Advice: Passive Earning with Perk’s AppTrailers App

Attribution: Perk, Inc., AppRedeem, Inc. and RhythmOne

AppTrailers is one of the higher paying Perk mobile apps out there and it’s available for iOS and Android devices. You can earn up to 10 Perk points per video cycle, which is really nice. But from my own observations using this app, this app is nowhere near as passive (or high paying) as it used to be. This is to be expected in this day and age of GPT apps. However, it can still be pretty useful in making a few extra cents here and there. In this blog post, I’ll discuss how I take advantage of this app (keep in mind I am an Android user), as well as my observations when using it.

How I Use It

I use AppTrailers only a few times a week, and that’s when I’ve maxed out my other apps for the day. For example, I’ll run this app after I’ve maxed out my earning ability with my Swagbucks apps or after I run out of passive earning time on any of my devices that are running CashMagnet.

I’ll start playing videos (I usually choose RapidReviews, then start from the top, which is La La Land as I write this), but for the first 10-20 minutes, I notice that it’s not passive at all.

The First 20 Minutes

During the first 20 or so minutes, whenever an ad runs, I’ll have to tap the small green “next” button in the top right corner to cycle to the video RapidReview video or to get to the next ad. As long as I tap this little green button, I’m earning Perk points. This pattern will continue until the app goes into what I refer to as “passive mode.”

AppTrailers’ Passive Mode

Once the app is in passive mode, you can step away from it and it will continue to earn Perk points automatically for some period of time. How long this is varies, but for me, it’s usually between 10 minutes and a few hours. Occasionally it’ll go all day or all night, but that’s rare.

At some point in time, it’ll revert back to the “next” green button procedure, or I’ll get the “Are You Still Watching” prompt. If I’m able to tap “yes” in time, I can sometimes get the passive earnings to continue for a substantial period of time. If I don’t, it stops and my phone goes to sleep due to inactivity.

One interesting thing I noticed was that if the phone sleeps due to inactivity because I didn’t tap “yes,” when I start it up again, within a few minutes, I’ll always get the “Are You Still Watching” prompt. After tapping “yes,” I can sometimes get an hour or so of passive earnings with AppTrailers.

The Earning Pattern with AppTrailers

If I haven’t used AppTrailers in a day or more, when it starts up, I’m getting 10 Perk points per cycle. But after a few cycles, it’ll drop to 9 points per cycle. After another few cycles it drops to 8 points per cycle and so on. I’ve noticed it bottoms out at around 3 or 4 points per cycle, which is still pretty good if it’s in passive mode.

To get it to “reset,” so I’m getting 10 points per cycle, I have to go at least a day without using AppTrailers, but sometimes a few days. But by this point, my Swagbucks apps have reset or I’ve got more passive earning time for my CashMagnet app.

Conclusion

In my opinion, AppTrailers is not dead and is still a pretty good earnings app. You just have to be willing to babysit it for a little while. For me, I don't mind because I’m working on my computer with my phone next to me or I’m killing time shopping online, watching youtube, or something else where the babysitting an app isn’t a problem at all.