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Have you ever wanted to drive less but never had the motivation to do so? Or don't see the benefits?

Here are some benefits of walking instead of driving:

-reduced risk of cardiovascular problems

-higher levels of energy (this is especially good if you're feeling tired all the time)

-exploring your local city/village

-helping against climate change enormously (cars make up for 20% of all carbon dioxide emissions, 72% of all nitrogen oxides (extremely harmful compounds) and 52% of all reactive hydrocarbons)

These are more benefits, these are just some. While most of them are related to your health or to fighting climate change, there's a way through which you can even earn money by walking. There's an app called Sweatcoins which registers your steps and in exchange for that it gives you money...well...sweatcoins which is this app's currency:) (I'm not sponsored by the app, I just tested it and it works wonders. If I was sponsored I wouldn't have been allowed to state its cons)

Cons for Sweatcoins:

-you can't convert directly sweatcoins in other currencies such as dollars, euros etc. with one exception that being that there's a permanent offer through which you can convert 20000 sweatcoins in 1000 dollars but,

-you earn one sweatcoin for every 1000 steps (minus 5% comission)

-the app requires your location to be always turned on.

That being said, there a number of benefits too:

-it's free,

-you don't have to keep your mobile data always turned on, just your location is necessary (it will store the number of steps and then when you open your WiFi/mobile data, it will tranform those steps in sweatcoins)

-while you can't tranform sweatcoins directly into dollars or other type of currency (except the 1000 dollars permanent offer), there are other temporary offers always available with which you can buy stuff (from clothes to food and tea) or get massive discounts,

-you are paid for a thing that already makes you healthy and fights the climate. So you get health points, money points and climate points all in one activity!

Final rating: 8/10

Final comment: While it has some things which can be improved, it is a good app if you lack the motivation for walking.

Now it's your turn to try it and let me know what you think about it! Link: