QuickThoughts Survey App Review: Is It Worth Your Time?

URL: Official website (requires Android or iOS app download, no web browser version)

QuickThoughts is a mobile-only survey site that's legit and with a very straightforward layout and survey experience, but some instances of low pay and serious technical glitches really hamper its potential.

NATURE OF WORK AND PAYMENT

QuickThoughts just does marketing surveys, and in a very straightforward and simple manner. Lengths vary, but if your demographics are in demand it does seem to have a preponderance of lengthier surveys (15-30 minutes) and seems to almost always have at least a few on offer.

The minimum cashout threshold is $10, and it does not have a cash payout option as of this writing. The three possible gift card options available, at least upon first downloading and using the app, are Amazon, Target and iTunes. 

SITE HISTORY / LEGITIMACY

QuickThoughts is owned and operated by Dynata, a major marketing firm that is based in the United States and has been around since before home internet was available. However, it began life as "Survey Sampling International (SSI)" and didn't adopt the Dynata brand until 2019 after a number of acquisitions and mergers. It owns several other smaller survey sites, the most recognizable of which is probably Opinion Outpost. 

While it appears to be legit and has a long general record of paying as agreed, a point of caution to note is that Dynata entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-2024 and is in the midst of executing a reorganization plan to deal with its debt. That does not necessarily mean a company is about to crash out, but it is at least some indication it could disappear suddenly and you shouldn't leave funds lingering in your account when you can help it!

INTERNATIONAL ACCESS

The terms and conditions page says that it is "only available in the United Kingdom", but this appears to be outdated as it is definitely available in the US app stores and other countries in Europe have anecdotal reports weighing in as well. This third-party site aimed at marketers lists 17 countries in total (including Brazil and Japan), but there is no official confirmation and you'll likely just have to check your local app store for it to verify.

STARTING OUT ON QUICKTHOUGHTS

You can simply download the app, fill out your profile and get right to taking surveys, and money will start accruing in your account. However, the terms and conditions page once again warns that the Veriff identity verification system may be used "from time to time" when you cash out. That means you should anticipate the usual photo ID and "liveness test" at least once before you can start cashing out.

PROBLEMS WITH QUICKTHOUGHTS

QuickThoughts suffers from two central problems. One is simply pay on the low end, which is not uncommon to survey sites. The other is a ream of technical glitches and limitations that can cause serious problems, making it more dicey to use than most survey sites.

First of all, for the fellow oddballs using a Chromebook: there is an app that directly supports ChromeOS, BUT (as of this writing) it has a glitch that causes the survey description to not be displayed. Surveys work fine once you click on them, but there's no way to see what the pay and expected time are beforehand! You'll get all that info after the "pre-screener" questions, but those can take a little while.

The display problem does not crop up on Android, but some nasty glitches do. The app sometimes just crashes mid-survey, dumping you out entirely. I had another one where a 30 minute survey got around to asking for the virtual keyboard to pop up about halfway through ... which then left a grey box in its wake that wouldn't go away and covered the "next page" button, making it impossible to finish the survey! Leaving in any manner causes the survey to reset back to the beginning, complete with the tons of random pre-screener questions.

The pre-screeners also really run a little long sometimes. These are an assortment of random demographic questions that pretend to be related to the survey, but really aren't, it's either collecting more random data on you or trying to catch you contradicting yourself. You get 10 cents for making it through these and then getting screened out at any point, but they stretch so long sometimes I don't feel it's worth 10 cents. One of the questions also said you had to install some random game to take a survey I had already previously gotten into and then crashed out of ... saying "no" just moved the questions forward, which is really dodgy and something I've never seen any other survey site do!

Now let's address the pay. The usual range seems to be about $1 USD per 10 minutes of survey time, at least from the sampling I got. That's less than minimum wage in most developed countries, but given that the surveys here are in a straightforward user-friendly format and don't seem to bounce you around between sites or play the usual annoying games, it might be worth your time in a low-COL situation (or if you have it going on the side while you do something else on another device). 

However, be warned I did see at least one 20 minute survey trying to get away with paying 50 cents! So the clients seem to set whatever price they want, and at least a few are extreme cheapos. 

FINAL VERDICT: NOT RECOMMENDED

QuickThoughts really does have some potential: backed by a legit US-based company, pay is ehhh but the surveys are in a very user-friendly format that doesn't waste your time (and doesn't seem to have common screenouts once you make it through the pre-screeners). It reminds me quite a bit of SurveyMonkey Rewards in that sense (one that I like, and a review is coming down the pipes here at some point). 

But the killer blow for me is the glitches and crashes, combined with the fact that there is seemingly no option to pick up where you left off with surveys. Especially considering the surveys tend to run 10 to 30 minutes, there's just too much potential to waste massive amounts of time for nothing.

JumpTask Review

URL: Jumptask.io  (referral code provides you with a one-time 10% earning boost on your first completed task)

JumpTask is a fairly standard "get paid to" (GPT) / offerwall site, but with the twist of only paying out in its own JMPT crypto token.

NATURE OF WORK AND PAYMENT

JumpTask offers many of the usual "offerwall" options: download a game off the app store and reach certain thresholds in it, surveys, watching videos and leaving "likes", and so on. It also has the option of plugging into HoneyGain, a "share your personal bandwidth" service that allows for passive earnings. 

The big difference from sites like Swagbucks and Inbox Dollars and etc. is that you are paid out exclusively in the "JumpToken" (JMPT) crypto. So you'll need a compatible wallet to even begin to do anything with your earnings, and not all of them support JMPT; MetaMask is probably the  biggest and most familiar name that does. There is a cashout threshold of 0.5 JMPT, which is a very small amount (far below the $10 to $20 USD limits some similar sites impose). 

SITE HISTORY / LEGITIMACY

JumpTask is a legitimate "decentralized finance" (DeFi) project that has been active since 2022. The long-term idea is that JumpToken is to be used as a cryptocurrency specific to gig tasks and contracting jobs online, like UpWork and Fiverr-type stuff, but thus far its application is mainly just this offerwall site. Projects of this nature can suddenly lose their money and tank value for various reasons, or just fold up, but at this point it's very unlikely to be a scam and as a DeFi project there is extremely limited personal info you would be providing that could be ripped off. 

As far as JMPT goes, it's a legitimate crypto token listed on a number of exchanges that has been hovering in value at about $1 USD per coin for months now. 

INTERNATIONAL ACCESS

As a DeFi project, in theory JumpTask should be available everywhere. In practice, some of the regional app stores might not have the mobile version available as a download for some reason. But you should still be able to access the web browser version from anywhere, if there aren't some kind of national-level ISP blocks on it for whatever reason. You'll also need a crypto wallet that supports JMPT, and either that offers the ability to swap to another token type (that you can then convert to fiat) or lets you connect to an exchange to eventually get the JMPT into a more usable real-money form. 

It is also possible you could see fewer offers in certain countries. If anyone encounters issues with this or some sort of regional access problems, it would be great if you could leave a comment about it at the bottom of this post. 

STARTING OUT ON JUMPTASK

As a DeFi project there are no ID checks or hassle, just either visit the URL in a web browser or download the mobile app and go. As of this writing the app only appears to be available for Android and ChromeOS, no iOS version as of yet. 

Going down the list of available earnings options, the first is the "daily reward" (if you're using the mobile app version). This plugs you into the HoneyGain app to contribute your unused bandwidth for passive earnings. The two services have a formal partnership, as you can see here, and enabling the connection provides a 10% bonus to all JumpTask cashouts as well as the small "daily reward" token amount (again, via Android and ChromeOS only to get the daily reward as of this writing). 

If you're not interested at all in HoneyGain, you can simply skip the "daily reward" and move on to a number of other options. Next down the list is the collection of "partners."  This is the same as is seen at other GPT sites, with third party ad-and-offer outfits that don't have their own apps (such as Torox and Revu) that are basically mini-GPT sites within a GPT site. JumpTask makes you "unlock" these as you do tasks, however, with the only one initially available being HangAds.

Moving on down the list we reach "premium quick tasks," which is just a collection of the  most heavily-promoted tasks from the sections below. We'll skip on to "social media tasks" then, which seems to vary in task types over time but all I've encountered thus far is a couple of jerks paying literal one penny worth of JMPT to follow them on X, join someone's Telegram and "be active in the community" for a whopping two cents, or doing something I can't even comprehend on a Discord for 20 cents. Not the best section at a first glance. 

We then move on to "play to earn," which probably offers the most lucrative overall opportunities. Same deal as other GPT sites like Inbox Dollars and Freecash, download a game, reach certain achievements in the game within a certain amount of time, also probably get some amount of reimbursement for in-game purchases. 

Next up is "watch and earn," probably the quickest and easiest but also among the lowest-paying. Nearly all of these tasks send you to YouTube to watch a video and leave a "like" on it, usually for 2 cents USD per task. The other Google service-related thing here is a search task that has you visit a website and look for a string of words in a specific section that you then enter. Those tasks pay about 3 to 5 cents each. 

"Test and review apps" looks promising at first, with individual rewards of $4.50 for seemingly just leaving a positive review for an app. But there's more to it than that. All the ones I saw required that you sign up for a 7-day trial subscription with a credit card, which of course then renews automatically if you don't cancel it. Some people reported trouble with canceling some of the specific offers I saw.

Then you got your good ol' surveys, unlocked by completing one of any other task type. If you've seen surveys at other GPT sites you know what to expect (near the bottom of the barrel of the survey world, low pay, lots of abrupt screenouts). 

There are a few additional earnings categories under the main menu. "Web3 Tasks" seems to partner with third parties temporarily as well as having a category for JumpTask's own tasks, but I've yet to see anything actually available to do in there. "Bonus codes" seems to just be for entering someone else's referral code if you didn't do it at signup ("duxivolubuta" if you want to use mine, this provides a one-time 10% earning bonus on your first completed task after entering). I didn't see any regular daily or weekly codes or anything, if they're out there I don't know where to find them. And if you're interested in doing your own referrals, the program seems pretty decent offering a 10% lifetime bonus on all referral activity and no cap. 

PROBLEMS WITH JUMPTASK 

One inherent problem with JumpTask is simply that getting actual cash in your pocket is more indirect than with other similar GPT sites. You'll have to pay a small "gas fee" each time you move your earned JMPT into your wallet, then likely another small fee (for example, BNB if using MetaMask) to convert it to another token type, then possibly ANOTHER fee to convert that token to fiat via an exchange. The fees do tend to be negligible along this chain, and other sites charge as much as $5 to cash out via PayPal, but it's an added time cost and hassle on top. 

The layout isn't ideal either, at least in the mobile version. The Android app doesn't have a really good way of getting an overview of everything without a ton of finger-scrolling (the web browser version is a little bit better). 

FINAL VERDICT: MAY WORK FOR YOU

At a glance, JumpTask looks like just another GPT site but with added restrictions and hassles in terms of getting actual cash in your hand. However, there are some advantages that may not immediately be obvious. One is accessibility, a general lack of region restrictions and ID checks to cash out; sites like Freecash make you show an ID and take a selfie now. Those $4.50 "app review" tasks seem doable if you use a temporary credit card number (issued directly by some banks, or for anyone via privacy.com) that you can cut off before seven days pass to ensure you don't get billed if there's some issue with the cancellation process. And there's some future earning potential, the site may well expand beyond the usual GPT stuff given the intent of the project.

It's far from one of my top earners, but I consider this good enough to check in on from time to time. If you really believe in the long-term potential of JMPT, it's pretty quick and simple to earn a little here and there during downtime then just keep it in your wallet and see what happens (so more of a "small time investment for possible big future returns" thing like Pi or CaptchaCoin than an "earn cash to pay the bills daily" thing).