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.
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Hi guys, Been interesting reading some of the comments!
I have a disability which means I am unable to work, I have been looking for some sort of online work or envelope stuffing, I have put up ads asked around. Used to do avon but didnt make enough and was spending more than I was making. I have tried surveys etc becomes a pain when you get ‘ do not fit criteria’ everytime. So wondering if anyone has any ideas, and any sort of home work typing etc… that is legit and won’t cost me ?? thanks
Hi Natasha. How about getting into being a Virtual Assistant? We’ve got a big article on that in the ‘Making Money’ section. If you can type and do secretarial work it could be for you. It does take quite a lot of effort to get the clients, though, so you wouldn’t necessarily get the money in immediately. Also, have you thought of setting up a website and using affiliate marketing to make commissions from selling services? Look up ‘affiliate marketing’ on Google and read up about it.
Hi Natasha, Have you thought about anne summers parties or something like that. My sister has just started selling candles through partylite.com and the money aint so bad either! Theres loads of different plans you could choose from, but majority ask for a sign up fee. Ive looked and they start from £25-£99 and more! Good luck x
I just dance naked in the middle of town, I get lots of pennies and sometimes I rob the local homeless guy for his clothes and use them to sleep on. Lifes good. LG.
lol!
I was pleased to see this. Just what I needed. Thanks.
I usually put loo roll on my head and walk around town dancing like a chicken most days. I get about £25 a day because i beg the other tramps to lend me money! it is ideal for me at the moment cos i buy alot of cheese for me and my pet fish
Hello,
Are you interested in adding another income stream to your site? Based on the fact that getting in at the top of programs is a good thing I wondered if you had heard about Zubie, which launched mid Jan. Feel free to reply and let me know what you think about it, It’s a good old fashioned forced matrix program.
David Elton, Reading UK.
I have found any sites which allow you to complete surveys and where they pay you….. Can you help.
hi i cannot get a any of the on line web sites to give me answer (who wants to buy all my outgrown clothes) i have lost a load of wheight recently and want (need) to make some cash out of them ive given some to charity already but really need to make money for christmas ebay to complicated for me, i live in the northwest area any helpers plz cant do boot sale dont drive thanks
Man thx a lot u realy help give mw a good idea I will and I will work on it tommoro i hope I get enough mony to buy I phone thx agine keep gone up and up