Surveys. That’s basically what Maholla puts in front of you: a rewards app that claims it’ll pay you for filling out questionnaires.
I’ve seen enough apps that promise the world and deliver next to nothing, so I don’t rush into signing up anymore. I want to know how the whole thing works on the inside first, because the pretty description is written by them, of course. (And sure, they all look equally great in there, otherwise nobody would sign up.) Only then do I get to the surveys.
Whether it’s worth it or not, that’s not something you can tell from the first page.
So what do you do before you hit the button? Well, you look at what the app actually offers. You look at what you have to do to earn money there, how the money actually gets to you, and the pros and cons you should know about in advance.
But the payment part is still the one that matters most, because the rest you learn as you go. From what I’ve seen with apps like this, that’s exactly where most of them fall apart.
In the end, you decide. You stick with Maholla if the math works out for you, or you move on to other rewards apps and sites.
What is Maholla, and how does it work?
Welcome bonus and fast payouts. Maholla waves that at you right out of the gate. Plus surveys and some arcade games. I’ve seen this wrapper before.
I don’t look at what the presentation promises. I look at who’s running the app, and what it asks of you for each reward.
Behind it is Maholla B.V., a Dutch company, with the address listed nicely on Google Play (Herengracht 449 A, 1017 BR, Amsterdam). It’s a small detail. But it weighs something for me. An app that puts its company name and street address on display has something to lose if it doesn’t pay. An app that says nothing about who’s running it has nothing to risk.
You earn rewards from surveys, , those arcade games, and other small tasks.
So, is it a scam? No. Maholla is a legit app, and the people who finish what it asks of them get their money.
Only, legit doesn’t mean it’s worth your time.
The difference is the ratio between what you put in and what you get out. And you can’t see that ratio on the home page, because nobody writes down what each survey asks of you and what you actually get for it. You see it when you take each way of earning one by one. A poorly paid task stays poorly paid, no matter how fast the money comes. I think that’s the only question that matters before you make an account.
I’ll take them one by one below.
I found exactly two surveys in my account, that’s all.
Both were from Prime Surveys, one lasting 8 minutes and the other 12, and each paid $0.54 (each separately, not $0.54 for both combined).
Twelve minutes of questions for fifty-four cents. Is it worth it? Well, not really, because no one’s going to give you that time back, and you can see for yourself how much that amounts to.
The surveys here work just like on any other site in this category, like Attapoll or ySense, to name a couple of well-known ones. First, you get a set of qualifying questions. If you pass them, you move on to the actual survey. If you fail, you move on to the next one. If there are no more surveys left, you’re done.
And yes, they all appear when you log in, on a single screen, because there aren’t enough to warrant a whole menu.
From what I’ve seen, the number of surveys you get depends on the country you live in, so your list might look different. I’m not saying it’s impossible to have more, just that the number I see doesn’t tell you anything about what you have in your account.
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
You might go to Arcade and find an empty list. Is something wrong with your account? No. The number of games available depends on the country you’re logging in from, so an empty list just means there’s nothing active in your market right now.
If games appear, there are four steps to earning your first reward:
- Go to the Arcade section and see which games are available on your account.
- Choose one and click on it.
- Install it, and you’ll find it in the Active list, also in Arcade.
- Open it only from the Active list, never from your phone’s menu. Maholla only tracks your progress when you launch the game from there, otherwise you’re playing for nothing.
Step four is the only one that will cost you if you skip it, the rest takes care of itself.
Rewards are given for milestones, meaning objectives you’ve completed in the game. Most of the time, you’re just asked to reach a certain level. Other times, the objective requires you to buy something in the game, and those pay the best of all. I’d take them one at a time and keep a pencil handy (I’m referring to the in-app purchases, not the simple levels), because not all of them give you back as much as you put into them.
Disney Solitaire shows you exactly how the system works. It’s a card game, classic solitaire, except you play it alongside Disney characters. You get peanuts at the start, then the amounts climb steeply, up to $20.99 for scene 29 (the scene, not the level). A classic offerwall, in other words, lets you win easily while you’re just starting out to hook you, and becomes long and tedious just when the amounts start to look good. And then there’s the “must be completed within 90 days” deadline, which is standard for these offers.
What’s the bottom line, given the time I’ve put into it? Not much. It takes a long time to collect enough stars to move up a level. It takes even longer with each additional level. And each game costs you more and more, because the price goes up as you play, so you’re working harder for less.
As a game, I think it’s actually fun, and I have nothing against it. If you like solitaire, I’d take the first reward and leave it at that.
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?
H&M, Twitch, Uber, and three more, for a total of six gift cards, would show up in my account when I made withdrawals.
The names you see there change over time (these were the ones I had, yours might be different), but the threshold stays the same.
And then there’s Paypal. That’s the first option I look for when I open the app, because you can only spend a gift card where it says on the card, whereas you can transfer money from PayPal wherever you want. I’m not a fan of gift cards. This difference is the only one that matters when you’re adding up small amounts.
How much do you need to hit the “withdraw” button? Five dollars. That’s the minimum PayPal requires. It’s the same for any card on the list.
What if you’re not in the U.S.? In the U.K., the threshold is 4 pounds (that’s the amount I saw when I tested it). For other countries, it varies by currency and country, so check the app to see what amount appears there for you.
I think it’s fair that there’s a single threshold, no matter where you cash out. The payment system is simple, and simplicity is exactly what you want when you’re cashing out a few dollars.
TimeBucks and EarnLab also use PayPal, so if that’s what you’re looking for, I’ve written reviews on both.
How much money can you make?
The payment threshold is the first thing I look at when I get into a new app, and on Maholla that’s where the whole story gets stuck, because you can’t really get near it. The earning opportunities are few, I said it before. Put them next to the GPT apps and sites people know, they don’t even compare. And it’s not just about the number.
They pay even worse.
How much do you get for a survey or an offer? I won’t give you a number, because the rates jump from one to the next. From what I’ve seen, the rewards sit below what the big sites in this category offer. (Below, not rock-bottom, so I don’t exaggerate.)
Little to do. Little to earn on each thing done.
So the only resource you’re putting in here is time, and you’re putting it in by the heap, just to reach the amount they’ll actually let you withdraw. Worth it? I say no.
Small earning potential, that’s my opinion on Maholla.
How to get support on Maholla App?
Your account’s gone into review and from that point you can’t budge a single thing on your own. So you write an email to support, subject line “Account Under Review” (and yeah, exactly the way they spell it, letter for letter), plus your username and the email address you signed up with. I remembered this one first because it’s the only case in the entire Help Center where they actually ask you to bother a real person. Everything else, you handle from the app.
And you genuinely do handle it, because the whole account side of things is right there, in Account Settings.
You change your login methods from there. You fiddle with your linked accounts, same spot. You delete your account, if you ever get to that point, still from the same place, without asking anyone’s permission.
The guides for surveys, for the arcade games, for payment status, they’re all sitting in their online knowledge base. The ones about payments, I’d read those first, if you’re already in there anyway.
But what if you can’t find the answer? What if not a single article tells you what you actually need? Well, you click the little message icon on the Help Center page, fill in the form, and send your question.
To me it feels like strictly the bare minimum. Nothing more. You’ve got somewhere to ask, you’ve got a way to ask, and the basic topics are covered. A Help Center and a form.
Who can use Maholla App?
Nowhere does it say which countries Maholla works in. Not in the app, not on their website either. From what I saw while I was testing it, you can get in from pretty much anywhere, so wherever you happen to be, you should be able to set up an account without running into any country restriction. Only, and I want to be clear about this, that is just my impression from actually sitting there and trying it. Not some official list you can pull up and verify.
Signing up starts inside the app. Not before it. Because the very first time you open it, it drops you straight into the account creation process. Takes under a minute.
You can make an account three ways. With Google, with Apple, or with an email address. The first two don’t ask for a single extra step. You tap one of them, pick a username, done. You’re in. And there’s a 1 dollar bonus waiting for you in there. To actually get your hands on it, you answer a few questions. Your sex, your date of birth, your zip code (the code, not your full address). You tick those boxes and the dollar is yours.
And if you don’t want to tie your account to Google or Apple? Well, there’s email. A short form where you put in your address and a password. That’s it.
Once you’re done signing up, you log in and you start earning.
Can you use a laptop or it has to be a mobile?
I got on Maholla straight from my phone, because honestly there wasn’t really another way to do it. It’s a platform built only for mobile, so you leave the laptop shut if you want to gather anything around here. It doesn’t work on desktop. Period.
You’ve got Android, you download it. You’ve got an iPhone, you download it there too, so the compatibility part doesn’t give you headaches. On Google Play the app sits at 4.8, with over 100,000 downloads and over 9,000 reviews behind it (and 9,000 people who actually bother to sit down and write a review don’t just magically show up on their own, you know).
And through the app you move around without stopping to think about where to click next. Do you get tangled up in menus? No, because things sit roughly where you expect them to sit, and if it’s your first time opening it, you still don’t need someone standing over your shoulder explaining where to press.
For me, I think that’s exactly the best part about Maholla. The experience itself. Which is a decent one.
Is Maholla a legitimate app?
Maholla has a real company behind it, and I’ll give it that. The rewards actually come from somewhere, from surveys and from the little games they put right in front of you. It’s not a bad app. It’s just not good enough to be worth the time you give it. At most you keep it as a second app, and honestly I don’t think it even shines there, because the earning chances are few and the rewards are small, so you sit in it a long time before you see a sum that even feels decent.
And if you still want to try it? Then treat it exactly like beer money. Cash out the second you hit the minimum, don’t make plans on the goals that show up later as if you’re sure you’ll get there, and take screenshots of everything you might need later (survey IDs, the offer conditions, the proof of your goals) before you put in any serious time.
Me? When I want extra money, I go straight somewhere else.
I wrote an article about the top 10 GPT sites in the world and there you really have a choice, because they all have good earning potential and you add up a sum that feels real pretty fast. Start with those. And if you’ve been on Maholla and ended up with a different conclusion than me, leave me a comment below, with questions, with gripes, with anything at all.