Treecard: Walking Step Tracker

I have a few pay-to-walk apps and this one is my favorite. You don’t make much from any of them and even less here. There are some things to buy which is mostly just discounts. But what makes this stand out is what your steps automatically turn into: a real planted tree. That happens separate from using the steps to buy things, so it’s not like you have to chose between a discount or funding a tree. In that way the steps kind of count as double. This seems to be legit, and I love helping out in that little way. But the app also makes it fun by giving you little digital trees and letting you build your own island. The more you walk the more digital trees you get, which helps visualize the real trees you’re actually funding. Hopefully they’ll keep adding options for your digital world like more tree varieties or waterfalls or animals or something, but the best thing about this is not just inundated with ads. It’s actually enjoyable being on the app. Just remember to claim your digital tree after the 10,000 steps (or whatever the tree you pick costs) because it won’t count your steps beyond until you do.

Fantastic app, encourages walking and personal health while rewarding you with the ability to plant trees in real life. Some are only worth “0.2 trees” meaning you need to plant five for a real tree, while others (cacao and banana) cost more steps (less relatively to 5 of the others) but allow you to plant an entire tree with just 48k steps. I love this app. My only complaint, which is more of a suggestion, is that I always forget to check my progress. Notifications are not something I love, but would turn on if this app had them. In my opinion, a widget would be far more useful AND would help promote the app to others! Imagine every time you look at your Lock Screen people beside you see “12,256 more steps to plant a banana tree” or something similar. This would be a fantastic way to promote your app while allowing users to make the most of their steps. Also don’t see it interfering with your business model at all since there is already a weekly limit of trees you can plant. It may cause an influx in planted trees as people restart their step counts more frequently. But even if it was a onetime or monthly subscription of a reasonable amount, I still think people would pay a small fee to access notifications and a widget. Just a suggestion, otherwise this app is great! I recommend it to everyone I can 😉

I downloaded this app at the the thought that it was jus going to track the steps I was already going to walk and use them to help plant the earth more trees… it’s much more than jus that I get points for planting my digital trees at 10k step and I can use that to help clean the ocean!! Carrying on w the much more, this app apparently also offers a debit card an gifts u can get w the points ect. Now if you are just using this app to make an actual difference in the world and jus plant trees an use the points for the ocean it’s wonderful! Makes me happy to know I’m helping the earth 10/10. But I’ve also seen people complaining about the other logistics of this an app like connecting to your bank or glitches, delays and changes of the features, ive either ignored it or haven’t experienced BUT the asking for donations!(when not given donations you get a message basically saying thanks for nothing) kinda hurtful when your trying to help do something good for the planet by just walking especially when your possibly unable to contribute in any other way including financially….some people can’t even walk so maybe they should change the message to something more positive like… “ thank you maybe next time!” Definitely sound more encouraging at least. Other then that I like this app to help plant trees and clean the ocean<3