How to earn money online in Ghana by testing apps and websites

Before a company launches an app, a website or a new feature, it wants to know if real people understand it. So it pays people like you to try it and say what you think. There are no right or wrong answers: honest opinions are the whole point.

Sessions come in two kinds:

• A video call with a researcher, who asks you questions or watches you try their product.
• A test you do on your own, when it suits you: you follow a few steps and say what you're thinking while your screen and voice are recorded.

Anyone who is 18 or older and lives in Ghana. You don't need any qualifications or experience. Researchers want to hear from people of all ages, jobs and backgrounds.

It's one account per person and one account per mobile money number. Signing up is free, and you never pay to take part. Nobody from myUsersInsight or a research team will ask for your passwords or your mobile money PIN: if someone does, don't share it, and tell us from the Contact page at myusersinsight.com/contact.

1. Create an account with your email or Google.
2. Confirm your email from the link we send you.
3. Build your profile: your city, date of birth, work, education and the devices you can join from.
4. Add the mobile money number you want to be paid on.

Finish your profile before you apply. Researchers use it to choose who takes part.

Live studies are listed for you to browse, each with its reward, how long it takes and what you'll do. Most ask a few questions first to check you fit. Answer honestly: if you don't fit, there will be another study that does.

Applying doesn't guarantee a place. For calls, the researcher reads the applications and invites the people they want. When you're invited, you pick a time that suits you.

The reward is shown before you apply, so you always know what you'll earn. After your session it goes to your mobile money (MTN MoMo, Telecel Cash or AirtelTigo Money). The researcher has a day to report a problem with the session. After that, our team sends your payment by hand within 2 working days.

For your safety, nothing is paid to a mobile money number for 24 hours after you first add it or change it.

• Turn up on time. If you can't make it, cancel the session so someone else can take your place.
• Find a quiet spot and check your internet before a call.
• Think out loud: say what you're looking for and what confuses you.

Missing a booked session without cancelling gives you a strike. Two strikes in 30 days pauses you from new studies for 14 days.