PiniOn vs The Panel Station
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PiniOn
Participate in missions to earn money and points by sharing your opinions and taking photos of brands and products. Complete tasks at various locations or from home to get paid and unlock exclusive opportunities. Improve your profile to access higher-level missions.
- Complete missions for brands
- Earn money and points
- Share opinions and take photos
- Missions at various locations
- Unlock exclusive opportunities
- Profile-based mission access
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Join Pinion, engage in missions, earn money and points taking pictures, answering questions and giving your opinion about brands, products and services. Pinion is the first app in Brazil that unites a community of people who carries out missions to help brands and businesses understand their market fit and consumers. The missions are quick and easy to perform. You can find them at malls, cinemas, supermarkets, pubs, restaurants or even at home. When you complete a mission successfully you are paid for it. The more you participate, the more you unlock new missions with even greater opportunities. By improving the quality of your profile, you can access special missions exclusive to those who reach the highest levels! How does it work? 1- Install the application, find and execute a mission. 2- Send the results to us. 3- Wait for approval and receive credit for the mission accomplished. Earn R$ 25 or more and request a withdraw to your brazilian bank account using pix. Important: the account must be of the same person's CPF registered on profile. Join us by downloading the application, create your account and participate today. Your comments and ideas are very welcome and will help us improve Pinion. ** Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. *** This app only works in Brazil. We are already working on Global Support. ***
The Panel Station
Share your opinions on products and services through online surveys to earn reward points. These points can be redeemed for coupons or used in sweepstakes for a chance to win prizes. It's an easy way to earn extra money from anywhere.
- Register for survey community
- Take surveys within the app
- Earn and redeem reward points
- Receive instant offer alerts
- Manage your account
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Panel Station is a global opinion-to-trends platform where people discover trends, share genuine opinions through online surveys, and earn rewards for their participation. Panel Station brings together 8 million+ participants across 60+ countries. Together, their everyday experiences help reveal how life, culture, food, money, work, technology, shopping, health and more are changing. With the Panel Station app, you can: • Discover trends shaped by real opinions from around the world • Find and participate in available survey opportunities • Share your genuine opinions and everyday experiences • Earn reward points for eligible, successfully completed surveys • Receive eligible survey points within 24 hours, following validation and quality checks • Track your points, survey activity and rewards in one place • Redeem points for vouchers and reward options available in your country • Update your profile to help improve survey matching • Verify every redemption using an email OTP How Panel Station works: 1. Create an account or sign in. 2. Complete your profile and keep it updated. 3. Participate in available surveys and answer thoughtfully. 4. Collect points for eligible activities and successful survey completions. 5. Redeem your points after reaching the applicable redemption threshold. Survey availability, eligibility, point values and reward options may vary based on your country, profile, research requirements and available quotas. Not every survey will be suitable for every member. Your responses are combined with opinions from other participants to help researchers and brands understand how people live, think, choose and change. Discover trends. Share opinions. Earn rewards with Panel Station.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PiniOn at 87% against The Panel Station's 36%. PiniOn also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8). The Panel Station's advantage is ratings volume (73 vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
PiniOn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Panel Station has 73 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of PiniOn's written reviews are positive against 36% of The Panel Station's.
PiniOn ships an update every 2 months, The Panel Station every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PiniOn | The Panel Station |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 2.8 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.4% of reviews — better | 36.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 73 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | PiniOn Tecnologia S.A. | Borderless Access Panels |
Customer experience
PiniOn
The Panel Station
Bugs and requests
PiniOn
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes mid-mission causing loss of data and photos
- Distance ordering filter not working correctly
- Location detection and matching issues
- Missions not appearing despite eligibility
- Incomplete mission displays with missing questions
Requested features
9 requests- Increase frequency and volume of available missions
- Expand location-based missions to smaller cities and rural areas
- Improve payment rates for missions
- Add open-ended text response options for surveys
- Better customer support and response to user inquiries
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- More variety in mission types and categories
- Improve location accuracy and targeting
- Provide clearer explanations for mission rejections
- Add more online missions relative to location-based ones
The Panel Station
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PiniOn
No in-app purchases
The Panel Station
No in-app purchases









