StepBet: Walk, Get Active, Win Reviews

Motivating

COMom

This app / game has really helped me to get motivated and move more. The goals are challenging and realistic. I purchased the membership so that I would have more bets/games to choose from.

Good motivator!!

I love 3-2 guts

The buy in certainly makes you commit. Great idea but I think the 15% take of the pot for the house is a little steep.

It's amazing what one will do when money is on the line! ? I have never walked so far since I joined a stepbet. Once I put my $40 up, it was game on, and I don't sit anymore. I have found so many creative ways to get in my steps each day. It is fun, and I have so much more energy!!

Scam!!!! Beware!

….Worthless App

Way better is a scam. They take your money, and they say they will not refund any of it. I completed all the steps on all the days, and they did not split the pot or refund my money. I believe this is a scam, and I would stay away from this company.

Keeps me moving!

Waynette

I love a challenge. This is what I need to keep my feet moving! So glad I’m playing the game!

Great motivation!

Beccasuzanne

Great motivation to get in your daily steps! Lots of options on games to join and even host a game yourself!

Takes so long to sync

chorchonga

I don't think I'll do another one. I am just using my iphone and it takes forever to get the steps from Apple Health. I have another app that uses this same data and doesn't have a problem. I'm tired of staying up later to make sure I passed my goal.

Very cool

megastepper

It's definitely motivating to have money on the line.

Good motivation to walk.

Addresseer

The only aspect to it that’s a double edged sword is that the number of steps they want you to walk will increase gradually from game to game. The games are generally six weeks including a non-elimination introductory week, but there are eight week ones and four week ones, in the latter all weeks count, neither of which I’ve done yet. The steps increasing will get participants to walk more, but if done long enough, it will rise to more than one thinks they can handle. I did it a while back, dropped off for some time, but am now doing it again because walking is all I’m allowed to do as I recover from a medical procedure. I do recommend that those doing this seriously become members. There’s an annual fee, I think $50, but for them in certain games the whole entry fees from those who don’t make their goals is divided among those do. In games with non-members, those running this take a cut. If the step count goals didn’t rise participants wouldn’t be challenged and there’d be little or no profit for those who succeeded. One idea would be if they could adjust the increases or even stop them or slightly roll them back depending upon where everyone is seasonally. As hard as it is generally, it’s especially, perhaps unreasonably, difficult to increase walking when and where there’s snow, ice and cold during the winter in the northern climes. Not certain, but guessing that this is why I think there’s a decrease in the quantity of games this time of year. They’re, also, strict on expecting the data. I’ve lost out on several games due to malfunctions. Generally, perhaps, this is appropriate, but once I will always believe they were wrong because I had accomplished the goals the first week but had a problem later on and for this scenario they should find a way to be able to accept it.

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