MobileXpression Review – How Much Money I’ve Made After 2 Years

As you might know, This Online World started out by covering passive income apps and ways to make money with your smartphone.

While I don’t phone farm anymore, I still run a few data collection apps and websites in my spare time.

One of these apps is MobileXpression.

Now, I don’t know how I haven’t written a MobileXpression review yet, but this is long overdo.

After all, this app is major player in the passive income apps space, and I’ve earned about $90 from using the app over the past 2 years.

A Starbucks gift card I redeemed from MobileXpression. I can confirm they pay…if it works for your phone!

This obviously isn’t life-changing, but we’re talking about free money from free apps here, not serious gig apps.

If you want to make money by selling your data and to turn your smartphone into a humble money-making device, this is the app for you.

Checkout other nifty money-making platforms:

• Capital One Shopping – An awesome browser extension that automatically applies coupons and lets you earn credits, which can be redeemed for free gift cards.
• Mobile Performance Meter – Earn $36.50-$50+ per year.
• S`more App – Earn $36.50 per year.

Download MobileXpression for Android or for IOS!

What Is MobileXpression?

Now, I have to preface this MobileXpression review by saying that this app is extremely finicky…this app either works for you, or it doesn’t.

Additionally, with all of my recent traveling and border crossings, the app stopped working for me (again). I’m trying to create a brand new account to get things back up and running.

But, disclaimer aside, what is MobileXpression and why should you care?

According to MobileXpression, this company is an “elite market research community dedicated to improving the mobile Internet. By joining our panel you’ll be helping us to understand and report on the trends and behaviors of people using the mobile Internet.”

This is similar to research panels like UpVoice and Mobile Performance Meter.

MobileXpression basically pays you for data about your behavior, device type, and carrier. Companies then pay MobileXpression for amalgamated data sets to help them with their mobile marketing strategy.

In fact, MobileXpression is a division of VoiceFive, Inc, who are an owned subsidiary of comScore, a massive media analytics company…It’s pretty clear what the play is here.

Now, MobileXpression has decent app store reviews, abysmal TrustPilot reviews, and some fairly mixed opinions on Reddit:

So, the question is, why the varied reviews, and how do you even make money with this app?

How Does MobileXpression Work?

If you want to add MobileXpression to your list of passive income apps, there are 4 steps you have to take to enroll in the program:

1. Check Your Eligibility

To use MobileXpression, you must be 18 years or older and live in the United States, Canada, and the UK.

MobileXpression only accepts certain phone or tablet models and carriers. You can check your eligibility on MobileXpression’s website:

In Canada, I’ve been able to join MobileXpression with a few phones under Virgin Mobile.

However, there’s no running list of what exact phones are accepted into the panel.

Generally, newer phone models and widespread carriers have a decent chance, but you have to check before enrolling. Being denied at this point is honestly where a lot of the negative MobileXpression reviews come from.

But, if you phone is eligible, you’re good to go!

2. Review & Accept Privacy Policy

The next step is to opt-in to the panel terms.

Basically, this steps allows MobileXpression to collect market research data from your phone, amalgamate the data, and sell it to third parties.

According to MobileXpression, their software collects data on:

• Messaging services used.
• Mobile web browsing activity.
• Usage and names of downloaded apps and files.
• Usage of camera.
• Video streaming.
• Web pages you view, and links you access.
• Overall usage time.

This is a pretty hefty list, so again, you need to decide if you’re willing to sell your data for money.

3. Demographic & Phone Information

The next step is to answer a few short questions about your demographic profile and phone information.

Again, this data is amalgamated. However, you must provide data about your age, gender, education level, and household income so MobileXpression can group you into a data set.

Filling out this information takes a minute, and then you’re ready to start using the app!

4. Enable The App & Earn

MobileXpression requests access to run in the background of your phone while you use it. In order to earn money, you must allow this access.

Once you grant access, just keep MobileXpression open in the background of your phone to slowly earn credits.

You should see a claim credits icon in your account after a week if things are working properly.

You don’t have to use your phone everyday to earn.

As long as you use the internet on your phone at some point and meet other eligibility requirements, you’re good to go.

How Much Does MobileXpression Pay?

As a signup bonus, you earn 15 credits after installing and running the app for a week.

Each proceeding week of activity pays 2 credits.

However, if you close the app or lose internet connection, you might find that your week is interrupted and it takes a few more days to earn.

Now, credits have different values depending on what you redeem them for.

Currently, your options are:

• 10 Credit Rewards – Earn a $5 gift card.
• 15 Credit Rewards – Earn a $10 gift card.

Obviously, holding onto your credits to redeem 15 credit rewards makes more sense since the value is better.

For 15 credit rewards, each credit is worth $0.66. This means MobileXpression pays $1.32 per week for running on your phone.

If this app runs smoothly, this means you earn $5.28 per month and $63.36 per year of being a member.

When you factor in the nice $10 signup bonus, you’re looking at a potential of about $73 in your first year of completely free money.

Again, this app is somewhat finicky. I’ve never had a year straight of using this app, and at one point during my phone farming days, one of my accounts was banned.

However, if this app works for you, I think it’s a worthwhile addition to your passive income app setup.

Reward Options

Unfortunately, MobileXpression doesn’t let you cash out through PayPal or check.

However, there are several free gift card options to cash out with.

Gift card availability and choices vary based on your country, but generally, you can redeem gift cards to:

• Amazon.
• Walmart.
• Best Buy.
• Starbucks.

This is less choice than rewards apps like Fetch Rewards, and if you want PayPal cash, you’re better off trying something like Rakuten or the S`mores app.

MobileXpression sends gift cards via email, and you can expect gift card codes to arrive in a few business days:

Just remember to check your spam folder to ensure you get your reward!

Is MobileXpression A Scam?

Since I’ve been able to cash out with MobileXpression multiple times over the past 2 years, I can confirm this app isn’t a scam.

However, plenty of people have mixed feelings.

If your phone isn’t eligible for the program, there’s nothing you can do. Additionally, it’s possible to get randomly banned, which is infuriating when you’re saving up meter points and waiting to cash out a $10 gift card.

Ultimately, this is one of those reward apps that either works great for you or doesn’t work at all.

Does this make MobileXpression a scam?

I don’t think so…but don’t expect this app to run flawlessly for years to come.

Other MobileXpression Reviews

As I mentioned, there are some mixed feelings towards this app. This is even more apparent on Reddit.

As you can see from this Reddit thread, other users are making money with MobileXpression:

However, reviews are far from unanimously positive. If you dig around on Reddit or other websites, you’ll see plenty of people complaining.

I think much of this also comes from the confusion that points are awarded weekly. If you check the meter a few days in and see zero credits, you’ll undoubtedly feel cheated if you don’t know the rules.

Plus, since MobileXpression requires IOS users to download a configuration file which allows your web traffic to route through the MobileXpression servers, it looks like your phone is using a VPN.

This doesn’t matter for most users, but if you’re a fan of answering online surveys, this can get you banned:

In any case, just know that this app has mixed results.

Hopefully, you can install MobileXpression and earn an easy $50-$75 per year just for using your phone!

Pros & Cons

I like to wrap up any review with a quick pros and cons list in case you’re on the fence about if MobileXpression is worth it.

Pros

I’ve used this app, on and off, for two years. Here’s why:

• Completely Passive. If the panel works, you simply run it in the background of your phone and forget about it.
• No Battery Impact. I don’t think MobileXpression drains my battery or impacts my phone in any way.
• Decent Pay. MobileXpression pays $5.28 per month in credits, which is more than Mobile Performance Meter or S`mores.

Cons

MobileXpression has recently stopped working for me again, which is an annoyance. Additionally, here are some other cons to consider:

• Reward Options. A lack of PayPal cash and gift card variety is a downside.
• Troubleshooting. I’ve had issues with this app in the past, as well as an account ban. This app won’t work forever, and it sometimes takes tinkering.
• Privacy Concerns. If you don’t want to sell your data, this is not the app for you.

Apps Like MobileXpression

I already mentioned a few apps in the beginning of this post, and I’ve also made a video on some simple passive income streams you can create as a beginner:

Ultimately, if you install apps like Mobile Performance Meter, Panel App, S`mores, and use UpVoice when browsing the web, I think it’s possible to earn $100 or more per year just by selling your data.

You can take things to the next level by selling your bandwidth from home, but this isn’t my cup of tea honestly.

At the end of the day, you have to decide what you’re comfortable with. However, there’s definitely some easy money to be made just by joining a few nifty research panels.

Final Thoughts

I’m definitely less active in the world of beermoney these days than when I was in college.

However, MobileXpression has been a somewhat consistent app for me over the past few years. After all the free Starbucks I’ve drank because of this app, I figured it was time for a review of MobileXpression.

This app doesn’t work for everyone, but hopefully, it lets you earn more free gift cards each year and gets you started on your passive income journey!

Thanks for reading, I’ll catch you guys in the next one!

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