Sweatcoin Walking Step Tracker 12+

Incredibly dysfunctional - at least for me

I like the fact this app motivates me to walk and run more and the concept is great. But it works horribly for me and I am very tempted to delete the app forever. I’ll give an example - Yesterday I came to Dubai. After getting to my room I had 4 thousand steps counted and another three thousand were not counted. An hour later I left to walk outside and notice that all my steps were gone - and none were converted. I shrugged it off and went outside to come home to about 4 thousand steps counted and 7 thousand not counted before my phone died. I come home and after I turn my phone back on, I have 11,000 steps that weren’t sent - eight thousand of which just disappeared into thin air. It’s incredibly hard for me to keep getting more and more steps because of how incredibly dysfunctional the app is. It owe me at least two hundred thousand steps, most of which either don’t happen to be counted, or just vanish. Please tell me what to do with this as it is becoming incredibly irritating.

Good app but still needs work.

It’s good because it means walking the dog in the early cold winter mornings is much less of an arduous task now. But now the problems: First being the choice of items in the marketplace because some of them are simply things that I don’t want I think many people would agree with that. But the biggest problem is how much it drains the battery of my phone and how if I even dare shut down the app the warning notifications it gives me it’s actually quite patronising and I think the developers need to make it work better and more efficiently with battery life because the majority of us already have enough apps on our phones that drain out battery so having another thing drain the life out of our phones is just more hassle. It’s a good app with a good idea if you look at the bigger picture and if the developers just pulled their heads out of their arses and just made sweatcoins a useable currency in like fruit and veg sections of supermarkets and health product shops this app would be practically perfect because the £1,000 cash prize is almost not worth it because for someone like me who has back pain issues its going to take me like 10 years to reach it! I find myself charging my phone twice as much as I usually would simply because I want to tot up my steps. This app should be fun,
Not stressful.

Developer Response ,

Hey!
Please understand that in order to give you free things for your steps, we need partners who believe in the value of steps as currency. We believe this, but it can take the rest of the world to get on board, so bear with us while we work hard on partnering with more and more brands all the time who want to reward you for your steps! :)

Needs work

The idea of the app is great - however, I don’t like the idea that the makers can track every step you make, every single day. Essentially that’s how the app works, but instead of giving you actual genuine rewards for exercising, it tricks you into thinking you’re working towards something when in actual fact, there’s no monetary value to this app whatsoever. You’re not being paid, you’re not receiving rewards as such. You save your coin and you can use them to purchase subscriptions or items but they are really limited. None of the rewards advertised have been relevant to me. You can save your coins for an iPhone, which is the equivalent of 20k sweatcoins, however, that’s quite an impossible amount to raise. Especially considering the max coins you can earn in 1 day is 5 (unless you use your coins to pay monthly to be able to increase that to 10 coins). You can transfer coins to other people but they’re not applicable when it comes to using them to purchase items which is a bit of a dud.

Great idea for an app. I have read that the makers eventually want to make sweatcoin a cryptocurrency and increase the number or rewards you can claim. But that seems like a distant dream rather than actual reality at this point. Still, I shall keep the app and save my coins and who know what will have changed in 6 months to a year!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback Cariad1313. We’d love to hear how things are going 3 months on from your review. We’ve put a lot of effort in over this time getting cool, high-quality brands on the app, wholly purchasable in Sweatcoins. You’ll have hopefully seen that you can now buy lots of products at the lower end, so they are more attainable. We’ve also launched physical retail offers in London, with hundreds of businesses now accepting Sweatcoins. Also just to clarify, we only track your steps to verify your reported movement. The information we collect from you is used to deliver our service to you and it is never sold to third parties. Anyway, hopefully, you’ve seen some improvement since your last review, but either way, we’d love your feedback. Your Sweatcoin Team