually pays

The earning half is published and simple. 1,000 verified steps convert to 1 sweatcoin, less a 5% commission the business takes, so 10,000 steps earns 9.5 sweatcoins. On the free plan sweatcoins accrue from the first step up to 10,000 a day, and the premium plan extends that to 20,000, so on the free plan a 20,000-step day earns exactly what a 10,000-step day earns.

The spending half has no published rate at all. Sweatcoin's help center is direct about the thing most people want to know: there is no option to cash a sweatcoin balance out to PayPal or a bank transfer, and the balance is spent in a rotating catalog and in auctions instead. That is a design choice rather than a trick, and our Sweatcoin review goes through it and the separate $SWEAT token in full.

The number missing from nearly all of them

Once you start reading the help centers rather than the app icons, the same hole appears in almost every one. These apps publish what a step earns and go quiet about what the earnings are worth, which is the half that decides whether any of this is worth your time.

WeWard is the clearest case, because it says so in writing. Its FAQ states that although indicative, there is no fixed equivalence between the Ward and the local currency, and that the Wards a reward costs vary by country, by period, by partner and by your status in the app. CashWalk publishes a rate of 1 coin per 100 steps and puts its gift-card prices inside the app only. Both are more forthcoming than Sweatcoin about the earning side and no more forthcoming about the other side.

Two apps do publish both halves, and the reason is instructive in each case: one of them is not really paying for steps, and the other is paying you with your own money.

If you want the same deal without the crypto

• WeWard is the nearest thing in shape. It pays at five fixed step goals that are the same for every user — 2,500 steps for 1 Ward, 5,000 for 3, 10,000 for 8, 15,000 for 13 and 20,000 for 23 — plus 2 Wards for a personalized goal it recalculates every Monday from your last 28 days. Its own summary is that the ceiling is 23 Wards a day, or 25 with the personalized goal. Wards convert to bank transfers, gift cards, sweepstakes and charity donations rather than to a marketplace, at a rate it declines to fix. It also requires an identity document for a transfer, allows none in your first 14 days, and can take up to 15 business days to pay.
• CashWalk is the simplest of the lot: 1 coin for every 100 steps, redeemed for Amazon, Walmart and Starbucks gift cards. Two details matter more than the rate. Coins are not credited automatically — you collect them by tapping a treasure box, and the box resets daily, so a day you forget is a day you earned nothing. And collected coins expire one year from the date you collected them. Its website says coins accrue up to 20,000 steps a day while its App Store listing says 10,000, which is worth knowing before you plan a long walk around either figure.

If you want dollars rather than a catalog

• Evidation is the only app here with a fixed, published exchange rate: 10,000 points is $10, redeemed through a payment partner as a bank transfer, a PayPal transfer, a gift card or a donation. The catch is on the earning side, and it is a big one. Synced activity is capped at 40 points a day, made of 8 points for each of five categories — walking, exercise, sleep, vitals and nutrition — and one synced activity in a category earns the full 8 points for that category. Ten thousand steps and a thousand steps pay identically. It is a health research company, its rewards are payment for the data, and it is unusually plain about that, which is a virtue rather than a warning.
• StepBet pays PayPal cash at a rate of $1.00 a point, and the money is other players' money. You bet on hitting personalized step goals — most bets are $40 and most games run six weeks — and winners split the pot, less the 15% StepBet retains. Its terms add that points expire a year after the last activity that changes your balance, and that a check instead of PayPal costs a $5 handling fee. As accountability it is well designed. As income it cannot be, since the pot is capped at what the players put in.
• Ours, last and for completeness: Step and Earn reads your steps from Apple Health, awards coins at daily goals and at a milestone every 500 steps, and cashes out to PayPal at 2,000 coins, which is $2.00. It is iPhone and iPad only, it has no catalog, and it is the smallest app on this page by a wide margin. Read the next section before you install it.

What none of them does

We went looking for a walking app that publishes both halves of the sum — what a step earns and what the earnings are worth — and pays cash for the steps themselves. We did not find one, ours included.

Ours publishes the exchange rate and not the earn rate: the site says a coin is a tenth of a cent, because 2,000 coins is $2.00, and it does not say how many coins a milestone pays. Sweatcoin, WeWard and CashWalk publish the earn rate and not the exchange rate. Evidation publishes both and does not pay per step. That is the state of the category in August 2026, and a list that pretended otherwise would be the affiliate version of this page.

All of them side by side

Mechanics only, because mechanics are the checkable part. Every figure is the publisher's own, read on 20 August 2026 and linked at the foot of the page.

The last column is not a ranking, and a published rate is not the same as a good one. Evidation publishes the clearest arithmetic on this page and it works out at $14.60 a year if you sync every category it can read, every day.

What these apps do better than ours

All five of them are on Android and ours is not, which ends the comparison for most people before any of the rest of it matters. Beyond that:

• Sweatcoin has sixteen years of partnerships behind its catalog and a community feature set we have nothing like. As a free step counter that occasionally hands you something, it is genuinely good.
• WeWard pays for causes as well as for you, converts to real bank transfers, and pays across a range of goals rather than at a single threshold. Its ceiling of 23 Wards a day rewards a long walk in a way ours does not.
• Evidation pays for five kinds of health data, not one, so it keeps paying on days you do not walk. It also states plainly what the data is for, which is more than most of this category manages.
• StepBet changes behavior, which none of the rest of us can claim. Money at risk is a stronger motivator than money promised, and it is honest about being an accountability tool rather than an income.

How to check any of these yourself

Every figure on this page came out of a help center or a terms page in about twenty minutes, and the same method works on any app in this category. Find the page that states what one unit of the currency costs in the real world. If the app publishes the earn rate but the price list lives only inside the app, you cannot work out what your time is worth before you spend it, and that is worth knowing on day one rather than in month six.

Then redeem at the first threshold you are allowed to. A balance in one of these apps is a record in a company's database rather than money held for you, which is the lesson from the last big app in this category to close without notice. Coins that expire on a timer, as CashWalk's and StepBet's do, make the same point more gently.