Todo and Earn

Yes. No subscription and no in-app purchases - it's funded by advertising, a banner and optional short videos, and the coins are a share of that revenue. Your list works exactly the same if you never watch one.

An iPhone or iPad running iOS 15.0 or later, or an Android phone or tablet. There's a split view on a tablet either way. The App Store rates it 4+ and Google Play rates it Mature 17+, the widest gap of our four. That's about the cash reward, not anything in a to-do list; the listing carries a Cash Rewards label beside it.

Up to ten tasks a day earn coins, at one coin each. You can add as many tasks as you like beyond that — they just stop earning once you hit the daily cap. Completing a task never needs a video. Watching one adds 3 to 9 coins to a task you've already finished, so the most a day can pay is 100 coins.

2,000 coins, which is $2.00, the first time. After that it's 5,000 coins, or $5.00, because PayPal's per-transfer fee eats a large share of a $2.00 payment. Fewer, larger payments leave more of the money with you. Coins convert at 1,000 to $1.00. Taking the videos, a first payout is roughly a month of consistent use; on finished tasks alone it is most of a year. Either way it's a bonus for building a habit rather than an income.

Through PayPal. You redeem your coin balance from inside the app.

No. There's no sign-up and no account to create. You open the app and start adding tasks.

No. A task set to repeat daily, weekly, every two weeks or monthly rolls forward to its next due date when you finish it, rather than leaving a copy behind.

Yes, it's on Google Play now, and so are the other three reward apps. Same list, same coin per task and the same ten-a-day cap, with the split view on a tablet. An Android build was the single most requested thing we got asked for, which is what moved all four onto the store.

No. There's no account, so nothing syncs. Your list and your coin balance both live on the device. An iPhone balance and an Android balance are separate, and each needs to reach 2,000 coins on its own. That's the trade for not asking you to sign up. Cash out before you switch phones, and use the share sheet if you want the list itself to come with you.

It doesn't, really. Todoist is a full task manager, free for up to five projects and $7 a month or $60 a year for Pro. Todo and Earn is a plain list that pays a coin for each of up to ten tasks a day. If you want a serious to-do app, we compared Todoist with six of them, and ours, in apps like Todoist, with our interest declared at the top.

Illumination Development, L.L.C., an independent developer based in Phoenix, Arizona. James Krupnik builds the apps and writes this site; the about page says more. The same company publishes three other reward apps and fourteen apps that pay nothing.

Judge it on the terms rather than on us. You never pay anything: no purchase, no subscription and no deposit, and payouts are funded by the ads in the app. The cash-out rules are written out in our terms, coins don't expire, and we charge no fee on a payout. It is pocket money, not income. Are reward apps safe? covers what to check in any app like this one, ours included.

Normally three to five business days after you confirm the redemption in the app, sent to the PayPal address you enter. We may hold a payment briefly while we check the activity behind it, and we tell you if we do.

Usually one of four things. The balance is under 2,000 coins for a first payout, or under 5,000 after that. You need to be 18 or older to receive a PayPal payment. A payment can be held briefly while the activity is checked. Or the PayPal address entered was wrong, so check it before you confirm. If none of those fits, write to support with the PayPal address you redeemed to and the date.