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WeWard - Walking Rewards App
WEWARD · 89,977 ratings · ★ 4.9
4.9
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Top complaints - extracted from 44 negative reviews
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"steps"
20 negative reviews mention this · 45% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t give the right amount of wards. It’s fine. But it has a serious issue that gets on my nerves. It never gives you the amount of wards you’re supposed to get. For example: I was at 386 wards. I walked 5,000 steps, so the listed reward for that was 4 wards in total- meaning…" - YourFavoriteFridayay
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"scam"
11 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. Why are they using famous people to get dumba$$es like us to play their fake money making games" - Trash.101
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"work"
9 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Can’t get it to work.. I’m gonna start it off, I’ve only been using this for a day. It’s not bad per se, but it won’t work. I’ve been trying all day to get it to work, and I’ve been walking around Six Flags, so I’ve gotten about 25000 steps. Sounds insane, but yo…" - JunePearl51
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"walking"
8 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "NOT COUNTING WALKING OR RUNNING IV TRIED. NOT COUNTING STEPS WHEN RUNNING OR WALKING. WHY TRIED" - DORABETES4
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"coins"
8 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "waste of time. I had this app for a year. I didn’t get many coins so I can’t make any money with it so I deleted it. don’t get this app." - Stivervictories
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"doesn"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t give the right amount of wards. It’s fine. But it has a serious issue that gets on my nerves. It never gives you the amount of wards you’re supposed to get. For example: I was at 386 wards. I walked 5,000 steps, so the listed reward for that was 4 wards in total- meaning…" - YourFavoriteFridayay
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"year"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It could be cool…. I walk 4.2k steps a day. 2.5k of steps equals 1 gold. If I wanted to get the $150 sent to my PayPal I would have to spend 10k gold right? With my average daily steps it’s going to take me about 16 years to get to my goal. This is an awesome…" - MadamNiku
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"walked"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t give the right amount of wards. It’s fine. But it has a serious issue that gets on my nerves. It never gives you the amount of wards you’re supposed to get. For example: I was at 386 wards. I walked 5,000 steps, so the listed reward for that was 4 wards in total- meaning…" - YourFavoriteFridayay
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"cash"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Won’t let me cash out. They won’t let my cash out Everytime I try it says something went wrong and when I reach out via email they asked for a screenshot. I sent screenshot and they went ghost" - Pandamilf221
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"worth"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth it. Doesn’t count steps most of the time. Its 4.9 rating is not deserved and suspicious. It as a 3.9 on google so have that as a more trustworthy source." - Zuickathedestroyer
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"been"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crashes, not worth the headache. Every time I try to open the app it crashes. I hate that orange background and walking panda that I’ve been staring at while I wait in vain for the app to load. It’s not worth the frustration. It’s certainly not worth $38/year" - MoreLvls
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"rewards"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Rewards that never come. I have probably attempted to cash out my wewards at least 20 times and it NEVER pays. I’ve tried both Venmo and PayPal. It doesn’t matter. This app should be removed from the App Store." - Dashing&Dapper
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It could be cool…
I walk 4.2k steps a day. 2.5k of steps equals 1 gold. If I wanted to get the $150 sent to my PayPal I would have to spend 10k gold right?
With my average daily steps it’s going to take me about 16 years to get to my goal. This is an awesome idea but it would be cooler if we could get $150 once per year not per 16. I’m t1d. My doctors recommend 5k steps daily so I’m willing to go that far but… I don’t think that would scratch my goal at all.
With my average daily steps it’s going to take me about 16 years to get to my goal. This is an awesome idea but it would be cooler if we could get $150 once per year not per 16. I’m t1d. My doctors recommend 5k steps daily so I’m willing to go that far but… I don’t think that would scratch my goal at all.
Language
How do you change the Japanese language??
Won’t let me cash out
They won’t let my cash out Everytime I try it says something went wrong and when I reach out via email they asked for a screenshot. I sent screenshot and they went ghost
NOT COUNTING WALKING OR RUNNING IV TRIED
NOT COUNTING STEPS WHEN RUNNING OR WALKING. WHY TRIED
Scam
Why are they using famous people to get dumba$$es like us to play their fake money making games
waste of time
I had this app for a year. I didn’t get many coins so I can’t make any money with it so I deleted it. don’t get this app.
Not worth it
Doesn’t count steps most of the time. Its 4.9 rating is not deserved and suspicious. It as a 3.9 on google so have that as a more trustworthy source.
Waste of time
You can do tens of thousands of steps and get at most enough for pocket change. Total scam.
Crashes, not worth the headache
Every time I try to open the app it crashes. I hate that orange background and walking panda that I’ve been staring at while I wait in vain for the app to load. It’s not worth the frustration. It’s certainly not worth $38/year
Rewards that never come
I have probably attempted to cash out my wewards at least 20 times and it NEVER pays. I’ve tried both Venmo and PayPal. It doesn’t matter. This app should be removed from the App Store.
This game is a scam
This game is a scam walked 3 months even had my correct info linked with it and I transferred my WeWard at a big amount and it said
It would verify then a day later said sorry we can not send u refund amount so to suspicious activity and I put my pay pal bank info !total scam guys !!! DO NOT download this app total scam and waist of so much time
It would verify then a day later said sorry we can not send u refund amount so to suspicious activity and I put my pay pal bank info !total scam guys !!! DO NOT download this app total scam and waist of so much time
Ha
I did this for an entire year wanna know what I got?!? NOTHING! It’s a complete scam do not download!
Do not get this
I wouldn’t get it. It takes so long to get coins and the things are way too expensive. You would have to wait for so long.
Did Not Work at All
I know this app is widely loved, but for me it isn’t accurate at all. It said I took 46 steps in two days, which is not true since I have gone out and done things, and my phone was with me most of the time. I sometimes check it after taking a few steps, and most times the number doesn’t go up at all. :(
WeWard
It saying like everyone that saying it rewards you for points by walking and the app says walking rewards, this is fake all need to change it to survey rewards not walking rewards app, and all of yall making a review saying it rewards us by walking man I did by why I go and try redeem when I already made 10,190 but when I click on redeem them it says I got 80 steps this stuff is fake and and a scam the first bad review you all got today this waisted my time
No rewards for game
I don’t recommend this app. The rewards steps are very small. The faster way to earn is by paying games. Small rewards are credited instantly, but rewards exceeding 1,000 coins get stuck in limbo; you have to submit request to have them credited and then wait several days. But it isn’t the main issue. I completed the final level of a game two days before the promotion ended. As usual, the results didn’t show up in the app on time. I took screenshots and sent them to customers support that same day to prove the level was finished and that I was 2,300 coins. However, two days later-once the promotion had ended-the final level was marked as not completed on time. Contacting customers support yielded no results. Now they want me to provide a video recording showing the successful completion of level. But that’s impossible to do, since the promotion has already ended. I don’t believe they can’t check the level completion time using my player ID. So, I’m inclined to think they are just stringing me along because they don’t want to give out the big rewards. So, I advise against wasting your time playing games on this app; you’ll just end up wasting time without receiving the rewards you earned.
Scam, not worth your time.
I have had this app for months, logging my steps nearly every single day. I've been dealing with glitchy issues of it not syncing properly with my fitness/health app and undereporting my daily steps (I have screenshots of this), so it's taken me longer than needed to finally reach 2K wards so I can redeem a gift card. I finally did so, after half a year of work, and they a) take several days to "process my gift card request" and then b) hit me with "sorry, your gift card request has been cancelled because you have a VPN on your phone." I use this to protect my privacy on the web as I also use this device for work and deal with confidential information, but have it always set to the city I live in. Now 6 months of work is just gone, no prior warning or heads up. Such a waste, a total scam, and not worth your time. They've enjoyed access to my data and sending me a million notifications for 6+ months, and I have been left with nothing. Don't download and waste your time on this data farming scam.
Mad!
A scam so long to take
Irritating
It does not track my steps right. My whoop is connected to my apple health so it not having a whoop connection as an option is fine but it continuously gets my steps wrong for the day. It records about 1/16 of the steps I actually take.
scam
if you think it’s too good to be true, it probably is lol
Bad
They dom’t pay
Not Worth It
I have been using this app for just about 6 months now and I haven’t been able to make enough coins to get ANYTHING!!! I really thought I was just SO bad at walking enough to get to get enough coins but then I went to check these reviews and saw I wasn’t the only one. Also, the fact that you only get 1 ward coin per 1,000 steps is ridiculous. That means, if you don’t have time to do all the extra stuff, like games and videos and other stuff, you have to walk 500,000 steps to get FIVE DOLLARS, and that’s if it even works, because there are a bunch of reviews saying the cash outs didn’t work! I’m done wasting my time on this app😒😒
I ain’t get no money
It only gives you like a cent per thousands steps plus the cash out options are sketchy and untrustworthy plus you can only cash out through PayPal and Venmo they also only let you cash out once you have like 50 bucks THIS APP IS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME INSTEAD TRY OTHER OPTIONS LIKE MONEY WALKER
Did not work
This app might be the most clickbait app ever ‘‘meaning’’ it does NOT work. I tried everything but it still didn’t work DO NOT DOWNLOAD.
No mony
I never got the money
Rigged
The wheel spinner ALWAYS lands on the cards so dumb and so rigged
Ads Ads Ads!
Been using this app over a year. Loved it at first. Now there are so many ads it’s insane. You can’t even log your steps without having to watch a 2 min ad.
It’s too slow.
I downloaded this app thinking “This app sounds great!” I thought I would get rewards for walking…but NO. The other apps are WAY more effective. 1/5
Not worth your time, scam
Even just reading through the 5 star reviews, most of them have complaints and are negative reviews but are 5 stars cause they’ll give you coins for it. I’ve had this app on and off for YEARS and have never once been able to make a successful cash out. You only earn 1 coin for 5k steps, 2 for 10k, etc. The only way to actually get coins is to buy the premium version, which defeats the whole point of this being a free app that pays you because whatever you would’ve earned you’ll just pay back to them. Not to mention a lot of the lowest and easiest to earn cash outs or rewards you want are locked behind the pay wall, so to get any cash out you need to earn even more coins which you can’t even really do without going premium. I traveled internationally and walked 10-15k steps a day but they never even rewarded me all my coins because I was outside the US and they couldn’t “transfer” them until I was back in the US. Overall, if you’re willing to get premium and pay them to eventually send you $10 years from now, (which from other reviews it looks like they won’t even send it to you) this is the app for you. Incredibly disappointed that I wasted so much time on a scam app.
Why did the app change!!??
When did this app become “premium”? I was able to get gift cards before now I have to pay for a membership to even get gift cards? Seriously? And the gift cards I WANT you NEVER have.I don’t even want to be forced to give you ONE star! Bye!Re-deleting this app.
Highly disappointed
I was really excited when I found this app and downloaded it but then every time I tried to save my steps I would get a message that the servers were temporarily down, and to try later.
The only problem with that, is that later never shows up.
I have lost track of the amount of times where I was not able to log because the servers were down and my 5000 to 7000 steps that I took I wasn’t able to log them.
What is the point of having this app and being able to supposedly log your steps if every time you try to do so your servers are temporarily down? Either this issue needs to get resolved or I need to delete this app
The only problem with that, is that later never shows up.
I have lost track of the amount of times where I was not able to log because the servers were down and my 5000 to 7000 steps that I took I wasn’t able to log them.
What is the point of having this app and being able to supposedly log your steps if every time you try to do so your servers are temporarily down? Either this issue needs to get resolved or I need to delete this app
Absolutely worthless
Don’t download. Waste of time. You walk 15 miles and earn half a penny. They want you to pay, as all of them do. This is a scam.
No pay out
You have to watch and do so many things for you to almost get to the pay out but it never actually comes and the payout is only a coupon to a different online store
Scam
I walked out side nothing
Doesn’t work
I’ve had this app for about a week have referred a few people to it each day would get over 2000 steps still for some reason unable to convert the coins was never able to “” cash out” this app does not work. It would say 26 more coins to convert as soon as I would hit the 26 coins then it would go back up being unable to ever convert I’ve tried watching YouTube videos it doesn’t work. Waste of my time
Very hard to get rewards
Try the Sweatcoin app instead for international activity. FYI - if you’re traveling and use it abroad even if you’re a US citizen - they won’t count and your account can be banned. I tried to transfer a reward because I was abroad and they flagged my account has manipulating geolocation data. You also can’t use VPN on your device for work, because the app records that too and won’t allow you to transfer your rewards when you’re ready to redeem. It’s not a very good app that understands everyday nuances and how people live their lives. You can’t travel with this app and use it. Your activity won’t count and will be flagged. I decided to delete the app and I DO NOT RECOMMEND.
Not being truthful
I have made a few purchases through the WeWard app at partner sites. Most of the time 3 of the 4 times I have done this WeWard does doesn't credit you with wards. So if it doesn't show up you are supposed to go to the app and submit your invoice. But the app says it's not an invoice when you submit. So I contacted customer service. I sent them the email invoice I received from my purchase. But that's not good enough. Even though it shows I paid, the order number and date as well as what I purchased etc. do now they are telling me to contact the partner site to get an invoice which I'm in the process of doing. I will update if this changes, but this is too much work to get what you say you should get when you buy it from the link WeWard provides.
Doesn’t give the right amount of wards
It’s fine. But it has a serious issue that gets on my nerves. It never gives you the amount of wards you’re supposed to get.
For example: I was at 386 wards. I walked 5,000 steps, so the listed reward for that was 4 wards in total- meaning I should have 390. But instead, I have 389. Fix this bug!!!!
For example: I was at 386 wards. I walked 5,000 steps, so the listed reward for that was 4 wards in total- meaning I should have 390. But instead, I have 389. Fix this bug!!!!
Can’t get it to work.
I’m gonna start it off, I’ve only been using this for a day. It’s not bad per se, but it won’t work. I’ve been trying all day to get it to work, and I’ve been walking around Six Flags, so I’ve gotten about 25000 steps. Sounds insane, but you haven’t met my family. So I check my health app and it says I got a bunch of steps, so I go to the app, and it says 0. I go to progress, and it says I’ve walked s bunch of steps, but it won’t show in the thing and wrong let me redeem any points. So I’m pretty frustrated, I could’ve gotten a good bit, but I got nothing. I should’ve checked to make sure it was working, but it said it was working, so that just sucks. If anybody knows how to fix it, I’m happy to change my opinion.
Inaccurate
Is it just me or is it kind of inaccurate because I just had 157 points and then I got to the next school and I was supposed to get three points by only gave me one point I feel like it is not very accurate when it comes to the point
Makes me feel worse not better.
I work midnight to 8am, and the app resets your daily’s on a day at midnight. My day ends around 4pm. By then I’ve walked ~4k steps. Because daytime is “life busy,” I consistently log every other day. So I lose streaks and it’s incredibly difficult to keep a streak or earn a freeze. I really wanted to like this app, but it doesn’t seem to want night shift ppl to participate. If you work a lot or on nights make sure to check in before you go to bed or you’re not going to get any credit.
Ok app
The app should be re-titled to “Take surveys, play games and watch ads for prizes”. Yes, I earned $200 in a year for walking 20k steps a day, but the app is ad infested and wants you to do everything else but walk.
WEWARD IS HORRIBLE
in WeWard you earn up coins to buy real life things like gift cards, but when I got enough coins to do so, I got stopped and had to buy a membership to even redeem any gift cards from my coins, spent all that time getting to 1000 coins just to find out I can’t do anything with them, this app is good to track you steps yes, but I personally hate this app
Takes too long
Yeah, takes too damn long to make any money. Only get 5 coins a day for 100 days to make only $5? I’d clean peoples windows and still make more than I could ever make on WeWard. Still fun walking tho.
Sentiment summary
97%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)