Spent 8 Hours Using Money Making Apps

money making apps is a pretty hot topic

there's a ton of videos out there 

talking about how you can make so much money just by simply downloading some

apps on your phone and then completing a

few simple tasks and the money that's

being promised here is fairly

significant I mean scrolling through

these YouTube videos we're talking five

hundred dollars fifty dollars per day

earn four hundred sixty dollars doing

nothing six hundred dollars nothing I

mean it sounds a little too good to be

true but there's so many people

promoting this whole concept on YouTube

that I feel like they're a piece has to

be some money to be made there so in

this video I want to sit down clock in

for eight hours straight and see if I

can make more money using these apps

than I would if I were to spend the same

eight hours working a minimum-wage job I

feel like that's a pretty fair

comparison and will ultimately tell us

if these apps are even worth your time

but first let's find out how much money

I would make where I'd to spend the same

eight hours working a minimum-wage job

in the state of California the minimum

wage here is thirteen dollars per hour

when you're in a smaller tax bracket

you're not giving away too much money to

the boys over at the IRS so just to make

the math easy let's say you're getting

around $10 per hour after tax for an

eight-hour shift you should be getting

around $80 again depending on your tax

situation maybe you're getting 70 maybe

if you have a child you can use as a tax

deduction you're getting $85 it just

kind of depends but let's just say

you're getting between $70 to $85 for an

eight-hour shift now where I -

hypothetically speaking is not pay taxes

on the money we earn from these apps

commit some good old-fashioned tax fraud

can we at least make the same $70 and if

the IRS is watching this first of all we

were up here in 2019 I'm gonna need you

guys to take it down a few notches and

not take half of my money this year and

also that thing I said about tax fraud

was a complete joke I would never commit

such thing I'm Way too busy committing

insurance fraud but real talk makes $70

from these apps on our phone today for

the eight hours that basically means

that you don't even need to go outside

to get a minimum-wage job so it's

currently it's about to be 9:00 a.m. I

want to clock in at 9:00 a.m. and then

clock out at 5:00 p.m. 

see what I did there it's a classic nine

to five work day oh and one more thing I

didn't want to sit in this chair for

eight hours straight so I actually went

out to Ikea to buy a new chair yesterday

and if you know how IKEA works I think

you can understand how I ended up

walking out of there with a whole

brand-new stew 

setup them Swedish folks sure do know

how to sell furniture and make

scrumptious 75 cent hotdogs but I put

all the furniture together and end up

with this cool you set up here now back

on topic it's already nine ten so we do

have to get into this video so let's

just dive straight into this and secure

that bag so at this point I turned on

some heat and began by just searching

the term make money on the App Store and

downloading a bunch of these apps is now

loaded twelve different apps that I want

to test out a lot of them seem to be

survey apps so I think I'm gonna start

off with that try some of these apps see

which survey app is the best which one

seems to be making the most amount of

money and which one is the most legit so

the first snap I ended up trying was one

called quick thoughts which is an app on

which you get paid to take surveys on

these types of apps the money is coming

from either researchers doing a study or

companies who are looking for some

consumer market insight in order to

improve their operations 40 minutes in

and just made our first 40 cents from a

survey 40 cents and 40 minutes that's a

penny per minute that that's not too hot

that would be much better off so far

working in a new way job but we'll see

maybe this will take a turn I'm just

gonna continue grinding on these

different apps the next app I tried

actually pays you to download different

apps from the app store and then you

either have to sign up for a free trial

on the app reach a certain level in the

game get past the tutorial stuff like

that I guess the goal behind doing this

for the companies behind the apps you're

downloading is that they hope that you

accidentally forget to cancel the free

trial or for apps like the free games

I'm assuming that they hope you end up

liking and keeping the game so it's a

pretty effective way of getting people

to try out your app instead of paying

for ads they're giving the customer

acquisition costs straight to the

customer which is kind of interesting

two hours in we've officially earned our

first redeemable amount of money as I

said earlier this make money app you can

redeem 5,000 credits for five dollars

I've been downloading apps installing

apps and they pay for that I'm at 5100

credits let that focus real quick as you

can see 5100 credits which means I've

officially earned five dollars and ten

cents and also the 40 cents from that

one survey did so we're at five dollars

and 40 cents two hours in so I guess

we're still maintaining that two dollars

and 50 cents per hour

I eventually basically ran out of

I could download on the make money app 

so I proceeded to try one of the paid survey apps I just got done using this

app right here it's called Eureka

let me focus that and I think this is

definitely my favorite app thus far it's

a very clean design it's a survey app

and the surveys are pretty quick they

pay pretty well compared to the other

apps I've done the only problem this app

is that it only had three surveys but I

completed all three and I'm sitting at a

dollar and 40 cents at the moment on

this app hopefully some more pop up as

the day goes on since I actually enjoyed

using this app okay so as you can see

we're now almost halfway through the day

we're about four hours deep into this I

haven't gone insane just yet which is

pretty dope but I feel like right now is

a good time to take a quick break and

talk about some of the things I've been

noticing with the apps I've been using

when it comes to the apps that pay for

surveys it's kind of interesting the way

they structure them they'll kind of

throw in weird random questions like

which of these animals walks on land and 

if you don't choose the right one they'll actually disqualify you from the

survey it's their way of making sure

you're paying attention so you can't

really just sit there and spam random

buttons on the survey a lot of the

survey apps also pull the same exact

finesse scheme where they give you like

five dollars for just signing up for

their platform then you realize that you

need to earn at least twenty dollars to

actually redeemed that money and you

look at how much they're paying for

their surveys and they're paying like 20

cents for 30 minutes surveys so thank

you forever to hit that redeemable

amount and I think what happens in most

of these cases is people get the five

dollars they're hyped they want to hit

the redeemable amounts so they start

doing surveys start grinding and

grinding but they never actually hit the

redeemable amount because they'll take

an insane amount of time the person

eventually gives up and the app walks

away with a ton of free data that they

then sell and they don't have to split

that money that they earn with the

person who actually took the surveys and

gave them the data

not gonna lie getting real tired of the

surveys but with only three hours left

to go I'm just gonna suck it up and

continue filling these bad boys out the

most consistent app I found thus far is

this one right here it's called oh right

the one that says zap surveys they don't

pay extremely well but there's a ton of

surveys available and I've just been

filling him out in the beginning I was

actually getting frustrated because I

wouldn't be getting approved for any of

them the way these things work is that

lets say a solar company wants to know

more about how they can attract

customers who own a home and make

between seventy five thousand to a

hundred thousand per year so they put

out the survey but in the beginning they

don't tell you what demographic they're

looking for because if they did

everybody would just say they're this

demographic so you get approved for the

survey so instead they have you take a

little quiz to find out what kind of

person you are if you match the

demographic that this company is looking

for then they'll give you the survey and

you can get paid if you don't then you

get disapproved then you have to move on

so when I mine to do some research and

to find out who these companies are

looking for the most sure enough I found

a reddit post here talking about the

most sought after survey demographics

the top comment says that these

companies are looking for people who buy

and buy and buy do more than 50% of the

grocery shopping they're always buying

new products always looking to buy a new

car changes insurance companies for auto

and home a salon buys fertilizers drill

plants does everything so they're

basically looking for the biggest

consumers people who spend the most

amount of money buy the most products do

the most things travel all of that stuff

I started putting that down for the

surveys and churn up I started getting

approved more and more and at this point

we are raking in that dough and by that

I mean we're getting like 40 cents per

survey but nonetheless we are

consistently earning money so I'm just

gonna continue doing that we have about

two hours and 40 minutes left so let's

bang this out I'm gonna go ahead and pop

the pods back on and get back on the

grind yeah one more hour to go before we

officially clock out and talk about how

much we weighed and if this is worth it

or not but I'm still doing the survey's

I'm going to continue doing the surveys

for this last hour this is because

that's been the most consistent form of

from all these apps and we are done

I'd already like halfway deep in a

survey though so I'm going to finish

this real quick and we're gonna check it

back in but we're basically done 5:03

p.m. that is wrap we are officially

finished so after eight hours of

straight grinding on these apps I'm kind

of starting to feel like I'm about to

lose my mind but not really the thing

that made it horrible for me is the fact

that I got to catch up on a bunch of

podcast episodes that I've been meaning

to catch up on but isn't it entirely

possible I think it's entirely possible 

Jamie pull up them so that was cool but let's now talk about how much you've

actually made and I'm gonna break you

down by app first up we got ten cents on

Google opinion rewards then we got an

app called quick thoughts which was a

survey app and I earned 40 cents on

there then we got a dollar and 40 cents

on an app called Eureka I actually

really like this app but I feel like

that's just because I was a good design

next up we got an app called make money

and we have 5195 credits on there which

basically translates if we go to the

payouts since 5,000 credits is five

dollars then that basically means we're

sitting at five dollars and like 19

cents and then finally we got an app

called zap surveys I really clocked in

on this one and we got ten dollars and

two cents so that brings our total

amount earned after eight hours of

grinding to 17 dollars any 11 cents

actually a lot better than I thought

however the problem is with a lot of

these apps you have to reach a certain

amount of credits or dollars on the app

in order to cash out so we can't

actually cash out a lot of this money

but realistically I think you could

probably earn around $40 for eight hours

of work on these apps I just couldn't do

that because I was testing out and

registering for a bunch of different

apps and that kind of wasted time we're

in seventeen dollars and eleven cents

divide that by eight hours of work and

that comes out two to two dollars and 13

cents per hour we definitely made a lot

less than minimum wage and from working

I think I've had like three or four day 

jobs in my life total I would much rather do those jobs than be sitting

here on my phone running these apps and

whatnot not to mention that those jobs

would pay more even though they were

minimum wage so are these apps worth

your time I personally definitely do not

think they are if you want to go the

route of making money online I feel like

you either have to learn a skill that's

gonna earn you money such as writing

code or graphic design or you have to

start an online biz 

I think the reason that people are

attracted to the concept of these apps

is because although it's not much they

do guarantee instant money whereas with

learning a new skill or starting an

online business you have to put in a lot

of work upfront for free just so you can

have a hopefully have a pay off down the

line honestly if anyone out there is

even considering using these apps I'm

gonna stop you right there dog as you

guys know I'm partnered with an app

called weeble which is an app you

download on your phone and you can

invest into stocks through it if you

open an account with them using the link

I put in my description and you put some

money into your investment account you

get two free stocks worth anywhere from

ten dollars up to fourteen hundred

dollars so there you go I just saved you

eight hours of your life or if you win

one of the more valuable stocks maybe

even hundreds of hours of your life

either way no I feel like this was an

interesting and necessary experiment to

find out once and for all if these apps

are worth it in my personal opinion they

are definitely not if you spend like an 

hour a day instead of using these apps you try to learn a new skill like

writing code or graphic design or

starting an online business you're gonna

be much better off but I hope you guys

enjoyed this video let me know how you

feel in the comments about this studio

setup right here I'm still gonna be

using the original Stu but I might use

this one as an additional one let me

know if you vibe with it if you don't

let me know in the comments

hope you guys have a great rest of your