Most lists of sites that pay are written by people who never used them. Five checks that take two minutes, what these platforms really pay, and where Kandrit honestly fits.

Search for sites that pay in Nigeria and you will get the same page thirty times. A list of ten apps, a table of figures nobody checked, and a download button. Most of those lists are written by people who have never used what they are recommending, and some are written by the apps themselves.

We run one of these platforms, so we are not pretending to be neutral. What follows is the part those lists leave out: how to tell in two minutes whether a site that promises to pay you is worth your time, and what the honest ones actually pay.

Five checks before you give anybody your time

1. Does it ask you to pay to start?

This is the first and biggest one. If a quiz, a game or a task site wants an entry fee, a registration fee, an activation fee or a deposit before you can earn, you are not being paid. You are buying a ticket. Some of these are run honestly and some are not, but either way the money moves from you first, and that changes what you are doing from earning to gambling.

A platform that pays you should never need your money to start.

2. Where does the app come from?

If the only way to install something is an APK file from a website, a Telegram channel or a WhatsApp group, stop. The Play Store is not a guarantee of anything, but it is a listing with a developer name attached, a review history and a company that can be removed. An APK passed around in a group chat has none of that, and it is the most common way people in Nigeria end up with something reading their messages.

3. What is the withdrawal minimum, and how long would it take you to reach it?

This is the trick that catches most people. A site offers a generous looking rate, then sets the minimum payout somewhere you will never get to. Work out the real answer before you start: if the tasks pay small amounts and the minimum is high, you are working for free until a point you may never reach, and the site keeps the benefit of your activity either way.

Do the arithmetic once, on paper, before your first hour.

4. How exactly does the money leave?

A real platform tells you the route plainly. Bank transfer, a named payment processor, airtime, data, or a wallet you already use. Vague answers like "withdraw to your account" with no mention of who processes it, or payment only in a coin the platform invented, are warnings. So is a payout route that only opens after you refer other people.

5. Who is behind it, and can you find them?

Look for a company name, a real address or phone number, and a social account with history rather than one created last month. Search the name together with the word complaint and read what comes back. Check the dates on the reviews. A platform with no trace of itself anywhere except its own marketing is a platform that can disappear on a Tuesday.

What these sites actually pay

Here is the part the lists never say clearly: almost none of this replaces an income.

Paid surveys and microtask sites are the most established category, and people who use them steadily report earnings in the range of a few thousand naira a month, not a salary. The work is real, the payments are usually real, and the rate per hour is low. They suit someone who has idle time and wants it to produce something rather than nothing.

Freelancing platforms pay properly, because you are selling a skill rather than your attention. They are also the hardest, because you are competing with the whole world and the first few jobs are the slowest to win. If you can write, design, edit video or build things, this is where the real money in this category sits, and everything else on this page is a distraction from it.

Quiz and game apps pay the least per hour of anything here. What they offer is that the time is enjoyable anyway. Treat the money as a bonus on top of something you would have done for free, and you will not be disappointed. Treat it as income and you will be.

Referral schemes that pay mainly for bringing in other people are not earning platforms. The money comes from the people you recruit, which makes you the product and eventually makes somebody you know angry with you.

Where Kandrit fits, honestly

Kandrit is a quiz platform. You play timed quizzes against other people, and some of those quizzes carry a prize funded by us, by a brand, or by whoever created the campaign.

Against the five checks above:

• It is free.No entry fee on any quiz, no deposit, nothing to stake. You cannot pay to improve your chances, and we will never ask you to.
• There is nothing to install.It runs at kandrit.com in your browser. No APK, no Telegram group.
• Most prizes are paid in KPoints, which buy airtime, data, electricity and cable TV inside the app. Five KPoints are worth one naira of those. Some campaigns pay naira instead, and naira can go to your bank. Each campaign tells you which before you start.
• Cash withdrawals start at 2,000 naira, with a 100 naira transfer fee. If a campaign paid you in KPoints, you spend them in the app rather than banking them.
• We are findable.Our terms, privacy policy and contact page are on the site, and the people who answer messages are the people who built it.

And the honest limit: Kandrit will not pay your rent. A good run at a campaign is worth something useful, a month of data or a few thousand naira of airtime, not a salary. Anybody telling you a quiz app in Nigeria pays a salary is selling you something.

The rule that covers all of it

Money should only ever move towards you. The moment a site that promised to pay you asks you to pay it, to install something from outside a store, or to recruit your friends before you can be paid, you have your answer, and no list of ten apps will change it.

If you want to try the free kind, our campaigns are here, and the rules are written in plain English.