Step Master is a free Android app from a publisher called Xdevop that has gone from launch to half a million installs in a little over a year, mostly in India, South-East Asia and Africa, on the promise in its own title: get paid to walk. People do get paid, by the look of the reviews, through UPI, GCash, PayPal and game credits. The question is how much of that comes from the walking, and the honest answer is almost none of it. This guide goes through what the app pays for steps, where the rest of the balance comes from, how it differs from the two other apps with nearly the same name, and who it suits.
Disclosure: Fitcoin is our own fitness-rewards app, so we are a competitor of sorts. We have no relationship with Xdevop and earn nothing if you install Step Master. Everything here comes from the Google Play listing and its reviews, the Aptoide mirror, two independent reviews from 2025, and user reports, checked on November 7, 2026. We have not reached a payout ourselves.
The short version
Step Master looks like a paying app with a very small walking component. Users describe coins arriving quickly and a low withdrawal floor, around $3 in a 2025 test, and the reward menu is unusually well suited to India, Indonesia and the Philippines. But the step rate reported by users is about 1 coin per 400 steps, claimed by hand after an advert, and the app never says what a coin is worth. Treat it as a games-and-offers app with a pedometer on the front. If you want to be paid for steps specifically, it is not the one.
Three apps called Step Master, and which one this is
Before anything else, the name. There are at least three apps people mean when they type "step master app" into a search box, and they have nothing to do with each other.
The one this guide is about is Step Master - Get Paid To Walk by Xdevop, package name com.gog.stepmaster, which appeared on Google Play on 19 July 2025. The developer account behind it is registered to an individual in India, the support addresses are a Gmail account and support@stepmasterapp.com, and as of 31 October 2026 it had passed 500,000 downloads with a 4.6 rating from about 12,800 reviews. The October update added Lithuanian, Slovak, Azerbaijani, Telugu, Polish and Italian, which tells you where the installs are coming from.
The second is Walk Master, a step counter wrapped around arcade games from the publisher Byte Journey, which is much bigger and which we have reviewed in detail, including whether it pays real money. The third is an older Step Master from a developer called NewmanVictor that circulated around 2020, which a tester at the time found had no working cash-out at all and which has since disappeared. If you have seen a review calling Step Master a scam that mentions 10 million coins for $50, that is the 2020 app, not this one. The two still get mixed together in forum posts, so it is worth knowing which you are reading about.
What walking earns
Step Master has its own pedometer rather than reading from Health Connect, and reviewers generally say it counts accurately. Steps are banked in small goals, and when you reach one you tap to claim, usually after watching a rewarded advert. The rate is not published anywhere in the listing or on a website. What users report, consistently, is that a 400-step goal credits 1 coin. Two reviews from September and October 2026 both describe the same thing: an in-app graphic that reads as though 400 steps are worth 40 coins, and 1 coin actually arriving after the advert. Xdevop did not reply to either of those reviews, although it replies warmly to the positive ones.
Taken at face value, a 10,000-step day is 25 claims and 25 coins, with 25 adverts to watch along the way. What that is worth in money depends on the exchange rate, and the exchange rate is the one number the app does not give you. The redemption screen prices each reward in coins for your country, so you only discover the rate once you have earned enough to look. Independent testers in 2025 put the minimum cash-out at around $3 and found that it was reachable, but they reached it through the games and offers rather than the pedometer, and nobody we could find has published a coins-per-dollar figure for the step side alone.
| Way to earn | What users report | Effort |
|---|---|---|
| Step goals | About 1 coin per 400 steps, claimed by hand | Walking, plus an advert per claim |
| Partner games | The bulk of most balances | Installing and reaching levels in sponsored games |
| Tasks and offers | Varies by country | Sign-ups, surveys, app installs |
| Referrals | Bonus per friend who joins | Sharing a code |
That table is the whole review in miniature. Step Master belongs to the same family as FitCash and Walk Master, where the pedometer is the reason you open the app and the sponsored games are the reason the developer can afford to pay you. There is nothing dishonest about the model, and in countries where the alternatives are thin it can be a reasonable way to earn a Google Play card. It is just not what the title says.
Where it pays, and how
The reward menu is the most interesting thing about Step Master, because it is built for markets most walking apps ignore. The listing names Google Play, Amazon and iTunes gift cards; OVO and DANA, the two big Indonesian e-wallets; GCash in the Philippines; UPI transfers in India; PayPal in US dollars; USDT through Binance; and game credits for Free Fire, PUBG Mobile, Mobile Legends and Genshin Impact. The listing is careful to say that what you actually see depends on your country and that denominations and eligibility change. If you are in Jakarta, Manila or Hyderabad, that menu is a real advantage over WeWard or CashWalk, which either do not serve you or pay in vouchers you cannot easily use.
On whether it pays, the evidence is decent for an app this young. A Nigerian reviewer who tested it in August 2025, a month after launch, found a $3 minimum and no credible payout complaints. The current Play reviews are 4.6 on average, and the negative ones are about the step rate rather than missing withdrawals; a July 2026 reviewer specifically praised how quickly coins credited. We would still apply the usual rule for a one-year-old rewards app with an individual developer behind it: withdraw at the first threshold rather than letting a balance build, because the terms of apps like this always allow the coins to be revalued or expired, and there is no company address to write to if that happens.
Adverts, permissions and data
Every step claim involves an advert, and so do most of the games, so the advert load is high; a positive reviewer's main compliment was that the adverts were not too long. The Play data-safety section says the app may share personal information with third parties and collects personal information, app activity and two other categories, with encryption in transit and deletion on request. There is no health-platform integration, which cuts both ways: the app cannot read your wider Health Connect data, but it also needs to run its own counter in the background, which is where battery complaints tend to come from with apps of this type.
Step Master is rated Everyone on Google Play, unlike FitCash, which Google rates 17+ because of its offer content. That is a reasonable signal that the offers here are mostly games rather than the odder end of the offerwall, though we have not audited them.
Who should install it
Someone on Android in India, Indonesia, the Philippines or another country where UPI, DANA or GCash is the way money moves, who already plays mobile games and would like a small Google Play or e-wallet top-up for doing so. For that person, Step Master is a decent choice with a low floor and a payout method that actually works where they live, and the pedometer is a pleasant extra.
Someone who wants to be paid for steps should not expect much here. The rate is tiny, the coin has no published value, and the claims are manual. WeWard or Macadam are the direct step-for-cash apps where they operate, and Sweatcoin is the one that works almost everywhere, with the caveat that it does not pay cash. The full list, grouped by what each app actually pays and where, is in apps that pay you to walk.
Frequently asked questions
Is Step Master legit or fake?
The current Step Master, published by Xdevop since July 2025, does appear to pay: it has a 4.6 rating from about 12,800 Google Play reviews, users describe coins crediting quickly, and one independent 2025 test reported a $3 minimum withdrawal. It is not a walking income, though. Users report around 1 coin per 400 steps, the coin's cash value is not published, and most of a balance comes from the games and offers.
How much does Step Master pay for walking?
Step Master does not publish a rate. Reviews from September and October 2026 describe 1 coin credited per 400-step goal after watching an advert, against an in-app graphic suggesting 40. Because the coin-to-cash rate is not published either, there is no honest way to put a dollar figure on a 10,000-step day; it is small.
Is Step Master the same app as Walk Master?
No. Walk Master is a step counter with arcade games from publisher Byte Journey, which we have reviewed separately. Step Master is an unrelated Android app from Xdevop, whose developer account is registered in India. There was also a different Step Master in 2020 from a developer called NewmanVictor that never paid out; that one is gone and should not be confused with this one.
How do you withdraw from Step Master?
The Google Play listing says rewards depend on your country and can include Google Play, Amazon and iTunes gift cards, OVO and DANA in Indonesia, GCash in the Philippines, UPI in India, PayPal in US dollars, Binance USDT, and game credits for Free Fire, PUBG Mobile, Mobile Legends and Genshin Impact. Denominations and minimums are set in the app and were reported at about $3 in 2025.
Is Step Master on iPhone?
We could not find an App Store listing for Step Master by Xdevop as of November 2026. The Play Store description mentions iTunes gift cards as a redemption option, but the app itself is Android only.
Method: Checked November 7, 2026 against the Google Play listing for com.gog.stepmaster (Xdevop; released July 19, 2025; updated October 31, 2026; 500K+ downloads; 4.6 from 12.8K reviews; rated Everyone), its data-safety section and developer details, the Aptoide mirror listing, an August 2025 independent review that reported a $3 minimum, a 2020 review of the unrelated NewmanVictor app of the same name, and Play Store user reviews from July to October 2026. Coin rates and thresholds are as reported by users and the developer says they vary by country and can change. Fitcoin has no commercial relationship with any app named here.
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About the author: Harris Khan is the co-founder and CTO of Fitcoin, a UK fitness-rewards and health-insights app that reads Apple Health and Health Connect.