Review: CrowdTap

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I know it’s been a long time since I’ve put up a new blog post. One reason for that is because not much has happened that I’ve felt warranted a full blog post. But after testing a new GPT site over the past month or so, I feel I’m ready to share what I’ve learned and introduce others to it – it’s called Crowdtap.

What Is Crowdtap?

Crowdtap is a GPT site that offers a number of activities or offers users can complete for points. After gaining enough points, they can redeem them for gift cards. As a rule of thumb, 1,000 points equals a $5 gift card.

What Can You Do on Crowdtap?

Many things, including:

- Focus Groups

- Multiple Choice

- Grid

- Surveys

- Photo

- Open Ended

- Sampling

- Share UGC

To be frank, I don’ t know what some of these are, such as Share UGC and Grid. Photo involves posting a photo on a social media site and I think Sampling works by giving users points after they sample a product that’s sent to them. I think Focus Groups are exactly what they sound like, but I’m not sure if they’re online, in-person or both.

The only GPT opportunities I’ve been offered are Surveys, Multiple Choice and Photo. Surveys and Multiple Choice are basically the same thing (and I’ll use the term “survey” with a lowercase S to refer to them interchangeably throughout this blog post), and I think Open Ended is also like a survey, except you’re expected to type up your responses instead of clicking a button with your answer.

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Caption: The icons representing all the tasks you can potentially do on Crowdtap.

How Fast Does Crowdtap Pay?

I’ve cashed out twice, both times for $5 Amazon.com gift cards and each time, they said they would deliver my gift card code in 24 hours and they have. So it’s not as fast as instaGC or Bing, but it’s faster than Perk and Swagbucks.

What Makes Crowdtap Special?

For me, it’s the ability to complete GPT tasks in very short amounts of time. Unlike Swagbucks, instaGC or other online GPT sites with surveys, the surveys on Crowdtap are pretty short and always payout as long as you complete them. Some of them are only one question long and worth 1-3 points. Some of them are much longer and can pay out many more points (I think 150 or so points is the most I’ve had), but even these surveys can almost always be completed in under 10 minutes.

So for those who have a few minutes in front of their computer before they need to do something else, Crowdtap is a perfect way to earn a little bit of money.

How Much/Fast Can You Earn with Crowdtap?

The answer to this question depends on your lifestyle and demographics. The more “in-demand” you are with companies and advertisers, then the more opportunities you’ll have. I imagine a minority millennial with young children in a large city will get the most opportunities. As for me, I get about 50 points (that’s about 25 cents) worth of surveys each day that can be completed in about 10-15 minutes.

Many of these surveys will result in other surveys depending on how you answer them. For example, if you say you’ve eaten a certain type of food from the grocery store within the past month, you may be given a follow up survey to answer questions about that product.

What Gift Card Options Are Available?

This list will change periodically, but at the time of this writing, the following gift cards are available for redemption:

- Amazon.com

- Sephora

- Target

- Walmart

- NFL Shop

- Ulta Beauty

- Nike

- Adidas

- PlayStation Store

- Xbox

There’s also the option for Charities and Subscriptions, but it appears those aren’t ready just yet.

Are There Any Drawbacks with Crowdtap?

I noticed that I was getting a bit more spam in my email account ever since I signed up. So when signing up for Crowdtap, be sure to use a throwaway email account (although you’ll need to have access to it when you get your gift card redemptions)

The first redemption requires a waiting period of several days while verification takes place. To complete verification, you’ll need to provide some personal information like name, date of birth, email address, mailing address and phone number. If this makes you nervous, that’s understandable. But if you’re using sites like Swagbucks, you should have already provided that information to the interwebs anyways.

Another thing to mention is that Crowdtap is only available to those in the United States.

Finally, the biggest “drawback” with Crowdtap is that you have to be honest with your answers (or if you’re going to lie, you need to be very consistent). For example, when you give your birthday, they’ll send you multiple surveys asking you to tell them what month your birthday is in. I take this to be a somewhat subtle attempt to verify that you’ve told the truth.

Additionally, when you provide your personal information in your Crowdtap profile, you can’t change it for several months:

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Caption: Better get it right the first time!

Crowdtap claims this is to help maintain the integrity of the information it collects from users. This makes sense. Some of the profile information will ask for information that shouldn’t change very often, like marital status, address and number of children.

Bottom Line

If you’re already doing things like Swagbucks and instaGC surveys and offers, then signing up for Crowdtap is a no brainer. It provides a quick and easy way to earn a little bit of money during those short down times many of us have each day.