5 tasking apps for making money

Tasking apps are an easy way to make up to £15 a day when you're out and about, completing straightforward jobs on behalf of big companies.

It might not suit everyone, but if you're observant, sneaky, able to get to the shops, alright at taking pictures with your phone, or simply looking to earn a few extra quid, task apps could be perfect for you!

What are tasking apps?

Tasking apps (or task apps) are similar to mystery shopping – the crucial difference being that, most of the time, there's no actual shopping involved (bear with us here).

Instead, a typical tasking app assignment will involve you being asked to go into a supermarket or shop and, rather than buying something, you'll just need to look around.

You'll be given a few questions to answer about items on the shelves (e.g. where they've been placed in-store) and sometimes take pictures of a product (like a promotional display or something similar), then, in return, you'll earn between £2 – £10. Easy money!

There's usually no need to buy anything to take part, which is why this is a great money-maker if you're scraping the bottom of your overdraft (unlike mystery shopping, where you're often expected to make a purchase and be refunded at a later date).

How to use tasking apps

To show you the sort of things these apps will ask you to do, here's an example of a recent job we completed. It earned us £5, and all we had to do was take some pictures of tomatoes in a supermarket – seriously!

First, we had to take a couple of photos of the whole tomato section, like this:

Then, we had to count the different varieties available (e.g. two large tomatoes on the vine, three cherry tomatoes, etc.), and then take more detailed photos of the display like this:

The app will tell you exactly what to photograph, and all you have to do is take the pictures and answer the questions accurately.

All in all it took about seven or eight minutes to do, which is pretty good for £5!

How much can you earn from tasking apps?

The amount you can make on task apps will depend on how much time you're willing to dedicate to using them, as well as where you're located.

If you're in a city or a larger town, you might find there are jobs available on tasking apps every day, and if you have your own transport (even if it's a bike), your options are even better.

Most jobs pay between £2 – £6, but we've seen as much as £15 for just one task before. The major selling point of tasking apps compared to other money-making apps is that as soon as your submission is accepted (which usually takes no more than a few hours), you can cash out straight away.

Often (but not always!) there's also no minimum payout amount that you need to reach – if you make £2 or £200, you can withdraw it instantly.

Oh, and lots of tasking apps have other ways to make money aside from tasking. The most common are paid surveys, but we'd recommend checking out our guide to the best survey sites if that's the kind of thing you're interested in.

What are the best tasking apps?

Ideally, we'd recommend downloading all of the apps listed below. Often only a few will have jobs available at any one time, so to maximise your chances of making a steady stream of money, download as many of them as you can.

Here are the best tasking apps to download:

1. Field Agent

Field Agent is available on iOS and Android, and we've had some pretty decent payouts from it.

You'll be paid between £2 – £8 per task, so it's not bad going for a few minutes work.

Task variety is pretty wide, with everything from photos and videos to offering opinions/feedback on a product.

2. Streetbees

Tasks are a lot less frequent on Streetbees but tend to be a fair bit higher paid – we've seen a lot of tasks available with a £10+ payout!

Therefore, even if just one job pops up a month, that could be the equivalent of one job per week on some of the other apps.

3. Clic and Walk

Clic and Walk is another app that doesn't seem to offer a lot of tasks, but we still recommend signing up so you don't miss out if they need taskers for something.

One reviewer on the Play Store reports that she earned nearly £10 from just two missions, so it could be a decent earner.

4. Mobeye

Mobeye doesn't tend to have a great number of tasks available at any one time, and each one available to us only paid 20p a go.

But, as ever, download it just in case there are more tasks available in your area.

5. Clickworker

Clickworker's tasks (or the ones available to us, at least) are slightly different to what you'd find on your standard tasking apps.

Instead of going into shops and the like, the only tasks available to us involved taking photos and videos of ourselves performing tasks.

Nonetheless, we've seen other users say they've had more of your stereotypical tasks come up, so we've included it here!

Source: Savethestudent.org