11 Totally Legit Ways To Make Money On Your Phone

Put in $100. Get rent checks from tenants. That's it. Arrived buys rental houses, you chip in $100, and when people pay their rent, you get paid too. No dealing with tenants, no fixing toilets, no property management. Just pick a house you like, invest $100, and collect rent money every 3 months. The average person makes 10-20% per year from rent payments plus the house going up in value. Need your money back? Sell your piece of the house in 2-3 days.

Bigcash has over 3,000 app testing offers live right now, with new ones dropping daily. Download a shopping app, play a mobile game to level 10, test a fitness tracker. The standard offers pay $3 to $15, but the premium tasks hit $50 to $170 when you complete bigger milestones. You get the $15 bonus immediately after your first cashout, and the $1 minimum means you can withdraw within 30 minutes of starting. What separates this from every other testing app is their support team actually responds in under 12 hours when offers don't track.

Branded pays you real money to test new games, apps, and complete simple tasks on your phone. Sign up, choose from available offers (like testing a game to level 5), and get paid when you complete them. The more you use it, the more high-paying tasks unlock.

Testerup lets you earn real money as an online tester. Get paid to test new games, apps, and complete simple tasks on your phone. Sign up, choose from available offers (like downloading the free Tik Tok app), and get paid when you complete them. The more you use it, the more high-paying tasks unlock.

Most reward apps make you grind to $10 or $20 minimums. MyAppFree lets you cash out at $1. Download an app, play to level 5, get paid. The missions are simple: test a budgeting app for 5 minutes, play a puzzle game to level 3, try a meditation app. Each pays $1 to $5, with high-value offers hitting $20 to $40. When tracking fails, support actually fixes it in under an hour instead of ghosting you. This is the only testing app where you can see real money in your account within an hour of signing up.

Freecash has some of the highest paying offers (up to $5k!) so it pays to check the site everyday. But anyone can join, for the lazy, the minimum cashout is only $0.50 via PayPal, Bitcoin, or gift cards, which means you can literally cash out every single day. You can complete your first task today and get paid.

Nielsen will pay you $60 per year in rewards just for installing their app on your devices. They are a global media measurement and analytics company that been around for over 100 years! Their app runs in the background, anonymously collecting data on your internet usage to help improve market research—no surveys or extra work required and they pay you free money in return.

Survey Junkie has paid out over $40 million because they do one thing other survey sites don't: match you with surveys you'll actually qualify for. Most survey sites waste 30 minutes screening you out. Survey Junkie's profile system means you qualify for 80% of surveys you start, not 20%. Each survey pays $1 to $5 and takes 5 to 15 minutes.

Finally, a survey site that works in over 120 countries. If you're outside the US and constantly getting blocked from other apps on this list, Surveoo is built for you. Based in France with 5 million members globally, it pays $0.50 to $9 per survey with PayPal, bank transfer, or gift cards. The $20 minimum cashout is higher than most, but when you're in Brazil, India, Philippines, or anywhere else with limited options, it's worth the wait. Surveys take 5 to 15 minutes and you can stack 4 to 8 per day if you stay active.

InboxDollars gives you $5 the second you verify your email. No points, no conversions, just actual dollars in your account immediately. Take a 10-minute survey for $0.75. Watch three videos while brushing your teeth for $0.15. Read a promotional email for $0.05. It adds up faster than you think because everything shows real dollar amounts instead of fake points that convert to pennies. Stack it with the game apps above and you're looking at an extra $60 to $100/month just filling dead time.

This one's different. Instead of earning money, Fundrise helps you invest the cash you're making from the apps above. Drop $10 into real estate investments and watch it grow passively while you're testing apps and playing games. I use it to funnel my GPT app earnings into something that compounds instead of just spending it.