About & methodology: SweepstakeReport

What we cover

Our rankings cover mobile sweepstakes apps with a genuine no-purchase entry route: six ranked, eleven reviewed, not ranked. If no public rules page or official source we opened confirms that route, it does not ship. Separately, the casino fact pages publish the facts of the sweepstakes casinos the SweepstakeReport Terminal lists, with no grade or rank.

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Our rankings cover mobile sweepstakes apps with a genuine no-purchase / free alternate method of entry. Currently six ranked apps, plus eleven apps we reviewed and declined to rank, each with a written note on the reviewed-not-ranked page. Separately, the casino fact pages publish the facts of the sweepstakes casinos the SweepstakeReport Terminal lists, with no grade or rank.

Update, September 25, 2026: the count was seven until September 25, 2026, when WinnerWinner, Amin Drops and rafl were reviewed and added, not ranked, with dated notes on that page.

Update, September 26, 2026: iFiftyFifty was reviewed and added the same way, making eleven. If we cannot confirm NPN from a public rules page or an equivalent official source we opened, it does not ship.

Scope change, August 31, 2026: the site launched the same day as a mixed ranking of fifteen listings, fourteen of them legacy programs (magazine envelopes, house giveaways, loyalty drawings). After a census of the app category, we re-scoped the ranking to sweepstakes apps exclusively and reviewed every plausible candidate the census surfaced. The legacy research was fact-checked and remains published, frozen as researched, on the legacy programs page; the pivot note explains the decision.

NPN policy

No purchase necessary. A purchase does not improve odds. Void where prohibited. 18+ (some promotions are 21+). Official rules of each sponsor control. This site is not a sponsor, administrator, or partner of any promotion listed in our rankings. Every term this policy uses is defined plainly on the definitions page.

The rankings exclude gold-coin “sweepstakes casinos” and any product that requires buying coins, tickets, or merchandise to enter: Chumba, Pulsz, McLuck, Stake.us, Fortune Coins, LuckyLand, and similar. They also exclude apps that sell entries outright or sell coins that convert into entries in the same drawings free players enter, no matter what their rules claim about purchases not helping; apps whose official rules are unreachable on any live surface; and platforms that host third-party promotions without being the sponsor of record. The apps we reviewed and excluded are each written up with their evidence on the reviewed-not-ranked page. These exclusions apply to the rankings only: the SweepstakeReport Terminal and its casino fact pages list many of these casinos, with their facts and no grade, as the casino facts section below explains.

We do not fabricate statistics, prize dollar amounts, user counts, quotes, or ratings. App Store ratings of five people are not social proof. If a prize figure is not in a source we opened, we omit it.

How it makes money, and what it takes

Every listing answers one question before you sign up for anything: what does this take from you, and it can take more than one thing. Money means you can spend it here, on purchases, subscriptions or entries; attention means advertising is shown to you and the operator is paid for it; data means the operator earns from information about you, including anonymized or aggregated versions of it, by selling, sharing or licensing it. Nothing means no revenue path touches you at all, and where that is the answer we name who does pay. Labels use only those four words. Where an operator's money path sits outside the app, a website membership say, the label names what the app itself takes, and the line beside it says where the money is taken.

Every listing explains how the app makes money, citing only documents we opened, with dates. We never say a law was broken, print both sentences when marketing and binding documents disagree, and say when documents are silent. Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, carries the most findings and the longest section.

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Every listing carries a section headed "How it makes money, and what it takes." It exists because a free app is not a costless one, and a reader deciding whether to sign up is owed the answer before, not after. We research it from documents: store listings and the privacy declarations filed with them, official rules, terms, privacy policies, and the operator's own advertiser or partner pages. Every claim in the section cites a document we opened and the date we opened it, and we quote the operator's own words wherever the operator says it best. We do not characterize a company beyond what its documents say, we do not assert that any law has been broken, and we print no figure that is not in a source. Where a marketing page and a binding document disagree, we print both sentences and leave the weighing to the reader. Store privacy labels are the developer's own declaration and not a fact the store has checked, and Apple prints that caveat on the panel itself, so when we set a label against an operator's policy we are printing two of the operator's own statements side by side, not a store's verdict. Where the documents do not establish how an operator is paid, or who funds a prize, we say that the documents we opened do not say, and we treat that as a finding rather than a gap to fill with inference. The section runs on every listing, including Chance Infinite, which is operated by the company that publishes this site; its section is the longest of the six because it carries the most findings.

Letter grades

Alongside the 100-point editorial score, every listing carries a letter grade (A+ through F). Grades are researched from public sources as of August 31, 2026. Update, September 25, 2026: researched August 31, 2026, re-verified September 25, 2026. Update, October 1, 2026: re-verified October 1, 2026. A documented regulatory history (an FTC order, an attorneys-general settlement) caps the letter grade regardless of the 100-point total. They describe operator credibility and how easy the no-purchase path is, not a prediction of your odds.

A+ / A / A−: Established operator, easy no-purchase entry, credible prizes, clean public record.
B+ / B / B−: Legitimate NPN, but smaller prizes, seasonal/not always open, or extra friction (app, TV, login).
C+ / C / C−: Still a real NPN program, but a documented regulatory or dark-pattern history, or heavy purchase-adjacent marketing.
D / F: The rankings do not include those (fake, illegal, or purchase-required).

Methodology

We score only promotions that publish a genuine no-purchase / free alternate method of entry. Each score is editorial, not a poll. We do not invent dollar amounts, user counts, or star ratings. If a public source is thin, the score falls.

Scores are editorial judgments on a 100-point scale:

Free-entry purity: 30 points. Can you enter without paying, and is that path actually usable? Mail/email AMOE and tickets-never-sold score highest. Word-of-the-day telecasts score lower. Coin shops score zero and are excluded.
Rules transparency: 20 points. Named sponsor, readable official rules, published winners or a verifiable draw, honest about what the math does not prove.
Prize credibility: 20 points. Itemized ARV in rules, public winner record, cash actually paid. Marketing banners without rules support do not count.
Operator track record: 15 points. Longevity, independent public record, regulatory history. A new operator can still rank well on other axes.
Entry experience: 15 points. Can a person find the free path without being herded into a cart? App quality is a plus; dark patterns are a minus.

Ties break on free-entry purity, then rules transparency; a non-functional app can still rank if its rules are public. Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, totals 81 (A-) but trails Coinnect on prize credibility and track record: three small prizes, payment claimed only by the operator, and a new company.

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Ties on the 100-point total are broken by free-entry purity, then rules transparency; apps still level on both share the rank. An app that is listed but non-functional can still rank if its governing rules are public; its status is labeled unavailable and its entry-experience score reflects reality. Chance Infinite is scored as a first-class entry: it leads the ranked field on free-entry purity and rules transparency, and it does not lead on prize credibility or operator track record, because the public winner record, as of August 31, 2026, shows two $100 prizes and the company is new. Its letter grade is A− for the same reason.

Update, September 25, 2026: the public winner record now shows three completed contests, $100, $100 and $200. The winners page (luckincorporated.com/winners, retrieved September 25, 2026) reads “Drawn September 21, 2026 · weighted random draw over 8,659 entries · winner contacted and paid in full.” That payment claim is the operator stating it about itself, on its winners page only; the public feed carries no paid field, and no independent confirmation of payment exists. Prize credibility moves from 10 to 11 and rules transparency from 19 to 18 (the reasons are itemized on the grade-rationale page), so the total stays 81 and the letter grade stays A−: the payout record is still three small prizes with no independent confirmation of payment, and the company is still new. It still does not lead on prize credibility or operator track record: Coinnect outscores it on both, 12 to 11 and 10 to 8. Chance Infinite is operated by Luck Incorporated LLC, the publisher of this site.

Our verification practice, corrections policy, public corrections log, and standing re-review commitments live on the editorial standards page. It describes our verification practice, corrections policy, and the public corrections log.

Responsible play

Sweepstakes are chance. Odds depend on eligible entries. Do not pay anyone to collect a prize. Do not give a gift-card code to a “prize officer.” If an 18+ simulated-gambling game loop stops being a way to earn a free ticket and starts being the reason you open the app, close it. Help resources in the U.S. include the National Council on Problem Gambling (ncpgambling.org) and 1-800-GAMBLER.

Ownership

SweepstakeReport is published by Luck Incorporated LLC (Luckinc LLC), the company that operates Chance Infinite, which appears in these rankings. That is a conflict of interest, and we handle it in the open rather than pretending it away: Chance Infinite is graded with the same public rubric as every other listing, every deduction is itemized on the grade-rationale page, and nothing in its listing relies on a claim you cannot check against the sources it cites. Treat that listing as the publisher reviewing its own product, and read it with extra scrutiny.

The site has one editor, Kyle Lewis, the founder of Luck Incorporated. Every article and review here is published under his name and responsibility; the editor page records who he is, how the desk works, and exactly where its conflict of interest lives.

SweepstakeReport is not affiliated with Publishers Clearing House or PCH Digital, 2Pens Media, GAMEE or its parents, Warner Bros. Discovery, AARP, Hearst, IKEA, QVC, Trusted Media Brands, People Inc., Hallmark Cards, Utz Quality Foods, The Coca-Cola Company or Hallmark Media. Other than its publisher, SweepstakeReport is not owned or run by any operator we rank or review. Listings are not paid placements, except the Underrated list on the app database page, which holds only partner casinos (casinos that pay us a commission through an affiliate network) and says so; no operator, including our publisher, can buy a grade. Some casino links in the SweepstakeReport Terminal, on the app database page and on its fact sheets are partner links, as the next section explains.

Funding and partner links

The SweepstakeReport Terminal, the publisher's free tool for people who already use sweepstakes casinos, sells nothing. Some casinos, through affiliate networks, may pay us a commission when someone signs up or buys at the casino after following a link from the Terminal, from the casino lists on the app database page or from the Web link on its fact sheets. On the app database page and its fact sheets, a click on a casino with a partner offer goes through its partner link every time, whether or not the person has a Terminal account, unless partner links are off for their state. SweepstakeReport sets no cookie on these clicks; a partner network's own pages may set their own. In the Terminal, a partner link is used only the first time a signed-in person opens a casino there, unless partner links are off for their state; after that first visit the Terminal never uses it again. Partner status never changes a ranking, a grade, the order of the Terminal's lists or its directory, any estimate or any sign-up bonus. A casino in the Terminal is not a recommendation and gets no grade; SweepstakeReport's scored rankings do not cover casinos. The Terminal's terms, section 9, and privacy notice, section 3, give the details.

Casino facts

The casino fact pages publish the facts of the 233 sweepstakes casinos the SweepstakeReport Terminal lists: each casino's daily login bonus and its reset, the sign-up bonus, the redemption minimum and the states its own terms exclude, each with its source and the date it was checked. They do not grade, rank or recommend any casino; the rankings on this site cover sweepstakes apps only. How these facts are checked. The app database page is different: it names casinos in three lists, each casino with its key facts. Our picks are the editor's personal favorites. Most popular lists the casinos whose websites place highest on the Tranco list, a public research list of website popularity, so its order reflects how popular a casino's website is, not how good the casino is. Underrated lists lesser-known partner casinos only. Every casino there that was a partner on the date the page shows carries a Partner label.