The Panel App is something that you can run in your background of your phone, and actually earn money from it. Of course, you aren’t going to make a million dollars just by running your phone, but you can make a few dollars by doing absolutely nothing and leaving the app running on your phone.
The company behind Panel App collects data for the purpose of analytics, and pooling data from thousands of users to provide meaningful information to third parties that require it.
Thus, if you are comfortable in sharing basic information such as your location services and phone usage, you can earn some money from this app easily.
Edit: This app appears to be for people living in USA only! If you are outside these areas, you may or will not get paid.
Edit 2 (7th Apr 2020): This app is still going strong and paying people! Sign up if you want a passive income app in your arsenal.
Summary
Name: Panel App
Owner: Placed (http://www.placed.com)
Pays through: Paypal, Giftcards, Lucky draws
Available on: iOS, Android
Free to start: Yes!
Click Here To Sign Up for Panel App
How to get Started
Click the link I have provided for you above in order to begin. You would be required to enter your E-mail Address and cell phone number, and also how you want to receive it and your platform device as well.
These information are required so that you can easily receive the link in your text message or E-mail to download the app directly from the app store. After being directed to your app store, you can proceed to download the app from the app store.
After installing the app, you are required to create an account. This is done by just entering a few contact details such as your E-mail and phone number, then some basic demographics about yourself and you are done setting it up!
How to use the App
Pretty much after signing up, you have already set up your account with your basic demographics.
In order to earn points,
- Make sure location services is enabled or you would not earn points at all.
- Do not close the app at all, you have to let it run in the background to earn points.
Once you open the Panel App, you are able to view how much points you have accumulated since you started. When you begin, you start with 100 points and the app will show how much points you gained since the previous day.
The other thing you can do are surveys in order to earn points. Personally, I have not earned points from surveys yet as I was usually screened out.
Surveys are usually given when you been to different places, or every few days in the app. You should get a notification whenever a new survey pops up anyway.
Cashing Out
There are 2 kinds of rewards when you redeem, sweepstakes entries and guaranteed prizes.
For sweepstakes, you can view under prize details to see how many of each prizes they are giving away and when the sweepstakes is happening.
For guaranteed prizes, you can immediately redeem to get your choice of reward. This includes money to Paypal and various giftcards.
The redemption amounts look something like this:
- $2 Guaranteed prize: 3000 points
- $5 Guaranteed prize: 5000 points
- $5 Sweepstakes: 20 points
- $10 Sweepstakes:30 points
- $15 Sweepstakes: 40 points
- $25 Sweepstakes: 60 points
- $50 Sweepstakes: 100 points
Depending on how you like to get rewarded, you could go for guaranteed winnings or gamble it on the sweepstakes for a bigger prize if you are feeling lucky. Personally, I would wait and go for the Guaranteed prizes.
Referrals
You can refer friends to use this app as well through texts or E-mail, or even sharing your link through Facebook.
There are 2 tiers of referral: You will receive 10% of the points your referrals earn, and 5% from their referrals. It is definitely a neat way to make more points without doing anything at all except getting people to join in too.
If you would like to thank me, you can use the referral link that I provided at the top of the post.
Note that you can only have a maximum of 1000 direct referrals, and 500 indirect referrals.
Is this legit?
The company behind this, Placed, has been doing in business since 2011. From their website, you can see that their business is definitely a legit research company, collecting research from places like Panel App for analytics purposes.
Their legitimacy is backed up by many news company that are covered in their Press Page here.
From both app stores, you can definitely see that most comments are positive. The panel app have a 4/5 star rating with over 6000 votes and 4/5 star rating with over 200 votes on the iTunes store.
Below here are 5 comments that are fairly positive on the iTunes store.
Given that I have recently started using the Panel App, I have not yet reached the payment limit yet. I will update this post when I get my own payment proof to show right here.
Final Thoughts
The Panel app is easy money if you are willing to share some personal information with companies like Placed. Even though you won’t earn much, it is definitely a sort of passive income by just leaving your phone running and the app running in the background.
This is definitely one of the apps that are unique from the others I have reviewed, as you mostly don’t need to do anything at all after setting it up. If you are looking for other apps to make money from, you can try a few of these below:
Featurepoints: Download apps to earn points, and redeem for cash or other gift cards.
Apptrailers: Watch videos and trailers to earn points.
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Brenda Squier says
after latest update I can’t open the app and haven’t been able to find any place for technical help as I can’t open the app what do I do? Please help
Brenda Squier
Terence says
Hi Brenda,
I don’t believe I have the answer to your question, but you can try mail in to their support at: panelapp@placed.com
Jen says
If anyone is making anything somewhat decent on this app I would like to know. I have yet to make $10 in a year!
Terence says
Hi Jen,
I believe on an average you should be able to make $30 to $40 a year on this app without referrals. I may be wrong, but I think it depends on how much you use your phone on average and whether you travel around a lot too. Referral also help you make more points and money faster too.
Day says
I redeem for an old navy card and have not received it
Terence says
Hi Day,
You may want to contact their customer support right here: panelapp@placed.com
Rithy says
How do I reviewed the money when I was redeemed?
Terence says
Hi Rithy,
I believe once you redeem, the money should go straight to you. If you don’t receive any confirmation you should definitely contact their support
Heidi says
Get the Panel App and start earning free gift cards & more! http://www.placed.com/panel/panels/711b0c40f1da/signup?rid=95e47dd068a9
Chaitali says
I use panel app and its almost 1 year. I want to know when year over it update my points what i have now or again start from zero
David says
All this app does is track your every movement, why? My wife has been wasting time for a long time with this stupid app and has almost earned a $25 gift card. I have been using it for several months and only have a guaranteed $1. This isnt worth the time. I have a different app that in much less time has already paid me $35 without asking me to confirm where I have been. Don’t waste time with spy app..oh, that’s right, they call it panel app…good cover.
Terence says
Hey David,
Really valid points here! Most of these passive apps pay really little considering you don’t need to do anything except to give your information then leave it running in the background. Some people would mind, some people wouldn’t. I would say, if you don’t mind earning that bit extra for doing nothing then go for it, but if you’re against companies wanting your data then don’t install it.
Khalid khan says
I am from uk and got this app, I am trying to redeem from couple of days and didn’t get the email which will confirm my email. Strangely I send message and I didn’t get response. It’s look to me scam to be honest.
Terence says
Hi Khalid,
You may want to check your junk folder because some of my confirmation mail went to there instead with the code, and I only realized after months. Alternatively, do contact support and they’ll get you sorted out.
Sasha says
The PayPal option has been deleted.
Terence says
Hi Sasha,
Thanks for your input! I will be updating my reviews very soon as it is pretty long since I did my review. 🙂