Apps that pay you for things you already do

Walking, ticking off a task, learning something, playing a game. Four free apps for iPhone and iPad that turn those into coins, and coins into PayPal cash. It is pocket money rather than an income — we would rather say so here than let you find out later.

See the four apps

Your balance

$2.40

Cash out from $2.00

Small amounts. Actually paid.

What you get, and what you do not

Every app in this category sounds the same in its own description, so here are the three things about ours that are checkable rather than adjectives.

Free, and free all the way through

No purchase, no subscription, and no fee taken out of what you cash out. We are paid by the advertising, which is explained in full rather than left implied.

Paid in cash, not in a catalogue

Coins convert to PayPal cash at 1,000 to the dollar. Plenty of the bigger apps pay only in gift cards, which is a real difference and one we go through app by app.

A first payout at $2.00

Two thousand coins and you can withdraw. Elsewhere in this category the bar is $20 or more, and a balance you cannot reach is a balance you can lose.

Built so you can check us

The whole category runs on numbers that are hard to verify, so ours are published and identical for everyone. No personalised earn rate, no balance that quietly expires, and no fee for leaving money in the app.

  • No balance expiry and no inactivity fee
  • Cash out at $2.00, not $20.00
  • The same published earn rate for every user
  • Bonus ads are optional — declining slows earning, never blocks it

What one ad is actually worth

Three tenths of a cent to nine tenths of a cent, and we show the arithmetic in how reward apps make money.

What you can realistically earn

A few dollars over weeks, not a wage. The honest totals are on what you can actually earn.

How the big apps compare

We review our competitors and say where they beat us — Mistplay, Swagbucks, Fetch, Ibotta and Sweatcoin.

Start with the one that fits your day

Pick the app that attaches to something you did yesterday without being asked — that is the one still on your phone at payout. All four are free.

See the four apps