TimeBucks Review 2020
I’ve known TimeBucks since 2017 and 3 videos that I’ve created about it have already gathered more than 40,000 views in total as of I’m writing this.
Recently, I created an updated TimeBucks review for you where I give you the most up-to-date information regarding this website and I show you can make money by:
- Clicking Ads
- Answering Questions
- Accomplishing Mini Tasks
- Etc.
Click below to see my video right now and feel free to ask me if you have any questions. I’ll be more than happy to help you to make money online.
TimeBucks Review from 2018
In order to provide you with most up-to-date information, I have just created an updated TimeBucks video review that you will find below.
I am not affiliated with TimeBucks in any way so you will get a completely unbiased opinion. There are still much better ways to earn money online than TimeBucks.
Read my make money online guide to learn how to make more money than you could just dream of on TimeBucks.
Is TimeBucks Legit or a scam? How much money can you earn? What are exact dollar amounts?
You will find answers to all of these questions in my TimeBucks Review. I will show you exact dollar amounts and your earning potential on this service. I will also explain whether it’s worth your time or not. I know more than 300 make money online opportunities so I guess I can share a few helpful ideas for you.
TimeBucks Review
Name: TimeBucks
Founded: 2014
Type: Get Paid for Completing Tasks
Short Review: TimeBucks is a legitimate site that pays in cash for completing mini tasks. However, the earning potential is extremely low. Most of their offers pay less than $1 per hour and even the best ones don’t pay much more. I recommend that you don’t waste your time on their website.
If you are interested in earning better money online, I have several good recommendations. My #1 Recommendation for making money online is Wealthy Affiliate because it’s beginner-friendly but also suitable for people who want to earn big money online ($10,000/month). In addition, they offer a free training unlike many other websites and I give you my 1-on-1 support which is not available anywhere else.
What Is TimeBucks?
TimeBucks is a typical get-paid-to site where you earn money by completing simple tasks like
- Watch videos
- Fill out surveys
- Receive and read emails
- Take pictures
- View content
- And so on
If you have some experience of similar websites, you probably know that this kind of websites don’t pay enough that it would be worth the time and effort. Anyway, let’s have a look at ways of earning money through these tasks and I’ll show you the exact earning potential.
I recorded a video where I give you a quick look inside TimeBucks member’s area. I created a new account so you can see how all looks like for a new member in TimeBucks.
How to Make Money with TimeBucks?
In the picture below you can see the view on TimeBucks website. You can see in the second bar (View Content, Surveys, etc.) what kind of offers they have. Let’s go quickly through them one by one. There are 10 different ways in total.
1.View Content
In this section, you go through different kind of websites, slideshows, and other content. You need to complete the captcha and scroll the content. Your earnings are usually $0,001 per offer. In the picture above you can see that there are 40 this kind of offers available.
If you go through them all, you earn $0,04 = 4 cents. It will take at least 10 minutes to earn 4 cents. Not worth it. Let’s see if the next one is better.
2.Surveys
You have probably read some of my posts where I clearly show why online surveys are not worth it. Is the case different with TimeBucks? Not really.
At least surveys are a little bit better than the first one “View Content” but the earning potential is still maximum $0,50 for a 15-minute survey. In addition, there aren’t many that kind of surveys available. You can earn $2-3 per hour during the best times but usually, real earnings are less than $1 per hour.
3.Watch Videos
The picture below shows the highest paying offer for watching videos. The payout is $0,02.
In order to earn money by watching videos, you need to watch the entire video & subscribe to receive your credit. Videos don’t last for very long but at least for some minutes. Videos pay between $0,001 and $0,02 per video. You could earn $0,081 for watching 11 videos and subscribing to those channels.
It would approximately take 15-20 minutes. 8 cents for 15 minutes doesn’t sound like a good deal either. Next.
4.Take Photos
You must verify your account in order to earn money by taking pictures. Take a picture of your before/after beard growing process and earn a little reward. Nothing big here either.
5.Refer Your Friends
As you already may know, the only considerable way of earning money with get-paid-to sites is through referrals. When somebody signs up through your link and starts using the service, you’ll get a little commission/bonus from all of their earnings.
In TimeBucks you can also buy referrals for $0,15 each. Is it profitable? Well, it may be but I don’t do it. I don’t want that people waste their life doing useless tasks on TimeBucks. That’s why I don’t even share my referral link on this post even though it would make me some money.
I hope that all my readers would find better ways to earn money online. My top recommendation is Wealthy Affiliate but there are also many other great alternatives. Just leave a comment below and I’ll help you out to earn good money online.
6.Raffle
You can buy raffle tickets with a hope of earning a little bit more money than your ticket paid. We all know that the house wins always in the long run in raffles and the player (you and me) are losers. That’s why it’s nonsense to even think about raffles. Odds are against us.
7.Other Offers
Other offers are one of the most profitable parts of TimeBucks. You can earn money by signing up to different websites or buying some stuff online. However, the problem is that some of them require that you use the money. So instead of earning you may be spending money.
In addition, it can be a bit tricky to get that money afterward. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes not. The hassle is not worth a few dollars, in my opinion.
8.Offerwalls
On Offerwalls you’ll see offers from TimeBucks partners. They pay you for answering surveys, downloading mobile apps and completing other tasks. Have a look at the picture below.
In the picture, you can also see a few examples of your earning potential. The most profitable offer pays 20 cents for 5-30 minutes of work. The second one pays 13 cents for 5-30 minutes. Let’s say that the average is 15 minutes. 20 cents for spending 15 minutes doesn’t sound very interesting. That’s less than $1 per hour.
9.Emails
Also, other websites like EmailCashPro pay for reading emails. The earning potential is $0,01-0,02 for reading an email and completing the task.
Let’s say that you need to read 75 emails to earn $1 dollar. Each email takes at least 1 minute so in total it would be 75 minutes. $1 per every 75 minutes doesn’t sound like a deal that I would accept.
10.Once Off
In this section, you can earn money by completing these one-time tasks like:
- Like TimeBucks on Facebook
- Subscribe to their YouTube channel
- Create a promotional video of TimeBucks and publish it on YouTube
- Install TimeBucks Chrome extension
- And so on.
The most profitable of these options is to create a promotional video of TimeBucks. They pay $3 for doing that. I am planning to make a video of TimeBucks but I’m not gonna raise that $3 because I can’t don’t want to promote this kind of service. I prefer recommending more profitable services for you.
Conclusion – Is TimeBucks Worth It?
No, it’s not. As we saw the earning potential is so low that it’s just way better to concentrate on more profitable opportunities. I’m glad you landed on my review so you don’t need to waste your time on TimeBucks.
By the way, if you ever have any concerns about a service or website, you can feel free to contact me or leave a comment below by asking about that service. Then I’ll take a look at it and possibly write a post if it’s interesting in making money online niche.
If you haven’t yet found a way to make a living online, I recommend taking a look at the free training in Wealthy Affiliate. It will explain step-by-step how you can earn good money on the Internet and build a full-time business. I also offer my 1-on-1 support and mentoring if there’s anything you need.
What kind of ways do you like to earn money online?
Have you done affiliate marketing, freelancing or something else?
Let me know in the comments below! 🙂
It’s always great to hear experiences from you! That’s why I promise to reply all your comments and questions personally.
I tried Wealthy Affiliate and moved away. I think it is too hyped. It is an excellent platform for those in the MMO niche who make money by promoting Wealth Affiliate, but it has no big advantage over other hosts for a blogger outside the MMO niche.
Thanks for your comment Kenkan but I dare to disagree. There are a lot of people outside the MMO niche as well.
There are a lot of people inside Wealthy Affiliate who make +$100,000/year and even +$1,000,000/year without promoting Wealthy Affiliate at all.
Wealthy Affiliate is not even my main income source because their training helped me also to make money by promoting other things online.
I don’t recommend time bucks either. I signed up as a member in November and still couldn’t make more than two bucks. I wouldn’t be qualified for surveys and I most certainly will not be watching videos it’s useless. They got it set up to where they are making all the money and members get the crumbs. You don’t even make one cent on most of their tasks. The pay will be 0.0001 not worth it at all that’s a fraction of a penny.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences Pamela!
Total scam, keep away
I’m sorry to hear that you had bad experiences with Timebucks!
Have you already downloaded my Ultimate Make Money Online Guide to learn a more reliable & profitable way to earn money?
hello, whealty affiliate is all about building a site and getting affiliates, right? well, here’s the problem. Lets say I am trying to set up my own blog. Being blind, I have what to write about, and I have ideas. but in the beginning what we get with WA? can it give us 3$ to start with bluehost? or they have better options and free hosting/domain sites? the thing is, when people don’t support you, you need to start from somewhere. what site you recommend in this situation, if I want 5$ per week to support paying for bluehost? worldwide if possible. Thanks!
Hello,
Wealthy Affiliate teaches you to build a website and get tons of traffic to your site, right. They also teach how you can earn money with affiliate marketing. You can promote whatever products you want online. Many people do money by promoting products on Amazon, for example.
Domain hosting is included in the Wealthy Affiliate membership. In the other words, you don’t need Bluehost when you have the Wealthy Affiliate membership. With free account it covers hosting for free sub domains like xxxx.siterubix.com. The premium membership covers hosting to all of your websites (up to 50).
Take a look at my other recommended online jobs here if you want to earn some money online fast.
Nice review.
What other possible ways can someone earn online?
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This is my #1 recommendation.
Please sir
Tell me about how to redeem money from timebucks after 10 $ . Can you tell me steps how to redeem money
I recommend contacting their support if you have problems with redeeming money. Also somebody who watched my YouTube video about TimeBucks had similar problems (in comments).
I just recommend staying away from low paying sites like this.
You would earn 100 times more on Wealthy Affiliate so why would you waste your time afterwards on sites like Timebucks? 🙂
I don’t think Time Bucks is worth it either. I mean a site that pays just a dollar per hour for watching videos and completing other mini tasks is not one that I would be spending my time to join. They should try to understand that people value their time and wasting it for a mere returns is not really a good idea in my opinion.
Hi Henry,
I hope other people would value their time also like you do. These companies pay so little because they know that there are always some people who don’t value their time and use it for their websites to earn $1-2 per hour.
Anyway, I hope YourOnlineRevenue.com and my articles will help people to find better options for earning money online 🙂
I agree with you on this. The earning potential is so low I’d rather focus my attention on a better and more profitable platform. What beats my imagination is that as we read and comment on this review, hundreds and and hundreds of people out there are registering with sights like this on an hourly basis.
I guess people don’t seem to care or probably enjoy to just simply waste their time. Am glad that I got to see this review and not making the mistake of signing up.
Yeah, I can’t imagine how people sometimes don’t think ahead. They just use these websites even thought they know the low earning potential. They don’t probably think about the big picture there.
Why would anyone watch useless videos and earn $1 per hour while he could be doing something meaningful for him and for other people and earn $50 per hour at the same time?
Clixsense is one of the best one to make simply extra money, give it a try. Bye ^_^
Hi Max,
I have actually written a review of ClixSense. You can have a look at it here.
You are right that it’s a simple way to some extra money. However, the rewards are so small that I don’t recommend it for you or other people. There are way better options for earning money online. You would earn 100 times more on Wealthy Affiliate, for example.
Well, it’s not actually worth it, because the pay is low, but it still can solve some things for some people. When people see a way to make money online, they always think it’s going to make them rich. TimeBucks is just an extra income site. If you use the site regularly, you can expect to make an extra $10-$20 a month.
And if you can refer a lot of people, you can make some large income. With that being said, I don’t think it’s the best option out there to make money online.
That’s exactly right.
On the other hand, it’s completely possible to become rich while doing other, more profitable online jobs like affiliate marketing. The potential is huge and only even the sky isn’t a limit there.
Actually, all people that I know who started affiliate marketing are making at least a full-time income if they didn’t give up. That’s why I can honestly recommend it to my friends, family members and for everybody who reads my website.
Are these tasks really worth your time? Can you really make a decent income out of it?
The answer is NO!
This opportunity is not worth your time. Yes, you could earn some cash but that’s about it. The keyword here is “some”.
How much? Not exactly sure but definitely less than what you imagine earning from this website.
I have taken part in other GPT sites in the past and from my experience, I can tell you that there is really not much money to be made here. It took me about 2 to 3 months to earn around $20. After I cash out that money, I didn’t bother to spend any more time on those. Because for me, I could be doing better things with that time which could earn me more money than just pennies.
Although in their homepage it says, you get paid real cash for taking selfies, growing a beard, watching videos and etc… what they failed to tell you is how much you will get paid. Real cash could also mean a $0.001 or $0.10 so don’t be too happy just yet!
Hi Bryan,
that’s exactly right. Websites like TimeBucks just offer so minimal value for the invested time that it’s not worth using. Wealthy Affiliate pays much more.
Yea they seem to be like some other low paying websites,a few of which I have tried. Heck I would rather use a couple of phone apps, some aren’t too bad.
Hi Tess,
I don’t recommend using some phone apps to earn money. The earning potential is so low that there are tons of easier and more profitable ways to earn money online. I always say that why would you spend your time on earning $1 while doing meaningless task while you can earn $100 when you are doing a meaningful task.
I agree with you on TimeBucks. That website is not worth taking your precious time.
You get so little money by doing those “ways to earn cash”.
Also, i don’t like the fact that it has so many earning opportunities.T his may sound weird, but what i mean is that this website seems like a mess having so many ways.
I won’t use it in the future and thanks for the article!
Hi Alex,
that’s an interesting point about several earning options. Usually, people like that they have many possibilities to earn. But you are are right that these 10 ways to earn money pay so little money but it’s not worth it.
Let’s stick to more profitable and more interesting opportunities like Wealthy Affiliate.
There are many types of tasks there but one thing describes them all – they don’t pay well! The ratio of time invested in solving the tasks to the pay is frankly horrible. I am surprised some people use this site because after reading your review I am sure I don’t want to waste my time on it.
Hi Felabruno,
yeah, there are at least 10 different ways to earn money on TimeBucks but the earning potential is very low in all of them. I think some people use this kind of sites just because they don’t know about better ways to earn money online.
Timebucks seem to be a GPT site. I have tried numerous GPT site in the past, and now I have stopped doing GPT sites. There is so little money for a work that takes a lot of time to complete a task.
You have to view an ad for 30 seconds to earn 1 cent, how many ads do you need to see in order to reach cash out, perhaps, over 1000. Surveys can give you good earnings, however, because of my location, surveys are not available to me. watching videos to make money can be fun, however, it is also underpaying task.
Yeah, earning potential by watching ads is close to zero. In my opinion, online surveys don’t pay very much either. I have tried more than 70 online survey sites and none of them pays so much that I would use them. There are tons of more profitable ways to earn money online.
How can one verify if earning online is legit or not?
Hi Ching,
have a look at these 5 tips. They’ll help you to verify whether some service is legit or a scam.
I just finished reading your post on Time Bucks. It told me what I had already suspected, that the payout for doing any of the job offers is so low, that unless you are doing it because you would do it for free anyway, don’t bother.
I have dabbled in online revenue and maybe “dabbled” is even an exaggeration when I think of what I have earned doing it. I have made enough to buy myself something online with money deposited into my PayPal account, but in reality, the stuff I was doing was more for the pleasure of doing it than income.
There was one offer I got from a forum owner and that was to become a paid contributor writing a sexual health column. It actually didn’t pay bad for online writing but with my regular job I found that the need to commit to writing several articles a week was too time consuming and it was taking all the fun out of writing, so I gave it up after writing five articles.
The only other thing I’ve ever done was monetize my blog and that actually started to get going (last I know of I had about $30 in ad revenue from AdWords) but I pulled down three quarters of the blog and haven’t followed up with it because a very nosy and unkind niece pirated my files and complained to my elderly mother that my blog made mention of members of my family.
It became such a sore point that despite the fact that the blog was actually about my relationship with a much younger man, I pulled any posts that were in the least personal and stopped writing it altogether. It’s a shame because I actually enjoyed doing it.
Since then I have looked around for online work that won’t eat up too much time and doesn’t require a person to already have an online following or people for whom I’ve written articles or posts, but I haven’t found anything that looks like it would be easy for a newbie to break into. I am going to continue to read your posts and see what affiliate marketing is about. Who knows, maybe its something that will work for me.
Hi LeJay,
thank you very much for sharing your experiences while earning money online. It’s always interesting to hear other people’s experiences.
I am sure that you would succeed very well with affiliate marketing. You have already some experience of earning money online so you are ahead of many people who have 0 experience.
Wealthy Affiliate step-by-step training is definitely newbie friendly and it’ll help you to earn a living online. I see as a great advantage that you’ve done blogging in the past.
I’m not using Google AdWords at the moment because I earn much more from affiliate marketing. However, I am planning to try Google Ads on this site every now and then to see how well they work.
Let me know if you need any help to get started with Wealthy Affiliate. When you sign up through my website I offer you my 1-on-1 mentoring and you can ask privately any questions you want. I think this might be an opportunity you’ve been looking for.
-Roope
I have joined sites similar to this one before, and I agree that they really aren’t that much worth the time unless you plan on just focusing mostly on the referrals, but even then you really can’t be assured of getting better income since referrals don’t always remain active, especially when they are also thinking the same thing which is that the payment for the tasks aren’t worth it.
I guess it’s okay for those looking to just watch videos and answer surveys and kill time that way, then just get paid a few cents or dollars as bonus, but for anyone looking to make a more fair amount, this really isn’t the type of site to join, it seems.
You are right Fantasia. It’s possible to earn money through referrals but it’s not a guaranteed success either. Many people tend to leave TimeBucks as soon as they realize that they won’t really earn good money.
I remember once watching a video with a title, “Why most people die before age 25?” The guy was talking how people internally die when they become comfortable with mediocrity. I think people who use websites like TimeBucks are dying inside. 😉
Hi Roope,
That was a great article and proves to me why investing time in surveys is a waste of your life. There are much better opportunities out there. Even posting ebooks in Kindle Unlimited and earning approximately 0.004 per page read would work out a lot more profitable in the long run.
TimeBucks is definitely one to be avoided. Many thanks.
Hi Neil,
I have never heard of earning through Kindle Unlimited for every read page. The earning potential sounds quite small to my ear. Do you know would it be worth the time?
I wasn’t aware of earning through Kindle Unlimited either so I did a quick google search to see what it was about and to see whether or not it was worth trying out. So it seems that Amazon sets aside an amount at the end of each month that they will use to pay the authors that have published exclusively on Amazon.
And they then pay you a fraction of that total amount set aside based on the pages of your book that have been read. Apparently, it is something like $0.00488 per page which is extremely small but decent if your book is extremely popular.
Hi Kingcool,
thank you for the info. I think writing books, in general, would be very interesting. There’s a huge potential of earning passive income and it gives you more AUTHORity if you have written a few books. Some of my friends wrote books to Amazon but they said that if you want to earn good income, you need most likely to write several books.
I can’t remember if I’ve registered on that site to try it out or not. But when I saw that they had OfferWalls I just knew I would be staying away from it. I hate them. I don’t know how many offers through similar things where a third party service checks if you have done a particular task.
And I don’t think I have ever received the points they have promised on any site. It does seem that the earning opportunities are extremely low especially considering how low the rewards are. Probably best to stay away from it.
Yes, better to stay away from it. I went through all 10 earning opportunities on TimeBucks but realized how low earning potential is on all of them. It’s just better to use more profitable ways to earn money online.