Freeplay is an app that promises gift cards and cash rewards for time spent on your phone. You play games, take surveys, and complete small tasks. This type of platform has been around for years, and some of them actually work.
I’ve tested plenty of GPT apps over the years and know what a legitimate one looks like. Freeplay is a different story.
Before you install it, it’s worth understanding how the earning system works, what users who’ve already used it are saying, and whether the actual experience lives up to what it promises.
What is Freeplay and how does it work?
Freeplay is a “Get-Paid-To” app, meaning it’s one of those apps where you earn rewards by doing various tasks. The rewards actually do come through.
That doesn’t automatically mean it’s worth installing. There are a few things that change the image.
Earn money by playing games
The first way to earn on Freeplay is through mobile games. You access it via “More Ways to Earn,” not through a button that directly tells you what to do there. I looked for something like “Play Games” at first and completely missed the section.
You choose a game from the available list, install it, and open it from the Freeplay app, not directly from your phone. If you open it any other way, your progress won’t be recorded and you won’t earn points.
Each game has its own tasks. Most require you to reach a certain level in the game. Sometimes a task involving an in-game purchase pops up, and those pay more than the rest. I completed a few and the reward was higher, but the amount spent wasn’t always worth it. From what I’ve seen, these tasks that are truly worth it are rare.
You don’t have to finish everything a game offers. If the remaining tasks don’t seem to yield anything useful, move on to another one. Rewards are in points, and what you do with them next, how you convert them and what the withdrawal threshold is, is something I’ll cover separately.
The rewards are small. Compared to Pawns or EarnStar, the earnings on Freeplay don’t compare well. Not by a little, but by quite a bit.
Complete free offers and random tasks
The second way to earn money is by completing paid offers. You can find them in the “Deal of the Day” section, a name that doesn’t really tell you what’s there, but whatever.
Go to the section and check out the available offers, which come from an offer wall that Freeplay has partnered with. The types of tasks are predictable: install a mobile game, play up to a certain level, or install an app and test it.
Each offer comes with instructions that you must follow exactly, step by step. If you miss a step or do them in a different order, you won’t receive the credit, even if you’ve completed everything that was required. This happens more often than you’d think on offer walls.
If you’ve followed everything correctly, the reward is credited to your account. The available offers are few compared to other GPT sites and apps, fewer than you’d expect. It’s not a section you can rely on as a primary source of income on Freeplay.
The survey section is called “Shopping Habits Survey.” Not “Surveys,” not “Earn more,” but a title that sounds like a specific survey about shopping. I clicked on it without knowing what it was. How else could I have done it?
On the page that opens, you’ll find everything that’s available. You choose a survey, answer a few screening questions, and either move on or you don’t. If you don’t qualify, you move on to the next one. Nothing complicated, but the disqualifications add up, and that gets exhausting.
The reward comes after you finish. The amounts are small, smaller than on other similar platforms. I’ll come back to that below.
How do you get paid?
You earn points from the activities available on the platform and can exchange them for rewards. So far, nothing unusual compared to any other GPT app.
The problem comes when you get to the payment section. You can’t see what rewards are available unless you’ve earned enough points. And you don’t even know how many points you need, because there’s no information about the threshold there. No number, no indication.
On every other GPT site or app I’ve tested, the payment options are immediately visible, regardless of your balance. The same goes for the threshold you need to reach to be able to cash out. Freeplay doesn’t do that.
It’s poor design. And I never even got to see the available options. You’ll find out why in the next section.
If you want platforms that show you right from the start how and how much you can withdraw, check out ySense or GG2U. Both pay via PayPal.
How does Freeplay pay you?
It depends on how much time you’re willing to put in. But compared to the other GPT sites I’ve tested, the rewards are small, and that becomes clear pretty fast.
The time-to-money ratio is poor. It takes a long time to collect enough points for anything worth cashing out, and I stopped before I reached the payout threshold. I didn’t see any reason to continue for so long.
The app doesn’t help either. It’s clunky, which makes everything even slower.
How to get support on Freeplay app
There is no help section or FAQ in the app. If you have a question, there’s nowhere to look.
To find their contact information, I had to go to their Google Play page. The email address is [email protected], in case you need it.
A direct contact link within the app wouldn’t have hurt. Neither would an FAQ, especially if there are recurring questions. For now, without Google Play, you can’t reach them.
Who can use Freeplay?
Freeplay doesn’t specify anywhere, either on its website or in the app, which countries it accepts members from. From what I’ve been able to verify, it’s available in most parts of the world.
To sign up, you first install the app. When you open it for the first time, you go straight into the sign-up process, and the first thing it asks for is your cell phone number, before your email, before any login details.
I’m not a fan of platforms that do this. If you have the option to add your number later, I’ll skip it. But when your phone number is the first mandatory requirement, before you know anything about the platform, it’s a good reason to close it and look for something else. For that same reason, it’s not something I’d recommend.
Once registration is complete, you log in and can start earning.
Can you use it on your desktop?
Freeplay only works on your phone. The website does exist, but you can’t do anything on it. It just talks about the app. Everything that matters happens in the app.
It runs on Android and iOS, so compatibility isn’t an issue. On Google Play, it has over 10,000 downloads, and on the App Store, a 3.7 rating from seven reviews. Numbers that don’t really tell you much.
The problem comes when you want to understand how you earn money. The sections with opportunities are organized in such a way that you don’t realize what you need to do until you click on each one. Pretty much all the platforms I’ve tested show you directly what you need to do, without having to dig around. Freeplay doesn’t do that, and I don’t see any good reason why it should be any different.
Is Freeplay app LEGIT or SCAM?
Freeplay keeps you busy with games, offers, and surveys, and in return gives you small rewards. The interface isn’t user-friendly, the platform lacks distinctive features, and overall, there aren’t many reasons to stick with it.
I wouldn’t recommend it. If you want to earn something worth the effort, there are better platforms and apps where you can invest your time.
If you’ve tried it or have a question, let us know below.