Is HighFive legit?

Mostly. HighFive does pay some people every week to film their chores, through a real recording app, but it charges $14.99 before you can start, publishes no rate, and workers report pay cuts, bans and balances that vanished. The main risk is paying to start and then losing time or money: the $14.99 fee comes back only after 15 approved hours in your first 7 days, and workers describe rate cuts, account bans and no human to appeal to.

No. HighFive is a real company. We found no one impersonating HighFive as of October 27, 2026. The caution is about HighFive itself: it charges $14.99 before you can work, and the FTC calls paying to get a job a sure sign of a scam. If you still apply, do it only at highfivetasks.com and pay nothing beyond the one fee its agreement states.

Yes. Run by Vera AI Co, Inc. (d/b/a High Five) of West Hollywood, California, per its contractor agreement; disputes go to individual arbitration unless you opt out. Payouts: Through a payment processor, or by mailed check if the processor fails, per its agreement; the homepage names weekly, every-two-weeks and Monday schedules. Workers say cash-outs are requested on Mondays once past a minimum ($100 a period at first, later 10 recorded hours a week). Its site gives no rate. Workers on Reddit say it paid $13 an hour at launch and $10 from about August 2026, and an October App Store reviewer reports $6. You cash out on Mondays once past a minimum ($100, later 10 recorded hours a week, workers say), through a payment processor or, failing that, a mailed check.

Trustpilot 2.9/5 (2 reviews) · App Store (US), Minute Data recording app 3.0/5 (167 ratings), as read in October 2026. Praised: Some workers report real pay: one in the r/Scams thread got $351 for a first week, with the strap refunded in that check (August 2026), and another said Monday cash-outs landed 4 to 6 hours after the request. Criticised: Both reviews on its Trustpilot page give one star. In August 2026 one called the fee a scam; in October one in South Africa paid it, then learned the work is US-only, and says the refund they were told of never came.

July 2026: Weeks after launch, a long July 2026 r/Scams thread tracked HighFive moving from free head straps to straps sold at $9.99, rising to $24.99, and then a $14.99 platform access fee for newcomers, pitched on Zoom onboarding calls, some with over 200 people, and in texts from a bot called Ashley. The fee is written into its current agreement of October 8, 2026. August 2026: From about August 1, 2026, workers reported the hourly rate cut from $13 to $10, chore tasks removed from the app, and a cash-out minimum of $100 a pay period; by late August they described it as 10 recorded hours a week. October 2026: In October 2026 an App Store reviewer said the $10 rate quoted on the onboarding call fell to $6 an hour after a week of recording, and another said the hours needed before each cash-out rose from 4 to 6 and then 10.

We found no one impersonating HighFive as of October 27, 2026. The caution is about HighFive itself: it charges $14.99 before you can work, and the FTC calls paying to get a job a sure sign of a scam. If you still apply, do it only at highfivetasks.com and pay nothing beyond the one fee its agreement states.

A good fit: US residents with a supported phone who can film 15 approved hours in their first week to win back the fee, and who treat this as small, unsteady side income. A poor fit: Anyone outside the US, anyone who cannot afford to lose the fee or a balance to a ban, and anyone who wants a published rate and a person to appeal to.