--- title: 'I Tested 16 Money-Making Apps So You Don''t Have To' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ht63y4O9q0o' video_id: 'Ht63y4O9q0o' date: 2026-07-12 duration_sec: 958 --- # I Tested 16 Money-Making Apps So You Don't Have To > Source: [I Tested 16 Money-Making Apps So You Don't Have To](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ht63y4O9q0o) ## Summary The video tests 16 money-making apps, revealing that most pay very little (e.g., $1.15/hour) or require significant time investment. Only a few, like cashback apps and task platforms, offer legitimate but modest earnings. The creator concludes that these apps are not a viable source of substantial income. ### Key Points - **Ibotta Cashback App** [01:23] — Cashback app that refunds a percentage of purchases. Tested with NordVPN: bought €15.71 plan, received €11.87 cashback after 12 hours, but withdrawal only possible after 4 months. Conclusion: it saves money, doesn't make money. - **HCash Earnings** [02:57] — Points-based app. Earned 3,322 points ($3.3) in 2 hours, equivalent to $1.15/hour. Minimum withdrawal 5,000 points ($5). Not reached. - **Geekspot Mystery Shopper** [04:21] — Tasks like taking photos in stores. Tested three tasks: earned €0.20 for one (product unavailable) and €0.90 each for two successful tasks. Pays but requires travel time. - **Pounds Internet Sharing** [05:56] — App that pays for sharing mobile internet. Tested for 24 hours, earned very little. Internet speed slowed down. - **Branded Surveys (Five Surveys)** [06:37] — Pays €3 for five valid surveys. Only one survey appeared after registration, couldn't reach minimum withdrawal. - **TaskRabbit Alternative** [07:03] — App for handyman tasks (€30-60/hour). Couldn't test due to saturation in area. Takes 10-15% commission. - **Hey Piggy Surveys** [07:43] — Survey app. Earned 14 cents for a 15-minute survey. Minimum withdrawal €1. Few surveys available. - **Rover Pet Sitting** [08:11] — App for pet care. Charges €15-30 per night. Registration requires form and verification. Users generally happy. - **FreeCash Multi-Method** [09:06] — Tested 36 tasks: 3 errors, 15 impossible, 15 unpaid, 9 paid. Earned $69 in 16 hours ($4.31/hour). Withdrew $5 to PayPal (received $4.75 after fees). - **Bellhop Moving Service** [10:30] — App for moving/transport. Claims up to $21/hour. Not available in region. Alternative: Wallapop offers similar services at ~€20/hour. - **Crypto.com Staking** [11:10] — Cryptocurrency exchange. Staking generates income but requires investment. Not a money-making app per se. - **Stepcoin Walking App** [11:38] — Pays in Step Coins for walking. Walked 3,300 steps earned 2.84 coins. More coins from roulette/ads. Minimum withdrawal 750 coins ($5). - **Fetch Cashback** [12:22] — Cashback app for purchases. Not available in region. Not for making money. - **Mystery Shopper App (unnamed)** [12:35] — Mystery shopper app. Only two missions available in Spain. Limited opportunities. - **PlayTestCloud Game Testing** [13:00] — Pays to play games and give feedback. Registration took 15 minutes. No response after 24 hours. Reviews say tests pay $10 for 15-30 minutes. - **GetGrass Internet Sharing** [14:28] — Shares internet from computer. Earned 1,154 Grass Coins in 14 hours. Coins not yet exchangeable; future value estimated. Requires computer on. ### Conclusion Money-making apps can generate small amounts of money but are not a reliable source of income. Most pay very little per hour, and some require significant time or investment. For serious income, consider starting a real business like an online store. ## Transcript about apps for making money. He has over 2,000 videos about this type of application. For example, he has videos where he shows you playing games. Other videos where he shows you apps that let you earn apps. Then there are also apps internet connection. And something that really caught my attention about this channel is that they recently uploaded a video with a top list of the best apps to a top list of the best apps to earn money in 2025. I find these kinds of interesting, especially since it's a channel that specializes in this. But what I don't like about these types of videos is that they only tell you about the apps, but they don't test them. That's why I decided to prepare this these applications. We're talking about 16 applications. We've tried them all, and in this video I'm going to share my experience with you and how much money we've managed to earn with each one . Preparing these types of videos, believe me, requires a lot of hours. We have to invest a lot of time to thoroughly test each of the applications and really see find the content of this video interesting, don't hesitate to leave a like. It does n't cost you anything and you really help us a lot. So without further ado, with that said, let's begin. The first app presented in this top list is called Ibota. Ibota is a cashback app. For those who do basically it's apps or platforms that give us back a percentage of the money we spend on certain products or services. They have certain agreements with some companies. So if you buy those products or services, they're going to give you a percentage back. The problem, Divota, is . In our case it wasn't a problem at all, since nowadays there are a lot of very similar platforms that all offer cashback. So, we tried Letyhop, which is available worldwide, and when we tried Letyhop Shop we went in, created an account, registered, the whole process and once we entered the platform the different offers appeared attention the most, since it had a fairly high cashback percentage, we're talking about a cashback percentage of 80%, was with Nord VPN. Basically, you bought Nord VPN and they refunded 80%. So, testing it, and bought the cheapest Nord VPN plan, which costs €15.71. Once we made the purchase, we had to wait 12 hours and 12 hours we had to wait 12 hours and 12 hours later we received €11.87. But something important I want to emphasize is that this money is refunded to us, but we will only be able to withdraw it after 4 months. So, the conclusion of this app is that these types of apps do work, but it make money; rather, it's an app that allows us to save money. The second application is called HCash. This is the typical application where we can different ways, such as downloading and playing games, downloading applications, answering surveys, and creating an account on certain main page, they tell us that we can earn up to $50 a day. Something very this type of application is what the minimum withdrawal is. In this case, this is an application that works by a points system and 5,000 points are needed to be able to make a withdrawal and these 5,000 points are equivalent to $5. So, creating an account already gave us 1000 points, and the first task we did was to create an Audible account. Audible account, we received an additional 1354 points. Then we did a survey and they gave us 263 points. Then we did another survey and they gave us 473 points. We also downloaded and played a game, and for this we received 49 points. In short, we spent 2 hours testing the application and did all sorts of things, and in these 2 hours 3,322 points, which if we convert this to dollars is $3.3 in these 2 hours. And if we divide it by two, we're talking about $1.15 per hour. And also, considering that we cannot withdraw, since to be able to withdraw. The next application is called Geekspot. This app is from Mystery Shopper. It consists of performing certain tasks in going to a physical establishment and taking a picture of a product, stating the price, what products are around it, how you were treated, if there was a queue, this type of thing. The problem with this app is that it's not there is an app that is available and is practically the same thing, called Bmayai. And it works the same way: you have to do certain tasks in physical establishments and they will pay you money for it . Once we registered, we got down to work and started we did three missions. We basically did three tasks. The tasks consisted of going to a store, taking a picture of the facade, finding a product , taking several pictures of the product, questions such as the price, what products are around it, and questions of this kind. So, of these three tasks, we went to do the first task product, as it wasn't available and we were paid 20 cents for it. And in the other two tasks the product in question was present and we were paid 90 euro cents for each of these tasks, these two tasks where the product was present. This is an app that actually pays. My personal opinion is way to work, or you're earn some money. But if you want to treat it like a job, I honestly do interesting thing, mainly because you have to invest quite a bit of time going to missions. The next application, in truth, is quite different and is called Pounds, an application that pays you for sharing your internet. On we can generate up to $100 a month by sharing our mobile internet. We obviously wanted to try it out and set our mobile phone to share internet with this application for 24 hours and in 24 reality is that this application works, but it's also important to keep in mind that the revenue generated is really low and that, based on our experience, the internet speed was somewhat slower during the 24 hours next application is called Branded Survey. It's an app that pays us for completing surveys. Unfortunately, it 's only available in the United States, so we decided to try a similar one called Five Surveyase, which works exactly the same way. In this case, this application pays us €3 for completing. five valid surveys. We created an account, filled out the welcome survey that does n't count, then filled out a survey that is a valid survey, but unfortunately once we did that, no more surveys appeared, so we couldn't reach the minimum to withdraw the money. Let's talk about Task pay us for performing tasks, such as assembling furniture, repairing furniture, all kinds of handyman-type tasks. This app pays from €30 to €60 per hour and we have seen several profiles within the app that have more than 5,000 tasks completed. The truth is that we couldn't it appeared that there were already too many people in our area, but reading the reviews we have seen that people are quite happy and that there are people who have been using and working, so to speak, within this application for quite a few years. Also, something to emphasize is that this application takes 10 to 15% of what we generate in commission. Let's talk about Hey Piggy now. This is an app that pays us for completing surveys. We registered, stayed on an account, and took a survey. We spent 15 minutes doing this survey and were paid 14 withdraw money either via PayPal or via gift cards. The minimum withdrawal is €1 and based on our experience, we have to say that it's quite available surveys. The next application is called Paushake. It's an app that will pay us for walking dogs, taking care of pets at home, visiting pets, but it's an app that isn't available in one that is, called Rober, which is practically the same thing. Inside Rover we saw that they charge between €15 and €30 to look after a dog for one night in our house. While in the United States we see prices reaching up to $5 for taking care of a dog in your own home. The registration process is register, obviously, and then you have to fill out a form where they will to confirm that you are really a qualified person to be able to take care of certain animals. We also read forums and different opinions, and the truth is that people are quite happy with this application. We move on to the next application called Free Cash. Freecash is an application many different ways, such as by downloading games and playing games, taking surveys, and registering. They really have a lot of things. register, and once registered we saw that there were a lot of So we got down to business and tested 36 different ways to make money with this app. Three error. When we clicked it didn't work, it basically gave an error. practically impossible. For example, they told us that we had to download a game and play up to level 25, but it was very a week playing practically every day, so it was sense at all. 15 of the things we tested did work correctly. We were able to do it well and we were able to complete it, but despite completing it we were not paid at any time. And nine of these tasks we did do , we did complete them, and we did get paid for them. We tested all of this for 16 hours and generated $69. We made a withdrawal to test if all this really worked and withdrew $5 directly to PayPal. And it did work, even though they charged us fees and we ended up receiving $4.75 in our PayPal account. Let's talk about Belhop now. This is an application where you can earn money by helping certain people move or transport materials. The app states that you can earn up to $21 per hour, but unfortunately this app is not available in our region. But we did some research and realized that on Wallapop there are many people, quite a few people who offer their services for moving or transporting all kinds of things and who charge around €20 per hour. The truth is that it has quite a bit of competition, but hey, it's an alternative we've seen to this this guy tells us about is called Crypto.com. Crypto.com is a cryptocurrency exchange, and what this guy is telling us is that within this exchange we consists of locking our cryptocurrencies and by having them locked we will generate certain income. And honestly, it doesn't seem to make much sense in this video, since this is more of an investment than an requires investment. Therefore, I don't see much point in this application. The next application is Setcoin, and it's an application that pays us for walking. He's going to pay us in Set Coins, which is his own currency. Obviously we wanted to try it, so we signed up and started walking with the app. We walked 3,300 steps and were paid 2.84 suite coins. And in addition to option to play roulette and watch some ads, and they gave us an additional 17.73 suite coins. To withdraw this money, 750 suite coins are needed, and these are exchanged, so to speak, for $5. So my opinion app where, as you've seen, you're going to earn much more money by playing roulette and watching ads than by walking around. So that you can earn money by walking, but the real goal is for you to look at paying you. The next app is Fetch, and it's also a cashback app. It's an app where we can buy certain percentage refunded, which isn't available in our region either. And as I mentioned before, it's not an app for actually making money. Let's also a Mystery Shopper app where they'll send you to certain establishments and you'll have to take certain photos and fill out certain information. So, it's an application that is available in our region. We registered, but only two missions appeared for us, so to speak, in all of Spain. So, well, it's something that does let you register, but it doesn't have many missions available, to be honest. We move on to the second to last application, which is called Play Test Cloud. This is an app that pays you to play, but it has nothing to do with the other apps we've seen that pay you to play, which don't really pay you to play, but rather pay you very little for downloading an app or game, and they make money from ads. So, this is something completely different. This is a platform, this is an application that will pay you to play, since it puts developers in contact with video games, with ordinary people, like us, and they will pay us to try certain games and be able to give feedback. To create an account on this application you have to register, you have to fill out a kind of survey test which, in our case, took us 15 minutes to do, since you have to understand that a lot of people want to filter well who is worth it and who is not worth it. So, it's a test that requires some time. Once we registered and filled in all the information, we waited for 24 hours and at least in our particular case we did not receive a response. Even so, we've been doing some research and the relatively good. We've seen that people say the tests take 15 to people say the tests take 15 to 30 minutes and that they pay $10 for the last application called GetGrass. That's an application that will pay us for sharing our internet, but we won't do it directly from the mobile phone; instead, everything is done directly from the computer itself. We've been testing this app for 14 hours and have earned 1154 Grass Coins, which is basically the currency of this app. This is a relatively new project and at the moment these Gras Coins cannot yet be exchanged for dollars. So, for now it can't be changed, although they say that in the future it will be possible, and it is estimated that in the future this amount of grass coins that we have earned in these 14 hours will be equivalent to would like to make clear is that for this to work, it is necessary to have the computer turned on. To conclude this video, I'd like to say that it is possible to make money with these types of apps, but you certainly won't make a lot of money with all of this. For those of you interested in starting a project, a serious business, I'm going to leave a link in the description of this video to a complete and free Shopify course, where we teach you how to create an online store and how to generate sales thanks to it. Here on the the results from people who have taken this free course. But something isn't like an app where you have to play games or do things like that. This is serious business. This is not quick or easy money. This requires a lot, a lot of work. Therefore, it is only for serious people. And to wrap things up, we'd like to say that preparing these kinds of videos takes a lot of time, many hours, and the goal is to test . So if you found this interesting, don't hesitate to leave a like, and that's all. I'm Adrián Sacience, and I'll see you in the next video. Co?