Million Steps

Tracking your progress with Million Steps is refreshingly simple. You earn a $10 Amazon gift card for every one million steps you take.

If that sounds like a shockingly large number of steps needed to earn a $10 gift card, it is. Especially considering that users are typically capped at 5,000 steps per day (absent taking action to raise your daily limit). Except it’s easy to raise your daily limit to at least 10,000 steps. Also, you don’t necessarily need to walk to earn steps.

• Earn up to 5,000 steps per day by watching ads in the app (each ad is worth 500 steps). Simply click on the green “Boosts” button on the home page of the app.
• Earn steps for scanning the bar codes of products in your favorite stores, much like you scan products in a bar code scanning app like CheckPoints. Earn 3,000 steps for each scan.
• Earn 3,000 steps by enabling notifications from local stores.
• Earn 1,000 bonus steps for following Million Steps on Twitter/X and another 1,000 steps for following Million Steps on Instagram.
• Take a one-minute survey and earn 5,000 free bonus steps. Taking more substantial surveys can each from 15,000 – 100,000 bonus steps.
• Earn 10,000 steps for each friend that accepts your invitation to join the Million Steps app.

Million Steps also features a “Healthy News Feed” that features fitness-related articles from a variety of online publishers. Those are for informational purposes only, and don’t help you accrue steps.

According to the app’s official rules, the app uses Core Motion to track steps, though you can get steps and distance from Apple Health.

“To get steps & distance from Health app navigate to Profile page, press ‘Step’s source device’ button, choose Health app and give access to read data,” says Million Steps.

The Top 500 users for the month are highlighted on the app’s monthly leaderboard. 

Yes. Million Steps is a legitimate walking app that rewards users with $10 Amazon gift cards for each 1,000,000 steps accrued. As of March 2025, Million Steps has a 4.6 out of 5 star rating in Apple’s App store and a strangely low 1.6 out of 5 stars rating in Google Play. 

Currently, the only payout option with Million Steps is an Amazon gift card, though Million Steps expects that “(o)ther options will be added in (the) future.”

As soon as you reach the $10 mark on your Profile page, simply click the “Withdraw” button and provide your first and last name and email address. When your Amazon gift card is ready you will receive an email with the message: “Million Steps Challenge sent you an Amazon Gift Card!”

Typically, you will receive your Amazon gift card in your email within 1-2 days, though Million Steps says delivery can take up to 5 days.

Million Steps indicates that gift cards need to be used within 90 days or they expire. Our experience suggests that this is not the case, and that the gift cards provided by Million Steps remain good indefinitely, at least if they are connected to an Amazon account shortly after receipt.

If your usage of Million Steps is limited to walking and watching ads, you can expect to earn a $10 gift card as soon as once every three months ($40 per year). But the app features a leaderboard that highlights the top 500 users, and from that we know that top users earn approximately $20 per month with Million Steps. In other words, top earning potential is approximately $240 per year.

To maximize the amount of money you earn with walking apps, download and use multiple ‘get paid to walk’ apps simultaneously. If you like Million Steps, consider downloading the GeoSmile app, Cashwalk, WeWard and Evidation, too. 

You must be 17 years of age or older to use Million Steps.