Emrals vs Gener8
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emrals
This app rewards users for reporting and cleaning up litter in their city. Users can earn cryptocurrency by identifying trash, and others can claim rewards for cleaning it up. It aims to create a cleaner, more sustainable world through gamified community action.
- Report litter with photos
- Earn cryptocurrency rewards
- Claim cleanup tasks
- Fund 'Impact Zones'
- Gamified zero-waste system
- Community verification
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Emrals is creating tools for zero waste. Our new mobile app, Emrals, makes it easy for people to help clean up the city. Originally designed as a game and cryptocurrency, Emrals system seeks to reward people for cleaning up trash that is blowing around in the city, on the sidewalks and littering our parks and public spaces. Our goal is to create a beautiful and sustainable world by educating and rewarding people for Zero Waste. We hope to be a powerful force in achieving the NY State 0/30 goals, the reversal of plastic oceans, and the steadying of climate change. Almost every one of New York City’s 10 million plus residents and commuters have a smartphone with a camera and internet connection. It is already a habit to have your phone snapping pics of everything, so why not trash, too? Emrals gives you a platform to report the trash you pass everyday whether it is cigaret butts, plastic bottles, pizza boxes, shoes, broken (or working) furniture, dog waste bags, broken umbrellas, old cds, doggie booties, diapers, bottle caps, derelict bikes, dirty leaves blocking catch basins, or an unidentifiable mash of waste, we want you to post on emrals. Not everyone wants to stop and clean it up. And yet, we all want a cleaner city, now. So how can taking a picture of trash help? Well, what if you add a little monetary incentive for someone to clean it up? People have been collecting cans and bottles for a cash reward for decades. Let’s make it worth it and have more cash rewards for picking up waste and recycling it. Emrals can tell them where theses rewards are. Users can add emrals to the picture, we call “dirt alert” that acts as a reward for a person who can then come and clean it up and upload the clean pic solution. The solution will then be verified by the community and the reward will be released to the person who cleaned it up. What if I don’t like taking pictures of trash but I still want to clean up the city? Users on emrals can create an Impact Zone where their money will be spread out over the dirt alerts in that area. Quality of life issue needs constant care while we rebuild the system of solid waste management and improve our recycling systems. Many people cannot choose to increase a municipal action of funds to keep better care of our streets. We can most of us, contribute a little each month to make a difference in the places that matter most to us. Some parks have much less litter than others. A walk through certain areas of Central Park, even with so many visitors, the grass is greener on that side. There are recycle barrels and constant workers. How is it managed? Private money. So let’s bring that private money everywhere to every neighborhood all over the globe. Fund an Impact Zone. Fund a cleaner environment. What makes the eCan special? To start, in the culture of a gamified world, we have the ecan playing a rewarding thank you every time you throw away an item. In a world of interactive and connected devices, we have the ecan equipped with a touchscreen for visualizing data and connecting to other part of the emrals system, like listing dirt alerts and educating users about recycling. The ecan also keeps track of the items you toss and can identify them with a barcode reader and camera. You can then see the data for the trash that is thrown away like how many daily uses and what kind of product packaging is being tossed. Our next version currently under development, is an auto-sorting device that would use machine learning to identify items and direct them into the correct holding chamber to help achieve maximum recycling. Recycling includes reusing our food waste as it naturally transforms it useful materials like compost and biogas and biofuel. The ecan can help capture these materials and separate them for optimal reuse which will save not just the planet, but also municipal resources and working capital.
Gener8
This app empowers users to regain control of their personal data. It allows you to connect your apps, see what data is collected, and earn rewards for securely sharing it. Redeem points for gift cards, discounts, prize draws, or donations.
- Connect apps to track data collection
- Visualize data collected by apps
- Earn points for secure data sharing
- Redeem points for gift cards
- Redeem points for discounts and offers
- Redeem points for prize draws
- Redeem points for charitable donations
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Join over 750,000 users taking back control of their data. Backed by three Dragons from BBC's Dragons’ Den. What if you could actually benefit from your personal data? Every app and website is tracking you and making money from your information. But what do you get in return? That’s where Gener8 comes in. We help you take control of your data, keep it private and secure, and earn real rewards for it. HOW GENER8 WORKS: - Connect your apps to Gener8 - See what data they collect, visualized in a simple and clear way - Earn points for sharing securely and privately - Redeem your points for: - Gift cards (Amazon, Target, and more) - Exclusive discounts and offers - Prize draws - Charitable donations WHY CHOOSE GENER8: - Instant rewards: no long waiting periods — once you’ve connected and earned enough points, you can redeem rewards right away - Many ways to earn: choose the methods that work for you, or connect them all to earn faster - Privacy-first: no data leaves your device without your consent - Transparency: see exactly what apps know about you - Full control: you decide what to share and when One of the ways Gener8 can reward you for your data is through the use of Accessibility Services, which we only access with your active consent, to collect data on your online activities, for example, browsing history, app usage, and online searches. No data leaves your device or passes through any of our systems without your explicit consent. All insights are generated on your device, and data is only shared with us if you choose to. All your data is kept private and secure. Watch the space. We’re constantly improving the app! Learn more about Gener8: gener8ads.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gener8 at 4.7 against Emrals's 4.2. Gener8 also leads on ratings volume (4.9K vs 5). Emrals's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (67% vs 41%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gener8 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gener8 has 4.9K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Emrals's written reviews are positive against 41% of Gener8's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Emrals ships an update weekly, Gener8 every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emrals | Gener8 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (4.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 40.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 4.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Emrals, Inc. | Gener8 Ads |
Customer experience
Emrals
Gener8
Bugs and requests
Emrals
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Gener8
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login/verification issues
- Rewards not working as expected
- Difficulty deleting account
Requested features
4 requests- Expand rewards to US market
- Improve reward redemption process
- Offer more valuable reward options
- Fix app bugs and stability issues
In-app purchases
Emrals
No in-app purchases
Gener8
No in-app purchases









