Field Agent vs Gigwalk

Field Agent connects brands and retailers with people who gather information while shopping in stores or online. Its app offers audits, surveys, Buy & Trys, ratings and reviews, Eye Spys, scavenger hunts, and mystery shops. Agents reserve and complete a job, submit it for review, and receive cash after approval. Listed retail locations include Walgreens, 7-Eleven, Dollar General, Albertsons, McDonald's, Best Buy, Kroger, Target, Kohl's, Publix, Costco, and CVS. Supported countries include Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States. Field Agent provides Android, iOS, web, and API access; the API can create jobs, manage templates, launch projects, retrieve results, and optionally use webhooks. The app plan is listed at free. Registration is limited to people aged 18 or older. Field Agent says it encrypts information in transmission and does not sell users' personal information. It may use Plaid to verify bank information and Dwolla to send credit transfers to agents' financial-institution accounts. Denied submissions are not paid.

Gigwalk is a cloud-based work execution platform for collecting, validating, and acting on field data. Businesses can assign projects to their own teams or use a network of 1.7 million Gigwalkers. The workflow supports project creation, GPS-based worker matching, task execution, and real-time analysis. Mobile tools cover work assignment and scheduling, messaging, tracking, validation, and compliance. Consumer brands can measure shelf share and check display compliance; other listed uses include mystery shops, QSR audits, digital experience testing, safety checks, location surveys, and property inspections. Projects can use templates, dashboards, GPS-, time-, and date-verified work, photo analysis, and barcode scanning. The platform also supports image and video collection and annotation for AI training, plus APIs and webhooks for retrieving platform data in real time. The Gigwalker app runs on iOS and Android smartphones, not other devices. Business software pricing is available on request. The app is free to download, while individual Gigs pay $3 to $100 or more depending on the task. Payments go through PayPal after approved work, subject to a $35 minimum balance.