Spare5 App: Shut Down (2026) — Try Receipt Hog Instead

What Happened to Spare5?

Spare5 stood out from the usual pile of survey and video-watching “money apps” because the work was different: you were doing small, structured tasks — circling faces in photos, tagging objects in video frames, proofreading short snippets — that helped train early computer-vision AI models. It paid out in small increments per task, plus referral bonuses for getting friends to sign up.

That labeling work was the real product. Over time the company built its business around the underlying data-labeling technology rather than the consumer rewards app, and the same team’s work went on to power data labeling for autonomous-vehicle and computer-vision projects. Whatever that later chapter looked like exactly, one thing is clear from checking today: nobody has been running the consumer-facing Spare5 app for a long time. Neither spare5.com nor app.spare5.com resolves to a working site anymore — the domains are still registered but nothing is hosted on them, which is a strong sign the underlying service simply isn’t there.

If what appealed to you about Spare5 was small, quick tasks for small cash rather than a full survey panel, Receipt Hog is the closest thing we currently track that’s actually live: snap a photo of your shopping receipts (any store, any purchase) and earn points redeemable for cash or gift cards — no labeling or grading involved. Sign up for Receipt Hog here using referral code blok7261 for a bonus spin on the app’s rewards slots when you join.