Stride vs Step And Earn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stride
Turn your workouts into cash by competing in fitness challenges. Connect your health data, set goals, and earn real money for achieving them. Join or create challenges for distance, steps, duration, and more.
- Earn real money for workouts
- Compete in distance, steps, and duration challenges
- Connect Strava, Apple Health, or Health Connect
- Create custom challenges
- Join head-to-head or group tournaments
- Build and compete with Crews
- Cash out winnings to your bank
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Stride. Get paid for the workouts you already do. Stride turns your runs, walks, rides, and gym sessions into real-money challenges. Pick a goal that pushes you, put a little skin in the game, and split the pool with whoever hits it. Miss it, the field takes your buy-in. Simple. Fair. Decided by your legs, not luck. This isn't gambling. It's competition. Every winner crossed the finish line for real. HOW IT WORKS Connect Strava, Apple Health, or Health Connect. We read the activity you already record. No new wearable required. Browse open challenges, or create your own in under a minute. Set the goal, the window, the buy-in. Train. Stride tracks your progress live against everyone else in the pool. Hit the goal before the timer ends and your share of the pool lands in your wallet. Cash out anytime. CHALLENGE TYPES Distance: be the first to run, walk, or ride X miles or kilometers. Steps: hit a daily or weekly step target. Duration: log X minutes of active movement. Streaks: don't break the chain. Head-to-head, small-pool group challenges, or open-to-anyone tournaments. CREWS Build your running club, your gym, your office, your group chat. Invite-only or open. Run private challenges. Climb the crew leaderboard together. Trash-talk encouraged. REAL CASH. REAL WITHDRAWALS. Winnings hit your in-app wallet the moment a challenge settles. Withdraw to your bank in 2 to 7 business days. United States: ACH. Colombia: Wompi to any local bank. No hidden fees. No "credits." Real money. WELCOME BONUS New athletes get a first-deposit bonus to try your first paid challenge on us. Look for the offer the first time you fund your wallet. BUILT FOR ATHLETES, NOT BETTORS Your fitness decides the outcome. Anti-cheat systems flag implausible paces, GPS-impossible routes, and manual data entry. We protect honest competitors so the pool always pays the people who actually moved. PRIVACY YOU CONTROL We read only the workout data needed to score the challenges you join. Steps, distance, duration, calories, route. Nothing else. Revoke access from your Health app or Strava at any time. We never sell your data. We never use HealthKit data for ads. WHO IT'S FOR Runners chasing a 5K, 10K, half, or full Walkers building a daily step habit Cyclists logging weekend miles Anyone who's ever paid for a gym they didn't go to Friend groups who need a reason to actually show up Stop running for nothing. Make every mile count.
Step And Earn
This app rewards you with coins for walking and hitting daily step milestones. You can also earn bonus coins through daily check-ins and a mini-game. Redeem coins for cash via PayPal once you reach the minimum payout threshold.
- Track daily steps
- Earn coins for milestones
- Daily check-in bonuses
- Play mini-game for coins
- Cash out to PayPal
- Optional step reminders
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Step And Earn turns the walking you already do into a small amount of real money. Your phone counts your steps; every 500 of them is a milestone you can claim for coins. HOW IT WORKS • Twenty milestones a day, one every 500 steps up to 10,000 • Claim a milestone for a coin • Check in daily for 10 coins, and 30 more every seventh day in a row • Play Furniture Run, a quick arcade jumper, for up to 10 more coins a day • Cash out to PayPal at 2,000 coins ($2.00), then 5,000 coins ($5.00) after that YOUR STEPS, FROM YOUR PHONE Step And Earn reads your daily step count from Apple Health. It only ever reads steps, never writes, and never sends your step count anywhere except your own backed-up copy of your progress. Tracking your steps is always free — the coins are the extra. DAILY CHECK-IN Come back each day for 10 coins, and 30 more on every seventh day in a row. Your check-in streak is shown on the home screen and survives until you miss a whole day, rather than resetting at midnight. Checking in plays a short video; if none is available the coins are paid anyway, so a bad connection never costs you your streak. FURNITURE RUN A quick retro jumper 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; your score is saved if the video doesn't load, so a failed ad never costs you a run. YOUR GOAL, AND YOUR WALKING STREAK A daily step goal taken from your own recent walking rather than a number we picked — set at a figure you already clear on most days, so it is a habit rather than a hurdle. Meet it and your walking streak grows. The progress screen shows your last 7 and 30 days, your best streak, your daily average, and how this week compares with the one before. Change the goal yourself whenever you like. WALKING EVENTS A directory of free weekly walks, so there is somewhere to go when you want the steps. Browse by country, search by park or place, then open the organiser's page to sign up or the start in your maps app. These are parkrun events: we don't run them, we charge nothing, and coverage follows parkrun's — not yet France or Korea. Neither the events nor your goal and walking streak pay coins. Coins come from the 500-step milestones, the daily check-in and Furniture Run. EARN HISTORY Every milestone and every game payout, grouped by day, with your earning streak, how many rewards you've claimed and the coins they earned. A REMINDER, IF YOU WANT ONE An optional nudge in the early evening, while there's still time to close the gap. It skips days when you've already claimed every milestone. Off or on any time in Settings, and it only asks permission when you switch it on. HONEST ABOUT THE MATH This is a small bonus for moving, not an income. 10 coins equals one cent. Your first payout is 2,000 coins ($2.00), and every payout after it is 5,000 coins ($5.00) — PayPal charges us a fee on every transfer, so fewer, larger payouts keep more of the money with you. A steady walker claiming milestones most days reaches the first payout in about a month, sooner if they check in daily. ADS The app is paid for by advertising: a banner at the bottom of the screen, and short videos. A video adds 3-9 bonus coins to a milestone you have already claimed. Claiming a walking milestone never needs one. Payouts are reviewed before they're sent. PayPal requires account holders to be 18 or over. No account needed. No sign-up. Just open it and walk.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Step And Earn at 100% against Stride's 50%. Step And Earn also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). Stride's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Step And Earn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Stride's written reviews are positive against 100% of Step And Earn's.
Stride ships an update every 10 days, Step And Earn every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stride | Step And Earn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Leto Technologies LLC | Illumination Development, L.L.C. |
Customer experience
Stride
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In-app purchases
Stride
No in-app purchases
Step And Earn
No in-app purchases







