If you have to go to the grocery store every once in a while and you are a broke college student, Ibotta is the free app you are looking for.

After registering with the app, you are taken to a screen with four separate products. Under each product is a red button with the words “Earn” and so many dollars. By swiping to the right or left, you are able to see around 40 products, dependent on the week.

When you click the earn button, you are given small assignments that range from “Take a Poll” to “Learn a Fact,” to sharing your experience and how-to guides. After participating in each assignment (which cumulatively take less than a minute), you earn anywhere from a quarter to a dollar, depending on the individual product. But here is the catch: You haven’t really earned the money yet.

The app is clever in that you may answer as many polls or testify as many times to various products to earn money, but you do not earn anything until you buy the product itself. It involves going to the store, purchasing the product, taking a picture of the receipt and scanning the barcode on the product itself.

For example, I am scrolling through, and I see Eggland’s Best Eggs. I buy eggs at the grocery store every week, so I know I will be buying some. I am given the option to watch a video and earn 25 cents and then take a poll and earn 25 cents. I do both and the total of 50 cents is added to my pending balance at the bottom of the page. After I buy the eggs, I click “Redeem” on the side panel and am directed to take a picture of the receipt. Next, I scan the barcode on the eggs. In less than an hour, I am given verification that my purchase went through and the 50 cents that was pending is now confirmed and in my Current Earnings.

After acquiring $10, you are able to withdraw cash using PayPal. Ibotta also dedicates special offers to certain stores — you can get some goods at Target, Walmart or Sam’s Club that you cannot get anywhere else but those individual places.

Overall, I have enjoyed Ibotta. I wish it was updated with more than two items every week, though I understand the marketing strategies that make it win-win. It seems time-consuming, but when I remember that this is already money in my pocket since I have bought those products, it is fairly easy.

Products range from frozen foods to cookies to Kool-Aid to styling products, and I have even seen Blu-rays (Barbie Blu-rays, but Blu-rays no less). In two weeks of grocery shopping at about $40 per trip, I have earned $6. To some that may not seem worth it. However, knowing that at the end of the month I will have an extra 10 dollars to spend on a meal at Einstein’s is totally worth it.