Get Paid Real Money to Game on your Phone with these Apps
If your phone is practically glued to your hand, you might as well make some money off of it, right?
At The Smart Wallet, we love testing apps, especially ones that reward you for doing what you normally do or are really easy to use.
Below are our favorites so far!
Make Stupid Easy Money Trying and Playing Games
There are so many new games coming out on the daily that it’s hard to choose which to play.
My strategy? Only focus on the games that pay me for my time.
You can do it with AppStation, an app that pays you to try out new games.
When you earn coins from trying new games, you can redeem for:
- PayPal Cash
- Amazon gift card
- GameStop gift card
- PlayStation Store gift card
- Xbox Live gift card
- And too much more to list
Nab a 4,444 coin welcome bonus too, which is basically around 50 cents in value. And if you don’t like to wait, you can choose to payout as low as $1.
If your friends want to get it on the money action, introduce them to AppStation, where you’ll get bonus coins and25% of all their earnings. To make it a supportive group, your friends will also earn 25% of your earnings too!
Take a break from gaming and get paid to do nothing
The average person unlocks their phone 110 times per day – that’s a lot of time spent looking at a screen. Unfortunately, nobody will pay you to text friends or post to social media. Or so you thought.
With S’more you get paid every day you unlock your phone. It’s even easier than it sounds, and since you can cash out with as little as $1 there’s no waiting around for your rewards!
S’more partners up with brands looking for more eyeballs, and you don’t even need to click on anything to get paid.
S’mores pays in gift cards so you can redeem for:
- Amazon.com
- AMC Theaters
- Best Buy
- CVS
- Target
- Domino’s Pizza
- Starbucks and more!
Just use your phone normally, and your earnings will apply daily. Pretty much the easiest thing to do.
Get a Chance to Win $1,000,000 When You Save with this App
Long Game Savings is this amazing app that combines playing games and saving money.
You save, you get to play games, you can win money up to $1,000,000.
When you turn on Automatic Savings on your linked bank account, every deposit will give Coins.
These Coins are used to play fun games like Spin-to-Win, Flip Cards, Slot Machines and more to win real cash, even up to $1,000,000 real dollars! How’s that for encouragement?
Not only will your savings account grow within Long Game, you’ll also earn daily and weekly chances to win more cash. On my first day, I got $2 just for depositing $10.
“I check the app everyday since it’s fun. I already got paid $5 my first week!” – Stanley S.
Long Game is FDIC-insured so your money is completely safe. It’s also free to use, you’ll earn 0.1% interest on the money you save, and you can withdraw all your money at any time (takes 3-5 business days to completely transfer).
It’s no wonder that Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and TechCrunch love it too.
Since Long Game is insured, they take extra steps to protect everyone. Your info is completely safe and they need this before you can start to get paid to save. They’ll ask you to provide:
- A bank account (they do not store any login information)
- A mobile number so they can text you a code for verification
- Your social security number to prove you’re you
- Your email address (they’ll send a verification email)
After that, you’re free to save as much or as little as you want, but also earn chances to win more money. You’ll never lose any money as it’s not the lottery but a valid prize-linked savings account.
So skip that fancy coffee this week and put the money into Long Game instead. It’s also way better than throwing that money away on losing lotto tickets. The chance to get up to a $1,000,000 just for saving is just too good to pass up.
Lucktastic – Get Paid for Playing Scratchers
Don’t bother going to the liquor store to buy physical scratchers, you can now play them for free on Lucktastic!
There are a ton of different scratchers you can play, and you can earn both cash and tokens. Scratched all of them for the day? Don’t worry, there are specific night-time scratchers that are available each night too!
You’ll also get free daily tokens and more ways to earn cash. It’s really simple to play as you just swipe your finger to “scratch.”
On my 5th scratcher, I won a $1! Yes, I’m completely addicted to this app.
When you want to redeem your earnings, you can choose from:
- Amazon gift card
- CVS gift card
- Dunkin’ Donuts gift card
- Check mailed to you
- Visa gift card
Lucktastic is free to download so there’s no harm in trying. Enjoy!
BONUS: Get Paid to Use the Internet
You can pretty much do anything on the Internet. Yes, that includes getting paid to use it. Sign up for these sites and you can start earning extra money every month!
Nielsen Computer & Mobile Panel: They’ll pay for you to use your Internet normally on each of the tech devices that you want to connect and get paid for. It’s an app you install on the devices and they don’t collect any personal information. You’ll also get up $50/year just by being a member and not doing anything extra.
Opinion Outpost: Easy surveys that you can complete to redeem for cash and gift cards. You’re also entered in their quarterly drawing of $10,000. Not bad for just answering some quick questions.
National Consumer Panel: This exclusive program is based on your location so don’t feel left out if you don’t get accepted right away. They’re always expanding. When you do become a member, you’ll use the app to scan items that you normally purchase. The more you scan/share your shopping purchases, the more rewards (Visa gift cards, tech, TVs etc) you can get!
Pinecone Research: Another exclusive program based on your location. If accepted you’ll get $3 per survey and chances to review products before they hit the market. Quarterly drawings of $4,500 sweeten the survey-taking deal.
RewardsBuck – The online rewards club that pays
With RewardsBuck, I easily got a $10 Visa Gift Card on my first visit!
On the site, there are plenty of ways to earn RB, their virtual currency that can be redeemed into Visa Gift Cards which can be used everywhere.
Earn RB by:
- Taking surveys
- Playing games or apps
- Trying free trials
- Taking advantage of daily deals
I signed up for 2 free useful trials and went over the first $10 threshold of cashing out on my first visit. Easy-peasy.
After almost a month of casual participation from the couch, I redeemed a $25 reward that was sent via email:
My favorite activities on RewardsBuck are trying out free apps and trials. These usually don’t take too much time and have low-commitment.
While I’m racking up points on RewardsBuck, I also use the next 2 ways to maximize my earnings. Read on for more!
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