With millions of mobile apps available to both Android and iOS users, it’s quite hard to believe that there actually a handful that can help you earn some small revenues. Market research or survey apps, as well as those that involve mobile advertising and sharing economy, are most often the types of moneymaking apps you can download and make money out of.
These mobile apps may not make you rich but it can help you earn small cash while having lunch, taking a break, or while you’re stuck in your daily traffic commute.
Raring to earn from a side hustle using your mobile phone? Here are some mobile apps that you can download to earn cash, fast!
- Ibotta
This is a popular moneymaking mobile app that provides cashback or discount offers for buying certain grocery items, including food.
All you have to do is download the app for free, browse through available rebates, and unlocking these rebates for items that you’re going to purchase. You can then purchase these items in the store, upload your receipts, and get paid.
What puts Ibotta above the rest is that they pay in cash and deposit your earnings into your PayPal or Venmo account within 48 hours of your verified purchase. Besides cash, you can also opt to receive a gift card.
- Swagbucks
Available to both Android and iOS users, Swagbucks lets you earn an average of $10 as a sign-up bonus and pays you for taking surveys, shopping online, watching videos, or playing games using your mobile phone.
If you’re wondering how to make 35 dollars fast, check out this app, which provides you with up to 2,500 points that can be redeemed for a $25 gift card.
Swagbucks may not give out much, but you can accumulate points fast as the app offers different types of survey to choose from. You can also redeem points for gift cards, for instance, on Amazon, or avail of a PayPal cashback.
- Money App
Available on Android and iOS, this moneymaking app gives out rewards to users who finish specific tasks such as letting their opinions known on specific products, playing games, checking store displays, mystery shopping, testing services and checking out free trial offers.
Download Money App and create an account to get things started. Complete tasks to accrue points and rewards that you can later claim by using your PayPal account. Unlike other market research app, Money App pays rather quickly. While others pay once a month, Money App pays within three days maximum after redeeming your rewards, on average.
- Toluna
You can earn from this mobile market research or survey app in two ways; by taking surveys or creating your own questionnaire related to consumer habits, current events, or a recently- released electronic gadget, etc.
With Toluna, it pays to be patient, as it might take you a long time to receive survey offers that fit your profile (yes, they ask for personal details upon registration, so you have to be cool with that). Users typically get paid in cash via PayPal, or check, which could take a long time to arrive. If you’re new to the app, consider clicking the in-app webinars that show you how to make more money for this app.
- iPoll
Don’t be deceived by its name; this mobile app is available for both iOS and Android users. And like the rest of the cash-earning mobile apps featured earlier in this article, iPoll offers small cash to users who take market surveys and more. Besides giving out opinions thru surveys, you will be asked to record your experience by using or consuming specific products for a few days and completing tasks that you normally do, such as going to the grocery store to do something relatively easy.
As with other survey apps, you need to provide personal details that include consumer habits and preferences in order for the app to decide which surveys or tasks are relevant for you.
You’ll receive alerts when tasks are available based on your profile and location.
For each survey, mission, or diary completed, you earn rewards that can be claimed for gift cards, or cash out using PayPal once you accumulated a total of $10.
- Poshmark
This app is perfect for fashion-conscious individuals who want to sell or buy clothes, shoes, and handbags. To date, this app has over 50 million users, who interact regularly online to grow their clientele or generate sales.
For those who may not be familiar with the app but are interested to know more, Poshmark conjures a “social” experience for both buyers and sellers similar to Facebook. All you have to do is download the app for free, create a personal profile, and engage with other users.
Sellers upload and post their merchandise in the hopes of getting a buyer quickly. Potential buyers can leave questions and post comments, that the seller can respond to.
There’s no limit to how much you can earn with Poshmark. Depending on how in-demand your products are, you can raise thousands in a matter of days.
- Viggle
This app gives couch potatoes something to look forward to. Download the app on your phone and log in to Viggle each time you’re bingeing on your favorite TV shows. There’s somehow a unique way of earning points. Hit the “earn points” button from the home screen, turn up the volume on your TV, and allow the Viggle app to “listen” to or recognize the show. It can be a show that’s currently airing or a show you’ve recorded up to 5 days after its original air date.
Viggle can also reward you for listening to music, whether on the radio, or a device. Wait for the app to recognize the song, as it does on TV, in order to earn points. Viggle offers flexibility, as points can be redeemed for more than 800 different gift cards. Not all shows and songs are the same, as Viggle offers double or triple points for some specific shows.
- Fronto
Available only to Android users, Fronto provides cash to users who view news and ads on their mobile phones.
You earn points for interacting with ad and your earnings can vary between $0.01 to $2 per transaction, you can make $0.20 daily for just checking into the app. While it may only be loose pocket change to most, you don’t have to exert any effort to earn, as the points accumulate with the time that you spend waiting in line, commuting, eating meals, in-store shopping, among other things.
Once you reach a total of $10 in accumulated earnings, you can redeem it for a cash deposit to your PayPal account or an Amazon gift card. Other options include gift cards that can be used for purchases in stores like Target, Walmart, Best Buy, CVS; and food from Burger King, Papa Johns, Starbucks.
Slidejoy is an app that works in the same way, but with an added earning opportunity via surveys. And unlike Fronto, Slidejoy allows you to earn even if you choose not to engage. Unfortunately, Slidejoy requires a newly registered user to wait for three months before cashing out. Plus, the app charges a 20 percent cash-out fee, which may turn off potential users.
- Foap
If photography is your passion but don’t have a horde of clients or don’t consider yourself a “pro” yet, check out this moneymaking mobile app. Foap allows amateur and professional photographers to sell photos taken on their smartphones.
With over 2.5 million photographers registered around the world, Foap is a crowdsourcing platform for brands and marketing as well as advertising agencies to scan and purchase images online.
Photographers only have to create an account, upload breathtaking photos subject to other user ratings. Photos with the highest scores also rank highly and become visible in the app increasing the chances of getting sold. Each photo can earn a user as low as $5 to a maximum of $100.
Foap allows agencies to set out “missions” or specific image and video requests from brands and agencies.
- Fluid Market
Make money with your smartphone and idle assets through this sharing economy app. Fluid Market gives you the opportunity to earn by renting out your vehicle of whichever type – sedan, sports utility vehicle (SUV), Asian Utility Vehicle (AUV), cargo van, box truck, pickup truck – with rental fees calculated by the hour, day or week.
This free mobile app claims that you can rack up $24,000 in a year just by renting your truck on Fluid. Besides your ride, the app also lets you lease your power tools and just about almost anything that you have that are not in use for the meantime.
- Bookscouter
Bookworms, rejoice! Sell your new and second-hand books easily with this mobile app simply by registering an account here. Once registered, start scanning book barcodes using your phone’s camera and check out some buyback prices from book-buyers.
- Userfeel
This mobile app takes a bit of time and lets you participate in usability tests. This entails visiting and exploring new websites, complete simple tasks on the site, and offer recorded feedback based on your observations and overall experience.
A user is paid an average of $10 in cash via Payoneer or Paypal for work that typically takes 10 to 20 minutes to complete.
Interested? Take the initial test by recording your voice and your screen as you walk through the tasks. The Userfeel team will check this and rate you. Make the effort to follow instructions as more tests will be assigned to you if you get a high rating.
- Musely
Besides allowing you to make money, Musely also offers tons of practical advice and do-it-yourself tips on various topics such as beauty, lifestyle, and parenting.
You can make money by becoming an influencer and creating your own store to get a 20 per cent commission when your recommended product gets sold. Note that all products sold on the app are organic and eco-friendly.
Final Thoughts
While it may not be able to replace your day job, some mobile apps can be a fun way to earn small cash to complement your monthly income. These apps do not demand too much effort from you, and you can use them during downtime or while doing daily activities.
Just a word of caution, though: be wary of scammers using mobile apps to extract financial information from you. If you’re asked for your credit card or bank account details in exchange for cash, do not proceed with the registration.
