A popular way to earn some extra money is by doing Figure Eight tasks that are now officially called Appen tasks (previously known as CrowdFlower tasks) as an extra way to make money.
It can be a great way to make some extra money, but you need to do it with the right expectations.
I have tested MANY survey and Get-Paid-To sites, and in this article, I will share some important info about the best sites to do Figure Eight/CrowdFlower tasks, as I get a lot of questions about this.
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Appen Tasks important update!
Appen / Figure Eight task used to be offered through different platforms.
However, Appen has decided to no longer make its tasks available through several different platforms. You can now only do the tasks through the Appen platform itself. It has also undergone many name changes (Appen Tasks, Appen Crowd, and Appen Connect), but it is now called CrowdGen.
The earning opportunity it offers has also somewhat changed, which significantly reduces the earning potential for these tasks, but that is just how it is.
The sites on the list below still have good earning opportunities as they offer other tasks, but you can no longer take Appen/CrowdGen tasks through them.
I still have the list there, as I often get questions about this and am asked about alternatives to Appen Tasks/CrowdGen.
What are Appen/Figure Eight/CrowdFlower tasks?
Let's start with going into the basics of what they are about, in case you do not already know it.
If you are already an experienced Appen/Figure Eight/CrowdFlower user, you can just scroll to the list of the best sites below:-)
Let us first start with clarifying the name, as this can be a bit confusing. The official name is now Appen tasks. The platform, however, started with the name CrowdFlower, and many people still call these tasks CrowdFlower tasks.
But then it changed its name to Figure Eight, and slowly, it started being known by this name. And then it once again changed its name and branding – this time to Appen.
But whether you hear about Appen tasks, Figure Eight tasks, or CrowdFlower, it is the same platform, but the official name is now Appen.
The company was founded in 2007 under the name CrowdFlower. In 2018, it changed its name to Figure Eight, and then in 2020, it changed the name once again to Appen. It is a company that offers you to do simple online tasks that you can do whenever it fits into your schedule.
Examples of tasks that I have done are to record Google auto-suggest terms, categorize product names, and find company information. Before doing any tasks, there will be a description so you will know exactly what to do.
As mentioned above, you used to have to be a member of a portal that was connected to Figure Eight to be able to do the tasks. However, now the tasks are only available through the Appen platform itself.
It was through survey sites I first heard about Figure Eight (at that time, I, however, heard of it as CrowdFlower), and I used to use it regularly as a way to increase my earnings. However, after the tasks stopped being available on platforms other than Appen, I have not used them much, to be honest. I prefer doing tasks on the platforms on the list below instead.
Who can get paid for Appen/Figure Eight tasks?
One of the really great things about Appen is that it is not restricted to certain parts of the world.
Everyone can take these tasks. Many of the tasks will be available to all, no matter the location, but there can also be tasks that are only available in certain countries.
Just remember that you are not allowed to use a VPN for these tasks or any other software that tries to hide the location of your computer. You can get banned for doing this, and many survey sites will also detect if you use a service like this and either give you a warning or ban you without warning.
You can read more about the tasks in my full Appen review and tutorial here.
How much money can you make?
It is really difficult to say exactly how much you can make on Appen/Figure Eight tasks. It depends on your effort. In general, you should, however, not expect to be able to make a living from it.
To get the best chances to earn the most money, there are a few things that are important to know. First of all, it can make a difference what platform you take the tasks through, as some of them offer nice bonuses, but I will get more into this below.
Secondly, be sure to do the tasks properly and be patient in the beginning. When you do tasks properly, and as you do more, you will start building trust, and your level will increase. This can have a big impact on your earning possibilities.
In the beginning, you will most likely only get a few and very low-paying jobs. But if you do these properly, your rank will quickly start moving up, and you will get more jobs and higher-paying jobs.
In time, you can become what is called a skilled contributor. This will give you a lot more tasks, more complicated tasks, more responsibility, and more money.
So if you want to make money on Figure Eight tasks, be patient in the beginning and do what needs to be done to get a higher rank, and then your possibilities will increase. And find a good portal to take the tasks through as well to get the most benefits.
6 best alternatives to Appen/Figure Eight tasks
As mentioned, you used to be able to do these tasks through many different platforms. Now you can only take them through Appen.
Personally, I now prefer mainly using other ways to earn on other platforms, as I find them more user-friendly.
The 6 platforms below are, in my opinion, the best alternatives.
Thank you so much for this review. I have been looking for other ways to make a little bit of extra money on the side. I have done a few surveys in the past. But they always had this unreachable minimum amount of surveys that you had to do or minimum amount of money that you had to accumulate before they would cut you a check. Which I believe totally defeats the purpose if you’re online doing surveys and you’re really pressed for money. So none of those of work for me but this when kind of sounds a bit promising. I don’t know if I’ll have time to put into it like I need to as I am a new affiliate marketer so most of my time goes into building my business online but thank you so much for this information. I will be a return reader. And I will be looking forward to reading more from you in the future.
Thanks for your comment and feedback Michelle.
There are some survey sites that has a high payout threshold and where it will take a looong time to reach it. But there are also many where it is not the case. Many of the sites on my top 10 list have a low payout threshold that can be reached very easily because they also have many daily opportunities to earn. So you just need to find the right sites and then it will not be a problem to reach the payment threshold. But there are definitely also survey sites where it is not worth the time or where there are not very many opportunities, and it sounds like these are the sites you have tried in the past.
All the best,
Mikael
This is a very insightful and enjoyable read. I personally did not know about crowdflower until I read this article.
The tasks seem pretty simple and I’m sure I can take advantage of this to make some extra cash on the side. I will also share this article with friends of mine. Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback Johel. Glad to hear you enjoyed the info.
All the best,
Mikael
Hi
As a previous user of clixsense, I agree with you about this site as it was the site I have got paid from. Honestly I did not try the other sites you mentioned. lI like your site as you simplify this topic. I found some problems on returning to my homeland in Egypt, as they offer less projects and surveys here.
Thanks for your comment and for sharing your experiences Yousef.
There are definitely some countries where it is more difficult to get a good amount of paid surveys, and in general it seems like it is not to easy in African countries. But many of these countries will still have good chances of doing CrowdFlower tasks, so that can be an option, if you do not have access to many surveys.
All the best,
Mikael
this is good, what about neobux? there are crowdflower too, and they have good bonuses…. sorry about my english… it is not my main language…
Thanks for the comment Hugo.
I am mainly focusing on survey sites, and have also therefore in this article focused on sites that offer paid surveys as well as CrowdFlower tasks. I have tested Neobux at some point, but must admit I did not like it too much. I am in general not too crazy about sites that mainly offer paid-to-click ads as a way to earn. But But thank you very much for the suggestion and I might look into Neobux again at some point.
All the best,
Mikael
Hi, I am using neobux from quite some time now for doing crowdflower tasks and for crowdflower tasks they are giving a bonus of 0.18 cents for each 1 dollar earned from doing tasks which I think is quite good. What do you say???
Hi Karan,
Thanks for sharing you experiences. I agree that Neobux has some pretty good bonuses for CrowdFlower tasks. There are however many other things I do not like about the site. For example that it is not very user-friendly, and that it takes quite a bit of investment to earn any real money. That is why Neobux is not on this list, as it is not a site I in general think gives as good opportunities as many other sites.
If you want to know more in details what I find good and not good about Neobux, you can check out my full Neobux review.
Hope this helps, and let me know if you have any other questions.
All the best,
Mikael
What is your opinion of QuickRewards? I did not see it on your top 10 list. Do know they have Crowdflower though a 3rd party called Personaly.
Hi Debbie,
Thanks for your suggestion. It looks like I cannot enter QuickRewards from where I live, as it seems to be only available in a few countries. So I can unfortunately not test it to see for myself how the options are on this site. If you have any experiences with the site yourself, feel free to share them here.
All the best,
Mikael
Hi, great article, thank you.
Have you tried bitfun? It is a bitcoin fausit site that has surveys and also has a crowdflower thing.
I was just wondering if you thought it was a good site to use for crowdflower. Also I’m not sure if I only get paid in sitoshi (bitcoin) or if i also get £s, any idea?
Hi Nilesh,
I do not know bitfun, but I will defintiely check it out soon. But at the moment, I can unfortunately not tell you what I think about it.
All the best,
Mikael
any website where i earn 20 dollars per day and withdraw option is bank wire, webmoney, or payoneer …i need these website which pay me in these option
Hi Muhammad,
Which sites have the best earning opportunities depends a lot on the country you live in. I have made a list of the best survey sites in different countries you can check out.
If you want to make $20 per day, you should however join several sites to have more opportunities. How good your chances are on making this per day again depends a lot on the country you live in.
There are not many sites that offer Payoneer as a payout method yet. But a site that is great and offer this is ClixSense. I hope more of the best sites will soon start offering this method as well.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Mikael
I have joined through one of the above,but each time I attempt the task I don’t get verification code from figure eight. thanks
Hi Daniel,
If it is ClixSense you have joined, I would suggest you to write their support and ask them what to do. They usually get back to you very quickly.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Mikael
Hello, are there any sites like crowdflower/figure eight that people 13 and up can do?
Hi Tony,
I have made a list of survey and get-paid-to sites for teens you can check out. Maybe you find some of these interesting. Some of the sites on the list are available from you are 13. Be aware that most of them do however require your parents’ consent to join, if you are below 18.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Mikael
Hello , am new to figure 8, I learnt I have to have a badge before I can do tasks on it, but all I see are level 0 task and when I do them it doesn’t count on my accuracy, please is there a way to get a badge to start with. Thanks
Hi Henry,
There is not as such a way to get a badge and get to the next level without doing the tasks. If you do the tasks accurately, they should count towards improving your level, when you have done enough. If there is a problem and it does not count at all, I would suggest you to contact the Figure Eight support and see if there might be a bug in the system.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Mikael
It shows a black icon beside the task when I check job history. And that icon says not included in level stats.
Not all tasks will not count towards your level stats and then the black icon will be there, but there should be a lot that also does. Can I ask you which platform you take the tasks through?
Maybe if you try a different kind of tasks? If none of the tasks you are offered counts towards your level stats, I would suggest to contact the Figure Eight support and ask them why – maybe they can give an answer about your specific account.
All the best,
Mikael
it means that you were expelled before with the same job.
Why nobody talks about Elite Figure Eight? Figure Eight was publishing their task themselves and paying people more than other gpt sites like clixsense. Is it still active?
Hi Deniz,
At some point, you had to join another site to be able to take the Figure Eight tasks. I just looked into it, and difficult to see on the site if they at the moment offer you to join directly on the site.
I will definitely look more into it and test if it is possible and what the best way is.
Thanks for letting me know.
Mikael
yes elite.figure-eight is active and they are paying more than any other gpt sites.and the most imp part is that they are paying through paypal and u can request payment till tuesday each week as on each wednesday payment is processed for the entire week and till friday ur payment will be in ur bank account.and i am very happy to tell u that i am getting some good amount of money in my bank each week.
That is great to hear. Thanks for sharing Karanpreet. I will definitely look into this.
Thanks,
Mikael
Hi Mikael. Will I always get email notifications from survey sites whenever there is a new survey?
Hi Kay,
It depends on the survey site. Some send out emails and others do not. So you need to check on the specific site.
Mikael
how will I know if a task is included in the level up stats, because most of the tasks given at clixsense are not included in level up stats. how will I know if a task is included in the level up stats?
The tasks on ClixSense is usually the same tasks as you can find on any other platform that offers Figure Eight tasks. But if you are having problems with it, I would suggest you to contact ClixSense’s support. They are usually very fast at getting back to you and very helpful.
Hope this helps.
Mikael
I’d already submitted a ticket but it’s been a week now and there’s still no reply from them, are all of the tasks for level 0 in clixsense not included in level up stats sir?
I am not a hundred percent sure Jazz so cannot really give you a definite answer. ClixSense’s support usually answers quickly so if you have not heard back after this long, I definitely think you should try writing them again and see if your ticket got lost.
Also, be aware that there is a forum on ClixSense and here there also is a specific category just for tasks. Maybe you can also find some good info here.
Sorry I cannot give a more accurate answer but hope this helps.
Mikael
Thanks bro, I’m still waiting for their reply.
You are welcome Jazz. Hope you hear back soon and if not just try to write them again.
How do I understand which task for level up?
The level will depend on your accuracy. So it is about doing the tasks you take as accurately as possible.
You can also try to contact the support of your chosen platform to take Figure Eight tasks through and ask them if there is anything particularly on their platform you need to be aware if.
Hope this helps.
Mikael
Sir finally i signed in figure eight task i am working more in clicksense but in figure i am not able to understand how to do job in figure eight tasks
On ClixSense they have a section in the FAQ section where there are a lot of explanations about how the tasks work. Try to go over that – it explains all you need to know.
Hope this helps.
Mikael
how do one get tasks and paid how much after how long?
Hi Edward,
You join one of the platforms on the list above. Then you will right away get access to the tasks.
How much you get paid depends on the task. In the beginning, the pay per task will not be very high, but as you take more, you will eventually be able to qualify for higher paying tasks.
Hope this helps.
Mikael
Hello, I’ve been using Neobux as a third-party website to do Figure Eight’s tasks, but now I realized (thanks to this article) that is possible to earn money directly from their website, and payment comes from Paypal, which is highly convenient for me. I did log into Figure Eight’s web, but when I try to do a tasks it says that’s impossible because I’ve been active in another rewards site.
Now I want to work only in the main website and not in Neobux. What can I do?
Hi Jhoanna,
glad my article showed you a different and better way for you.
I would suggest you write the support of Figure Eight and explain them the situation. Hopefully, they will then be able to fix it.
And feel free to keep me updated about how it goes.
Mikael
Hello, i would like to ask if i have to choose a certain site to perfom the tasks metnioned above.? Would it be possible to register at all the sites and perform tasks from all of them?
Yes, you have to choose a specific site to take the Figure Eight tasks on – you cannot take the same tasks on several platforms.
Mikael
Hi Mikael,
Thank you for sharing your great info. I just wanted to ask you if you are signed up with Figure8 at one site, can you still work on Figure8 from other sites you may sign up to work at?
I believe that you can but you can only do each task once so it will not give you more opportunities. It makes more sense to just do them all on one platform and collect your earnings there in my opinion.
Hey,
kindly, i would like to ask you what to do if you have done a certain task and you have not reached on 70% as accuracy!
Regards
If you believe it is an error, you should reach out to the support of the platform you are using. Other than that, there is not much else to do than to try to be even more accurate with future tasks.
Hope this helps.
I am a Nigerian which of this site will you recommend for me to work. I was rejected by Amazon mechanical turk
Hi Dammy,
I have a list of the best sites in Nigeria you can check out here.
hello to everyone this was very interesting platform I read thanks
Glad to hear you enjoyed it. Thanks for the feedback.
Can people from anywhere in the world register for all this platform???
Most of the sites mentioned on this list allow people from all countries.
We are want more Websites which is available in Worldwid.
you can see a list of worldwide sites here.
I am completely lost. I can’t see any projects for Appen. I use ysense and I can do surveys but when I click for Appen tasks/projects it is blank. Please help me. What am I doing wrong?
I would recommend you contact ySense’s support about this. Let me know how it goes.
Hello, the site is not so helpful without figure-eight tasks.
Unfortunately, Appen tasks are now only available through Appen’s own platform. I will update the article above with this info asap.
Je suis un Malagasy(Madagascar), lequel de ce site me recommanderez-vous de travailler. J’ai été rejeté par Amazon mécanique turk
Thanks for sharing your experiences about this.
good day please how do I apply for appen jobs as a Nigerian
I explain everything in the review above. If they do not allow people from your country, there is nothing to do about it and you just have to use other platforms instead.
Well I’m in the USA and I get a message saying tasks are not available in my area. The Appen site is very unuser friendly and difficult to understand
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I agree that it definitely is not the most user-friendly site.
Hello! I just finished signing up to both Appen and ySense. But I can’t find the list of jobs offered by Appen on ySense, I’ve searched everywhere and even completed many surveys for now, but nothing related to Appen offers appears. What am I doing wrong? I apologize, I am completely new and honestly confused. Thank you in advance for your kind answer.
As I explain at the top of the article in the section called “important update”, Appen no longer offers its tasks through other platforms.
Hi
Do you know any website like this that pays in crypto ?
You can see a list of the best micro job sites here. Several of those pay in crypto.