Guest Post: The Money-Making Apps You Need to Download Now
Today I am pleased to bring you a guest post from my fellow UK money blogger Bronni Hughes
In her article below, Bronni sets out a number of mobile phone apps you can download for free that can help you earn a useful sideline income, generally for little or no effort.
Over to Bronni then…
Phones can be expensive. After buying your handset and then forking out for your minutes, texts and data on a monthly basis, it can feel like you’re just throwing money away. This is why I think it’s important to use money-making apps to try and make some of it back.
Unfortunately, you’re not going to pay your rent with the money you’ll make from these apps, but you could get a tidy stack of Amazon vouchers to put towards Christmas. Not bad!
Jobspotter
If you don’t have this app yet, what have you been doing?! I must have made over £100 in Amazon vouchers since I first downloaded it.
It’s very simple to use, how it works is:
- Download the Jobspotter app for Android or iOS.
- Sign up for an account.
- When you’re walking around town use the app to snap photos of any job adverts you can see posted outside businesses.
- Earn Amazon vouchers.
It really is that easy! You need to take a clear shot of the job advert itself and one where you can clearly see the name of the business.
Jobspotter will then assess the photo and decide how many points it earns. One point equals 1 cent (USD) of an Amazon voucher. All ads earn points, but one for a chain cafe will earn a lot less than an ad in the window of your local takeaway. If someone’s submitted the job before it won’t earn as many points.
The most points I ever earned in one go was 144 from an estate agent in my local town. It honestly takes seconds to submit each one, and the money can rack up pretty quickly.
There’s no minimum you need to cash out, and the Amazon voucher arrives after about 48 hours usually.
Field Agent
Have opinions about what you buy in the supermarket? Who doesn’t!
Field Agent pays you to share that opinion. Download the app here. Jobs usually involve going to the supermarket and photographing certain shelves and saying which product you’d choose to buy. There are ones on the app right now for £10, and they don’t generally take any longer than 20 minutes to complete.
You won’t qualify for every job – sometimes they’re looking for cat owners or people with kids, for example. There are often at home surveys paying £1 or £2 each too.
The app is free to use and download, so it’s worth trying out to see if you like it.
App-based banks won’t make you money, but they do make managing it a lot simpler. Read my review of the Starling joint account.
Shoppix and Receipt Hog
I’ve grouped these two apps together, because I always scan every receipt I get on both apps.
Shoppix is available on Android or iOS – download here. If you use the referral code 3PGPHDNK we both get 200 points.
You’ll get 30 points for a receipt snapped the same day, and 25 points for one submitted any later. You also get good bonuses for using the app every week too, plus extra points for filling out their very short surveys.
You need 3200 points to cash out £5 via iTunes, Amazon or PayPal. It usually only takes me two months of snapping to be able to cash out a full £20.
Receipt Hog is a bit less generous than Shoppix, but as you can scan one receipt on both apps you may as well get it. It’s available for Apple or Android here.
How many points you get depends on how much you spend on the receipt. It’s 1,500 points to cash out £5 via Amazon or PayPal. Remember you’ll get bonus points for snapping every week too, as well as “hog slots” where you can win extra prizes.
Want more ways to make money? Find out how I added £10k to my house deposit.
Many thanks to Bronni for an eye-opening article. I’m definitely going to download all those apps to my own phone!
Do check out also Bronni’s stylish and informative blog at https://bronni.co.uk/ .
Don’t forget either MobileXpression, the app I wrote about on Pounds and Sense last year. I am still receiving £20 Amazon vouchers every few weeks like clockwork from this. All you have to do is download the app to your mobile phone, and every so often check in to the app to claim any points you have been credited.
If you know of any other good money-making (or saving) apps, feel free to post details below. And, of course, you are very welcome to post comments or questions, for me or Bronni, there as well.