Comparison

Stepstakes vs Step And Earn

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Stepstakes

This app encourages you to reach your daily step goals by rewarding you with entries into weekly prize drawings. Connect your health data to receive a personalized target and earn chances to win gift cards, gear, or cash.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily step targets
  • Earn entries for prize drawings
  • Win gift cards, gear, and cash
  • Connects with Apple Health
  • Weekly prize winner announcements
  • Free to play
Features
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Hit your daily step target. Earn entries. Win real prizes. Free to play, every single week. Stepstakes gives you a personalized daily step target based on your own walking history and rewards you for hitting it. Every day you reach your target, you earn an entry into that week's prize drawing. Hit all seven days and earn three bonus entries. Every Monday morning, we draw a winner. No gym. No gimmicks. No catch. Just walk like you already do. YOUR TARGET IS YOURS Your daily step target comes from your real walking data, not a generic goal. If your median is 4,800 steps, that's your target. If it's 12,000, that's yours. We meet you where you are. PRIZES EVERY WEEK Gift cards, gear, and cash prizes. New prizes announced every Monday. One winner drawn at random from all entries. Real prizes, real winners, every week. WAKE UP TO YOUR RESULTS Every morning you get a short email: steps walked, target hit or missed, entries banked, days left in the week. Open the app when you want, not because you have to. HOW IT WORKS 1. Connect Apple Health (takes 30 seconds) 2. Get your personalized daily step target 3. Walk and hit your target to earn entries 4. Every Monday, a winner is drawn Free to play. Must be 18+ and a US resident (excluding FL and NY). See Official Rules in the app for complete details.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Track daily steps
  • Earn coins for milestones
  • Daily check-in bonuses
  • Play mini-game for coins
  • Cash out to PayPal
  • Optional step reminders
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Stepstakes4 screens
Step And Earn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Stepstakes at none against Step And Earn's shown. Stepstakes also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stepstakes against 5.0 for Step And Earn. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stepstakes ships an update every 4 days, Step And Earn every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stepstakes versus Step And Earn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepstakesStep And Earn
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB73 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperAround The Hoop Holdings, LLCIllumination Development, L.L.C.

Customer experience

Stepstakes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Step And Earn

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stepstakes

No in-app purchases

None

Step And Earn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stepstakes free?
Stepstakes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Step And Earn free?
Step And Earn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stepstakes or Step And Earn?
Stepstakes and Step And Earn are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Stepstakes or Step And Earn have ads?
Step And Earn shows ads; Stepstakes does not.
Which is updated more often, Stepstakes or Step And Earn?
Stepstakes ships an update every 4 days, and Step And Earn every 2 weeks. Most recently, Stepstakes was updated on October 8, 2026 and Step And Earn on October 7, 2026.

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