Testerup is a legit platform that allows users to test mobile games and earn money.

But while you can make money testing games with this platform, your time may be better spent on other money making apps.

In this review, I’ll share:

How Testerup works
My experience with the app so far
Some Testerup alternatives to consider

Ready? Let’s do it!

Getting Started With Testerup

Testerup was launched in May 2022, so it is a relatively new game testing platform.

Signing up for Testerup is easy. Once you register you’re taken inside the platform to see available offers. 

The website is pretty basic and gives you:

an overview tab with your offers
a settings tab with a place to fill out your information
a payout tab for your rewards

They do have support articles and places to get help if you need them but they are sort of hidden at the bottom of the page. This is a great place to look for help if you find the tracking or payouts aren’t working smoothly for you.

Who is Eligible for Testerup?

Testerup is only available in the US, UK, and Canada. If you’re traveling somewhere other than these countries, the app won’t work.

You must also be 18 or older.

Is Testerup Legit?

With its odd inconsistent formatting and weird use of “USD” instead of “$” for a US-audience, you might be wondering if Testerup is a scam. While the interface is less polished than some better-funded apps, Testerup is legit.

The company is based in Germany, which might explain some of the unexpected monetary and formatting conventions. (Like using commas instead of decimal points, for example.)

At press time, the company had earned a 4.1-star rating in the Google Play store and a 4.2-star rating in the Apple App Store. More than 3 million users have already signed up, and many reviewers say they were able to cash out their earnings without issue.

How Testerup Works

Inside the platform, you will see the offers available to you. Most offers must be completed on a mobile device, so you will need to download the app on your mobile device.

The Testerup app is available on iOS and Android. Make sure you’re running the latest operating system, as there is a minimum requirement to run the app.

Once you’re in the app, you can download the games and get started. When you click on a game, instructions will appear on how to download the games.

You must download the games through the links they provide on the platform. Otherwise they have no way to track your progress and pay you.

It is also important to note that you can only get rewards if it is your first time downloading the game. If you’ve downloaded the game before on your phone, you won’t be eligible for rewards.

You can check to see if the game is tracking you.

On the homepage, games you have downloaded will have a blue circle around the go button to show that you are in progress on those games.

When you click in and scroll to the bottom, you’ll see how the app is tracking your progress:

Important: If you don’t see a checkmark next to download the game, it means the app is not tracking your progress. Don’t start playing the games until you know it’s tracking so you aren’t wasting your time.

How Much Can You Make With Testerup?

Most game offers on Testerup range from $30-$120. Some are as high as $227!

For example, here are some of the offers in my Testerup app at press time:

$132 for Match Masters
$95 for Merge Dragons
$77 for Dice Dreams
$63 for Klondike Adventures
$227(!) for Raid: Shadow Legends
$28 for Candy Crush Saga
$75 for Travel Town
$30 for Monopoly Go

However, to earn the full reward that’s advertised, you often need to complete literally thousands of levels in the game. At that point, you’re well past the “testing” phase and into the full-on addiction phase 🙂

Thankfully, these rewards are tiered, meaning if you find a game you really love, you can earn more by playing it a lot. Similarly, if you think it sucks, you can usually still get a small amount just for trying.

If that’s not something you’d otherwise be doing in your spare time, there are better ways to make extra money. 

Before starting any offer, read a little more about the game to see if it’s something you’d like playing. For example, I enjoy “match 3” type games so might focus my energy on those, even if the payout is lower than other options.

Redeeming Your Rewards

As you complete milestones, you’ll receive rewards for each one. These show up on the progress dashboard, as well as in an email.

Testerup only pays through PayPal, and you can only request a payout once your account balance reaches $70.

This is a bit disappointing that they only have one way to get paid, and have a fairly high minimum threshold compared to other companies.

The also limit how much get paid per transaction, which means you can only get paid a maximum of $250 each time.

My Experience With Testerup

The easiest thing with Testerup is signing up. After that, it proves difficult to actually make money.

You have to spend quite a bit of time playing the games to hit the milestones, which severely limits how much you’re actually making per hour.

The only way this would make sense is if you’re already a fan of playing new mobile games. In that case, it’s a no-brainer to check Testerup to see if there’s an incentive for testing it out.

Another issue is that many games have a requirement to make in-app purchases as a milestone, so you have to spend money to reach all the milestones and rewards.

I mean, if you were going to buy the in-app purchase anyway, you might as well get some cash back for it. But trading $16 for $5 will never be a profitable venture.

The high minimum threshold and limited payment options make it hard to redeem your rewards as well.

How Does Testerup Make Money?

Whenever an app or service is giving you money, it’s always worthwhile to ask “why”? In this case, game app developers are hungry for new users and pay Testerup to send them new players.

In turn, Testerup turns around and shares some of that income with you.

The more time a player spends in the game, the more valuable they are to the game developer. That’s why you see increasing payouts for reaching higher levels within the games. 

Game-Testing Alternatives to Testerup

Thankfully there are better options if you want to earn money by testing games. However, most are only available for Android. Let’s take a look.

1. KashKick

KashKick is a newer app that pays you to answer surveys, test new games (up to $150 each!), and redeem money-saving offers.

With the slogan “get paid to have fun,” KashKick is rated 4.2-stars in the Google Play store.

2. Rewarded Play (Android)

With over 180,000 reviews and a 4.4-star rating in the Google Play store, Rewarded Play is another free, legit, and fun, “get paid to play” app.

Rewarded Play is your one-stop app for casual games like:

Solitaire
Mahjong
Wheel of Fortune
Yahtzee
and more

As you play, choose your rewards and get your gift cards within 48 hours.

3. Cash Giraffe (Android)

If you love discovering and playing new games, why not get paid for it? Cash Giraffe connects you with new games that are trying to attract more players.

The app tracks the time you spend playing and rewards you for hitting certain milestones.

As you earn more Cash Giraffe tickets, you can cash out for gift cards or deposit directly into your PayPal account.

While Cash Giraffe is relatively new, it’s earned positive feedback so far. With over 5M downloads, its rated 4.3-stars on the Google Play Store.

4. Mistplay (Android)

Mistplay is a popular app (10+ million downloads!) that rewards you for discovering and playing new games on your phone.

The more you play, the more “units” you earn. Then you can cash in those units for gift cards to your favorite stores.

As far as Mistplay strategy, check out the games with 3x or 4x unit multipliers to earn gift cards faster.

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When school teacher Claire McCann turned a $65 used table set into $300, she discovered a profitable new side hustle.

Intrigued by the potential to multiply her money by flipping furniture, Claire set out to hone her skills and scale the venture up.

Just 15 months later, Claire has earned over $35,000 in profits from furniture flipping using Facebook Marketplace and other digital platforms.

Now she spreads her hard-won knowledge so others can succeed too through her The Furniture Flip brand.

Tune in to Episode 592 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:

Where to source profitable secondhand furniture pieces online for low buy prices
Strategies to customize your outreach messages and listings so your deals stand out
Which furniture styles and brands yield top resale prices?
The economics behind leveraging movers and staging help to scale
Best practices to avoid prevalent marketplace scams and fraudsters

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The Best Places to Source Profitable Furniture

Claire has had the most luck finding underpriced gems on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and the neighborhood site Nextdoor. Her favorite brands to flip include:

West Elm
CB2
Room and Board
Target
World Market

She keeps an eye out for mid-century modern, modern, and farmhouse styles, which are currently very on-trend. Specific pieces that sell well for Claire are the West Elm acorn wood bookcase and nightstands.

West Elm Mid-Century Bookshelf
Mid-Century Closed Nightstand

Her strategy is trying to purchase inventory for 50% or below retail value. For example, if she sees that a bookcase is listed new on the West Elm site for $799, she wants to buy it for $399 or less to maximize her profit spread.

Standing Out on Busy Marketplaces

With so many people selling furniture online, Claire customizes her initial outreach message so she stands out from the 50 other people asking “Is this available?” She’ll say something like, “Hi, this looks great! Is it still for sale?”

And she is not afraid to follow up multiple times, which bumps her message back to the top of the seller’s inbox.

As her side hustle took off, friends and family started asking Claire how she was able to find and flip furniture so consistently. Never one to shy away from sharing, she began posting her furniture flips on Instagram and TikTok to educate her growing audience.

Follow her on social media as she reveals sourcing tips, staging tricks, and even the occasional furniture flop. One of her TikTok posts highlighting a lucrative West Elm console flip now has over 700k+ views!

@thefurnitureflip

Current Profit: $21,900 in 9 Months! #thrift #reseller #midcenturymodern #secondhand #furniture #money #facebookmarketplace #furnitureflip #upcycling #fyp

♬ Dog Days Are Over – Florence + The Machine

So the next time you see someone trying to unload quality furniture for cheap online, take a cue from Claire and flip it to turn quick cash from your spare time.

Streamlining with Batch Processing

With her garage storage and movers in place, Claire batch processes incoming inventory for maximum efficiency. As soon as a new piece arrives, she stages and photographs it, then stores it in the back until sold.

This assembly line approach keeps things moving quickly. Claire allocates a window for her side hustle too—from 4:15pm to 4:45pm after her teaching job ends. It’s a whirlwind of activity but keeps her more organized.

Marketing Tricks to Sell Furniture Faster

To gain more local eyeballs on her furniture listings, Claire joins Buy & Sell groups relevant to her area. She’ll join 20 or more hyperlocal groups on Facebook, in addition to broader sites like Craigslist.

With so many competitors also selling furniture online, marketing is crucial. Claire builds customer trust right away in her listings by calling out dimensions, materials, and linking back to the original product page so buyers can independently verify her details.

She essentially adds a little “trust tax” by reminding shoppers about sales tax and shipping costs they would pay buying firsthand.

Claire suggests using additional keywords as a photo watermark, almost like Instagram hashtags about style, color, or room to catch more search traffic.

Moving Help for Heavy Lifting

As her inventory grew, Claire needed reliable and affordable moving help for heavy pieces. She loves Lugg, an on-demand moving service similar to Uber or Lyft.

After entering the details on what needs to be moved, you can watch as they accept the job and track the mover coming your way. Costs range from $50 to $75 per piece, and they offer various truck sizes.

For multiple stops, Claire recommends checking out TaskRabbit.

Staying Organized in a Growing Business

As any solopreneur knows, orderliness is next to profitability when scaling a business. Claire renting that garage was just the start.

Her inventory storage and delivery logistics now include:

Rented garage to store, stage, and photograph pieces
Building relationships with reliable movers
Renting functional space – not wasting money on more than needed

Sadly, with so many online buyers and remote transactions these days, scams abound even on reputable platforms. Claire cautions that over 60% of incoming messages are fraudulent, especially anyone asking to continue the conversation via text off the marketplace platform.

Red flags for potential scams include:

horrible grammar
repeatedly addressing you as “Dear,”
limited profile history — often created very recently
anyone asking for money upfront
people asking for your phone number

Trust your gut, and don’t be afraid to block suspicious contacts. For local buyers, insist on in-person payment and pickup. 

Multiple Income Streams to Diversify

Claire estimates that about 50% of her social media content shows the full life cycle of a flip: finding the item, listing it for sale, and revealing the final profit numbers.

This glimpse behind the scenes builds trust and authority.

Her audience also responds well to more vulnerable “real talk” about the struggles of running this business out of her apartment. Stories of staging fails, occasional losses, and lessons learned connect on a personal level.

And aspiring furniture flip followers love her quick tips explaining how to spot marketplace scams. This free educational content prepares the audience for when they eventually avail themselves of her consultation down the road.

Digital courses are on Claire’s roadmap once she codifies her specific furniture-flipping framework, but she already monetizes her audience a couple different ways:

Free downloadable guides in exchange for email signup

Furniture Staging Checklist for Resellers
Top 20 Furniture Brands to Resell on FB Marketplace
The 7 Secrets to Furniture Reselling

Paid digital downloads
One-on-one consulting calls

These income streams allow Claire to hedge her reliance on the main furniture flipping business while leveraging her expertise.

A Day in Her Life

Claire is a teacher by day, before racing to her rented garage workspace. That’s when business explodes for a solid flurry of back-to-back decisions:

Scan incoming seller messages across various platforms
Respond to buyer inquiries and coordinate final details
Price newly acquired inventory for online listings
Photograph new arrivals while staging space allows
Meet scheduled movers dropping off latest finds
Help load pieces purchased by buyers

It’s an exhilarating routine, but exhausting. However, this drive ultimately enabled Claire to turn her $65 curiosity into over $35,000 profit so far…and she’s just getting started.

Learning Through Mistakes

While Claire makes furniture flipping look easy, she’s certainly made her share of mistakes along the way.

One expensive learning experience happened when she paid over $100 to have a used chair and carpet set professionally cleaned. Despite the sparkling makeover, the set attracted no buyers.

After eating that loss and learning larger upholstered pieces are harder to sell, Claire now follows the under 5-minute cleaning rule. If a piece can’t be quickly cleaned up herself, it’s not worth buying.

Early on, Claire also struggled to discern her own style from the latest trends. She admits to getting stuck a few times with purchases that seemed so stylish in the store, but gathered dust once listed online.

Trial and error is crucial, however, as Claire needed to find what furniture shapes, colors and brands resonate in her local market. She ate the losses from her design misfires in the name of research.

Now with tighter sourcing parameters in place and thousands of followers providing feedback, Claire rarely gets burdened with stale inventory.

What’s Next for Claire?

So now that business is humming along, what has Claire most excited these days?

For 2024, she plans to expand operations by renting a second garage. This will allow her to increase inventory and profit potential. Eventually, she may even need to hire a part-time property manager to wrangle 10+ hours of administrative tasks each week.

And Claire has aspirations to spread her wings beyond northern California one day soon. She and her partner may temporarily relocate to Europe in the coming year, transporting her entire furniture flipping enterprise overseas!

Follow along on social media to see if Claire takes her hustle global. Wherever she lands geographically, expect big things from this small business owner helping educate and enrich others along the way.

Key Takeaways

If Claire’s explosive furniture-fueled success story inspires you, here are some key takeaways as you launch your own side hustle:

Put on your marketing hat – Stand out on busy selling platforms with customized outreach templates, relentless but polite follow-ups, and attention-grabbing listings.

Mind your margins – Billionaire investor Warren Buffet famously advised that you make your money on the buy side. Be disciplined in your product sourcing, negotiate better bulk deals, and don’t overpay just because something is trendy.

Gather your “board of trustees” – Even solo entrepreneurs need their team. Build your personal mastermind group of trusting friends, family or colleagues to bounce ideas off and provide emotional support during the inevitable entrepreneurial rollercoaster ride.

And above all, now is the time to start – today. Identify that first profitable flip find waiting to be unearthed, set up your seller accounts, and change your family’s financial future for the better.

To learn more furniture flipping fundamentals from Claire, check out her website TheFurnitureFlip.online or find her social channels.

Episode Links

The Furniture Flip
Facebook Marketplace
Craigslist
Nextdoor
West Elm
CB2
Room and Board
Target
World Market
Lugg
TaskRabbit
Furniture Staging Checklist for Resellers
Top 20 Furniture Brands to Resell on FB Marketplace
The 7 Secrets to Furniture Reselling

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