The heat is here, which means swimsuit time is fast approaching. If you haven’t been to the beach yet, of course. The time to wrap up the bikini operation is running out and surely not a few of you will have increased your physical activity to be able to appear on the cover of ‘loquesea Health’ magazine. And if walking is your thing, what less than getting something more out of it.
To earn money, there are different applications in the mobile ecosystem. We’re not going to get rich off them and we have to make some concessions, like giving up our user data or our location for advertising purposes. If we are ready to go through this, with WeWard you can earn money (not much) in exchange for our steps. It is very simple and the truth is that it interferes little on the mobile.
Walk and earn ‘Wards’ to trade for things
WeWard says on his site that he is there to motivate us to walk as part of an “eco-responsible approach” and that he aligns himself with three sustainable development objectives “set by the UN in the Agenda 2030”. These three objectives are health, ecology and local dynamism. They also claim that using their app, we walk 24% more than usual., which would be very beneficial if true. According to their statistics, yes.
Ultimately, what we do with WeWard is that we can redeem the steps we take every day for different rewards. It is enough to give the application permission to access our geolocation (with all that that implies) and also our physical activity. From this moment the application will allow us to exchange the steps. In the case of whoever writes to you, everyone registered by Google Fitthe application I use to measure my physical activity.
As we trade stages, we will earn coins in the app and said currency can be exchanged directly for real money (We remind you that we are not going to get rich, even less) or for gifts. We can also donate this money earned to different associations, or access discounts that certain brands promote within the application.
In WeWard we also find a certain social aspect, since by inviting our friends to use it we will have a small ranking to be able to challenge our contacts. As well inherits a bit from games like ‘Pokemon GO’ or ‘Ingress’, because in WeWard we will have specific points in our region that we can reach to double our points earned. The more people using WeWard in our area, the more point duplication areas there will be. So in that sense, the social aspect takes on more weight.
As we can see, WeWard is a fairly simple application that does not “disturb” our phone. As mentioned earlier, this is a kind of incentive to walk more, or to increase the benefits of walks or errands that we already do. A reward for our physical activity that can allow us to treat ourselves from time to time. We can earn up to 25 Wards (app currency) if we reach 20,000 daily steps. You can try it if that convinces you. Maybe you’ll get addicted, who knows, and you’ll be able to buy something once in a while.
