Ibotta Shopping App For iPhone/Android: New Users Get Paid $5 After First Use

Download the free Ibotta shopping app for your iPhone or Android smartphone, and you can get paid $5 in real cash to go shopping at your favorite stores!

Ibotta offers shoppers short activities to participate in -- think polls, watching short videos, things like that -- then you get cash back on various promoted items after you complete the activity, purchase the item, and upload a copy of your receipt.

Whenever you reach $5 in your Ibotta account, you can either transfer it to your PayPal account, or you can donate it to your child's school.

But for a limited time, new Ibotta users will automatically receive $5 in credit -- which means you're immediately eligible for a cash withdrawal to Paypal -- when they download the app and complete their first activity!

Ibotta is accepted in many national and local chains, including Target, Walgreens, CVS, HEB, and Walmart. You can check out the complete list of retailers here.

Here's a recent example so you can see how Ibotta works:

• There was a $1 offer on Green Apple Chapstick available for any Ibotta users who took a short poll, then bought the Chapstick at Target.
• Target sells Chapstick for as low as 68 cents in their trial/travel section.
• Result: a 32 cent money-maker!

I personally have a Blackberry, so I will be downloading the app onto my SO's Android later this evening and can report back with more specific details then -- or if you're already an Ibotta user, please leave us a comment with your thoughts on how the app works!

Sign up for Ibotta here.

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