LifePoints Review: Is It Worth Trying?

You might want to try out LifePoints if you enjoy taking surveys and have already maxed out your earnings on its higher-paying competitors.

That said, there are many better ways to earn money than through survey sites. You should consider other popular side hustle ideas if you want a faster way to boost your income.

How much can you realistically earn?

We tested LifePoints for about 3¼ hours. Here’s what we found.

• Hourly rate: $1.95*
• Average time to redeem rewards ($5): About 3¼ hours
• Time to get paid: 4–10 business days
• Poll completion rate: 23%

*Our calculations of the hourly rate and average time to redeem rewards include the signup bonus of approximately 14 cents. Any pending rewards are excluded.

$1.95 per hour isn’t the best rate, but it’s better than some other survey sites we’ve tried.

LifePoints provides estimates of how much you can earn through their site. We investigated their claims and found the following: 1

Our findings matched LifePoints’ claims fairly closely, which was a pleasant surprise (many survey-taking websites significantly exaggerate how much you can earn).

Other pros and cons to consider

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Alternatives to LifePoints

LifePoints isn’t the only game in town. If you’re interested in learning about other platforms that will pay you to take surveys and complete other small tasks, check out our reviews of:

• Branded Surveys
• Forthright
• InboxDollars
• InstaGC
• MyPoints
• Opinion Outpost
• Prime Opinion
• Swagbucks
• Toluna Influencers
• ySense
• Zap Surveys

On LifePoints, you collect points (which are called “LifePoints” or “LPs”) to earn rewards.

How much are points worth on LifePoints?

Briefly, one LP is worth 0.87–0.91 cents.

That said, the LifePoints system for points redemption is a bit tricky. The exact value of a point depends on your redemption method.

If you redeem via gift cards: 110 LPs are equivalent to $1. This means each LP is worth about 0.91 cents.

If you redeem via PayPal or Venmo: The exchange rate is less favorable. You can get $5 in PayPal or Venmo credit for 575 LPs; this means 115 LPs are equivalent to $1, or each LP is worth about 0.87 cents.

How much do you need to earn to get paid?

To redeem your LifePoints, you need at least $5 worth of rewards.

How long does it take to get paid?

LifePoints says that it can take up to 10 days to receive your digital gift card or PayPal cash payment, but that the average PayPal payment takes 5 days. 1

Is there a limit on how much you can earn?

No, there’s no limit to the number of LifePoints surveys you can complete in a day, and consequently no hard limit on what you can earn. 1 We didn’t run out of surveys at any point while we were testing the platform.

Of course, given LifePoints’ relatively low hourly rate, earning more than a few dollars per day on the platform isn’t practical.

You can earn rewards through LifePoints in the following ways:

• Sign up
• Take surveys
• Do quick polls
• Enter prize draws and giveaways

Sign up

When you sign up for LifePoints, you have to provide the following information:

• Name
• Email address
• Date of birth
• Gender
• Address

You also have to create a password. You’ll then get 10 free LPs for signing up (worth about 9 cents).

After this, you have to click on a link that says “Let’s find surveys” to complete an initial questionnaire known as a “profile survey.” This type of survey, which you’ll also find on LifePoints’ competitors, is designed to help the platform select more surveys that will be suitable for you.

In this case, you have to complete five questions, worth another 5 LPs, to get access to more LifePoints surveys.

Our experience

We had no problems signing up for LifePoints. It took us just a couple of minutes, and we got our 10 LPs (worth about 9 cents) at the end as promised.

We then received another 5 LPs for completing our profile, so we received 15 LPs in total for signing up—equivalent to about 13–14 cents.

This is one of the worst signup bonuses we’ve seen. By contrast, InboxDollars offers $5, and another popular survey site, Swagbucks, offers $2.50.

Take surveys

Unlike many of its competitors, which also feature other small tasks and games that you can do to earn rewards, LifePoints is almost entirely dedicated to surveys.

LifePoints doesn’t separate its surveys into different categories (e.g., shorter vs. longer surveys, or surveys on different topics).

However, if you click on “More about you” on the LifePoints dashboard, you can complete more “profile survey” questions. As we’ve mentioned, these are designed to help the platform select surveys that will be relevant to you. LifePoints gives you 1 LP for each question you answer.

Notably, LifePoints sometimes gives you 2 LPs when you’re disqualified for a survey. Not all survey sites give you consolation points for failed surveys, so this is one advantage of using LifePoints.

Our experience

We managed to earn 101 LPs by answering “More about you” questions. On one of our attempts, the app crashed, and we wasted 4 minutes without getting any points. However, in general, this type of survey provided a fairly reliable way to earn rewards.

Of the 26 other surveys we completed:

• 6 were successful and gave us points
• 11 were unsuccessful but gave us 2 LPs for trying
• 8 were unsuccessful (kicking us out or telling us we didn’t qualify) and gave us no points at all
• 1 we abandoned because the terms and conditions weren’t acceptable to us (they wanted to track our tester’s information for several days)

Although the surveys that rejected us usually wasted only a couple of minutes of our time, our success rate for completed surveys was just about 23% on LifePoints, which is quite low compared with some other rewards sites we’ve tried.

Best survey experience: $5.45 per hour

The best survey we took gave us 50 LPs for 5 minutes’ work, which would have been equivalent to a rate of more than $5.45 per hour if it was sustainable. Unfortunately, this rate wasn’t matched by the other surveys we took.

Worst survey experience: $0 per hour (disqualified with no points)

The worst survey we took was one that we spent a couple of minutes on. After we answered several questions, we received a message saying that the survey was “full” and we got no points at all for our efforts.

Do Quick Polls

These are polls consisting of one question you can answer very quickly. You only get 1 LP for them (worth about 0.9 cents), but they’re easy enough that they’re worth doing.

However, LifePoints’ Quick Polls seem to crop up randomly, unlike on other sites, where you can usually do them every day or several times a week at a regular intervals.

Our experience

We were presented with Quick Polls very occasionally. We got 1 LP (worth about 0.9 cents) as promised for completing each one, but we learned to treat this as a small, infrequent bonus, not a reliable source of rewards.

Enter prize draws and giveaways

LifePoints allows members to enter weekly giveaways that offer chances to win free cash and prizes. LifePoints says that the prizes for these giveaways vary but that they can reach $50 worth of rewards. 1

You can find these draws and giveaways in the community tab on both the website and the app.

Our experience

We didn’t get to try out this feature. When we looked for opportunities to enter, we saw a quiz and some puzzles and simple games (e.g., guessing the outcome of a virtual coin flip). However, we had missed the deadline to participate.

During the nine days we spent testing, we didn’t see any current opportunities to enter prize draws or giveaways, so this feature doesn’t seem to be available very often.

We found the following options for points redemption on LifePoints.

Donate your points to charity

One way to redeem your LifePoints rewards is as a charity donation. One advantage of this option is that you can sometimes redeem smaller amounts of $1 or $3 (for 110 LPs and 330 LPs, respectively), as well as larger ones of $5 or $10 (for 550 LPs and 1100 LPs, respectively).

We saw several charity donation options:

• American Red Cross
• Special Olympics
• American Cancer Society
• Bob Woodruff Foundation
• Feeding America
• The Nature Conservancy
• UNICEF
• WWF

PayPal

It’s possible to receive your LifePoints rewards as PayPal credit. According to LifePoints, this is one of their more popular redemption options.

You need to link your PayPal account with your LifePoints account to redeem rewards in this way.

The minimum redemption amount is $5 (which costs 575 LPs), but you can also redeem larger amounts at a time.

LifePoints says that PayPal rewards can take up to five days to reach your account. We redeemed our points via PayPal, and it took about four days to receive our payment.

Venmo

You need to link your Venmo account with your LifePoints account to redeem rewards as Venmo credit. In most respects, this works the same way as the platform’s PayPal redemption option.

As with PayPal, the minimum redemption amount is $5 (which costs 575 LPs), with larger amounts also available, and rewards can take up to five days to reach your account.

Gift cards

It’s possible to cash in your LPs for gift cards for various retailers. We saw 11 options, which wasn’t as many as we expected (several other survey websites feature significantly more).

However, there were still plenty of popular retailers to choose from, including:

• Amazon
• eBay
• Target
• Apple
• Lowe’s
• Starbucks
• T.J. Maxx

Note that different retailers have different thresholds for redemption, but the minimum amount is usually $5 or $10 (with $5 cards usually priced at 550 LPs and $10 cards at 1,100 LPs).