GPT sites (from “Get-Paid-To”, meaning you get paid to do something) all make pretty much the same promise. You do all kinds of small tasks in your spare time and get paid for them. Keep Rewarding is one of these sites, and it says it pays you for activities ranging from surveys to games.
Money for playing games? That’s the part that drew me in, and it’s also the part that gave me pause, because it sounds too easy. Before I created an account, I was worried about two things. That it would be a scam, or that, even if it was a legitimate site, it would take a lot more of my time than it gave back in money. And I think anyone looking for extra money on sites like this worries about the same two things.
Instead of just going on suspicion, I signed up as a member and tested the site. Everything you’ll read from here on comes from what I saw in my account, not from what their website says. I’ll tell you about everything Keep Rewarding has to offer, so you know what to expect before you sign up.
Then it’s up to you whether you give it a try or not!
What is Keep Rewarding and how does it work?
The money on Keep Rewarding isn’t the site’s own. It comes from advertising companies, which pay the site when you complete a task for them, and the site gives you a share. I call it a middleman, because that’s what it does: it sits between you and the companies. I find it reassuring to know that behind the points there are companies that pay. But a share is still only a share, and the site keeps the rest.
You sign up for free, like on any standard Get-Paid-To (GPT) site, and you earn rewards online for tasks. The main page of your account has a list of the ways you can earn points. There are three main ones: watching videos, completing surveys, and visiting websites.
Keep Rewarding pays, so it’s trustworthy, and you can actually earn money from it. I used to think a site that pays is automatically a site that’s worth it. That’s not the case. A site can pay you honestly and still take more of your time than the money is worth.
You only see that once you understand how the site works and take the earning methods one at a time, along with what each one asks of you and how much it gives back. I’ll go through them one by one below. For me, that matters more than the fact that it pays.
Paid Surveys
The first time I clicked on a survey on Keep Rewarding, I expected to go straight to its questions. Instead, I ended up on another company’s site, which asked me how old I was, what I did for a living, and how much I made, and only after that was the actual survey supposed to load. Very often, the survey never came. The company would decide I wasn’t the profile its clients were looking for and kick me out on the spot, with the message most companies show, that the group had filled up or closed.
Keep Rewarding doesn’t create surveys and doesn’t host any. The site gathers outside survey companies in your account and sends you to them, where you go through their filters first. And how much choice you have depends almost entirely on the companies that show up there for you.
There are 16 companies in my account, specifically Admantium, AdscendMedia, BitLabs, Cherries, CPX Research, opinionetwork, poll tastic, Prime Surveys, PURESPECTRUM, Revtoo, RevU, SaySo Rewards, Survey Surfing, theoremreach, WANNADS, and YourSurveys. Your account may look different, because the number of companies and their names change depending on where you live.
16 companies means 16 sets of profile questions and 16 places that can kick you out.
And what do you get when a company kicks you out? Most of the time, nothing. TheoremReach and CPX Research sometimes give a few points for a failed qualification, but the others don’t give any. I’m especially annoyed about the time that goes into profile questions, because almost no one pays for it.
For someone who’s just getting started with surveys, Keep Rewarding is a test of patience. The links to 16 big survey companies are there, but points are hard to track, support doesn’t reply at all, and the time you put into the site becomes a risk. Most likely, you’ll spend hours on end answering profile questions and walk away with an unpaid disqualification. It’s worse when you finish a long survey and the promised points never arrive. That scares me more than any disqualification, because you’ve done all the work and there’s no one to answer you.
If you want to compare it with other survey sites, I’ve written objective reviews of AskingCanadians, UserTesting, Eureka Surveys, Prolific, and GrapeData on the blog, and I recommend reading them.
Now I expect a click on a company here to bring me questions first, and only then, maybe, points.
Earn money with offerwalls
When I opened the offerwall section, I thought I’d find offers made by Keep Rewarding itself. Instead, I found 16 ad networks run by other companies, all of them well-known names. The list is long: Admantium, AdscendMedia, ayeT-Studios, BitLabs, Kiwi Wall, Lootably, MM WALL, Monlix, Notik.me, Revtoo, RevU, Skippy Ads, TimeWall, Torox, WallAds, and Wannads.
The site gathers them in one place and sends you to them, like a directory. You go into a network’s portal, pick a task, and you only get the points if that network’s tracker sees that you’ve met the requirements. The dashboard only links your account to these networks, because their systems run separately from the site. Each network decides which tasks you’ll find, based on what it publishes.
And this shows in the points. The same task can pay a very different number of points from one network to another. Before downloading an app, I looked it up in several networks to see where it had a boosted rate. It takes a bit more patience, but for the same effort you can get a lot more points.
The tasks themselves are small. Mobile games have to be played up to a certain level, and they only track properly if you’ve never had them installed before. There are also sign-ups for new services, free trials, and small interactions on web pages that take a few clicks.
Free trials have a catch. If you don’t cancel them manually, directly with the company offering them, before the promotional period ends, the subscription starts automatically and you get a bill you didn’t want. The tasks that pay the most points often ask for real money or your credit card details. And this is where I stop. I don’t like the idea of paying out of pocket to collect points, especially when there’s no guarantee the points will make it into the account.
Because they don’t come right away. The site’s terms say that points for big offers go into a temporary pending status as protection against fraud. If the ad partner then checks the task and decides the data isn’t valid or correct, the points disappear from the wallet completely. You played, you signed up, you waited, and you’re left with nothing.
And what if the tracking doesn’t pick up what you did? Then you still end up with zero points, and that happens often. The support team doesn’t respond, and there’s no way to fix the problem through them. You can lose hours on a game or hand over your personal details for a free trial, and in the end see nothing in your account. For someone with no experience, the offerwalls on Keep Rewarding are very risky and very frustrating. It’s a shame, because 16 well-known networks would be a good selection if the tracking worked.
I’ve also written objective reviews of other survey sites, like Poll Pay, Prime Opinion, Zoombucks, and Survimo, and you can find them on the blog. I recommend them if you’re interested in the topic. When you have them all in front of you, it’s easier to compare and form your own opinion.
Watch videos
I was hoping the videos would be the easy part of Keep Rewarding, something I start on my phone and leave running while I do something else. It doesn’t work that way. The video window has to stay active and visible on the screen, and if you minimize the browser or let your phone screen turn off, the player freezes the stream and you stop getting points for it. You sit and watch until the end.
But the player isn’t the site’s own. Keep Rewarding has no videos of its own, no clips and no ads, and it sends you to external video ad networks, which handle the streams, the ads and the counting of views. To get points, you go through their modules and keep the stream running under their tracking rules. Because everything comes from these big media companies, you only earn from what they choose to show. And in my account I had 2 channels to choose from, lootably and PIXELPOINT TV.
I liked that they’re short entertainment, cooking or news clips. But they aren’t what gets you points. The points come from the commercials that start on their own between clips, so you watch the clips to get to the ads.
With 2 portals you have very few options, and the pay for a round of ads has always been tiny. The player gets stuck often, points go missing because of tracking errors and, when something doesn’t work, the support team doesn’t answer. You can sit for hours with the ads running and not see a single real point in your account. You come out behind on your time.
Is it worth it for someone just starting out? Very rarely. I didn’t find the easy part I was hoping for here.
Click ads and get paid
The links in the “Clicks” section often took me to sites I’d never have opened by choice. I ran into low-quality pages, other rewards sites, and shady schemes that tried to get me to create an account on unverified platforms. And I had no way of knowing who was behind them.
The explanation is simple. Keep Rewarding doesn’t have any ads of its own and doesn’t host anything in “Clicks.” There, it brings together other companies’ ad networks, and the links you see are their promotions. These companies decide, through what they publish, which ads you can open.
There are 5 ad pages, and they’re called adclickwall, ClixWall, Shortlinks, Skippy Ads, and TimeWall. How much can you make from them in a day? Very little, because the number of clicks you can make is small, and the pay per ad has always been low.
You open each page yourself, click the sponsored links, and follow the instructions the partner gives you so it counts your click. Usually you have to keep the ad’s site open for a certain amount of time. These companies have rules against programs that click for you and against ads opened in several tabs at once, and if you break them, you don’t get the points.
I was hoping that, if I followed the rules, at least the points would be guaranteed. But the clicks often don’t register, and then all the time spent with the ad open is wasted.
When I add up the clicks that get lost, the low-quality sites you end up on, and a support team that doesn’t answer open tickets, it’s hard for me to understand why I’d sit there for hours on end, click after click, without seeing any real money show up in my balance. A lot of time, almost no money.
If you like clicking PTC ads, there are other sites that pay for this too, such as AdBTC, FireFaucet, and Timebucks. FireFaucet and Timebucks are GPT sites, with several ways to make money besides PTC ads, but they offer those too. I’ve written a review of each one.
Listen to the radio
The idea of collecting points just by having music on appealed to me as soon as I saw it in the menu. I wasn’t expecting much. But not this little. The radio on Keep Rewarding pays 0.35 points per hour, about a third of a penny. And that’s after two increases, because at first it was 0.1 points per hour, then 0.25. To collect a single penny, I’d have to leave the radio on for about 3 hours.
If you still want music in the background while you do something else on the site, this is how I turned on the radio:
- I logged in from my personal device. VPSs and proxies are completely banned and can cost you your account, and I’m afraid to risk a whole account for a few fractions of a point.
- I looked for the “Radio” section in the left-hand menu, under “Earn Points,” and opened it.
- I picked a UK music station or an international one (I found Smooth Top 500, Capital Chill, and Heart Dance there, among others) and opened the stream.
- I let the music play in the background, as the site itself encourages you to, while you do things that pay better, like surveys or offerwalls.
It would be tempting to leave your computer or laptop on nonstop just for the radio. Except then the electricity costs you more than all the points you collect, and by a lot. You lose money to listen to music.
That’s why I find it hard to recommend the radio. My advice is to skip it and stick with offerwalls and surveys (I can also tell you which ones pay OK, if you’re interested), because that’s where you reach the $1 minimum payout threshold much faster.
It only makes sense if you’re at the computer for hours anyway, doing their surveys that pay well. Then the radio can run in the background and add a microscopic fraction of a point on top.
In the end, what’s good about the radio is the music, not the points.
How do you get paid?
I expected a point on Keep Rewarding to be worth the same no matter what I cashed out. It isn’t. The site has its own internal currency, points, and their value changes depending on the country you pick on the withdrawal page and on how large the amount is.
The money reaches you in two ways: straight to PayPal or as a digital gift card from a few big stores. The catalog is split by country and has separate cash options for the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. I went through all the options one by one, along with the points each amount requires:
- PayPal in US dollars, for US accounts. The minimum withdrawal is $1, and it costs 125 points, which works out to $0.008 per point. Larger amounts work out slightly cheaper in points, with $5 for 525 points, $10 for 1,025, and $25 for 2,450.
- PayPal in Canadian dollars, for Canadian accounts, starting at C$1 for 105 points. Next come C$5 for 450 points, C$10 for 870, and C$25 for 2,080.
- PayPal in British pounds, for UK accounts. The minimum is £1 for 175 points, then £5 for 735, £10 for 1,435, and £25 for 3,430.
- Amazon.com gift cards in US dollars, starting at $5 for 525 points. There’s also $10 for 1,025, $25 for 2,450, and $50 for 4,850.
- Tango Card in US dollars, a single link where you pick your gift card from several brands. The amounts are $10 for 1,025 points, $25 for 2,450, $50 for 4,850, and $100 for 9,650.
- Walmart gift cards in US dollars, at $10 for 1,025 points, $25 for 2,450, $50 for 4,850, and $100 for 9,650.
Is it worth waiting for the bigger amount? Going by the numbers, yes. If you cashed out $25 one dollar at a time on PayPal, it would cost you 3,125 points, while a single $25 withdrawal costs 2,450. If you’re patient, you keep 675 points.
Gift cards don’t get you anything more than cash does. $10 still costs 1,025 points whether you take it through PayPal, Amazon, Tango Card, or Walmart, and $25 costs 2,450 everywhere. When the price is the same, I pick the cash, which I can spend wherever I want.
So far everything looks good, with clear payout options and a $1 minimum. But what the withdrawal page says and what people who tried to withdraw their money say are two completely different things. Many write that their payment stayed pending and never moved past that, that they messaged support and nobody answered, and there are a lot of complaints like these. It’s a shame, given how low the threshold is. You’re better off staying away from Keep Rewarding.
Most likely, you’ll collect points you’ll never see turned into cash. And then it no longer matters how much a point is worth in each country.
How much money can you make?
Similar rewards sites track offers correctly and send payment within 24 hours. That’s what we all expect when we collect points, and so do I.
Keep Rewarding isn’t one of them anymore. I took surveys and downloaded apps for advertisers outside the site, for hours on end, and I got nothing for them. The reason is in the back end, in the payment systems, which have been abandoned.
Because of this, the site has completely lost the earning potential it had. I was hoping for at least some pocket money, but it’s not enough even for that. And you can’t use it as a source of extra income or of real income.
Hours of work on one side, zero on the other. The net earnings you can realistically expect are still zero, most likely. It’s a shame about that time, because a site that works would have paid for it.
As long as the payment systems stay abandoned, no one is going to pay for the hours you put in here.
How do you ask for help?
All the support Keep Rewarding offers fits into one form. You’ll find it on desktop, in the “HELP” side menu, under “Contact Us,” and before you reach it you go through a reCAPTCHA check. Then you fill in your name, email, subject, and message and, if you want, attach files, for example screenshots of what didn’t work, so they can see exactly what you see on your screen too.
The form itself is okay. What bothers me is that it’s the only option. There’s no live chat, no phone support, and no separate support team for the mobile app, and every message ends up in the same internal ticket system. It’s an old, slow system, the kind small sites used to have.
You talk to support in English, which is the official working language of their team. The Google Translate menu on the pages helps you understand the site, but when you write a ticket, you still write it in English (basic English is enough).
It doesn’t say anywhere what hours they work. Everything runs offline, by email, and nobody looks at tickets on weekends or major holidays. The site aims to answer most tickets within 3 business days, and it actually says “most,” not all. When you’ve forgotten your password or have a simple balance issue, the reply usually comes within 48-72 hours, so in these cases they keep their word.
But when tracking data from a partner has to be checked, the wait gets much longer. People say they waited over a week for a reply, and some never heard back. And with offerwall points that didn’t register, you’re the one who has to sort it out with the partner company’s support, because Keep Rewarding doesn’t step in. I find that unfair, because you’ve already put in the work for those points.
Their form is enough for a forgotten password, but not for lost points.
Keep Rewarding Trustpilot Reviews: What Do Users Say?
A site like this has to do one thing well: send the money when it promised to. And that’s exactly what most people complain about on Trustpilot. The site says payments arrive within 7 days, but several people wrote that they waited 30 days, 60, or even longer for their PayPal money or an Amazon gift card. That’s more than 4 times as long as it promises, sometimes more than 8 times. I read all 190 reviews, and the missed 7-day deadline comes up more often than any other complaint. To me, 7 days seemed like an easy deadline to keep.
A delay is easier to live with when you have someone to write to and someone explains what’s happening with your money. But people say the tickets they sent to support went unanswered, were closed without a human resolving them, or only got automated messages back.
I’m more worried about the suspensions, though. Some users suddenly lost their accounts, along with everything they had saved up in them, over “IP conflicts” or because the system suspected multiple accounts in the same household. If I lived with someone who was also a member, I’d be on edge with every point I collected.
Not all the reviews are like that. Few people confirm that the site is trustworthy and that it eventually pays, and some say the pay on the offerwalls is OK. To me, though, “eventually” still sounds like waiting.
The ratings don’t fit together as neatly as the complaints do. The overall score is 2.4 out of 5 and Trustpilot calls it “Poor,” but 60% of the reviews are 5 stars, 13% are 4 stars, 5% are 3 stars, 4% are 2 stars and 18% are 1 star. I add the 5 and 4 stars together and get 73%. How does a score end up at 2.4 with so many good ratings? I don’t know, and I have no way of finding out from these numbers alone.
The small number of recent reviews also complicates things for me. Only 11 are from the last 12 months. All 190 reviews taken together still can’t show what happens to every member of the site.
I also looked for signs of fake reviews. I didn’t come across reviews written to the same pattern or waves of 5-star reviews arriving all at once, neither among the satisfied reviewers nor among the upset ones. To me that’s a good thing, because the complaints seem to be written by people who really went through what they describe.
The company hasn’t replied to the negative reviews, as Trustpilot’s own data shows, and it hasn’t asked for reviews lately. I find it hard to understand why you wouldn’t reply to the very people who complain that support doesn’t reply to them.
People who have used the site for a long time say it used to be trustworthy and that, over the years, payments became harder and harder to get and support kept getting worse. The tone of the reviews is negative mostly because of this: late payments and support that stays silent. And how the site works today is exactly the part with the fewest reviews.
Red flags you should never ignore
When you collect points on a site, you expect the money part to be the simple one. That’s exactly where Keep Rewarding complicates things.
The terms of use (keeprewarding.com/tos) require a government-issued ID, a driver’s license or a passport, so they can verify you before they give you your rewards. It’s a verified risk, and it worries me, because you’re sending documents that sensitive to a small, private company that’s very vague about how it stores your data.
There are four more problems:
- Any activity they consider “suspicious,” including an IP conflict, gives them the right to close your account and take everything you’ve earned, and only they get to decide. A verified risk, where “suspicious” can mean almost anything.
- Management ignores negative Trustpilot reviews and public complaints. It’s a credible allegation of poor practices and a lack of accountability, not a verified fact.
- Support does the same with tickets and leaves them unanswered, a verified pattern.
- Many people write that they waited months for a payment. The pattern is verified, and the wait comes on top of the time already put into the points.
I didn’t find any official warnings, FTC actions, or lawsuits aimed directly at Keep Rewarding Ltd. Their name appears in a Dynata LLC bankruptcy filing in the court records (PACER), on a list of creditors and affiliates, but the filing is not aimed at them.
I’m glad they’re not in trouble with the law. But that doesn’t get me back a balance closed over “suspicious” activity, and it doesn’t tell me what happens to a passport once it’s sent to them.
Who can use Keep Rewarding?
I thought that for a Keep Rewarding account they’d only ask me for an email and a password. The form the “Register” button takes you to wants a lot more, though.
What I had to fill in:
- username
- email address
- password
- PayPal/Reward Email, where you want to receive your rewards and PayPal payments
- First Name
- Last Name
- Mailing Address, which I really hadn’t thought about
- Country, which was already filled in with my country
A real name and a mailing address are details I don’t give out easily. For me, though, the most important field is PayPal/Reward Email, because that’s the address they send the rewards and PayPal payments to.
After I submitted the form, I opened the inbox of the email I signed up with and clicked the confirmation link I’d received there. The new account stays locked until you do this step. And on my first login, 25 bonus points came in. Not many, but they’re the first points I got from them without doing anything for them.
The account is free and anyone in the world can open one, as long as they’re at least 18. From age 13, it’s only possible with the parents’ explicit consent.
The whole signup is simple, but their anti-fraud rules are very strict. I connected without a VPN, I’m the only one in my household with an account on the site, and everything I wrote in the form, from name to address and country, matches exactly where I live and who I am. That’s what they require, and anyone who uses a VPN or has someone else with an account in the same household is breaking the rules. It’s a shame for anyone who’d like to collect points together with someone in their family, but the rule is clear.
With just an email and a password, it wouldn’t have worked.
Can you use it on your phone?
What you see in your phone’s browser is the desktop site, shrunk down. The design is old, and nobody has adapted it for small screens. I zoomed in on the page so I could read, dragged it sideways to reach the link, zoomed in again to hit the button, and I did this on almost every click. And the minutes spent zooming and dragging the page don’t earn a single point.
Why didn’t I use an app? Because there isn’t one. Keep Rewarding has no official app on any major mobile operating system: you won’t find it on Google Play, and you won’t find it in the App Store. The only way to collect points on the go is the browser.
Not having an app does spare you a few worries. You don’t install anything, so you don’t have to think about phone requirements, app store reviews, or updates. All that matters is how the regular site copes with a small screen, and I’ve already described what that looks like. I feel safer knowing the balance, profile details, and history are kept on the site’s servers. Whatever you do on your phone shows up right away in the balance on your main profile.
I thought I’d lose some of the earning methods on my phone. I didn’t. Survey lists load, you can sign up for trials, and you can open links. But problems show up with the older channels. Internet radio, which runs continuously in the background, freezes easily or stops when the phone’s screen turns off, and while it stays that way, the points stop going up.
Anyone looking for something modern that runs smoothly on the way to work will get annoyed with Keep Rewarding. You can withdraw your rewards from your phone, too. But with this clunky design and the risk that some tasks won’t get tracked, a computer at home is much better for this site.
And when points take this much effort to collect, every task that doesn’t get tracked is one you feel in your wallet.
Is Keep Rewarding LEGIT or SCAM?
When I requested a withdrawal on Keep Rewarding, I expected to see the money in 7 days, as the site promises. It came after a few months. And I wasn’t a rare case, because delays like this happen often there.
But the money did come. The site has been around for a long time and pays its users, even if late, so it’s trustworthy and has no place among scams.
I’m more worried about what it asks you for when you withdraw. You need a government-issued ID, which you send to a small private company. Their privacy policy doesn’t have the transparency that GDPR rules now require, so I don’t know for sure what happens to my ID after I send it. And if you want to ask something, support almost never replies.
It’s not all bad. You have a lot of ways to earn, and the rewards are often almost as high as on some big sites. The withdrawal threshold is $1, and that seems like a good thing. But a low threshold doesn’t help you much if the payment then sits there for a few months. The site isn’t easy to use either, not even after the redesign, and in some countries you’ll have very little to do.
It works for someone who is very patient, who cares more about certain niche offerwalls than about payout speed, and who has no problem sending personal documents to a small company. I don’t have that kind of patience. I see it as something small and slow to do alongside other sites, not as real income.
Your time will count for more on sites that pay better, where you quickly build up an amount you actually notice. Take a look at the top 7 survey and GPT apps in your country instead. They all pay well, you can put together a solid amount in a short time, and most of them (if not all) have a fairly low payout threshold, so you don’t wait long for your money.
And if you’ve tried Keep Rewarding or have any questions about it, I’ll be waiting in the comments for whatever you have to say!