Guaranteed pennies versus an uncertain skill
Survey apps are the most certain option on this list and also the lowest. You complete a survey or task and receive a small, fixed reward almost immediately. There is no skill curve and essentially no risk — but the pay is minimal and rigidly capped by the hours you are willing to spend, with no path to more.
Clipping is the opposite trade. It is uncertain and depends on the views your clips receive, but it develops a real skill with a ceiling survey apps do not have, and a good clip can keep earning after you have stopped working on it.
Where survey apps genuinely win
If you want the surest possible small income for spare minutes, with zero learning curve and instant gratification, survey apps deliver exactly that. There is no audience to build and no clip that might flop — you are paid the stated amount for the completed task.
But the model has no leverage: every unit of income requires a fresh unit of time, and the rate is low by design. Clipping asks you to accept uncertainty in exchange for a much higher ceiling and the chance that one clip does the work of many.