I saw the promise right from the start, money for surveys completed on Maholla. It’s not the first app to make that claim.
What the website says and what you actually see in your account are often two different stories, and I’ve learned this by testing plenty of apps like it.
Same old story.
Is it worth signing up, or is it just an empty promise? To give you a clear answer, I went through everything Maholla has to offer, from the earning opportunities to the withdrawal process, and I wrote down everything that worked well and everything that didn’t.
What is Maholla, and how does it work?
The company behind the app is called Maholla B.V., a company registered in the Netherlands, with an address listed on Google Play right in Amsterdam: Herengracht 449 A, 1017 BR.
A real address. Not just a name listed on a website. Many apps like this disappear without a trace, but here at least you know who’s behind it.
Maholla is a GPT app, which stands for Get-Paid-To. You earn money or points from surveys, arcade-style games, and other small tasks. You also get a welcome bonus when you sign up.
It also claims to offer fast payouts, but we’ll find out below just how much of that promise holds up when it comes time to cash out.
It’s legit, as far as I can confirm right now. Members are actually paid for what they do there, but that alone doesn’t tell you if it’s worth your time. Below are the ways to earn money, which show you what you’ll actually get out of it.
My account showed only two available surveys while I was testing the app.
Both were from Prime Surveys, one lasting 8 minutes, the other 12.
For the first one, the pay was $0.54. For the second one, which was four minutes longer, it was also $0.54. If you divide the amount by the number of minutes, the 12-minute survey pays less per minute than the 8-minute one.
It didn’t matter.
The surveys work the same way as everywhere else in the industry, as you may have seen on Attapoll or ySense, with qualifying questions at the beginning, the actual survey if you pass them, and moving directly to the next one if you don’t.
The small number of surveys depends on the country you live in.
So you might see more than I did, maybe even enough to make it worth your time.
Earn money with Offerwalls
What does a paid offer actually look like? Just short tasks. Most offers ask you to either try out a game on your phone or sign up for a new website or app, and once you do what’s asked, you get what you were promised.
Other apps in the same category have far more offers to complete than Maholla, and here the list is very short indeed. I had the same experience with surveys, and here I counted only two offers in total.
Just two.
With so few on the list, you don’t really have much to rely on if you want a steady income from this.
The section on withdrawing money comes up below, in a separate section, with everything you need to know about it.
Get paid to play offers
Go to the Arcade games, click on one of the games listed there, and start the installation. That’s the easy part.
From there, there’s just one rule to follow. Always open the game from the Active list, not from the phone’s menu, otherwise Maholla won’t track your progress and you won’t receive your reward.
Rewards come when you reach certain milestones in the game, most often a specific level. Other times, the milestone requires real money or in-game purchases, and that’s where the biggest payouts are.
Many of those milestones, however, don’t give you a return on your investment.
Disney Solitaire, the card game featuring Disney characters, clearly demonstrates how this reward system works. They start small but increase quickly, reaching $20.99 as early as level 29.
At first, it’s a breeze, just to get you hooked on the game. Later on, the hours pile up and the game becomes tedious, and quite often there’s a time limit, like “complete within 90 days.” It’s exactly this kind of offerwall pattern.
It doesn’t add up when you weigh the time you spend collecting stars against the rewards.
The further you progress in the game, the more stars you need, and the price goes up as well (and it’s no small amount as you advance).
As for the game itself, I won’t say no, it’s actually quite enjoyable.
The first reward is easy to get if you’re into solitaire, and then you can move on without struggling with the levels that follow.
The number of games you see in Arcade depends on the country you’re playing from.
Is your screen blank? It’s not an error, it just means there are no active games in your country right now.
Refer your friends
With referrals, you don’t earn money just because someone signs up using your link.
Send the link to whoever you want, and if that person clicks on it, installs the app, and completes the sign-up process, they become your referral. This works best if you already have followers on another platform, like TikTok or Instagram, where you can send them the link directly. It’s a clear advantage if you already have an audience, since you don’t have to build it from scratch.
To earn anything, your referral actually has to withdraw money. Just signing up isn’t enough. Their first withdrawal earns you $0.50, and their second earns you another $0.50. It’s not much, but it’s something.
These percentages and amounts can vary from region to region, according to Maholla itself. It’s easy to do, but the reward remains small, totaling just $1 if your referral makes two withdrawals. That’s too little for all that effort.
How do you get paid?
The withdrawal threshold on Maholla isn’t the same everywhere.
In the U.S., the threshold is $5. On the UK account, I saw it set at 4 pounds, right in the app’s test. For other countries, the threshold varies by currency and country. There’s no fixed amount. This rule applies to all payment methods in the app, not just gift cards.
Gift cards are the option I tested the most. Six appeared in my account, including H&M, Twitch, and Uber, plus three others, exactly as shown in the app screenshot, and these cards change from time to time, they aren’t fixed. When it comes to payments, I didn’t have any trouble at all with Maholla, especially thanks to Paypal, because for apps like this, it’s always my first choice, and I know exactly what happens to my money.
TimeBucks and EarnLab pay the same way, also through Paypal, if you want to check them out as well.
How much money can you make?
As I was saying, there are few opportunities to earn money on Maholla, far fewer than what you’ll find on other, better-known GPT apps.
I can’t tell you exactly how much you’ll earn per survey or offer, as the rates vary from one to the next.
The rewards are lower than on other more popular sites and apps in this field, and it takes a long time to complete tasks just to reach the withdrawal threshold.
A bit too long, if you ask me.
And anyway, with the number of tasks available right now, you won’t make serious money quickly here.
So no, there’s no big money to be made on Maholla.
How to get support on Maholla App?
If your account is under review, send an email directly to support. Use the exact subject line “Account Under Review,” include your username and the email address you used to register, and that’s it, you’ve submitted your request.
The rest of the basic questions are also in the Help Center.
For logging in, linked accounts, or deleting your account, everything is handled in Account Settings, right within the app. And for surveys, arcade games, or payment status, you’ll find the answers there too, in their online knowledge base.
What do you do if you can’t find the answer there? Click the Message icon in the Help Center and fill out a form describing your issue.
That’s all you have to do.
It’s the bare minimum of support you can expect from a platform like this.
But at least they don’t make you jump through hoops to get it.
Who can use Maholla App?
A bonus dollar upon registration, but you don’t get it just like that.
Gender, date of birth, and ZIP code are what they ask for before you see the promised money.
Without them, you get nothing.
A ZIP code for a one-dollar bonus, what do they need it for? I don’t know, but I gave it anyway, just like the rest, and I got the dollar.
To sign up, you first have to install the app. The registration process actually starts only when you open it for the first time.
It takes less than a minute.
When signing up, you have three account options, with Google, Apple, or your email address.
With Google or Apple, there are no extra steps. You choose the one that suits you, enter a username, and you’re taken directly to your account, where you can start filling out the information to claim the bonus.
Signing up with an email address replaces the Google or Apple options with a standard form, requiring just an email address and password, nothing more.
The country you’re signing up from isn’t mentioned anywhere, neither on the website nor in the app. I tested it from several locations and it worked everywhere, so you should be able to sign up from anywhere.
After that, all that’s left is to log in and start earning.
Can you use a laptop or it has to be a mobile?
Over 100,000 downloads and more than 9,000 reviews account for Maholla’s 4.8 rating on Google Play, and those numbers don’t just appear out of thin air for an app in this category.
It doesn’t work on a computer.
Without a phone, there’s no way you can make any money from it, since it only runs on mobile devices.
It’s available on both Android and iOS, so you really don’t have to worry about that.
The navigation didn’t confuse me at all. I found everything I was looking for quickly, without having to dig through menus.
The overall impression is really pleasant, not just acceptable, and I think that’s exactly what keeps Maholla going.
Is Maholla a legitimate app?
The company behind Maholla is real, that much I know for sure.
You earn money from surveys and games, and there’s nothing hidden about it.
It’s not bad, but it’s nothing special either.
At best, you keep it as a backup app, one you open rarely and without high expectations.
The big problem is the ratio between the time you put in and what you get out of it. There are few ways to earn, the rewards are small, and it takes a long time to earn a decent amount.
If you do decide to give it a try, though, keep a few things in mind. Get into the habit of taking screenshots of survey IDs, offer terms, and any thresholds you reach before you invest serious time in it. Withdraw the minimum threshold right away, don’t wait for your balance to go any higher. Don’t count on the higher ones, which only appear toward the end of your progress, because you might never reach them. The rest is just pocket money.
For more serious extra cash, you’re better off checking out my list of the top 10 GPT sites in the world. All of them have good earning potential, so you can make a serious amount of money quickly.
Have you ever tried Maholla app?
I’m looking forward to your comments below, with your thoughts or questions.