Jasmine Birtles
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Easy ways to make quick cash
MoneyMagpie team
17th Apr 2025
Updated 17th April 2025
Want to make quick cash right now? Check out our ten top ways to make money fast, with the least amount of effort possible.
Perhaps you’re looking for easy ways to make money online from the comfort of your sofa, or perhaps you want to make sure your credit report is accurate and up to date so you can get the best deals.
Here are our 10 easy ways to make quick cash, and don’t forget to sign up to our newsletter for weekly quick-cash-making and money-saving ideas.
- Earn with Pawns.app
- Join inCompass
- Make Money with Toluna
- Claim Your Free Money-Making eBook
- Save on Your Energy Bills
- Get Paid for Your Opinion
- Get Paid to Use the Internet
- Have a Free Financial MOT
- Make £400 a Month Mystery Shopping
Earn an average $12 a day with Pawns.app
You might have heard of apps like Swagbucks and Toluna, well, Pawns.app is in the same vein of money making apps. However, it adds an extra competitive advantage: there’s a leaderboard where, each week, top users could win an extra $300, as well as other unique earning opportunities.
Pawns.app is available in 190 countries, including (of course) the UK, and in 2023, it paid out $3.8million to users with an average daily earning for each user of $12. You can pay out as soon as you’ve earned $5.
Pawns.app works on desktop for Windows and MacOS, as well as Android and iPhones. You can claim an additional $3 dollar bonus just for signing up via this page!
Join inCompass and earn £20 for your first month
Join Ipsos MORI inCompass and earn £20 for your first month and £10 every month after.
All you have to do to join is complete a five-minute questionnaire and install the free app, which is available on Android and Apple phones.
If that sounds like you then what are you waiting for?
Make Money with Toluna
Toluna is a great site to join. You not only earn points which you can later redeem for fantastic prizes, but you also have the opportunity to get free goodies.
Click the appropriate device to complete the survey! iPhone, Android, Desktop
Claim Your FREE Money-Making Email & eBook
Sign up for FREE to our Make Money Newsletter and every Tuesday we’ll send you the inside tips YOU need to succeed.
Grab hold of our expert cash advice and run with it – it’s been created with the sole purpose of making you quick cash. What’s more, each issue also contains a lot of special bargains designed to save you cash.
You could also hop over to our eBooks section and grab a FREE copy of our ‘Make £1000 Before Christmas’ eBook.
Win £850!
Want to win a nice wad of cash?
Then enter Pick My Postcode – all you have to do is enter your postcode and email address.
They give away hundreds of pounds a day and have so far given away over £100,000.
If you’re still not sure what it’s all about, you can read our article all about it here, which tells you everything you need to know so you can start winning.
Save Money on Your Energy Bills
Now is a perfect time to fix your deal as energy prices continue to rise or fluctuate dramatically. And check out lots more ways to save on your energy bill.
If you want to find the very best deal before you fix, shop around!
Click here to use our comparison tool and find a better deal for you.
Be Paid for Your Opinion
This is a sporadic way to make quick cash and it brings in a relatively small income, but it’s low effort and you’ve nothing to lose. It’s a great way to make quick cash from the comfort of your computer but make sure you NEVER pay to join an online survey site or reveal your credit card details.
Earn money for testing apps, games and surveys – find out how here
Inside tip! Here are our favourite online survey sites. They’re completely free and have received a big thumbs-up from many of you. For maximum earnings set up a separate email account (so your personal one doesn’t get flooded with survey-related emails) and then register for free with all of them:
If you like the sound of making quick cash through filling out online surveys make sure you check out our full article right here on the safe way to earn money by taking paid surveys.
Earn for Using the Internet
Fancy making money in your pyjamas without any effort?
Sign-up to InboxPounds and earn cash for reading emails, completing surveys, watching videos and more.
You even get a pound just for signing up!
Get a Free Financial Health Check
Sense check your finances with a free financial health check – a 30-60 minute call or meeting with a local, well-rated IFA.With more than 4,500 independent financial advisers and over 60,000 reviews, VouchedFor is home to the UK’s top advisers.Simply leave your details and VouchedFor will find the best adviser to conduct your free financial health check.Get your free financial health check here.
Make Up to £400 a Month Mystery Shopping
Fancy getting paid to eat out, shop and even go on holiday? Try mystery shopping!
Our editor Jasmine has been a mystery shopper for over five years now, earning decent money on the side while bagging brilliant freebies left, right and centre.
Now you can too! Read all about it here.
I like entering competitions to get a chance to own things I’d never otherwise afford.
I love crafting so recently decided to try and make money from it. I’ve got an Etsy page, a Facebook page, a Crafters Boutique page and hope to set up my own website soon. It’s not easy to find buyers and it takes time but hopefully I’ll get more and more known and sales will gradually build.
I make extra cash grooming people’s pedigree long haired cats. It takes about an hour per cat but makes a lot of money 🙂
Sell any unwanted items on ebay or a local selling page on facebook. Make sure you always put a good description of the item as this can boost more people wanting to buy your items.
Buying and Selling on Ebay
Many of my friends give me their clothes instead of giving them to charity. I sell the best on eBay and package cheapest way so postage is cheap. What is left, I weigh them in and make money on this too! I often treat my friends as an incentive to give me more clothes.
I enjoy completing surveys for extra cash 🙂
i like selling things on ebay, its fun
I use topcashback when making purchases
I write articles for Textbroker or just do some overtime at work.