About Step and Earn
Step and Earn rewards the walking you are already doing. Whether you are going around the neighborhood, moving through the gym, or commuting to work, the app reads your step count from your phone and turns that activity into coins. Every 500 steps is a milestone you can claim, twenty of them a day up to 10,000, and each one pays a coin.
The walking half needs nothing from you. You do not have to start a workout or log anything — the step count comes from Apple Health on an iPhone and from Health Connect on an Android phone, and the milestones stack up as you go about the day. Either way the app only ever reads steps. It never writes anything back, and the count goes nowhere except into your own copy of your progress.
Two other things pay, and they are the part people miss. There is a daily check-in worth 10 coins, with 30 more on every seventh day in a row, and the streak behind it survives until you miss a whole day rather than resetting at midnight. And there is Furniture Run, a quick retro jumper for when you are not walking: ten points scores a coin, up to ten coins a day. Between them they are a meaningful share of how a balance actually grows, which is why they are named here rather than left as a surprise after you install.
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How it works
- Install the app and allow it to read your step activity — from Apple Health on an iPhone, or Health Connect on an Android phone.
- Walk as you normally would — the step count arrives on its own.
- Claim a milestone every 500 steps for a coin, twenty a day up to 10,000.
- Check in daily for 10 coins, and 30 more every seventh day in a row.
- Play Furniture Run for up to 10 more coins a day.
- Cash out to PayPal at 2,000 coins ($2.00), then at 5,000 ($5.00).
Features
- Step counts read from Apple Health, or Health Connect on Android — read only, never written
- A milestone every 500 steps, twenty a day up to 10,000, a coin each
- A daily check-in for 10 coins, and 30 more every seventh day in a row
- Furniture Run, a retro jumper worth up to 10 more coins a day
- Earn history: every milestone and game payout, grouped by day
- An optional evening reminder, which skips days you have already finished
- First cash-out at 2,000 coins ($2.00), then 5,000 ($5.00)
What it actually pays
The whole calculation is public, so here it is done. Twenty milestones a day at a coin each, 10 coins for the daily check-in and up to 10 from Furniture Run is 40 coins on a full day, with 30 more on every seventh consecutive day — 310 coins in a perfect week. A coin is a tenth of a cent, and the first cash-out is 2,000 coins, or $2.00. Derived: about 45 days to a first payout without watching a single video.
A video adds three to nine coins to a milestone already claimed. Taken on every milestone, a day runs roughly 100 to 220 coins and the same $2.00 arrives in about 10 to 20 days. Claiming a walking milestone never needs one; the gap between the two figures is a direct consequence of where the money comes from, which is advertising.
Worth stating plainly because this site keeps score of it elsewhere: the 10,000-step ceiling means a 20,000-step day earns exactly what a 10,000-step day earns. That is the same shape as the cap we criticize Sweatcoin for burying in a help article about a different subject — the difference we would claim is where it is written, not that we do not have one. It is in the feature list above, on the walking-app comparison, and here.
Frequently asked questions
Is Step and Earn free?
Yes. No purchase, no subscription, and no fee taken out of what you cash out.
What do I need to run it?
An iPhone on iOS 15.0 or later, or an Android phone, and permission to read your step activity — from Apple Health on the iPhone, and from Health Connect on Android. The two stores rate it differently: 13+ on the App Store, Mature 17+ on Google Play. Nothing on the screen differs between them; Play files the cash reward itself at that tier, and PayPal requires account holders to be 18 either way.
Why is there no iPad version?
Because it would not count anything. This is the one app of ours that's iPhone-only on Apple's side, and that's deliberate rather than a gap we haven't got to yet: it pays you for steps, and an iPad is not a thing you carry on a walk. It is a separate question from Android, which it does run on. The other three all run on iPad, and Todo and Earn has a split view built for it.
Do I have to start a workout for my steps to count?
No. Step and Earn reads your daily step count from Apple Health, or from Health Connect on Android, so ordinary walking counts without you starting or logging anything. The daily check-in is a separate thing and it does need a tap — it's worth 10 coins, and 30 more on every seventh day in a row, but skipping it never costs you a step.
What is Furniture Run?
A quick retro jumper inside the app, for when you're not walking. Ten points scores a coin, up to ten coins a day. Game coins need a short video to collect, and your score is saved if the video doesn't load, so a failed ad never costs you a run. Note that "points" there means the game score — the reward is still coins, the same coins the milestones pay.
How much do I need to cash out?
2,000 coins, which is $2.00, the first time. After that it is 5,000 coins, or $5.00: PayPal charges us a fee on every transfer, and on a $2.00 payment that fee takes a large share of what is sent, so fewer and larger payments leave more of the money with you. A steady walker claiming milestones most days reaches the first one in about a month.
How do I get paid?
Your walking builds a coin balance, and you redeem that balance for cash through PayPal from inside the app.
Is there an Android version?
Yes, it's on Google Play now. The one real difference is where the steps come from: Apple Health on an iPhone, Health Connect on Android, which is the system component Google uses for exactly this and which some phones need installed before the app can read anything. Everything else is the same build — twenty milestones, the daily check-in, Furniture Run, and a first cash-out at 2,000 coins with 5,000 after it. All four reward apps are now on both stores.
If I switch phones, do my coins come with me?
No, and it's worth knowing before you build a balance up. Coins live on the device rather than in an account, so an iPhone balance and an Android balance are separate and each has to reach 2,000 on its own. There's nothing to transfer between them. Cash out before you change phones. We say this here rather than in the small print because we've criticized another app in this category for burying it — see our Mistplay review.
