Earning app reviews and guides
Reviews, payout guides and our own measurements of the apps that pay you for surveys, games and a share of your internet connection. Every number on these pages names where it came from, and every review of another app says at the top that we build a competing one.
Ways to earn
How each kind of task pays, who pays for it, and what decides what you get.
Games that pay real money, and what the hours are worthThey're ads. A studio pays to get you playing to a milestone, the app keeps a cut, you get the rest. One large operator publishes the limits on your hours.Paid surveys: how they work and what they really payA research buyer pays a panel, the panel pays a router, the router pays the app. What's left is your reward, and the buyer's targeting decides your screenouts.
Reviews
Earning apps read against their own terms, help pages and prices.
AttaPoll.app review: the low minimum, and what it costs youAttaPoll advertises a $3 cash-out minimum, but its own terms say the real one varies by country. They also delete your balance after six months with nothing completed.Freecash.com review: is it legit, and what stops people getting paidFreecash is run by a real Berlin company, and the app is live in both stores. We checked both ourselves. The catch is what happens to a flagged account.Honeygain.com review: what it pays, and what can happen to the moneyHoneygain's own pages put the rate at $0.10 per GB. That makes the $20 minimum about 200 GB, three times what two of the top reviews tell you.Mistplay.com review: what a unit is actually worthMistplay prices 30,000 units at $100 in its own sweepstakes rules. That's 300 units to the dollar, and it tells you what every offer in the app is worth.Swagbucks.com review: is it legit, and what cashing out really costsSwagbucks pays, and the rate holds across 510 of the 516 rewards we checked. The six that cost more are all PayPal. What we found, and what we did not test.
Payouts
How the money leaves an app, what it costs, and why it waits.
Apps that pay in gift cards, and which cards are actually worth takingNobody gives a gift card away. What you pay for one, what the card can't do, and how to tell a card worth taking from one that isn't.Apps that pay real money instantly, and what instantly really meansInstant describes one step out of three. What each app publishes as its own minimum and processing time, and how to read a payout promise.Why your balance is still pendingPending is the window where the advertiser can still take the payment back. How long that runs, what makes it worse, and when pending is a bad sign.
Passive income
What the phrase means, and what sharing a connection actually sells.
Our measurements
Things we opened up and measured ourselves.