WalkTask Review – LEGIT or SCAM – Can You Really Get Paid to Walk?

We all take steps every day, and nobody pays us for them. WalkTask promises to change that. It’s a free phone app for Android and iOS that turns your everyday walking and running into coins. You can use the coins to get gift cards, products, or PayPal cash, but the fact that PayPal cash is on the list doesn’t mean anything yet.

If we’re walking anyway, why not get some money for our steps too? I do like the idea. But a good idea isn’t the same thing as an app that pays.

Before you start collecting coins, you’ll want to know if you can trust the app and if it’s worth it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of scams among apps that promise money, and with one that doesn’t pay, all you end up with is wasted time.

I’m afraid WalkTask is one of them. I think it’s a scam, and below I’ll explain why, including the reason rewards sit “under review” for months on end. That doesn’t mean I’ll skip the rest. I’ll go through everything the app offers, piece by piece.

By the end, you’ll be able to decide whether WalkTask is for you or not. And I’m pretty sure you’ll decide the same way I did.

Update: Walktask is a scam (at least for me)

I sent an email to Walktask and I’m still waiting for an answer. I was hoping someone would at least tell me it was a technical problem and that it could be fixed. Nobody has replied.

I can understand an app not working anymore after an update. That happens. But not answering the people who actually use your app seems rude to me. That shows me how little their users matter to them.

At first I didn’t expect anything like this. I’d installed the app, it was counting my steps, and I was getting paid for them (not much, but it was coming in). I thought maybe it really was possible to make some money just by walking.

Then came the update. Since then, the app hasn’t registered my steps and I haven’t gotten anything for them. I uninstalled it, reinstalled it, went into the settings and checked them so many times I’ve lost count, and none of it worked. For pocket change, I’ve wasted quite a bit of time with my phone in my hand.

Without people like me who download their app, Walktask wouldn’t even exist. But right when it comes to our money, they disappear.

I’m writing all this so other people know too, even though at first I wasn’t sure I wanted to write it. For me, Walktask was a scam. I say “at least for me” because I have no way of knowing what happens to other people. Maybe it still works for some of them. I’m not going to walk for it anymore.

What is Walktask and how does it work?

Getting something for the steps you take anyway sounds really good. That’s what WalkTask promises. You install it on your phone, the app tracks your movement and gives you WalkCoins for it, which are virtual coins. You can use them to get gift cards, products, or services from the app’s store.

I expected the hard part to be the walking. But the hard part is the ads. The app is full of aggressive ads, and to collect your coins or complete an action, it makes you watch long video ads. That’s how it makes its money: from the ad networks. A system like this annoys me, because the walking comes naturally, but the ads come on top of it, and they take up your time.

I’ve tested a lot of apps like this, so I have something to compare it to. Is it worth spending time on ads for a few coins? In this review, I’ll tell you what’s good and what’s not good about WalkTask, so you know what to expect and can decide if it’s worth signing up, before you create an account.

Turn your daily steps into real money

I expected the steps I’d taken to stay mine until I decided what to do with them. They only stay until 00:00. WalkTask doesn’t carry them over to the next day on its own, and you have to open the app every day to claim the rewards on the home screen. Steps and boxes you haven’t claimed by midnight expire and are gone for good. It’s a shame to lose them, because the walk already happened and the coins for it won’t come anymore.

The phone counts your steps with its sensors, and the app shows them in the big circle on the home screen, with its own counter, without sending you to other partners’ tracking apps. To do this, it connects directly to Google Fit on Android and to Apple Health on iOS. I like that it doesn’t matter where you walk. Whether you’re running on an outdoor track or walking on a treadmill indoors, the steps are counted the same way, because they still come from the phone’s sensor.

Below the step circle, you’ll see the Lucky Boxes and some virtual gifts. The day’s boxes unlock at 2,000, 4,000, 6,000 and 8,000 steps, and each one gives you virtual coins when you tap it. Anyone who reaches 8,000 steps has all of the day’s boxes within reach, but only if they open them before 00:00.

Users mostly complain about three problems. The first one is about steps again. The app often doesn’t sync with the phone’s health services, and the counter stays at 0, even after a long walk. And with no steps, you get no boxes, so you get no coins either.

The second is the video ad you have to watch to get a box. The app often shuts down completely during it. Then you open it again, your progress has been reset, and the coins for those steps are lost. You walked, you sat through the ad, and you ended up with nothing, which seems unfair to me.

The third one is the one I’m afraid of. Some people reach the $5 withdrawal threshold, and when they log in to their account, they find their balance wiped out completely or reduced by the automated algorithm. It hasn’t happened to me. But there are plenty of cases like this.

Steps lost at midnight are on me, if I forget to open the app. A balance cut by an algorithm isn’t on me at all.

Other earning options

I was hoping to find a shortcut in WalkTask to the $5 payout threshold, something faster than walking. The numbers shown in the app promise quite a lot:

• “Check in Today”, one tiny coin a day
• Mystery Prize after 7 days in a row, up to 100 coins
• 3Ball, a pool of 34,540 coins, with a countdown clock
• the daily check-in on Telegram, where you join their channel, 15 coins
• “Invite a Friend Today”, 5 coins for the general referral link
• “Put in Game”, a 0/100 coins threshold for the in-app games

The last three sit in the Task Center, a list of simple tasks to tick off. The Bonus tab is a different story, because there WalkTask only connects you with outside companies that pay you to download apps or answer marketing questionnaires, through the PlayTime, Torox, PubScale, and AyeT Offers offerwalls and through surveys from Bitlabs, CPX, and TheoremReach. There’s also a weekly contest, the Bonus Rankings Contest, with prizes from a pool of up to 6,000 coins for the people who complete the most offers (on my account, the contest ran from October 19, 2026 to October 26, 2026). The Play tab has small games (Scratch Card, Fruit Spin, Car, and 3Ball) that are there to keep you in front of the screen, alongside ad networks like AdGem. I had my eye on the 3Ball pool.

A $5 gift card takes about 3,000 coins. If you rely only on the check-in, which gives you a single coin a day, you end up with 3,000 days of pressing a button. Who has that kind of patience? I definitely don’t. I was still holding out a little hope for the prize after 7 days. But users who have tracked it say it almost always pays a small amount, far short of the 100 coins.

The Telegram check-in says right on it that it has no ads and takes one second. That’s the promise. People say, though, that a pop-up ad often shows up when they want to unlock their balance or leave the page.

I’m especially frustrated about the time spent on the offerwalls. You can spend 40 minutes downloading a game from PlayTime or Torox and getting to level 10, and WalkTask often doesn’t credit the coins from the “+20% extra” bonus to your available balance. That’s the problem reported most often on forums in the last 90 days, from what users write.

With the surveys, what annoyed me wasn’t the time. Bitlabs and CPX keep you for 10 minutes with personal questions and only show you the “Disqualified” screen at the end. You don’t get a single coin for those minutes. Your data, though, stays with the research company, and that bothers me more than the coins.

I thought at least the games were for fun. But Fruit Spin and Scratch Card are random number generators, built to start a video ad you can’t skip every 2 to 3 taps. If you rush through them, the app freezes, throws a connection error, or closes, and it drains your phone’s battery for nothing.

In the end, Task, Bonus, and Play are other doors the company uses to get video ads onto your screen. What worries me, though, is what comes after. On WalkTask, verification is done only by automated algorithms, and anyone who collects a lot of coins from games often ends up with their profile flagged “high activity”. Right when you request a payout, it gets postponed automatically or your account gets frozen. Stay alert!

The shortcut I was looking for turned out to be the longest road to the $5, with the risk of never getting there at all.

How do you get paid?

I expected withdrawing to be the easy part, because support sends an automated message saying the payment arrives in your account within 1-3 business days. But what people who have already cashed out several times write is nothing like that.

It worked for them 5 or 6 times. The seventh request got stuck completely, pending for more than 20 days, for some even a few months, and the payment never came. More often than I’d like, there’s also an error that freezes the request at “In Review” and leaves it there for good.

I’m more afraid of a stuck balance than of anything else in the app, because on Walktask every coin in your balance means walking. How much walking? The app gives 1 coin per 100 steps, and a $5 gift card costs about 3,000 coins. I did the math, and one coin is worth about $0.0016, so for $5 you need 300,000 steps. A lot of walking for not much money.

You can’t withdraw less than $5, which is the minimum threshold. Above that you have $10, $25, and $50 cards, and you can’t go higher than $50. Withdrawals are paid out only as digital rewards, PayPal vouchers, and gift cards from various stores. The codes, when they do arrive, are for Amazon, PayPal, Spotify, Apple, or H&M. You won’t find cryptocurrency or direct bank transfers anywhere on the official site, and crypto isn’t an option.

And there’s one more problem that hits the steps directly. To get your coins, you have to watch mandatory video ads, and a lot of the time the ad doesn’t load, the app crashes, and your whole walking history for that day disappears. It annoys me just thinking about a full day of walking wiped out by an ad that never even got to play.

Personally, I like apps where the money actually reaches you. I’ve already written reviews of three of them: Honeygain, HeyCash, and Pawns.

What do users say?

Almost everyone who writes about Walktask starts with the good part, and the good part does exist. The app counts steps in the background, coins add up quickly from walking and from ads, and several people say their first withdrawal came through, usually for $5.

I thought the hard part was collecting the coins for the first threshold. For a lot of people, the hard part came after.

The recent one-star reviews are almost all about the second withdrawal and the ones after it. The request goes to “in review” or “pending” and stays there. I found over 10 people, with no connection to each other, who describe this. Some waited months for their PayPal money or a gift card and got nothing. It’s a shame about all that effort, because these people walked, collected coins, watched ads, and the money they did all of that for is exactly what doesn’t come.

Anyone who writes to support gets an automated message, the same one for everybody. They’re told to wait 1-3 days or that processing is being expedited, and the payment still doesn’t get resolved. I’d like at least a reply written by a person.

And the coins don’t come free. To collect them, you watch a lot of ads, and many people complain about how many there are. You put in those minutes before you know whether you’ll ever see a second payment.

Because of this, opinions on Walktask split depending on how long someone sticks with the app. I read what people write in the app stores and on forums. Those who have just withdrawn their first money are happy. Those who stayed longer are mostly upset, because they stopped getting paid.

Then I took 20 recent, detailed reviews from the App Store and tallied them. About 14 of them, roughly 70%, say the app is a scam or that after the first withdrawal they never saw the money they were expecting.

The ratings tell a nicer story. But not equally nice everywhere. The app has 4.6 stars in the App Store, from 13,000 ratings, and 3.2 stars on Google Play, from 206,000 reviews, with over 5 million downloads. The website says on its homepage that it has over 500,000 reviews, but the App Store page shows only those 13,000.

I think the high ratings come mostly from new users, who haven’t tried a second withdrawal yet. Timing matters too. The app asks for a review right after the first successful payment, when we’re all still happy it worked. The tone of the reviews changed around mid-to-late 2024 and into 2025, roughly when the complaints about payments stopping started.

I’m going to go more by the people who got past the first $5 than by the stars.

Red flags you should never ignore

People who make money from apps usually stop worrying after the first payout. I also used to think that a successful withdrawal said enough about an app.

I found five red flags about Walktask:

• The first withdrawal, a small one, does arrive, because it brings in good reviews and ad views. The withdrawals after it stay stuck “under review” forever, a pattern people confirm in app store reviews and on Beermoneyforum. Whatever you collect after that goes to waste.
• The business appears sometimes as a company based in Singapore, sometimes as a developer based in China, and it isn’t clear who is legally responsible, or in which country.
• The links to the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy submitted to the app stores return a 404 error, and you have no way of finding out what rights you have.
• Support keeps you on automated replies until you give up on your request, and that’s unfair.
• The app collects exact location and motion data, but the policy on walktask.com doesn’t say how long it keeps that data or how it transfers it to other countries, as the GDPR transparency rules require.

Some of these could be just carelessness. But not the first one. A payout made to win your trust, good reviews written after it, and the rest of the withdrawals kept under review mean you’re collecting points for their ads.

How to join WalkTask?

When I opened WalkTask, the sign-up screen was green and said in big letters “Register to win gift cards: 10$ (Up to $10, Instant payout)”. I expected to get the $10 as soon as I created my account.

But “Up to” changes everything. It means $10 is the most you can get, not a guaranteed amount. The bonus at the start was a small part of the starting coins and not a single cent I could withdraw right away.

I’m especially annoyed by the word “instant.” It says “Instant payout” right on the ticket icon, and it isn’t true. In the section on payout rules, I explained that this app has no instant withdrawal, because every withdrawal request goes to an algorithm for review and sits there for days or weeks, or stays stuck in “In Review” with nothing moving at all. It’s a shame to put a promise like that on the first screen a person sees.

If you’re 18 or older and you get to the green screen, read “Up to” before the $10.

The rest of the sign-up is very simple. All you need is a smartphone that works. You don’t create a password, and you sign in with a profile you already have, through Continue with Google or Continue with Facebook, plus a smaller button for TikTok. The app automatically takes the name, profile picture, and email address linked to the profile you choose.

I didn’t get any code by email or any SMS when I created my account, and nobody asked for my ID card or passport. However, the terms say the company can ask you for proof of identity later, if you want to change your personal details or something on your account. This part worries me a little. The ID requests come exactly when you need something from them.

The minimum age is 13, according to the privacy policy. Anyone between 13 and 18 officially needs a parent or legal guardian to read the terms with them. And since the app doesn’t ask for any ID at sign-up, the rule comes down to each person’s honesty.

Downloading the app and creating an account are free. The only price of entry is the data on your profile.

Can you use a laptop?

I expected an app that counts steps to sit quietly on my phone and not ask for much. But when I started the step count, I had to turn on several permissions one by one, because without them nothing starts.

The first is access to physical activity (Physical Activity / Motion & Fitness), so the app can read the rhythm of my steps from the sensors. The second is precise GPS location, left on in the background too, so it can track my route from one point to another. The third covers the device and advertising identifiers, used to load ads picked for me. The sensors are normal for a step app. The location kept on all the time and the identifiers for ads, though, made me look at it differently.

And for good reason. The app works more like an aggressive ad engine than a step counter: it asked for my location all the time, the video ads ate into the mobile data on my monthly plan, and the battery wears out faster with it installed. For what? For almost nothing.

There’s also the way it rushes you every day. The app asks permission to send you notifications and reminds you every day to open it, because the coins you haven’t claimed expire at midnight (00:00). If you fall asleep early, you lose them.

It’s not even stable. Data from the app stores shows that it freezes often, that it resets your steps for that day, and that it closes right when you start an ad to collect your coins. You can have 10,000 steps done and still lose the day. It’s a shame about the walking you did.

When you do get to the point of asking for the money, the request can stay in “In Review” status for months. And this isn’t rare.

There’s no way around the app. WalkTask has no desktop version and no web page where you can earn anything. It’s only available for Android and iOS, with the official download from Google Play and the App Store. All the walktask.com site does is send you, through its buttons, to those two stores.

If you’re 18 and wondering whether to install it on your smartphone, I don’t think it’s worth either the space on your screen or the mobile data it uses. You’re the one paying for the battery and the plan, and you don’t know if you’ll ever see the money you asked for.

Is WalkTask legit or a scam earning app?

The first withdrawal from WalkTask often comes through, and that’s exactly what hooks you. You think that if it worked once, it’ll work next time too. But the withdrawals after that stay “under review” and never move past it.

It’s not a coincidence. People describe the same thing in app store reviews and on independent forums, and the pattern repeats from one person to the next.

I have a hard time trusting an app when you don’t even know which company makes it. The links to the legal documents don’t work, and if you write to support, you get one automated reply after another without getting through to a human. I think the app is built more to keep you watching ads than to pay you, and the risk is high for anyone hoping to earn money. As I said above, to me it’s a big rip-off.

As a step counter, the app works. If that’s all you want and you’re not expecting any money, it’ll keep you happy for a while. But if you also want to try the money side, the rewards are small, and you’ll have a very hard time building up an amount that makes a difference, even if the payouts went through. And other apps that pay you to walk come out much better by comparison. And if the money stays stuck, you’re left at a loss after all the time you put into those steps.

For earnings you can count on, I’d rather point you to my list of the top 7 survey and GPT apps. They all have good earning potential, and wherever you live, you’ll find at least one you can sign up for.

If you’ve used WalkTask, have questions, or have something to share about it, leave me a comment below. I can’t wait to read it!