User Testing. Get paid to test websites and apps.

Share your thoughts on websites and apps and get paid for 10-minute chunks of your spare time.

The best user testing sites in the UK

User testing sites provide a lucrative way to earn money in 10-minute chunks of time. I initially covered these usability testing sites in detail over on r/beermoneyuk. I’ve been using these sites since COVID lockdowns, and go through stages of earning a decent amount of money from them. My best month earned me $150 from Intellizoom (linked below) alone.  

The name “user testing” hints at what these kinds of sites do. They pay people to give feedback on customer experiences. Really, there are a few different types of studies that you can apply to take part in:

  • Website tests

  • App tests

  • Game tests

  • Sorting studies (e.g. grouping website menu items)

Almost all studies are unmoderated – there is usually no interviewer. You record yourself doing stuff on your phone/computer and narrate while you are doing it. The recordings are reviewed by a researcher afterwards. These are easy to do – just speak your thoughts as you follow the instructions!

How to earn money with user testing

To sign up to a User Testing site, check out the recommendations below. Visit the sites to sign up. Then you will be asked to submit a practice test. You will be give instructions for doing so, and will be accepted onto the panel if you pass the test. The test assignments are pretty easy – usually involving visiting a website, and talking about what your experience as you perform a couple of tasks. For example, you might have to navigate a website to find the help section and search for help on a specific problem. As you do, speak your thoughts aloud. Say what you like, and also mention anything you do not like or find difficult/annoying! Remember that these researchers want to know what issues the test product has!

Typical pay rate: £8 ($10) for a 10-15 minute test.

And here are my rules for doing user testing studies:

You don’t get accepted if you don’t apply – apply for lots!

Don’t be shy. If you are shy, snap out of it.

Just tell them your thoughts.

The best usability testing platforms

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IntelliZoom

5/5

Intellizoom offers normal “think out louds” user testing sessions and lower-paying, but easier, card sort studies. Tests are emailed out, and you can also check the website.

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User Interviews

5/5

User Interviews is a market research site offering many types of studies (user testing, one-on-one interviews, group interviews, etc.), Sign up and get a bonus ~£8 gift card when you complete your first study.

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Userlytics

4/5

Userlytics is another user testing site that emails out opportunities to take part in tests. Most studies pay €10. There are higher paying tasks, but I have never been accepted for one.

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Testingtime

4/5

Testingtime is a market research site that offers occasional user tests. It does not have as many opportunities as others listed here, but they tend to have longer, higher paying tests.

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Usertesting

3.5/5

The Usertesting platform has the most opportunities and it pays out faster than all other usability sites. But many studies are IT focussed. Studies usually take less than 10 minutes.

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Respondent

3/5

I like Respondent because it frequently has usability tests for financial apps. User tests are limited to finance topics, but there are lots of other opportunities to get paid.

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Market research

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Online surveys

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Other user testing sites

These sites are all on my radar, but I have never performed a test with them. So I can’t really comment on how good they are.

Conversion Crimes

Pays $15-$60 a test via PayPal.

Ping Pong

All tests are video calls, rather than unmoderated tests where you submit a recording of yourself.

PlaytestCloud

PlaytestCloud has opportunities to test mobile games. Wish I would get accepted!

Testapic

This app is now owned by Usertesting. No idea if it is any good.

Testapic

Trymata used to be called TryMyUI. I have been a member for years, but never got accepted to a single study.

Userbrain

Occasionally gets mentioned on Reddit as a good site.

User Crowd

Never been accepted, but there are never many tests to apply for

UserSense

By the time I signed up for this, I was having too much luck with Intellizoom and the others above. So I just never bothered…

uTest

Has a lot of opportunities, but the website is just a bit too complicated for me to bother with.

Validately

Validately is another site that is owned by Usertesting. 

User Testing. Get paid to test websites and apps.

Share your thoughts on websites and apps and get paid for 10-minute chunks of your spare time.

Only interest in completing surveys on your dekstop or laptop computer? Then click here to read out list of the best survey websites.

The best survey apps for UK users - survey apps that pay the highest rates

I have listed the best UK survey apps in this initial section. These survey apps offer the highest payout rates relative to time invested. These survey apps also typically have lower disqualification rates — with most providing targeted surveys and never disqualifying users at all. However, because the surveys are targeted, these survey apps tend to have fewer survey opportunities. In practice, that usually means it can take a while to reach any cash out thresholds. Nonetheless, I recommend using these apps as profitable ‘slow-burners’ that everyone who likes earning with surveys should always have on the go.

Amazon Shopper Panel

5/5

Payment options:

Scrimpr review: Amazon Shopper Panel is actually a receipt scanning app. It pays up to £5 a month in Amazon vouchers to users who submit 10 in-store shopping receipts (£0.50 each).

But the Shopper panel also has short surveys that pay £0.50 each as well. There is usually a wait list to join, but this is very easy month if you get on the panel.

Earning potential: ~£5-10 per month.

Google Opinion Rewards

5/5

Payment options:

Scrimpr review: Google Opinion Rewards is available on both Android and iOS devices. It offers short surveys about places you have visited or products you have bought/searched for.

Opinion Rewards is probably one of the quickest-paying apps around. But Android users are forced to withdraw via Google Play Credit. Goolge Play credit can be swapped for cash via TapJoy on Freecash.

Earning potential: ~£5 / month

IPSOS iSay

4.5/5

Payment options:

Scrimpr review: I’ve been a member of IPSOS iSay for years. iSay email out survey invitations. But you can also check the app and the website to see if there are any questions to answer.

iSay has a low withdrawal threshold of £5. But sometimes it does send you on a loop of qualifying questions. At my peak I was earning a £10 voucher every month.

Earning potential: £10 / month.

YouGov

4.5/5

Payment options:

Scrimpr review: YouGov is probably the most famous UK survey apps. Their surveys are usually political in nature, and results are often reported in the news. Invitations are emailed so there is no need to check the site.

YouGov is a slow burner with a few surveys available per week, but YouGov provides a way to boost your balance by connecting your TV apps and sharing your viewing history.

Earning potential: a £50 payment ~3-6 months.

Norstat Panel

4/5

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Pure Profile

4/5

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Paid Focus Group

3.5/5

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Paid Product Testing

3.5/5

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The main UK survey apps I use

Even though the apps above pay the best rates for completing surveys, I actually do most of my mobile surveys on Attapoll, YouGov, Prime Opinion, and Qmee. This is because these apps almost always have surveys available. No need to wait to be invited, you can just try and take a survey any time you have a spare moment. Because they are not as targeted, you will get screened out of the surveys more often. But you can minimise that by completing all of the profile questions and trying surveys that match your demographics (on most this is indicated by the star rating of each survey).

Attapoll

4/5

Payment options:

Attapoll review: Attapoll is one of the oldest survey apps available (founded in 2016). The app is very basic and could do with an update. But the low cash-out threshold makes this one of the best survey apps to use.

Attapoll offers surveys from a large range of survey providers. Most are about consumer spending. But there is the occasional interesting survey. It also has an almost never-ending list of opportunities.

Earning potential: ~£1-2 per day.

Prime Opinion

3.8/5

Payment options:

Prime Opinion review: Prime Opinion is a new survey site with a mobile-optimised website. It suggests surveys for you based on your profile and gives a good indication of the time they take to complete.

Since it’s new I have only earned £5 from the site, but the withdrawal threshold is from as little as £1 (the first withdrawal amount depends on which sign-up promotion you choose).

Earning potential: ~£1 -2 / day unless you really go for it!

Qmee

4/5

Payment options:

* Bonus only applied when signing up using a desktop broswer (does not work if on mobile and downloading the Qmee app).

Eureka

3/5

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* Get a bonus £0.80 starter survey when you apply the bonus code: TA23L5 in your profile settings.

Get-paid-to apps that also offer surveys

Anyone that knows me from  r/beermoneyuk will know that I love signing up for apps and services for cash. And I love playing games for cash. The apps that offer these promotions are known as Get-Paid-To (or GPT) sites. Most of them have apps, and most of them also have some good surveys available. I tend to stick to the surveys from YourSurveys and CPX Research. For a more complete list of GPT sites, check out the Scrimpr Get-Paid-To Website Megalist.

Freecash

4/5

Payment options:

* Get a mystery crate worth $0.05-$250 when you sign up with the link above or use bonus code: tightaswhat.

Freecash surveys review: Freecash is one of the largest Get-Paid-To sites around. It is also one of the highest paying. I usually use sites like Freecash for signing up to things (it isn’t very good for games).

But Freecash also provides access to CPX Surveys and a few other survey router companies. I occasionally check CPX for high-paying surveys and do them when they appear. But avoid Pollfish at all costs.

Earning potential: lots if you sign up to things.

ySense

3/5

Payment options:

* Look out for 3x Points promotions on the various offerwalls.

ySense Surveys review: ySense is the international version of Inbox Pounds. But, just like Swagbucks, it is available to UK users. Weirdly, it shows credits as “dollars”. But each of these dollars are equivalent to £1.

The best thing about ySense is that it allows users to boost their earnings (from all sources) by completing a daily checklist. The checklist includes completing a couple of surveys and some sign up offers.

Earning potential: lots if you play the games.

Complete list of UK survey apps and websites

Anyone that knows me from  r/beermoneyuk will know that I love signing up for apps and services for cash. And I love playing games for cash. The apps that offer these promotions are known as Get-Paid-To (or GPT) sites. Most of them have apps, and most of them also have some good surveys available. I tend to stick to the surveys from YourSurveys and CPX Research. For a more complete list of GPT sites, check out the Scrimpr Get-Paid-To Website Megalist.

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