Realistic Monthly Potential Earnings: $4.50 in Amazon Vouchers
What Is WalkBoost?
WalkBoost is an iOS application promising withdrawals of up to $135 just for walking and watching video adverts.
How WalkBoost Claims To Pay
WalkBoost claims to offer several withdrawal methods including Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, Bank Transfer, Amazon, Boletol, Giropay, Paytm, STCpay, Mada, Paypay, Linepay, Dana & Venmo. Almost every possible withdrawal method you could wish for, but is it too good to be true?
WalkBoost Reviews
Whilst the average reviews for this application at the time of writing are 4.2 stars, the text reviews seem to suggest a different story.
Almost every review is negative, except for ‘Mummy’ saying she seems to be using the application to see how many steps she’s done, although this would be the worst type of application for such a use. The other reviews all seem to say that all of the withdrawal quota’s are used up and that they cannot withdraw.
Our Investigation – Is WalkBoost Legit?
We first came across a video advert of Walkboost on another money making application so we decided to investigate. When you open the application it calculates the number of steps that you have done during the day. You do not need to application open for it to track your steps. Your steps are converted into energy at a rate of about 20%. The XP (energy) conversion rates are roughly 60,000 XP for $1. If you were to try and reach the minimum payout just via walking, you’d need to walk about 10 million steps. If you walked 20,000 steps, it would take you 500 days. However, the app conveniently offers ways to speed up the process of earning steps and you can earn almost all the required steps for a reward by instead watching videos.
Here you can see that by watching a video your steps can be multipled for the day x15. After watching another advert the multiplier gets bigger, until you hit a certain amount and cannot use this method to earn more steps for the day. After that, there are various other ways to watch videos for steps. Such as Watching 50 video adverts in a day for 450,000 energy, watching videos to spin the wheel an unlimited amount of times. This application is less about walking but more about watching video adverts for ‘energy’.
Once you finally achieve enough energy his can only be withdrawn in the following intervals; or can it?
We spent the time (so you don’t have to) to acquire enough steps for the minimum cashout of $35, and low and behold, after trying to cashout everyday for weeks we’re hit with this message, every time:
Therefore, you’d come to the conclusion that this application is an out-and-out scam, right? Well, it sort of is. However, we have found one way to extract something out of this scammy application. Each day, you’re offered the option to watch 10 video ads for an opportunity to withdraw ‘up to $20’.
Upon watching 10 video adverts, usually about a minute long, you’re given the opportunity to draw a ball from the grabber
Upon drawing a ball, we find it usually lands on an Amazon only ball. We have had the ball land with the Paypal OR Amazon ball, however redeeming via Paypal incurs a large fee, taking up most of the reward. Therefore we’d always recommend withdrawing via Amazon. Once your ball is drawn, a reward link will be generated to obtain your reward via Tremendous Rewards. Tremendous Rewards is what we believe to be a legitimate provider of rewards for various applications and it likely has no connection to WalkBoost.
Once your reward link is generated you’re directed to Tremendous Rewards to confirm your choice of reward. In the UK the options are Amazon, ALDI & John Lewis. We’d always recommend Amazon for such small gift cards as you can complete this process daily to build up your Amazon giftcard balance. Tremendous will convert the USD reward into your local currency.
Final Verdict
We have come to the conclusion that this app is suspicious. This is due to the fact that you cannot withdraw the large rewards, ever. The only value to be extracted from this application is from completing the daily watch of ten videos for a small reward. Doing this everyday can earn you an average of $4.50 a month in Amazon vouchers. That alone, in our opinion, is worth doing. Ignore every other aspect of this application.
There was even a sign-up offer for us when downloading the application, offering a variety of ‘rewards’ for completing certain action in the application. Our reward was ‘Apple Airpods’ which obviously we never received after completing the varying action. This application is less about walking and more about viewing advertisements. The application is so suspicious it’s likely they’ll clock on to people only using the application to watch videos and likely stop the payout for that too.
Sometimes, if you’re watching the ten videos close to the time they reset, you’ll be hit with an error message when claiming your reward. We find if you go back to the app a few hours later you can successfully claim your daily reward.