If you're searching for an app you used to earn with — and finding the website is gone, the payouts have stopped, or the app store listing is dead — this page tells you what actually happened and where to move your time. None of the alternatives below pay me a referral kickback to be listed first. They're ranked by what's actually paying in 2026, based on personal accounts and real cashouts.
If you're looking for a complete platform directory, see the main reviews. If you want to skip directly to the bandwidth-sharing alternatives, see the passive income guide.
Discontinued / no longer paying
Apps where existing balances are stuck, payouts have stopped, or the service has fully shut down.
What it was: A bandwidth-sharing app similar to Honeygain and Pawns.app. Users installed a desktop or mobile client, and the company paid them for routing a portion of their unused internet through its commercial network.
What happened: Service ceased accepting new users and stopped processing payouts. Existing users with balances reported being unable to withdraw. The official website is no longer functional as an active product.
If you used Peer2Profit: The closest functional replacements are Pawns.app (typically the highest-paying in most regions) and Honeygain (longest established). Both are personally tested and currently paying.
What it was: Marketed as a passive bitcoin-mining-as-a-service app where users earned crypto without investment. The original "free passive earning" model is no longer how the platform operates.
What happened: Gomining shifted toward a paid NFT-based mining model that requires upfront investment in mining-NFTs. The free passive earning model that originally drew users is no longer the core product.
What to use instead: If you want genuinely free passive crypto earnings, Pawns.app and Earn App both offer crypto cashout options. They pay in fiat-equivalent for bandwidth sharing rather than mining, but the result is the same: free crypto without buying anything.
What it was: A decentralized VPN network that paid node operators in MYST tokens for sharing bandwidth.
What happened: The consumer-side payout model for casual users effectively wound down — the network shifted toward enterprise and infrastructure use cases that aren't accessible to the average passive earner.
What to use instead: Standard bandwidth-sharing apps cover the same use case more reliably and pay out in cash or crypto without requiring node maintenance.
Renamed / rebranded — still paying
Apps people search for by their old names. They didn't shut down — they changed names.
What changed: IPRoyal Pawns was rebranded to Pawns.app. The product, payout system, and underlying bandwidth-sharing model are the same. Existing users were migrated automatically.
Status: Active and paying as of 2026. Pawns.app is consistently one of the highest-paying bandwidth-sharing apps in most regions.
What changed: EarnApp is now branded simply as Earn App and is part of the BrightData (formerly Luminati) ecosystem. The paid passive-earning model continues.
Status: Active. Pays via PayPal, with country-dependent rates.
The legitimate alternatives — ranked
If you came here looking for a working bandwidth-sharing or passive income app, these are the four that are personally tested and reliably paying in 2026, ranked by overall payout and reliability.
Highest payout per GB in most countries. Pays via PayPal, crypto, or gift cards. Cashout from $5. The successor to IPRoyal Pawns.
Longest payout track record in the space. Slightly lower per-GB than Pawns but rock-solid history. Cashout from $20 (PayPal/crypto).
BrightData's passive client. Per-GB rate varies by country. PayPal cashout from $2.50 (where supported).
Smaller-scale alternatives worth running alongside the top three for incremental earnings. Full breakdown on the passive income page.