the onepulse survey app - a short review

hey all, cool subreddit you got here. i've lurked for a little while now and discovered some new cool ways of getting some beer money - before, i mainly used phone apps to answer surveys, and they did cover my pub expenses pretty well. however, i don't see a lot of discussion about an app i've used for a while, this app being "onepulse". it has been discussed on the subreddit before and has received mixed reviews, which i think sums up the app pretty well. i think it's worth discussing since it's model as a survey app definitely has some useful and promising features, but it also has noteworthy drawbacks. i think a discussion of it will be good to a) let people know about the service if it appeals to them, and b) help guide people - users and devs alike - on what makes a 'good' survey app, i.e what is and isn't worth your time.

to give a brief overview, onepulse is an app which is available both on the apple store and google play. it's pretty highly rated, and has quite a few downloads. they pay in USD, but the questions i get are often related to my country / area, so it's worth looking into wherever you come from. onepulse has a fairly unique 'levelling up' feature, which is a key part of the app - the higher level you have, the more money you make per paid survey.

in order to make this easy to read, i'll break down the rest of this into what i like and don't like about the app. starting off with the pros:

• paid surveys require little effort and are typically very short. almost all of them are multiple choice and occasionally you'll get to write a sentence. i've never had any survey on onepulse take any longer than 2-3 minutes, and would guess the average time of most surveys to be under a minute. none of them are mentally taxing either, as they usually just ask questions along the lines of "do you like this packaging?" or "do you eat this sort of food?".
• you're notified about paid surveys. this is something i really like - combined with the short nature of the surveys, when i see this notification come up as i'm idling on my phone, i know it won't take long and i know there's a little bit of cash behind it. you're not constantly refreshing or searching for good value surveys like you are on apps like poll pay, nor are you waiting ages for new surveys to come up like you do on premise.
• the pay-out is consistent. depending on how high your level is (getting through the low levels is really easy and won't take too long), you can earn around 10-20 cents per survey, and some of them literally take seconds. to put it another way, at a high enough level, onepulse surveys have a very low opportunity cost for what you get out of them.

some of the language i used in the pros section do reveal some of the cons, however:

• not all of the surveys are paid, and you'll have to do quite a few free ones to 'level up' first. before you answer any paid surveys, you're going to have to answer a lot of unpaid surveys to make sure the paid ones are worth your time. you'll be awarded 'xp' for your time answering these surveys, with more xp meaning a higher level, meaning you'll get paid more per paid survey. again, these free surveys aren't very difficult to do, and they're mostly just about demographics - but you'll have to do a lot of them if you want to be paid well. at higher levels, the amount of xp you need to level up further is considerably high. your best bet is to start out by spending around half an hour every other day sweating them out initially, then stop once you get to the mid-high range of the 10s (around level 15-20), at which point payouts for the paid surveys will make answering them worthwhile.
• the window for responding to paid surveys can be tight. if you see a notification for one, you'll have to be responding to it within about 5 minutes, and even then you're not certain to get it. if you wait any longer than that, it's not even worth trying for the survey at that point.
• the amount you need to cash out is high. i believe it used to be lower, but now you need $20 in your account, so your money will probably be trapped in there for quite a while. if you live outside of the US, you'll also have to deal with the issue of foreign exchange diminishing your returns further (as i do, being from britland).

overall (tl;dr coming up now), onepulse is definitely flawed, but it has some clever features to it which make me keep answering their surveys whenever i get the ample opportunity. it really doesn't take much time out of your life after the initial slog, and i really like the notification feature. the payout i get for how short the surveys are compares very well to other survey apps. however, i did have to do a lot of free work (although a lot of the free surveys were interesting, i will admit) in order to get where i am with the app now. i think some of it's features should be used more widely among survey companies, but others certainly should be left behind. lemme know what you all think though - will you pick this app up, do you already use it? what do you think of it's structure compared to other survey apps?

quick bonus for all you android users out there - look into google opinion rewards if you're at all interested in this. it uses the same feature (but without the xp thing) where you get notified for surveys and then you do them. they're really short and straightforward, and while the payout isn't as consistent, for the majority of them it is still really good for how short the surveys are, and it's paid in your local currency. you can only spend the money you receive from the app on the google play store, but making small in game purchases free and buying the occasional cheap film with that money makes it worthwhile.

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