10 best tasking apps for earning money

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).

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 maximize your chances of making a steady stream of money, download as many of them as you can.

Here are the best tasking apps.

1. Roamler

This is the app we use most but, unfortunately, it's pretty difficult to sign up to. You need to be invited to download the app, which is available on both Android and iOS.

We got accepted by searching "Roamler invite" on Twitter and asking someone for an invite, so it's not impossible.

There are almost always tasks available and they tend to pay out between £2 – £6 each.

Tasks we've completed in the past have included taking photos of plant pots in a garden centre and reporting which teas are on sale in the supermarket.

2. 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.

3. Streetspotr

There aren't that many jobs available on Streetspotr, but when they do pop up, they tend to be pretty highly paid and available across the board.

This means the app might be good if you live in a small-ish town/city where these kinds of opportunities don't tend to pop up much.

We made about £20 just for shopping at a German supermarket for a couple of weeks!

4. 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.

5. BeMyEye

One of the busier tasking apps out there – both in terms of jobs available and the number of registered users.

This also means the jobs are quite varied too, so if you get bored easily, this one's probably a good shout.

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6. 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

7. Premise

Like a few of these apps, Premise asks you to complete a task when you first join (we had to take a photograph of the weather outside). That earned us 5p straight off the bat, but since then we've not had anything come through.

Still, worth keeping just in case some more tasks pop up!

8. 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

9. Microwork

Microwork doesn't pay a huge amount per task, but the number of jobs available is pretty impressive compared to some of the others on this list.

Just beware that you may come across as slightly creepy completing some of these tasks – lots of the 'actions' jobs involve taking photos of people walking, cycling and even sleeping.

10. 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.

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