I’ve tried hundreds of rewards apps (and I’m not rounding up the number). Survey Club is the newest addition to this list. It promises money from surveys, completed offers, and games.
That’s quite a promise, but a promise doesn’t mean it actually pays out.
There are things you should know before you click “Sign Up,” because some details aren’t visible on the homepage.
I’ve gone through everything the platform offers, from surveys and offers to games, and along the way, I’ve noted what’s worth knowing in advance. I’ll go through them one by one here. Nothing is left out. That way, you’ll know exactly what to expect when you sign up.
And only then does the real question arise. Will you get anything out of the time you put into it?
It seems to me that the answer becomes clear only after you put together what the platform requires and what it offers.
It’s up to you. Let’s start with what I found.
What is Survey Club, and how does it work?
Survey Club used to be the name of another site, and that one didn’t pay you directly. It made money by sending you to other survey sites and earned a commission the moment you signed up through it. Same name, different business model.
This one is now a GPT platform, meaning it pays you for the earning opportunities it offers. And you can actually make money, I’ve verified that. But whether it’s worth it is a whole different matter from how much you earn. Legit doesn’t say anything about how much work you put in for a dollar. Legit doesn’t say anything about how much of your time goes into it either.
So I looked at the earning opportunities, one by one. Why there? Because that’s where you can see how much time it takes, how much effort it demands, and whether you end up with anything or just went around in circles for nothing. In my experience, that’s where you can see if it’s worth signing up or not (and no, the front page doesn’t help at all).
I’ll go through them one by one below.
Paid Surveys Online
You install an app and only then do you answer any questions. I opened a survey and read the instructions twice, just to make sure I hadn’t ended up in the wrong section.
A survey like this has four steps, and only the last one actually resembles a survey:
- Download the app from the instructions.
- Fill out the registration form.
- Browse through the app for at least three minutes, and three minutes is the minimum stated there, not a number I made up to make it sound bad.
- Go back to the Survey Club survey page (not in the app) and answer a question.
Where’s the survey in all this? Well, in the last step, there’s a single question that confirms you’ve been inside. Most of them required an installation. Most of them also required a new account, created on the spot.
I’ve never been asked anywhere else to install anything before the questions.
You can find them in the member dashboard, under the “Daily Surveys” link, where they all appear at once. I counted mine and there were seven, with rewards ranging from $0.02 to $0.55 each. Each one lists how long it takes, how much it pays, and what its rating is, though the rating doesn’t really tell us anything, since almost all of them were rated 4.9 stars.
The platform calls them “App Surveys” (that’s their label, not mine), but to me they seem more like paid offers than actual surveys. You can still find regular surveys here, but they’re so rare that you hardly ever come across them, and the money for them goes into your Survey Club account as soon as you finish them. I’ll talk about withdrawals later. My reviews of OpiDay, MultiPolls, and Sproutful are worth checking out if you want classic surveys, the kind that don’t require any installation.
Complete Free Offers And Random Tasks
Click on the “Offers” link, and a list of everything you can do there will open.
I opened it and counted about 100 offers in my account, more than enough to choose from. How much do they pay? They start at $0.01, which is one cent for watching a video or clicking through to an advertiser’s website. At the very top, I came across just one offer worth over $90.75. That money doesn’t come from a single click. It doesn’t come from a survey either. To get it, you have to sign up for a specific banking platform and make a direct deposit of at least $200, so you’re actually spending more out of your own pocket than you’re getting back.
I found most of the offers to be between $5 and $15 (that’s where the overwhelming majority fall, not just a few), and I think that’s the only range I’d even consider. Most require you to sign up on a website or in an app, others involve surveys, and still others show you ads or videos. Each one has its own instructions, and it’s worth reading them carefully, because missing just one step is enough to lose both the offer and the reward, and the reward, when it comes, is credited to your account balance.
If you’re looking for reward sites that really offer more, check out my reviews of Timebucks and FireFaucet.
Missions
You log into the app and do what you would have done anyway, which means answering surveys, completing offers, and playing a round of a game.
I found six in my account (I’m talking about what the app showed me). All together, they totaled $1.90.
I cashed out the amounts one by one. One task paid $1, another 50 cents, and the other four 10 cents each. Four out of six add up to 40 cents, which is less than what just one of the other two pays, so the number six sounds better than it actually is. It’s just pocket change, that’s what you get from all six.
And we’re not talking about the tasks that appear as paid offers, those are a different story.
What extra do you have to do for them? Nothing. They don’t require anything beyond your normal activity, because they’re automatically completed as you go along anyway.
I think that’s their whole purpose, to keep you active.
The rewards are small, as you can see from the numbers. But they don’t take up any extra time.
Get Paid To Play Games On Your Phone
Install the game on your phone, then open it from within the Survey Club app, not directly from the home screen as you would with any other app. This order is important, because otherwise the platform won’t be able to track your progress, and you’ll be playing for nothing. The game will appear under “My Games” after you’ve installed it.
Each game comes with a set of missions, and the reward unlocks as you complete them. I didn’t see any of them on the web version at all. And you wouldn’t be able to anyway, since they only appear in the Survey Club app, which I’ll discuss below.
Most require you to reach a certain level, so you play until you get there and that’s it. Others require in-game purchases (that’s where the bigger rewards are). Is it worth spending money in the game to make money from it? Very rarely. What matters is how much you earn, not what it says on the screen. It also matters how much it costs you to get there. The only ones worth it, in my experience, are the ones where the reward covers the cost and leaves you with a little extra, and of the ones I’ve opened for testing, very few fit that description.
You don’t have to finish them all to see the money, because the reward is credited to your account as soon as you’ve checked off the requirement.
My account had 144 games, with rewards ranging from $0.73 and up, peaking at $1,220 for an online casino game. I also came across $0.00 games, and when I opened one, it said exactly that: “Earn up to $0.00,” and below that, just a prompt to scan the QR code with my phone to download the game and start earning (the QR code appears on all games, not just these ones). A game that advertises a payout of zero is just taking up space on the list.
There are plenty of games, just like with the paid offers, so there’s bound to be one that works for you.
How Do You Get Paid?
You need a mobile number to access your money on Survey Club. Verification is simple, you enter your number, receive a code via text message, and enter it in their field. That’s all it takes. I did it without any hassle.
But if you don’t want to leave your number on a survey site, that’s where you stop, because without verification, no payment is made.
You need to earn $20 for your first withdrawal. After that, the threshold drops to $15 and stays there, which is still higher than on the more well-known GPT sites, where you can cash out from much smaller amounts. You can even get down to $5, and I looked into how, but the lower threshold comes with a requirement to make a purchase from them (I’ll get back to that below).
I think $20 is a lot for an account you don’t trust yet.
How do you get paid? Through Venmo, Cash App, bank transfer, or PayPal, whichever is most convenient.
You don’t necessarily have to take cash. I counted eight gift cards on the list, including Amazon, Walmart, Starbucks, Target, eBay, Chipotle, Grubhub, and iTunes, plus the prepaid Mastercard option.
The payment methods are the best thing about Survey Club, because they don’t limit you to just one option.
How Much Money Can You Make?
You need to earn twenty dollars before your first withdrawal if you stay on the free account.
Each survey pays 0.2 dollars. I made a rough estimate and figured out that it would take a hundred surveys to reach the threshold (if you rely solely on them), so the first payment takes quite a while to come through.
The site claims to pay three times better than competing apps and websites. I compared the rewards here to those on better-known GPT platforms like Earnopolis or Pawns (I’m talking about how much they pay, not how many offers they have), and they’re average at best.
Three times as much? Half true, that’s all.
You can only earn the amount shown in the ad with a premium subscription. For one dollar a month, you get access to high-paying games and surveys. I’ve counted the promised benefits, and there are four. Survey payouts go from $0.20 to $0.40, the withdrawal threshold drops from 20 to 5, you get a bonus with every withdrawal, and all the earning sections are unlocked.
You pay to gain access to the better-paying opportunities. You pay every month, not just once. I don’t like this system because top-tier GPT sites don’t ask for a subscription for this, and there, access to all earning opportunities comes free. A dollar is a small amount, but I consider it an entry fee, and elsewhere we don’t pay it.
Do you think you’ll make that dollar back without any hassle? Then go ahead and get the subscription, it’s your choice and no one’s stopping you.
And there are plenty of earning opportunities here, that much is clear. It’s just that with the free account, most people earn pocket change, so the potential remains low no matter how many sections you open.
Premium helps a bit, I think. Just a little, nothing more.
How To Get Support On Survey Club?
You log in to your account, and only then do you get to the contact form. It looks like a chat window, you type your question there, and someone from the support team will reply. I went to the dashboard and opened it, and it’s as simple as it gets.
There’s also an FAQ section, which you can read without an account, but it only covers a few topics (and by “a few,” I really mean just a few), so the chances of finding your answer there are slim.
You need an account to ask a question. You also need an account just to get to the place where you can ask questions. I don’t like that, because the big questions come up before you sign up, not after. It offers the bare minimum of support, but nothing more.
Who Can Use Survey Club?
Ten cents is the reward for the welcome survey, which takes two minutes to complete. I signed up, and the invitation popped up right away, with the amount listed there. Warm-up questions, like where you heard about Survey Club, how old you are, your gender, and so on. I finished them all, the $0.10 was credited, then the member dashboard opened, and that’s where you start earning rewards. Is it worth two minutes? I think so, for a warm-up survey.
You can only sign up with a Google or Apple account, they haven’t provided any other way to join.
However, while registration works from anywhere in the world, the platform itself doesn’t. The website lists two countries, the United States and Canada, with “for now” next to them, so maybe they’ll expand to other regions at some point. It doesn’t matter what account you have, it doesn’t matter what survey you take, and it doesn’t even matter about the ten cents I earned, because if you live somewhere else, this isn’t for you.
And one more thing, so you don’t get off on the wrong foot, I’m writing here about “getsurvey.club,” not “surveyclub.com” (the names are similar enough to be confusing).
Can You Use It on Your Phone?
Mobile games can only be accessed through the Survey Club dashboard, so the app isn’t optional if you want to earn money that way, too.
I installed it on my phone and browsed through the menus to see how much of a pain it would be to find something useful. Not much.
I didn’t have to look up a guide. I didn’t have to guess where everything was, because the menus are pretty much where you’d expect them to be (surveys on one side, games on the other). You find what you’re looking for right away.
It doesn’t matter if you have Android or iOS, there’s a version for both, so the phone you’re holding isn’t a reason to miss out.
So how is it, ultimately, to use? Decent. It doesn’t shine in any particular area, but it doesn’t get in your way either, and from a survey app, I don’t think you could ask for much more. You open the surveys, you open the games, that’s it.
But I kept it on my phone, because otherwise the games stay closed.
Red Flags You Should Never Ignore
Survey Club is also the name of a market research firm that has been operating in this field for twenty years. The app borrows the name and, along with it, a level of trust it hasn’t earned, because that track record isn’t its own.
It’s not the same company.
I found the withdrawal threshold to be $20 on the free version. Club Premium, at $1 per month, lowers it to $5. (I’ve also come across figures as high as $25 in reviews, so even that number isn’t set in stone.)
And who benefits from the gap between $5 and $20? The app. One dollar a month seems like nothing compared to the road to 20, so the subscription starts to look like a shortcut, even though it doesn’t change how much you earn, just when you’re allowed to take what you’ve earned. In my experience, apps with small earnings thrive precisely on this small, recurring subscription fee, not on the rewards they give out.
I’d save up the 20.
If you end up with money stuck in your account, the developer tells you to email support. I’ve seen complaints from several people, not just one, and they all say the same thing. They wrote in, and no one paid any attention to them, not even when the amounts in question were no longer showing up in their accounts.
A high threshold to clear, an email that no one responds to, and in between, a one-dollar-a-month subscription.
Is Survey Club LEGIT or SCAM?
They say they’ll pay you for surveys, games, and completed offers. And they do, there’s nothing shady about that, Survey Club really does pay. It’s just that there’s a big difference between a platform that pays and one that’s worth sticking with.
It falls somewhere in the middle.
What does a premium account give you? Offers that pay better and a lower withdrawal threshold (which are exactly the two things you’d want from the start). I didn’t rank it higher because the threshold, as you see it without a premium account, is high. I didn’t rank it higher because the very thing that would make a difference is a separate paid feature. I’ve checked the withdrawal methods, and they’re convenient, which is definitely a plus, but a convenient method doesn’t help you at all as long as the minimum amount you need to reach to request a withdrawal is so high.
Without this premium requirement, I would have ranked it higher.
So it’s worth signing up for only as a secondary source of income, something to supplement what you already have. If you’re counting on it as your main source of income, you’re better off checking out the top 7 survey and GPT apps. Those have good earning potential, so you can easily earn a decent amount, and no matter where you live, you’ll find something there you can sign up for. If you’ve had an account on Survey Club, leave me a comment telling me how it worked out for you.