How much does Sweatcoin cost?

The app is free. Premium costs $4.99 or $24.99, and the only place either number is published is a collapsed row near the bottom of Sweatcoin’s App Store listing — not its website, not its help center, not its terms, and not the Google Play listing that serves the larger half of its hundred million downloads.

What Sweatcoin charges in money

Nine official surfaces, all read on 19 September 2026, in the US, signed out and without the app installed.

The pattern is the one this format keeps finding, with a twist. Usually the company publishes nothing and the stores publish nothing either. Here the company publishes nothing and one store fills the gap, which means the answer to a very common question has been sitting in public the whole time in the place nobody treats as a pricing page.

The row that prices it, and a correction we owe you

Near the bottom of an App Store listing there is a section headed Information, with a row reading “In-App Purchases: Yes” and a small chevron next to the word Yes. Clicking it expands a list of up to ten in-app purchases with their prices. On Sweatcoin that list is the ten items in the table above.

This site has said three times that Apple prints only the word “Yes” there, and that was wrong. We said it on our Flappy Bird, Fruit Ninja and Crossy Road pages and on most of the pages in this section, and we found the mistake on 19 September 2026 while writing this one. Every page carrying that claim has been corrected in the same day as this page went up. We are stating it here rather than quietly fixing it because a page about what other companies disclose has no business being coy about its own errors.

What is true is narrower and more useful. The list is optional in practice and genuinely absent on some listings — Fetch and Noom Vibe show nothing there. It is also capped at ten items: no listing we have read prints more, so on an app with a large shop it is a sample rather than a catalog. And it is a list of prices without products. Apple gives the SKU name and the amount and nothing else, so Premium $4.99 and Premium $24.99 arrive with no billing period, no feature list and no way to tell a current price from a legacy one. Sweatcoin is a mild case; Duolingo’s row names Super Duolingo at five different prices.

Treat it, then, as the one place a figure exists rather than as a price list. It answers “roughly how much?” and it does not answer “what am I buying?”

Worth adding for completeness, and with the same caution we applied to Forest and Noom: Google Play’s page data carries a field reading “$0.99 - $36.99 per item” which the page never renders. A range names no item, so $36.99 is not the price of Premium, and a figure that is in a page but not on it is not published in any sense a reader benefits from. It is here as a third confirmation that the field exists, not as a source.

Two trial lengths, both published

The help center article on subscription plans says: “You can try the Premium plan free for 7 days.” Apple’s In-App Purchases list names an item called “3 days trial”, priced at $24.99.

We cannot settle that from outside the app and we are not going to guess at it. It is the same shape as Duolingo stating fourteen days on both stores and seven on its own site, and Finch running a three-day preview and a seven-day trial under one word. The practical reading is the conservative one: assume the shorter figure, and read what the screen actually offers before accepting it.

The comparison table is a screenshot from 2021

The only Free-versus-Premium comparison Sweatcoin publishes is an image. The plans article embeds a PNG whose filename is Screen_Shot_2021-08-02_at_11.37.19.png, it carries no alternative text describing its contents, and it has four rows: conversion, daily earn limit, other benefits, and the plan names.

Three things follow. It contains no price, which is the column a reader opened it for. It is five years old, and it quotes a conversion of one sweatcoin per 1,052 steps with a footnote explaining that 0.95 is awarded per 1,000 steps and the other 0.05 funds features in the app — which is the same 5% the current help center describes, stated in a way no current article does. And it says the Premium daily limit is “unlimited*” while the paragraph directly beneath it caps Premium at 100 sweatcoins a day under a fair use policy. The asterisk is doing the reconciling.

None of that is against a rule. It is simply the most important comparison the company publishes, and it is a bitmap that nobody has opened in five years.

The costs that are not the subscription

Three of them, all from the help center, and none is a trick:

• Some rewards need your own money on top. The article titled “Does Sweatcoin cost anything?” says offers “might require additional out of pocket expenses”. A second article is blunter: where you buy a discount coupon, vendors “require payment either for the remainder of the price ... and/or the delivery fees”. So a reward can be a discount you still have to pay for.
• An accidental purchase is not refundable. “Offers purchased accidentally are unable to be refunded.” Refunds are for codes that do not work, and anything wrong with the product goes to the brand.
• The price of a reward moves. Prices in sweatcoins “can sometimes fluctuate as per supply/demand”, so a target you are saving towards can change while you save for it.

The one genuinely odd note is that the article answering how does Sweatcoin make money lists four revenue sources — brand partnerships, ad revenue, healthcare and insurance partners, and longer-term work with governments — and the subscription is not among them.

What it costs in data, and the stores disagree

This is the sharpest two-store disagreement we have recorded, and unlike the PAC-MAN 256 case it resolves.

Google Play’s data safety page says “No data shared with third parties”, declares collection of name, email address, phone number, app interactions, other user-generated content and fitness info, and names no location category at all. It also declares data encrypted in transit and a published route to request deletion.

Apple’s App Privacy panel declares Location and Identifiers as Data Used to Track You — Apple’s wording is data that may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies — and lists Third-Party Advertising as a purpose, using coarse location, user ID, device ID and advertising data. Seven categories are declared as linked to your identity, and precise location appears under App Functionality.

Reading the third document settles it, which is the habit our Finch page established. Sweatcoin’s privacy policy describes collecting GPS/Cell-ID location, and says the company works with third parties “including, for example, Apple HealthKit, Near Foundation, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers and search information providers”. An advertising network is a third party, and location is collected. Apple’s panel is the one the policy supports.

These forms are self-declarations rather than audits, and the gap between two of them is not proof that either was filled in badly. It is a reason to read both and then read the policy, which takes about ten minutes and is the only method that has ever worked here.

One line is worth quoting because it sits on the same page as the panel that contradicts it. Sweatcoin’s App Store description reads: “Privacy first: We use a secure, proprietary algorithm to count your steps. Your location and personal data stay private—only you have access to your information.” Scroll down that same listing and Apple’s panel names location among the data used to track you across other companies’ apps. Both are the developer’s own statements. The panel is the structured declaration and the sentence is marketing copy, and a reader deciding on privacy should weight them accordingly.

The cost nobody counts

259.7 MB, per Apple’s listing on 19 September 2026, with the app rated 13+ on Apple and Everyone on Google Play. That size is a real cost on a phone that is nearly full or a metered connection, and it is published, checkable and almost never checked. For scale, it is about three times the 85.2 MB of the largest app we ship, a figure we published in our own piece on Flutter app size.

Worth one line: Sweat Wallet, the companion crypto app published by The Sweat Foundation Ltd rather than Sweatco Ltd, carries its own paid tier. Apple lists Sweat Max at $16.99, $59.99 and $99.99. The same help center covers both apps and prices neither.

What Sweatcoin does better than us

Three things, and the first is not close.

The scale is in a different league. 100 million-plus downloads on Google Play, 4.5 stars across 3.11 million Play reviews and 398,000 Apple ratings, and #39 on Apple’s top free Health & Fitness chart on the day we read it. Ours is a handful of ratings. That scale is also what funds a marketplace with real goods in it, which is a thing we cannot offer at all.

Sweatcoin’s free tier is genuinely usable and the paid tier is optional. You can walk, earn and redeem without ever paying, and the subscription buys a faster rate rather than access. That is a cleaner arrangement than a free tier that exists to advertise a paid one.

Its terms carry a complete auto-renewal disclosure. Renewal timing, the 24-hour cancellation window and where to cancel are all written down. Our apps have no subscriptions at all, so this is not a comparison we win or lose — it is simply a thing Sweatcoin does properly.

Where ours differs is narrower than either side’s marketing suggests. Step and Earn has nothing to buy, so there is no price to publish and no subscription to cancel; a perfect year in it is about $16.12 at our own published rate, which we mention because it is the number that stops this paragraph reading as a boast. The honest summary is that Sweatcoin is a much bigger product with a paid tier it under-describes, and ours is a much smaller product with nothing to under-describe.

So what does it actually cost

Nothing to install and to keep walking. $4.99 or $24.99 for Premium, on Apple’s figures, with no period attached to either. Possibly your own money on top of sweatcoins for some rewards. 259.7 MB of storage. Ads on the free plan. And a data trade that two stores describe differently and the privacy policy describes plainly.

Every one of those came from Sweatcoin or from a store Sweatcoin publishes through, and the arithmetic we did is labeled where we did it. What the app gives back for all that is a separate question with its own long division, and it is on our page about what Sweatcoin pays.