Earning Free Crypto

Before we start

Prepare yourself to read (the introduction first)...

I don't want to spoil you right away, but there will be some text, quite a lot of it actually. I'm including as much images as I can to make it more appealing, but in essence, you'll have to read through it. 
In order to make it easier to navigate this page, you can make use of the floating table of contents on your right. 

And please, read the introduction. It's really important that everything is clear from the getaway.

... and stick to the structure

Introduction

Foreword

As I already explained on the homepage, there is no way to earn lots of money just by snapping your fingers. Everything has a price, and if it's not money it's something else (probably your time and effort).

Most of the websites I'm presenting here have one thing in common: they need time. You are usually required to do a certain amount of tasks, before in turn being rewarded for your "timely" investment. The prime example of such websites are the all-in-one platforms and faucets.
As soon as you've gathered a certain minimum amount of crypto, you'll be able to resort to more profitable, passive activities, which, by definition, do not require your active participation. However, such still require time to elapse before rewarding you. Staking your tokens is an example for such an activity. 

But if I'm just presenting different websites, what makes this guide so different from all the others you can find on the internet? I mean, we all know you're here to earn money, not to read a whole book from some random internet guy. Well, I can offer you something which these other articles (that took the author 10 minutes of googleing and copy-pasting to create) can't: critical thinking and well-grounded opinions. 
All sections follow the same structural pattern: There is first a general explanation of the website, how it fits into the category it's in and how it works. But then, I will review these sites according to what I have learned in the years that I've been using them. This makes this site the best place to forge your own ideas about each individual earning opportunity. I'll round off each section with a score based on three criteria: amount of earnings, time to be invested and user friendliness.

One last thing: investing real money will, at some point, become almost unavoidable if you want to step up your gains. I'm not going to hide the fact that you'll always be better of making money with a base investment of like 50$, unless you get really lucky and join or invest into a community project that multiplies its token value by 10 (which isn't very likely). Still, opportunity for growth of cryptocurrency prices is there. Not investing anything at any point will just take you longer to reach certain levels.

The three evaluation criteria

As I've just set above, these will help us to correctly evaluate all propositions. It should be noted that they are semi-objective, meaning that I'm trying to evaluate them as objectively as possible, but subjective considerations unavoidably leave their mark since there is no fully objective way of determining certain factors. Besides, limiting myself to such an objective-only point of view would probably not be very helpful to you.

1. Amount of earnings (evaluated in US-Dollars)

This first criterion corresponds to the number of coins (sometimes each site has their own coin, sometimes they give a fraction of a token or a cryptocurrency) that can be gained by investing 2 hours of time per day. This time frame corresponds to a normal amount of time that a person with a full-time job can invest daily into a site without getting burned out too quickly. For example: 30 minutes during breakfest, 30 minutes during lunch, 1 hour after work. Of course, if you have more time on your hands you can invest more time into a site. That's where the second criterion comes into play.

2. Time to be invested (evaluated in minutes/hours)

The second criteria amount to the amount of time that must be invested into a website until a balance of 1$ is reached. This obviously depends on various factors, especially when talking about sites that allow you to do a wide variety of tasks that each take different amounts of time. We'll of course try to evaluate this as precisely as possible.

3. User friendliness (evaluated on a scale from 0 to 10)

This is is the most "straight-forward" (I say most, but it's still not that easy) criterion. It covers the user interface (how the page feels, how clear it is, how fast it is), ease of use and quality of customer support. 

My personal experience

The sole and biggest advantage of this guide is the addition of my personal experience. In all dfferent pages of this guide, my personal experience will be marked in yellow.

All-In-One Platforms

Websites that combine multiple aspects of zero-investment crypto earning: faucets, tasks, games, airdrops, staking, etc.

Cointiply Logo

A-I-O #1 Cointiply

"World first Bitcoin Reward platform" with over 3 million users (but no way to get a high resolution logo).

I'll be fully honest with you here: this is the most profitable platform if you start from nothing. The offer is huge: a faucet, PTC ads, videos, surveys and all kinds of offers.

Cointiply is one of these platforms that gives you all the tools in order to earn money relatively quickly, without bombarding you with ads. It uses it's own currency, fixed to the US-Dollar (10.000 coins are 1$). If you create yourself a good survey profile you can easily earn more than 1$ per day, and it takes a lot less time than clicking yourself through a huge load of advertisements. Only negative part is that the support is a little slow (they have a huge backlog). For more details, check out the detailed article here!

Guide Score
Amount of earnings : 1-10$
Time to be invested : 30 minutes (depending on survey availability)
User friendliness : 8/10