Every page here follows the same four rules. The conflict of interest is stated before the verdict, every number comes from the app's own published material and is dated, the section on what the other app does better is compulsory, and none of them concludes that ours is the best one. Where we would have to guess at a figure, we say we are guessing instead of guessing.
Is Sweatcoin legit?
Yes, and it does not pay cash. Sweatcoins buy from a marketplace, and the one route to PayPal is an auction you have to win.
Read the review →Is Mistplay legit?
Yes, and there are two different Mistplays. The iPhone app is not the Android one, the annual cap is $550, and no earnings screenshot predicts yours.
Read the review →Is Swagbucks legit?
SB do not expire on a clock, but twelve months of inactivity can void them. One SB is a cent across the catalog, and $25 of PayPal costs 2,530 of them.
Read the review →Is Fetch legit?
Yes, with the category's highest rating. Points buy gift cards only: the 3,000-point minimum, the 90-day expiry, and where your receipt data goes.
Read the review →Is Ibotta legit?
Legitimate, and it pays real cash to a bank. The $20 withdrawal minimum, the fee that eats a dormant balance, and when cash back is not a saving.
Read the review →Is Rakuten legit?
Yes, and it pays real cash, four times a year. The schedule is the catch, not the $5.01 minimum, and the tracking rules quietly cost people their Cash Back.
Read the review →Is Upside legit?
Yes, and it pays cash on gas and groceries. PayPal was removed on 14 August 2026, a fee sits under the no-minimum, and offers shrink the more you use it.
Read the review →Is Receipt Hog legit?
Yes, and it says as much itself: this is a market research panel. The 100-coin weekly ceiling, the store threshold, and what connecting your inbox gives away.
Read the review →Why a competitor is writing these
Because we can explain another app's coin economics from the inside, and because we have no referral fee riding on the answer. That is not neutrality — we would rather you used ours — but it is a bias that points the opposite way to the one most reviews of these apps carry, and you can check every source we cite.
A review answers whether an app is worth installing. When the question is the narrower one — what a specific app pays per action, and what its currency is worth once you divide it out — that is what they actually pay. And when one of these apps closes or stops being worth the effort, the replacement list goes in the alternatives.
For our own apps, the same arithmetic is on what you can actually earn and which of ours pays you best. The category as a whole is covered in the articles.