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. It is not on its website, its help center, its terms, or 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.

Sweatcoin publishes nothing, and one store fills the gap. So the answer to a very common question has sat in public all along, in a 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. 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 this page is about what companies disclose, and that has to include our own mistakes.

The list is optional in practice and 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 and no feature list. You can’t tell a current price from a legacy one. Sweatcoin is a mild case; Duolingo’s row names Super Duolingo at five different prices.

So it is the one place a figure exists, and not a price list. It answers “roughly how much?” but not “what am I buying?”

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 sits in a page’s code but not on screen doesn’t help a reader. We cite it only 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.” But 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, so we won’t guess. Duolingo has the same split, fourteen days on both stores and seven on its own site, and Finch runs a three-day preview and a seven-day trial under one word. Assume the shorter figure, and read what the screen 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 named Screen_Shot_2021-08-02_at_11.37.19.png, with no alternative text describing it. It has four rows: conversion, daily earn limit, other benefits, and the plan names.

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. A footnote explains that 0.95 is awarded per 1,000 steps and the other 0.05 funds features in the app. That 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.

No rule asks for more. Still, the most important comparison the company publishes is a bitmap nobody has touched in five years.

The costs that are not the subscription

All three are in the help center, stated openly:

• 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 goes further: 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.

Oddly, the article answering how does Sweatcoin make money leaves out the subscription. It lists four revenue sources: brand partnerships, ad revenue, healthcare and insurance partners, and longer-term work with governments.

What it costs in data, and the stores disagree

No two store forms we have read disagree more sharply. Unlike the PAC-MAN 256 case, this one resolves.

Google Play’s data safety page says “No data shared with third parties”. It 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. The panel 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.

A third document settles it, as it did on our Finch page. Sweatcoin’s privacy policy describes collecting GPS/Cell-ID location. It 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, not audits, and a gap between two of them does not prove either was filled in badly. Read both, then the policy. It takes about ten minutes, and nothing else has worked here.

One line 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

282 MB, per Apple’s listing on 3 November 2026, with the app rated 13+ on Apple and Everyone on Google Play. On a nearly full phone or a metered connection that is a real cost, and almost nobody checks it. 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.

Separately, 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. The Sweat Foundation has announced that Sweat Wallet and the SWEAT token “as they exist today” end on 30 December 2026; Sweatcoin’s help center says sweatcoin balances, purchases and Premium are not affected.

What Sweatcoin does better than us

Three things.

The scale is in a different league. It has 100 million-plus downloads on Google Play, and 4.5 stars across 3.18 million Play reviews and 402,000 Apple ratings. It was #59 on Apple’s top free Health & Fitness chart on 3 November 2026. 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 usable on its own, 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 there is nothing to compare. Sweatcoin does this one 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, and that number belongs next to any comparison we make. Sweatcoin is a much bigger product, with a paid tier it under-describes.

So what does it 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. 282 MB of storage. Ads on the free plan. And a data trade the two stores describe differently, which the privacy policy spells out.

Each of those came from Sweatcoin or a store it publishes through, and our own arithmetic is labeled. What the app gives back is a separate sum, worked through on our page about what Sweatcoin pays.