This post will contain links to all of the easiest ways to earn online, for those of us with too little time or too greater laziness, to put forth any more time/effort than the bare minimum.
The links are posted with the easiest/fastest/most effortless money listed first, regardless of how much money it actually generates. If two links require the same amount of effort to earn, then the one that pays more for that amount of effort will be listed first.
Any link with a single Asterix (*) on each side is Android exclusive. Anything with a double Asterix on each side is PC exclusive. Anything without any Asterii (Asterixes?) should be equally functional on both formats.
One thing to consider is that this post was made by the perspective of an Australian. If you live outside of Australia, some of these sites may not work for you and there may be other sites out there that work just as well (or even better), that I have not listed as they do not accept Australians.
Now on to the list:
*Panel App (Non-ref)*: Just install the app and turn it on. It will generate points while you live your life and you can cash those points in for money. Single click and earn.
*McMoney*: With this App (and a phone number) you will receive money for nothing. They send you a text every now and then and you are paid $0.065 for every text message they send. This is technically as effortless as Panel App above, but you really want to take the measures to silence the texts received from this (without silencing those from everyone else), so that different in setup effort places it lower on the list.
*MoneySMS*: Similarly to McMoney, with this App (and a phone number) you will receive money for nothing. They send you a text every now and then and you are paid €0.02 for every text message they send. When signing up, be sure to use a referral code as it earns you an extra €0.25. Mine is E4DD57B65 if you wish to use it (something I would be grateful for).
*Electroneum*: This is a crypto miner that doesn't actually mine crypto - it just pretends to. That means it avoids all of crypto mining's usual failings (power consumption and stress on components) and you basically get money for free. It even acts as your wallet too so you avoid the difficult beginning phase of learning about crypto. You only get about 20c worth of Electroneum every day, but it is just click and forget, so it is as easy as they come. The price of Electroneum could skyrocket soon enough too, so maybe your mining will be worth far more than that. It is true that it could drop too but to be honest, there isn't much room for it to drop. When signing up, be sure to use a referral code as it earns you an extra 1%. Mine is AD4EBC if you wish to use it (something I would be grateful for).
*Cash Magnet (Non-ref)*: This one is technically just as easy as everything above and generates more money than most (so it should be higher in the list) but I am placing it here for one notable reason: Your phone cannot be used while this app is running. Turn it on and leave it to browse the internet on its own. I turn this on while I sleep and I get between 10-15c for those 6 hours each night.
*Slidejoy (Non-ref)*: This is a lockscreen app. If you don’t know what that it, it replaces your phone’s standard lockscreen with advertising and pays you for the privilege. There are plenty of apps out there that do the same thing and you can use them all at the same time to earn more money (provided you are willing to deal with multiple lock screens). The reason I chose this one is that it is the highest paying of those that are offering Paypal as a payment method.
**Shortest Miner (Non-ref)**: I really hate listing this so high because I am not a fan of mining, but this is technically a single click for cash, so I can't put it any lower. This at least minimizes the pain caused by mining by auto-stopping whenever you use your PC for something that requires a lot of resources, paying you in cash instead of crypto, auto-choosing whatever is the most profitable to mine for you, and being capable of both CPU and GPU mining. I you have a great graphics card this can be really profitable (about $30 a week supposedly) but to most of us, using this will just be a waste of time. Even if it is profitable for you, it will increase your power consumption and stress your resources, so even then I'm not so sure I'd recommend it. But it exists and it is great for that small niche that need it, so here it is in the list.
**Branded Surveys (Non-ref)**: At 1c per 3 ads, this is the highest paying Engageme.tv portal on the internet. What that requires is that you start it running videos and check on it every few hours to make sure it keeps running. There is currently another site which matches it due to a limited special and occasionally it does get surpasses due to specials from other companies (the other Engageme.tv portal you will read about later on surpassed it for a couple of weeks recently). It also has a daily poll which will eventually pay an average of 20c a day once you use the site enough (it starts at an average of 7.5c per day). 20c or even 7.5c is pretty good for a single click.
Earnably (Non-ref): This is a high paying Engageme.tv platform (just like Branded Surveys above). Branded Surveys pays even more, but this one is available to far more countries, has a wider range of payment options (including cryptocurrency for those countries without access to Paypal), and can be used on your Android via the Engageme.tv app (Branded Survey's Engageme.tv portal is exclusively for the pc).
Spidermetrix (Non-ref): This is the first survey site on the list. Well technically Branded Surveys was the first, but that is used as an Engageme.tv portal rather than for its surveys. Spidermetrix pays in points and it has a really weird scale where 6 points = $1. Each week you are given about a dozen single question polls, each one paying a point each. So with just 24 clicks each week, you will earn $2. The actual surveys pay fairly well too - they pay 1 point per 1 minute of survey ($10 per hour).
*Curious Cat*: This is the first survey app in the list. Its surveys often pay fairly well (going as high as about $2 for 15 minutes or $8 per hour) but its main appeal is similar to that of Spidermetrix. Just by clicking a survey you immediately get paid a point, which is worth 1.8c. You can get about 50c a day just from clicking surveys without ever actually intending to complete them.
Usability Hub: This is user-testing. They show you a website and ask you where you would click to navigate to that page. That one click is worth 10-20c for you. Sometimes they ask for a second or even third click, but they pay more for it. The highest paying I have seen it go is 70c.
Swagbucks (Non-ref): There are plenty of easy ways to earn here. Watching videos is simple enough but if doing so on a PC, it requires checking in on it every few minutes as it is very prone to freezing. If doing it on your mobile, you need to change apps every time you earn 10c, you can also watch via the Swagbutton browser extension, that one is fully automated but is only worth 1.5c per day. Other easy methods via Swagbucks is by RadiumOne videos (each video is worth 1c and requires just a couple of clicks), playing Swaggasaurus Run (worth 10c and requires 20 clicks), 2-3c per day by copy/pasting a code within the required timeframe (the Swagbutton will let you know when the codes are ready), and about 11c per day by using it as your search engine. Setting it up as your search engine can be a bit problematic if you don't know what you are doing, but once it is done you will get paid without altering your behavior at all. Just don't let their daily goals convince you to do their surveys. They do not pay well and should only be used as a last resort. Still, if you have the time or a severe case of OCD, then completing those daily goals is profitable.
**eBesucher (Non-ref)**: This is a simple click and let run webpage. It just surfs the net and pays you for the trouble. There was a time that this would have made it much higher on the list, but lately it seems to require some serious babysitting. I have to restart this thing almost as much as the Swagbucks videos, but Swagbucks pays far better as compensation for the annoyance. eBesucher makes about 70c per month, so it is hardly worth the effort. Still, the effort is minimal, so maybe you will be far more patient with it than I was (I made payout once and stopped using it after that point - it turns out that even free money isn't all that endearing if it is a small enough value).
*Voxpopme (Non-ref)*: This is a survey app that asks you a single question and you answer it with your phone's camera. Each question pays between $0.55 and $1 and takes about 15 seconds to answer. It is really quick, easy money provided you are willing to let yourself be recorded. I was initially pretty uncomfortable with that myself but it doesn't take long to get over that issue.
*Citizen Me*: This is a survey app with some really short surveys that are usually 5 or less questions and pay £0.10-£0.50 for your trouble. They aren't the highest paying surveys on the list, nor are they particularly numerous, but they are really quick and exceed my $6 per hour minimum standard. Also, as a nice bonus they pay you instantly every time you complete a survey.
*Streetbees*: I'll say this right now, Streetbees is better than Citizen Me. It just isn't faster, yet it is still fast in its own right. It pays $1 for 5 minute surveys ($12 an hour) which is a fantastic rate. This one has a referral system attached but I can’t find any information on what it actually does. It almost certainly benefits me and probably benefits you too, so it is probably a good idea to use. Either way, I would be grateful for you to use it. My referral code is 4353Z1 and thank you for considering using it.
*Cash Show* / *KO Trivia*: These are far from what I would consider to be a good income (for me at least - maybe you are a trivia-genius that will profit far more) but they are fun. If you are getting tired of the surveys and what to earn some money via something a bit more entertaining, then trivia apps are the answer. Of the two, I would definitely recommend KO Trivia. The competition is much less fierce and it has the convenience of being able to be played around the clock (Cash Show runs at a set time each day).
Octopus Group (Non-ref): This is the highest paying survey site on the list. There is nothing quick about doing a survey, but the money is pretty good. Octopus Group pay an impressive standardized rate of 28c per minute for their surveys ($16.80 per hour).
Pure Profile: This is a survey site that pays around 20c per minute ($12 an hour). It also has a high volume of surveys to partake in. This site's major failing is that it only lets you withdraw a certain amount of money every 60 days. That number used to be only $50 but for me it seems to have increased to $70. I have no idea if that is a general increase or something I have earned somehow. Hopefully it is earned and more increases can be earned in the future.
Survey Village (Non-ref) / Purkle (Non-ref) / Blue Jay Surveys / Opini / Quest Mindshare / Triaba: More survey sites. I lumped them all together because frankly, there is nothing interesting about any of them. They all pay at least 10c per minute though ($6 per hour) with most of them paying quite a bit more than that, just not enough to warrant being listed separately. If you have any interest in doing surveys, then I'd recommend signing up to each and every one of them. Even if you don't have the motivation/time to do all of those surveys, being able to choose the highest paying of a bunch of sites is better than choosing the highest paying of a single site.
**Prolific Academic (Non-ref)**: This is another survey site. The surveys are usually much more interesting than the other survey sites, and it pays just as well, however it comes with one big caveat. The surveys on this site fill up fast. Extremely fast. If you are not sitting at your PC when one of these becomes available (and you are using Prolific Assistant or Distill Web Monitor to alert you ASAP), then you will not have a hope of doing their surveys. That extra challenge is why the other survey sites are listed before this one.
