After showing you a few businesses you can start for free, I thought it was high time that I showed you a few ways to make money using your phone.
That’s right, you can make a sizeable side income from just installing an app on your phone and doing simple tasks such as delivering food, dropping off parcels or taking pictures of job opportunities in your area.
Some people do so well with their money making apps that they don’t do anything else for work, since they are earning a full-time income from their app-based work.
Want to find out how to potentially tell your boss what you really think of them, ditch the job and hustle your way to a juicy income with these apps?
Of course you do, so let’s get into 7 of the best money making apps out there.
Uber Eats Delivery Person
Uber have taken the traditional role of “takeaway delivery person” and modernized it for the 21st century. So there won’t be a ton of slack time, there won’t be hours of waiting around waiting for any one particular restaurant to get busy, and you’ll earn based on several factors such as time, mileage, pick up, drop off and better yet, you’ll keep all of the tips!
One of the key advantages of taking food orders to people rather than ferrying drunk people around on a weekend is that you don’t have to apply for the very expensive taxi private license (and the associated insurance) which is a requirement when becoming an Uber driver.
Nope, all you will have to do is make sure you have let your insurer know you are delivering food (usually there is an additional supplement for this type of cover), sign up to the app, pass the background check and you are good to go.
What is more, the vehicle requirements are much more lax for food delivery when compared to Uber driving. You basically need a car that was released post 1998 and that’s pretty much it (don’t forget the insurance).
If you have a scooter or a bike the requirements are even less strict, any make or model of scooter will do (plus food delivery insurance), and you can now deliver using your steam with a bicycle.
So not only can you get paid for delivering food, you can get paid to get in shape and lose weight while you are at it!
How much can I earn?
The UK average is around £4 per delivery after expenses. So if you manage 4 deliveries an hour you will be looking at an hourly rate of £16 per hour. If you manage to get 5 or 6 deliveries in per hour your working you will be looking at upwards of £20 per hour, which is more than double the national minimum wage.
You could be looking at £1500 – £2000 a month if you were to take this on full-time or £400 – £1000 on part-time hours.
Why not watch this video of someone who made £200 by delivering food for UberEats by riding their bike for 24 hours straight! (obviously I do not recommend attempting this!):
You can apply for an Uber Eats position here – https://www.uber.com/a/signup/drive/deliver
Deliveroo Delivery Rider
Sticking with the same theme, why not make some extra (or full-time) cash by working for Deliveroo?
Working upon the same principle as Uber Eats (Deliveroo was first to the food delivery via app concept) you can whizz round your local city on a bike or scooter delivering food for restaurants in your area.
Where Deliveroo is streets ahead of Uber Eats is on employee benefits and care. Since this was one of the first companies to receive government scrutiny over the legalities of the self-employed gig economy, Deliveroo have worked hard to improve conditions for their workers.
By becoming a delivery rider, you get access to high quality equipment such as phone holders, protective clothing, helmets and lights. You also have pay-as-you-go delivery insurance through Zego, and free accident insurance with medical cover up to £7,500 through Bikmo.
One gripe that riders find though is that they have difficulty picking up the highest paying shifts or “delivery blocks”. The most money is of course made by riders who work Friday nights and weekends when demand is at its peak.
So you will have to have to be your toes with the app to get the best delivery slots and try and avoid cancellations once your booked into a slot.
How much can I earn?
The money is similar to Uber Eats pay rates, with Deliveroo’s national average coming in slightly higher at £4.50 per delivery. Deliveroo themselves say you can earn up to £120 a day, if you worked 5 days a week (most likely including weekends for that kind of money) you could be looking at take home pay of up to £2400 which isn’t too shabby at all! Part-time hours could see you net £500 – £1200 depending on your shift patterns, it’s all about getting those busy slots!
Why not watch this video which follows a guy during his Deliveroo shift earning £102 over his two 3-hour delivery slots:
You can apply to be a Deliveroo Rider here – https://rider.deliveroo.co.uk/apply
Job Spotter
Coming away from delivering food, Job Spotter allows you to make money for taking pictures of jobs and uploading that photo for cash. The creators of the app (the job website Indeed) then post these adverts to the Indeed website for jobseekers to view.
Happy snappers are rewarded between 5 and 150 points per advert, depending on how original the advert is. If you happen to spot the job advert being put up in the window and run over to snap it, you’ll likely receive close to maximum points for your submission.
Points are decided by an algorithm within the app, which decides how valuable each job advert photo is. A unique opportunity for a local small business is likely to see you rewarded with more points than a general opportunity available at a variety of locations with a nationwide company.
As for ease of use, this app has to be one of the easiest on this list. You simply open it up, and once you’ve registered your details, you then load the camera, take a picture of the job advert, the name of the store or company advertising, and then hit submit. You then wait for the submission to be approved and receive the according points.
What’s great about this app is you can earn whilst doing something else. For example, you may have to pop out to the shops to grab to some groceries, you notice on the way in that the local barbers are hiring as well as the supermarket you are shopping at. That could be over 150 points for just taking a few photos whilst walking a route you would have taken anyway!
How much can I earn?
This one isn’t going to replace the day job I’m afraid, but it’s still a great way to make extra cash easily. Each point is worth one US cent. You can really hustle can and earn an extra £100 a month by hitting different town centres (I wouldn’t go especially for this reason and you’ll lose your profit).
A more realistic scenario is £25 – £50 a month which you can use to treat yourself to things from Amazon. This may be a good point to mention the money you earn is paid in the form of Amazon vouchers. Since Amazon nearly sell everything on planet earth these days it’s almost as good as cash.
Here is the link to download it – https://jobspotter.indeed.com/
Field Agent, Roamler, Task360, BeMyEye etc.
I’ve lumped these apps together because they are pretty much identical, they just have different names. These apps allow users to make money by performing small mystery shopping tasks in and around their local area.
These tasks are usually simple and take a matter of minutes to complete. For example, you could be asked to enter a specific supermarket, take photos of products and answer a few questions about stock availability. Which is great if you happen to be shopping at that supermarket anyway!
The more complicated the assignment the more money they tend to pay out.
These apps make much more sense if you are based in a city, it’s almost pointless downloading them if you live in the countryside as the transport fees to reach the task destination would negate your profits from completing the tasks.
You are also likely to make more from these apps if you can squeeze in weekend tasks as they tend to pay better. Also increasingly, there are tasks that require you to purchase an item (which is reimbursed) before answering a few questions about it.
For some of you this may be great if you like to go out and try new restaurants or bars and get paid for the pleasure of visiting!
How much can I earn?
Whilst this doesn’t quite hit the heights of the delivery apps it can easily to turned into a serious part-time earner. £25 a day is easily achievable for just a few hours’ work. Depending on your location (city is ideal) you can earn £100 – £500 a month just by using these apps.
Why not read how this gentleman hustled his way to £3864 (and counting!) using these apps and read his tips and tricks to maximise your earnings – https://blog.themoneyshed.co.uk/earn-thousands-with-field-agent-roamler-task360-bemyeye/
Field Agent – https://www.fieldagent.net/
Roamler – https://www.roamler.com/en/main
Task360 – http://www.task360.co.uk/
BeMyEye – https://www.bemyeye.com/
Matched Betting
Still one of my absolute favourite app-based earners is matched betting. Granted this isn’t just one app, you’ll need to download dozens of bookmaker and casino apps if you want to make the most of this guaranteed money making method.
Most of you who have followed my blog for a while will know what matched betting is, but for those of you who don’t, it’s basically a mathematical system which exploits free bets and bonuses to make guaranteed profits.
I’ve already made well over £5000 from what I consider to be a fun hobby rather than a job. It has got to be the highest hourly rate out of these app-based money makers. Rates can go as high as £150 per hour depending on what offers you are completing.
The best way to maximise your time so you are not hunting around every single one of your apps for specific offers is to sign up to Oddsmonkey. They have all the necessary software and offers all in one place, which means I can go from finding the offer to using their matched betting calculator to extract the profits within seconds of logging in.
Make sure to sign up before the code expires in April 2019. (If you are reading this after April 2019 get in touch and I’ll see if I can sort out a code for you).
You can of course do matched betting on a laptop or PC but apps are the preferred method for many who don’t want to invest and are happy using their phone to make this money.
How much can I earn?
There are endless possibilities with this method of making money, the income is limited to how much time you can invest. If you are available for 6 hours a day you can easily make a full time income, especially if you have time spare on a weekend.
From my experience I earned £400 from an average of one hour per day (including weekends). So you can guesstimate what someone who invest 6 hours a day can make!
Monthly earnings can vary from £50 – £5000 it all depends on how much time you can put in to complete offers and learn advanced techniques.
Take a look at the monthly incomes of reported in the monthly profits thread here:
Amazon Flex
Another one of best ways to make money using your phone is by using Amazon Flex. This app presents a great way to earn some extra cash, particularly if you have a car that is just sat idle in your driveway for large parts of the day, or you have to wait for your other job (such as delivery driving) to start.
The system works in “delivery blocks” which become available via the app and you indicate your availability, picking and choosing which delivery blocks you would like to take and which you would like to skip.
You will need to pass all of the same checks required of the delivery apps listed above and at this moment in time your car must have at least 4 doors. Delivering on bike or scooter is not allowed, which is unsurprising given you will need to be able to store in excess of 60 parcels for your delivery round.
In the UK flex drivers are currently limited to delivering 8 hours per day and are capped at working 24 hours per week. This is likely to be expanded in the future with the growth of Amazon and their expansion of local depots. However, as it stands, this app isn’t going to be enough to earn a full-time wage.
Delivery slots are varied and can last anywhere from 1 to 4 hours. They are different each day, so you could be on a slot that is 8am – 12pm one day followed by a 5pm – 9pm slot the next. So although you can choose when you work, you can’t decide which time of day it will be.
How much can I earn?
Amazon themselves say drivers can earn anywhere between £12 -£15 per hour, although some drivers report earning more by gaining tips through Amazon Prime and Prime Now orders.
Given you are currently limited to 24 hours per week that is a maximum take home pay of £360 a week, or £1440 a month which is almost a full-time income. At the lower end of the scale you are looking at £288 a week or £1,152 a month not including expenses.
Take a look at this video which takes you step-by-step through an Amazon Flex shift so you know if it is for you or not.
Shpock
Many of you will be familiar with the adverts for Shpock “the boot sale app”, and it seems the ads are working. There are now over 1 million people registered users in the UK and that number is growing all the time.
Short for “shop in your pocket”, Shpock is effectively an app-based Ebay or Gumtree. You simply take pictures of your item with your phone, upload them, fill out the listing description, and then wait for offers to roll in for your item.
What makes it better for users, than say selling on Ebay, is that there are no listing fees. You can sell whatever you like from around your house without being charged to do so. You may if you wish choose to promote your item, so it has a more prominent position in the Instagram-style feed within the app. Prices start from less than £1 to do so.
Shpock sellers are finding that it is a great place to shift products they have picked up cheaply from other sources such as charity shops or discount outlets. Some people are even buying on Shpock simply to resell at a higher price later on.
Users can scale their selling to match that of other Ebay sellers, effectively creating your very own store on there. And since it works in a similar manner to the Facebook marketplace with items shown to buyers that are close to their location, collection tends to be the usual means of delivery, further increasing profits when compared to Ebay.
Of course you should take steps to protect yourself, use a third party payment company such as Paypal to handle your transactions and if you do indeed decide a buyer is far enough away to require postage you can use UPS “pay on collection” services.
How much can I earn?
This is akin to asking how long a piece of string is but I’ll try my best. My advice would be to look around your house for items you can do without, or items that you haven’t used in a long time and therefore clearly don’t need.
Start listing those items and gauge the market interest in your area. It may be that clothes perform better than PS4 or Xbox games. Once you’ve found a category that performs well work out a way to increase your stock in that area.
For example, you could cruise by the local charity clothes shops if second hand clothes perform particularly well for you. You can then continually reinvest your profits to expand your operation and develop a proper buying/selling business.
Part time you could easily make £100 a week. If you were to invest some serious time, you could earn more than £250 a week, although this app doesn’t have the reach of Ebay, you can still flip items quickly for decent profits.
To learn more about Shpock watch this video here –
Or head to the FAQ section of their website here – https://www.shpock.com/en-gb/faq
Conclusion
Hopefully you now have a few ideas about the best ways to make money using your phone. As you’ve read some of these apps can present a full-time income, or at the very least a serious part-time wage, but what about combining a couple of them?
Imagine if you worked Amazon flex orders in the morning and Deliveroo or Uber Eats in the evening? You could earn some serious income, well in excess of £100 per day, and well over £2,000 a month.
Some people do exactly that and earn between £25,000 – £30,000 a year, which at the higher end is more than the national average annual wage of £27,300. All without having to deal with a boss, tiresome office politics or the daily monotonous commute.
But there is of course a caveat, the necessary insurances for some of these jobs can be expensive which eats into your overall profit. Secondly, you will have to go self-employed which means filling out a self-assessment tax form.
If you earned a decent amount through these apps over the past tax year, you are better off hiring a good accountant to do this for you. They will be able to scrape back as much money as possible from the tax man, and the really good ones will pay for themselves several times over in tax and national insurance savings.
If you have had any experience with any of these apps, why not let me know your story in the comment section below and share your opinion on earning money this way.
Otherwise, good luck with you phone-based earnings!
