Is Curious Cat legit? What the app actually offers

What Curious Cat is

Curious Cat is a survey panel app from On Device Research Ltd, a market-research company registered in England and Wales. The company is listed as the app's seller on the App Store and as the developer on Google Play, and its terms and privacy policy are hosted on its own research company website.

The app itself is where sign-up happens. The Curious Cat website works mainly as a landing page that points visitors to the Google Play and App Store listings rather than hosting its own account system.

Curious Cat at a glance

Here is what is published about who runs Curious Cat, how it works, and who can join.

Facts checked on 2026-10-06

How members earn on Curious Cat

Most earning comes from paid surveys, opinion polls and questionnaires matched to a member's profile. New members complete a small number of profiling tasks first, which helps the app match them to further surveys.

• Paid surveys, polls and questionnaires matched to the member's profile.
• Optional location-matched tasks, which require sharing location and usually relate to advertising the member may have seen.
• Passive research panels by invitation, such as MAX in the UK and the AMPD Digital Profiler Panel in parts of Southeast Asia, where points arrive without completing tasks.
• Connect, a UK-only beta feature that links a YouTube account so tasks can be matched to ads watched there.

Not every member sees every feature. Several of these, including the passive panels and Connect, are invitation-only rather than open to everyone who signs up.

How it pays and who can join

PayPal is the main payout method and, per the help center, is available in all the regions Curious Cat operates in. Thailand and Indonesia have additional options, including TrueMoney, OVO, ShopeePay and DANA. The store listings also mention alternative withdrawal options in countries where PayPal is not available, though specifics are not published beyond that.

Before a first PayPal withdrawal, Curious Cat requires a one-time identity check with a photo ID, carried out through Stripe, along with a verified PayPal account email. Location is also checked at every cash-out: the help center states a member must be physically in, and resident of, the country their account is registered in.

Sign-up requires a mobile number or email address, with one account allowed per phone number, and the app cannot be used while a VPN is active. The minimum age is unclear from Curious Cat's own sources: the help center states 18 or over, while the Google Play and App Store descriptions both say 16 or over. Curious Cat is currently available in a published list of countries that includes the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and the Philippines, among others; it is not listed as available in Pakistan, Canada, South Africa or Nigeria.

Curious Cat compared with PocketsFull

A side-by-side look at how the two work, based only on what each one publishes.

How PocketsFull differs

PocketsFull is a rewards site rather than a standalone survey app. Members take paid surveys, complete offers such as game and app offers, and collect rewards they can redeem, all through one account that works on the website or the Android app.

Joining and using PocketsFull is free, and there is never a deposit or payment required to earn. Instead of converting points to cash through one main payout partner, PocketsFull lets members redeem rewards for gift cards from a catalogue that depends on their country, alongside PayPal and Litecoin on the redeem screen.

How PocketsFull pays

The box below shows the payout options available on PocketsFull, and these depend on the member's country.

Local gift cards are listed first, for example Roblox, Amazon or Target in the United States, or Roblox, Amazon or The Dining Out in the United Kingdom, with PayPal and Litecoin also on the redeem screen.

PocketsFull does not list TrueMoney, OVO, ShopeePay or DANA as payout options; its redeem screen is built around local gift cards, PayPal and Litecoin.