Adme App Review – Get paid to unlock your phone screen

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Adme is an app that pays you each time you unlock your phone. Cool right? Here at Wallet Squirrel, I’ve tested it and it’s not too bad. Adme throws up an ad whenever I unlock my phone and I just swipe to get rid of the ad to access my phone. It’s fairly painless and builds up cash. If you’re a heavy phone user, you can earn up to $0.50 a day.

Setting up:

There are two Ways to build cash. You can select Content Feed ($$), Full Screen Ad ($$) or both($$$$). The idea is that both ad options give you cash, but you can combine them to get double the cash. Here’s what they are.

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Content Feed: When you unlock your phone, you will be sent to the Adme Dashboard where it shows popular stories and sponsored content. It’s not too obtrusive and easily swiped away to your regular phone.

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Fullscreen Ad: This is a typical full size ad that takes up your full screen. You can easily press your home screen button to get rid of this or hit the “x” on the top right.

Pros:

1. It’s very simple, no questions or effort on your part.
2. There is no additional money if you click on the ads or not, so you don’t have to worry about that. You get paid just that they are there and it doesn’t matter how long they are up.
3. Paypal cash out at $10

Cons:

1. If you hate ads this isn’t for you (I’m personally not a big fan, but they do pay)

Summary:

It’s pretty cool for the fact that it pays you every time you unlock phone, but I personally hate ads so I uninstalled it. If you’re someone who doesn’t mind them, this could make you a nice $15 a month.

Toluna Review, How I almost made $30 answering surveys

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Toluna is a survey site. The more surveys you answer, the more points you can earn. The minimum payout for cash is $30 via PayPal rewarded after 90,000 points. Now after 4 hours of surveys I only made 8,020 points. Sigh. So to make $30 I would need to spend 45 hours answering questions. That’s roughly $0.66 per hour. Not worth it.

Toluna Review

What is Toluna: Toluna is purely a survey site where anyone can answer online surveys (via website or mobile app) and receive cash for their answers. Toluna can do this because they are paid by marketing companies to get the opinions of the public for specific questions. Toluna has the audience and marketing companies will pay to tap that audience for information.

Signing up: Toluna was incredibly easy to set up, all it needs is an email and password.

Pros:

  • It pays cash via PayPal. While they give a lot of gift card options early on, if you save, there is a PayPal option. Cash is king.
  • They have plenty of surveys. I’ve come across some survey sites that only have 1-2 surveys a day, but with Toluna that was not the case.
  • Online webpage is very simple to use. The surveys and rewards are easy to see and access.

Cons:

  • If a survey will tell you it takes 20 minutes to complete, always double or triple that time.
  • The mobile app is frustrating. I will say they recognize this and have made attempts to improve but it hasn’t done the job. My two complaints are for one (1.) They mix in paid surveys with user polls, where any user can post questions to the general audience and since they are mixed in, you sometimes can spend time answering user polls that  don’t pay you. My second (2.) when you select a survey it takes you to a website outside of the app and I once spent 20 min answering a survey before it bugged out not giving me any credit. I forever used my computer from then on.
  • A lot of surveys will start with preliminary questions such as race, age, sex and general questions such as do you drive to work. After 5 min of answering this generic questions it will then tell you, that you are not qualified to take this survey. Again time wasted.
  • In regards to the above con, being a white, male will eliminate you from a lot of surveys. This is just my experience with many different types of survey sites.
  • Most importantly it only pays $0.66 per hour if you choose the PayPal option. That is a little low.

Personal note: For $0.66 an hour, I would be better off taking a 8 hour car ride to Kansas City (City of Fountains) to walk around the streets picking up loose change from water fountains for 29 hours and still make it back with more money than I could have made with Toluna. Oh those surveys were mind numbing.