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Small mobile apps. Some of them pay you.

Four of them attach coins to something you were going to do anyway — walking, learning something, ticking off a task — and turn those coins into PayPal cash from $2.00. It is pocket money rather than an income, and we would rather say so here than let you find out later. The newest one is a game. It pays nothing, and that is the whole idea.

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Your balance

$2.40

Cash out from $2.00

Small amounts. Actually paid.

What the reward apps give you, and what they do not

Every app in that category sounds the same in its own description, so here are the three things about ours that are checkable rather than adjectives. None of it applies to the games, which have no coins in them at all.

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 catalog

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 personalized 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, Rakuten, Upside, Receipt Hog and Sweatcoin. When one of them closes, or stops being worth the effort, we write the replacement list too: apps like Shopkick, apps like Sweatcoin, apps like Fetch and apps like Ibotta. And when the question is what an app actually pays, we do the long division: how much Mistplay pays, how much Swagbucks pays, and how much Sweatcoin pays.

See our apps

Daily: Learn and Earn, Step and Earn, Play and Earn, and Todo and Earn — all free on the App Store. View the full app list, or see which of ours pays you best.

And the ones that pay nothing

Taco Rain is a sixty-second catcher with five levels and ten badges. No coins, no cash-out, and nothing to buy — which is why it lives in the games rather than beside the four above.

Start with the one that fits your day

If you want the payout, pick the app that attaches to something you did yesterday without being asked — that is the one still on your phone when the balance clears. If you just want sixty seconds back, take the game instead. Everything here is free.

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