Get paid to download apps

What an app offer actually is

An advertiser wants installs that turn into real users. Paying for raw installs gets them people who open the app once, so they pay for a specific action instead: open it on three separate days, create an account, reach a screen, start a trial.

The payout is the price they put on that action. There is a lot of competition for those budgets, which is why these offers exist at all — and why they are geo- targeted so tightly.

What they pay

Sourced from outside our own platform, because a range you can check is worth more than a number you cannot:

• Plain installs are the low end: published figures put simple download tasks around $0.10–$0.20 each on some platforms.
• Install-plus-action offers — register, reach a level, use it for several days — are the bulk of the category and usually run from under a dollar to around $10. JumpTask, for instance, publishes $0.50–$10 for its game and app tasks.
• Free-trial offers are the top of the range, often $1–$25, because the advertiser is paying for a trial start with payment details attached.

Hourly rates are not really the right unit here — most app offers are minutes of work and then a wait. What matters is how many are available in your country, which is where the real variance is.

Free trials: the honest version

Trial offers pay the most in this category and they are the only ones that can cost you money.

The mechanics: you start a subscription trial, the advertiser pays for the trial start, you get the reward. If you do not cancel before the trial converts, you are charged the subscription price — which is usually several times the reward.

• Set a reminder the moment you start, for a day before the trial ends.
• Cancel through the subscription list in your phone’s account settings, not by deleting the app. Deleting the app cancels nothing.
• Read whether cancelling voids the reward. Usually it does not, because the advertiser was paying for the trial start — but the offer’s own terms decide, and they are on the card.

A trial offer you forget about is a net loss. A trial offer you diary is one of the better-paying things on any reward platform.

Why installs fail to credit

This is the most common support ticket in the category, and it is worth knowing before rather than after:

• The app was already installed on that device. Advertisers pay for new users and their systems check history. A reinstall is rejected at the network, before it reaches us.
• The app was opened from the store instead of the offer link. The link is what carries the attribution. Without it the advertiser has no way to know it was you.
• A VPN was on, so the install looked like it came from a different country than the account.
• The advertising ID was reset between clicking and installing, which makes it look like a different device.
• The required action was not completed — many offers need more than an open.

Getting paid

The reward is credited as pending, clears after a holding window, and is then withdrawable. The first withdrawal is identity-verified, and a person reviews every withdrawal before it is sent.

The holding window is there because app conversions are reversed more often than any other kind — trials get refunded, installs get flagged as duplicates, and advertisers audit after the fact. Paying instantly would mean paying out money that sometimes gets taken back.

Worth it or not

App offers are the fastest thing on a reward platform to finish and the most dependent on where you live. They will not replace income and we will not pretend otherwise. What they do well is turn a few minutes into a known amount — stated up front, on the card, before you agree to anything.

Start with $5 on us and try one install offer before a trial one.