Google Opinion Rewards is Google's paid market-research app for short opinion, product, hotel, and store-satisfaction surveys. Your answers are shared with researchers as anonymous, aggregated results, while Google links app activity to your Google Account. According to Google via Apple App Store, payments run up to about $1 per survey through PayPal or Play credit in the App Store listing. The app does not use continuous microphone recording; it uses answers, profile details, location signals, and receipt images you choose to share.
Official resources:
- Review Google's receipt-scanning controls and opt-out steps — Verify that receipt sharing is optional and how to view, delete, or opt out of receipt tasks.
- Delete or turn off Google account activity — Manage, delete, or stop saving activity tied to your Google Account.
Table of Contents
- What information do you provide?
- Does the app record you?
- Who sees your answers?
- What rights and controls do you keep?
What information do you provide?
Surveys cover opinions, hotels, products, and satisfaction with merchants you visited. Demographic details such as age, gender, and geography help decide which surveys you receive. Device location and Timeline history add store-visit signals for local follow-ups.
According to Google Surveys Help and Android Authority reporting, that location history powers many store follow-ups in the Android Authority report. Keeping location signals on usually brings more local surveys. Turning them off brings fewer prompts and fewer earning chances.
Does the app record you?
The described inputs are questionnaire answers, demographic and profile data, location signals, and user-chosen receipt images. According to Google Opinion Rewards Help and Receipt scanning Help, the app does not document continuous microphone or background recording in the Receipt scanning Help.
Receipt participation is optional and controlled by you. Google Opinion Rewards Help for receipt scanning states you can choose which receipts to share or skip. You can also view or delete receipt images and data through the receipt manager.
Who sees your answers?
According to Google Opinion Rewards Help, answers are combined with other respondents and shared with the researcher who wrote the questions in the Opinion Rewards Help. That sharing is anonymous and aggregated unless a survey introduction says otherwise.
The important limit is that anonymity is from researchers, not from Google. Google Opinion Rewards Help and the Google Privacy Policy state Google links responses and app activity to your Google Account. Weigh that link before answering sensitive topics.
What rights and controls do you keep?
You can skip a sensitive question, decline a specific survey, turn off location-based surveys and notifications, and uninstall the app. Google Opinion Rewards Help and Google Account Help state uninstalling does not remove your separate right to access or delete prior receipt data.
Broader account data falls under Google general controls. Google Privacy Policy Archive and Account Help point to My Activity for review, auto-delete, or deletion and to Dashboard for product data. Check the receipt manager first for images, then check My Activity for linked activity.
- Skip any question that feels too personal
- Decline a full survey without penalty to your account rights
- Turn off location-based surveys and notifications to cut store follow-ups
- Uninstall when you want, then manage old data in Google controls
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