Is Sweatcoin legit, and what are the alternatives?

What Sweatcoin is

Sweatcoin is a free step-counting app for Android and iPhone, also available on Apple Watch. It is run by SweatCo Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. The app verifies your steps and converts them into sweatcoins, at a stated rate of 1,000 verified steps for 1 sweatcoin, after a 5% commission.

You spend sweatcoins in the app's marketplace on goods, discounts and vouchers from partner brands. Some offers are paid fully in sweatcoins, others are discounts where you still pay the brand directly. Marketplace offers depend on your phone number, which sets your marketplace country, and the offers on show change often.

Sweatcoin also has a Premium subscription with a free trial and then monthly or annual billing. Sweatcoin states that sweatcoins are not a cryptocurrency. A separate crypto token called SWEAT exists in a different app, Sweat Wallet, run by a different company, and Sweatcoin's own help pages say that token and wallet are set to end in their current form, while Sweatcoin itself continues to run as normal.

Sweatcoin at a glance

Here are the main facts about Sweatcoin, taken from its own help pages and terms.

Facts checked on 2026-10-06

What to look for in a similar app

If you want an app where your effort adds up to something you can actually redeem, check a few things before you install it. Look at what you are being asked to do, whether it is walking, watching, testing or answering questions, and what your reward turns into: in-app credit you can only spend with select partners, or a balance you can redeem more widely.

Also check whether a cash-out or gift card option is named plainly, rather than appearing only occasionally in auctions or promotions, and whether the app is free to join with no payment asked of you at any point.

Sweatcoin compared with PocketsFull

Sweatcoin and PocketsFull reward different kinds of activity, so the table below compares what each one actually offers.

How PocketsFull is different

PocketsFull is an online rewards site, not a step-counting app. Members take paid surveys and complete offers, including game and app offers, and the rewards go into a balance that can be redeemed, rather than spent only inside one marketplace.

Joining and using PocketsFull is free, and PocketsFull never asks for a deposit or a payment. A completed survey adds its reward to your balance, though not every survey fits every person, since survey providers look for specific profiles and being screened out happens to everyone sometimes. Offers show their own steps and reward, and some take time to be confirmed by the partner before the reward appears.

PocketsFull has an Android app on Google Play, and the website also works in a phone browser. There is also a separate page of free browser games for fun, which do not pay rewards. What a member earns depends on the surveys and offers available in their country and the time they spend on them: it is pocket money, not a salary, and PocketsFull is not an employer.

How redeeming rewards works on PocketsFull

The box below shows the redeem options PocketsFull offers, and these depend on your country. In India, members see local gift card brands such as Amazon, Flipkart and PlayStation, along with UPI, which pays out to a UPI ID from an app such as Paytm, PhonePe or Google Pay.

PayPal and Litecoin are also listed on the redeem screen. A redeemed gift card is sent to the email address on your account. This is different from Sweatcoin, where sweatcoins cannot be cashed out and are spent inside the app's own marketplace instead.