Long-running annotation platform. Their own contributor site states there are no lengthy applications — you create an account, are matched only to projects in your own field, and are told the rate for a piece of work before you begin it. The published path is apply and get verified (they describe the review as thorough), get domain-matched, contribute, then build a quality record that follows you
What you need
We haven't confirmed
How you get paid
Per task
Worker costs
No upfront cost found — we searched their landing page plus the pricing/fees/FAQ/terms subtrees on 2026-08-25 and found no upfront-cost language. Not a guarantee of free.
Taking new people
Yes
How we know
from job postings and worker reports, not an official page
The rating of the app workers use — never the customer app. Each store is its own witness; we show both and never average them. The count is what makes a score mean something. Click a listing to see the number as it stands today.
Apple App Store
Appen Mobile — 1.9 from 125 ratings — reported, not confirmed · checked 2026-09-02
Google Play
Appen Mobile — 2.6 from 2.28K reviews — reported, not confirmed · checked 2026-09-02
Where this came from
Where we got this
Roundup
Every claim on this card, traced — 12 claims:
Cost picture read from the company's own page
money-pass2 (owner arc 2026-08-25): EVIDENCED ABSENCE — we read their landing page plus the pricing/fees/FAQ/terms subtrees on 2026-08-25 and found no upfront-cost language. Not a guarantee of free.
How you get in read from the company's own page
doors-package-v19-group1.md: CrowdGen, reached from Appen's own homepage link 'Join our workforce' — which settles the rebrand question the record carried as reported: Appen's contributor platform is CrowdGen, confirmed from both ends (Appen links to it; CrowdGen's own title is 'CrowdGen by Appen') — FETCHED 2026-08-13
How you get paid unproven — carried from an older research method and not yet re-read from a source
Inherited at the v8 migration from the record's evidence class (Reported-community). This claim does not yet say where IT came from; the record does.
Local operating status derived from our own coverage research, not from the company's words
mktcle-reclass (owner ruling 2026-08-26): STRUCTURALLY UNSOURCEABLE from provider property — companies do not state their metro lists, so no re-fetch can ever pay this claim. Reclassified out of the owed pile into the declared class: derived from our own coverage research, not from the company's words.
Sign-up link read from the company's own page
doors-package-v19-group1.md: CrowdGen, reached from Appen's own homepage link 'Join our workforce' — which settles the rebrand question the record carried as reported: Appen's contributor platform is CrowdGen, confirmed from both ends (Appen links to it; CrowdGen's own title is 'CrowdGen by Appen') — FETCHED 2026-08-13
Taking new people read from the company's own page
debt-paydown (owner arc 2026-08-26): RE-SOURCED FROM UNKNOWN: their own page, fetched this arc, carries an open application flow — the unknown resolved to taking-people on the source's own surface
Vehicle class read from the company's own page
category-vehicle-cascade (owner ruling 2026-08-25): CATEGORY DEFINITION — remote work is performed remotely — by definition, no vehicle is involved in doing it. Encoded at the category level by owner ruling; the record's own page remains the authority for everything else it states.
Vehicle needed read from the company's own page
vehicle-model-phase2 (owner arc 2026-08-25): restates this record's category-definition vehicle encode under the five-state model — the work is remote, listing-and-shipping, or hosting your own asset; no transport is part of doing it (the vehicle_tier claim remains the underlying source)
What it is read from the company's own page
debt-paydown (owner arc 2026-08-26): the value's own internal citation names the provider surface it came from (a later arc wrote sourced content into a field whose claim level never flipped); that surface was fetched again this arc — the receipt is in the value and the fetch is dated 2026-08-26
What workers rate the app reported by someone else — not the company's words
Apple App Store listing for "Appen Mobile" and Google Play listing for "Appen Mobile" — the store is the witness, not the company; checked 2026-09-02
What you need unproven — carried from an older research method and not yet re-read from a source
Inherited at the v8 migration from the record's evidence class (Reported-community). This claim does not yet say where IT came from; the record does.
Worker costs read from the company's own page
debt-paydown (owner arc 2026-08-26): DROPPED TO HONEST ABSENCE: the inherited value was an unproven promise; the 2026-08-25 search of their landing page plus the pricing/fees/FAQ/terms subtrees found no fee statement, and the record now carries the evidenced absence instead
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