PenguPace is the walking app from the people who make Scrambly, and if you already know Scrambly you know most of what matters: an Italian company that pays reliably, a $1 cash-out floor that is the lowest in the category, and a walking reward so small that it is best thought of as a bonus on top of the games. What is different is the packaging. PenguPace puts the pedometer and a penguin on the front, which is why its reviews are full of people who downloaded a walking app and discovered, a week in, that their step rewards had been switched off until they played a game. This review explains the rate, the rule that trips people up, and who it is actually good for.
Disclosure: Fitcoin is our own fitness-rewards app, so we are not a neutral party. We have no relationship with Scrambly and earn nothing if you install PenguPace. The figures below come from PenguPace's Google Play listing and reviews, Scrambly's walk-to-earn page and terms and conditions, Scrambly's replies to users, and two independent 2026 reviews, one of which includes a $10 PayPal payout. Checked November 7, 2026. We have not cashed out from it ourselves.
The verdict
PenguPace is legitimate, pays fast from $1, and is a perfectly good rewards app if you enjoy the sponsored games and bank-account offers that make up most of the earning. As a walking app it pays 4 cents for 10,000 steps and only while you keep an offer ticking over every two days, so if you came for the walking you will be disappointed within the first fortnight. Our advice is to choose it for the offers, with the steps as a small extra, or not at all.
Who makes it
The Play listing's support address is support@scrambly.io, and the terms you accept are Scrambly's, which name the operator as Scrambly S.r.l. with a registered office at Via della Zecca 1 in Bologna. That is the same company behind the Scrambly rewards app we have covered in our Scrambly review and is Scrambly legit, and PenguPace shares its coin, its reward catalogue and its payout rails. The Scrambly brand holds a 4.6 Trustpilot score from more than 17,000 reviews, which for a rewards company is unusually high, and the complaints that do exist are about offer tracking rather than missing money.
PenguPace itself was updated on 28 October 2026 and shows a 4.6 rating from about 21,400 Google Play reviews, a Mature 17+ content rating, and a "Cash Rewards" tag. It is Android only; there is no iPhone version, and an iPhone user who wants Scrambly's step rewards would simply use the main Scrambly app. Scrambly replies to reviews within a few days, in a friendly tone with a lot of emoji, and its replies are where the app's one awkward rule is spelled out most clearly.
What walking pays
Scrambly's walk-to-earn page gives the rate as 10 coins for every 2,500 tracked steps, and elsewhere on the same page as "1,000 steps can translate to 10 coins", which is a looser phrasing of the same claim rounded in the app's favour. Either way, 1,000 coins is $1, so a 10,000-step day is 40 coins, or 4 cents, and a month of them is about $1.20. That is exactly what we found walking inside the main Scrambly app, where the walking rewards cap at 160 coins a day, and we have no reason to think PenguPace is more generous; it is the same back end with a different icon.
Steps come from your phone's sensors or a connected tracker. A September 2026 reviewer with a desk job pointed out that the daily step goal is hard to reach if you sit for a living, and noted that the daily gift gives partial credit based on how far you got, which Scrambly confirmed. The same reviewer described games pausing mid-session even after paying for the games' own ad-free options, and long, intrusive adverts, which is a reminder that the games are third-party products with their own monetisation on top of Scrambly's.
| What you do | Coins | Cash value |
|---|---|---|
| 2,500 steps | 10 | 1 cent |
| 10,000 steps | 40 | 4 cents |
| A month of 10,000-step days | About 1,200 | About $1.20 |
| Welcome bonus (eligible new users) | 500 | 50 cents |
| A game played to its final milestone | Thousands | Several dollars, sometimes tens |
| A fintech sign-up offer | Thousands to tens of thousands | Usually the biggest single payout |
The US blogger who tested it in 2026 cashed out $10 to PayPal after about a week, and was clear that the money came from offers rather than the pedometer; the step rewards, in her words, were pocket change. That matches every other account we found, and it matches Scrambly's own economics. A 4-cent step reward is not there to pay you for walking; it is there to give you a reason to open the app each day, where the games are.
The two-day rule
Here is the part that generates most of the one-star reviews. Step rewards in PenguPace are conditional. In Scrambly's words, replying to an August 2026 review: "Step rewards currently require completing 1 offer step every 2 days to stay active." An offer step means progressing a sponsored game or offer to its next milestone, not just opening it. If you go two days without doing that, the walking rewards pause, and your steps earn nothing until you do.
The reviewer in question had told PenguPace in its own onboarding survey that she downloaded it to be paid for walking, and felt, reasonably, that a walking app which stops paying for walking unless you install games was not quite what the name and the adverts suggested. Scrambly's response was polite and offered to recommend "simple offers with quick milestones that only take a few minutes", which is a fair offer and also a tacit acknowledgement that the walking is not meant to stand alone. The same rule applies to walking inside the main Scrambly app, as we noted in how much Scrambly pays; the difference is that nobody downloads Scrambly thinking it is a pedometer.
Cashing out
This is where PenguPace is genuinely good. The minimum is $1 for PayPal, Cash App, a prepaid Visa (with a 2 per cent bonus) and most of the gift-card catalogue, including Amazon and Google Play; bank transfer needs $10. Testers describe PayPal money arriving quickly, and a September 2026 reviewer who had used the app since March said their one cash-out was simple and did not take long. The $1 floor means you can test the payout rail with the welcome bonus and a couple of days of walking before deciding whether to go further, which is more than almost any other app in this category lets you do.
The terms are the standard offerwall set, and worth knowing. A reward is earned only once the activity has been "tracked, attributed, and validated"; progress shown in the app "does not guarantee a Reward"; changing device, resetting your advertising ID, reinstalling the game, or using a VPN can make an offer ineligible; and identity verification may be required before a payout. The practical consequence shows up in the reviews: a user who played a game "very consistently" for months reached the final milestone and had it not register, opened a ticket, and was told by an automated reply to expect a response in "a few weeks", with six days left on the offer. That is the risk with any offer-based app, including the main Scrambly app, and it is why we suggest treating the big game payouts as a pleasant surprise rather than income you have planned around.
PenguPace or Scrambly?
If you are on Android and already use Scrambly, there is no reason to add PenguPace; it is the same coin and the same catalogue with a step counter on the home screen, and running both does not double anything. If you are new to both, PenguPace's framing is friendlier for someone who mainly wants to walk, but the rules underneath are identical, and the main Scrambly app has a larger, better-documented offer list. On iPhone the question answers itself, because only Scrambly is available.
Against the rest of the market, PenguPace's 4 cents a day sits just above FitCash at 2 cents, below WeWard at 5 to 6 cents in cash, CashWalk at roughly 10 cents in gift-card value and Mooney at about 12, all for the same 10,000 steps. What it has over all of them is the $1 floor and a company with a registered office and a long record of paying.
The whole comparison, by what each app actually pays and where, is in apps that pay you to walk.
Who should install it
An Android user in the US or another Scrambly country who likes mobile games, is open to the occasional fintech sign-up, and would like a reliable $1-and-up payout route with a step counter as a small daily extra. For that person it is one of the better offer apps, and the penguin is charming.
Someone who wants to be paid to walk and nothing else should give it a miss, because the walking pays almost nothing and switches off without the games. The apps that pay for steps unconditionally are in step counter apps that pay, and if what you actually want is credit for whole workouts rather than steps, with no offers to keep alive, that is what Fitcoin is for.
Frequently asked questions
Is PenguPace legit?
Yes. PenguPace is published by Scrambly S.r.l., a registered Italian company based in Bologna that also runs the Scrambly rewards app, and independent testers have cashed out $10 PayPal payments from it. It has a 4.6 rating from about 21,400 Google Play reviews. The walking rewards are small and depend on keeping an offer active, which is the part people object to.
How much does PenguPace pay for walking?
10 coins per 2,500 steps, and 1,000 coins is $1, so a 10,000-step day is 40 coins or 4 cents, the same rate as walking inside the main Scrambly app. A month of 10,000-step days from walking alone is a little over a dollar.
Why did my PenguPace step rewards stop?
Scrambly's stated rule is that step rewards stay active only if you complete one offer step every two days. If you have not progressed a game or offer within that window, the walking rewards pause until you do. Scrambly says support can suggest quick offers if you ask.
What is the PenguPace minimum cash-out?
$1 for PayPal, Visa, Cash App and most gift cards, with a $10 minimum for bank transfer. New users may get a 500-coin welcome bonus worth 50 cents. Identity verification can be required before a payout, and the terms allow Scrambly to reverse rewards if an offer is later rejected by the advertiser.
Is PenguPace on iPhone?
No. PenguPace is Android only as of November 2026. iPhone users who want Scrambly's walking rewards would use the main Scrambly app instead.
Method: Checked November 7, 2026 against the Google Play listing for com.pengupace (updated October 28, 2026; 4.6 from 21.4K reviews; Mature 17+; support@scrambly.io) and Scrambly's replies to reviews from August and September 2026, Scrambly's walk-to-earn page (10 coins per 2,500 steps; $1 minimums; $10 bank transfer; 500-coin welcome bonus; Trustpilot 4.6 from 17K+), the Scrambly terms and conditions naming Scrambly S.r.l., Via della Zecca 1, Bologna, and two independent 2026 reviews including a documented $10 PayPal cash-out. Rates and minimums are as published and Scrambly says they can vary by eligibility and change without notice. Fitcoin has no commercial relationship with any app named here.
Related reading: Scrambly review, How much does Scrambly pay?, WeWard vs Scrambly, Apps that pay you to walk via PayPal, Are walking reward apps legit?, Is Fitcoin legit?
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.