The rest of the field · Researched 2026-08-31
Reviewed, not ranked
A ranking is only as honest as its exclusions. We reviewed every sweepstakes app our census surfaced as a plausible candidate. Seven did not make the list. Here is each one, with the evidence, so you can check our work.
Three grounds appear below, and each note names which one applies. Purchase-tied: money buys entries, or buys something that converts into entries, in the same drawings free players enter. Not verifiable: the official rules, or the conduct of the advertised drawings, cannot be opened and checked anywhere live. Defunct: the service is dead. Gold-coin casinos (Chumba, Pulsz, McLuck, Stake.us, Fortune Coins, LuckyLand, and kin) are excluded categorically and are not re-litigated here; see the gold-coin explainer.
Every quote below is from the named app's own rules, store listing, or operator site as retrieved on August 31, 2026, or from the archived copy cited. If an operator fixes the disqualifying condition, we will re-review; the methodology page explains how.
WYN Sweepstakes: sells the entries it says will not help
Ground: purchase-tied. WYN (WYN Sweep LLC, a 2026 Wyoming LLC) sells entries directly. The App Store lists in-app purchases from "500 Entries" at $0.99 up to "15,000 Entries" at $9.99, plus three membership tiers whose own rules describe automatic daily entry allocations. The Play listing advertises "boosting your odds with entry packs".
The contradiction is inside the operator's own rules document. Section 2 states a purchase will not increase your chances of winning; section 5.C sells entry bundles; and the odds section concedes that additional entries increase the number of chances to win. Both sides of that cannot be true of a product that sells entries, and there is no mail-in alternate method anywhere in the rules; the free route is a daily claim inside the same app. This is exactly the commercial tie our policy excludes, stated in the product's own documents.
Scale for context: about 259 iOS ratings and roughly 1,000-plus Play installs as of the research date; payout reports are self-reported store reviews only. Sources: App Store listing id6756941936 (IAP list); Play listing com.mycompany.wynsweep1; wynsweep.com/officialrules (Last Updated March 2026), all retrieved 2026-08-31.
Play To Win: coins upstream of entries
Ground: purchase-tied. Play To Win (PlayChannel Inc., Glen Cove, New York) is a coin-bet slots and bingo app whose own rules connect the chain: each spin of the slots machine, regardless of bet, earns sweepstakes entries (a 1-in-4 chance per spin in the daily rules; one entry per spin in the instant-win rules). Coins are sold for money ($2.99 to $9.99 packs, plus VIP tiers to $39.99), coins buy spins, and spins generate entries into the same drawings free players enter. The store also sells "Golden Tickets", which the current release notes describe as entry tokens for its prize tournaments.
To its credit, the rules include a real, unlimited mail-in free entry (a hand-printed card per stamped envelope), and dated 2026 reviews report small cash wins paid by PayPal alongside a minority of unpaid-balance complaints. But a mail AMOE does not undo a product where purchased coins mint entries; that is the bundling our policy draws the line at. We also flag an eligibility floor of seventeen years old in the rules, below the 18+ norm for this category, and two different mail-in addresses in the same rules document.
Scale for context: 5M+ Play installs, 75.4K reviews at 4.2; iOS 3,772 ratings at 4.43; both builds updated August 2026. Sources: App Store listing id1487256444 (IAP list); Play listing net.playtowingames.casino; support.playtowingames.net sweepstakes rules (edited 2024-11-25), all retrieved 2026-08-31.
SpinToWin: a $5 fee to receive your prize
Grounds: purchase-tied, and pay-to-claim terms with a worsening payout record. SpinToWin (sponsor of record: LTV Games LLC, San Francisco) has the same structural problem as Play To Win: coin packs are sold ($4.99 to $19.99, plus a $1.99 "Extra Daily Bonus Spin" and weekly VIP subscriptions), and the rules award sweepstakes entries per slots spin, so purchased coins sit upstream of entries.
Then the rules go somewhere we have not seen anywhere else in this field: a $5.00 processing fee, payable to the sponsor via PayPal in advance, to transfer a prize (waived only when the accumulated balance exceeds $5.00), and a $5 per month maintenance fee deducted from prize balances after a year. Our standing advice is that legitimate sweepstakes never charge a winner to collect. Here the charge is written into the official rules. On top of that, we found seven distinct dated reports of unpaid cashouts from 2024 through May 2026, clustering after an ownership change, on an app whose Android build has not been updated since August 2023. Historical payouts appear real; the current record does not support listing it.
Scale for context: 500K+ Play installs at 4.0; iOS 10,874 ratings at 4.45; operator chain has churned (Spin to Win, Inc. of Waltham, MA, then Fuzzy Button Games Inc. as iOS seller, then LTV Games LLC as sponsor since at least November 2021). Sources: App Store listing id830842541 (IAP list); Play listing net.spintowinslots.androidnew; the official rules at http://rules.spintowinslots.net/mobile/info/spintowin_rules/ and terms at /spintowin_terms/ (the domain serves plain HTTP only), retrieved 2026-08-31; archive.org for the sponsor history.
Vast Giveaway: a venue, not an operator
Ground: not attributable as one program. Vast (Vast LLC, vast.gg) is a giveaway-hosting platform: brands and creators author campaigns, and each campaign's auto-generated rules name a Sponsor/Manager of record, usually the third-party creator or brand. Some campaigns' rules name Vast itself (on our research date, the M80 x Hellcase hardware giveaway and Method's RWF Venomous Abyss giveaway both did), while the per-campaign disclaimer in the same rules template states Vast is not responsible for the management, execution, prize fulfillment, or legal compliance of hosted campaigns. What does not exist is a standing first-party sweepstakes program: no unified rules page, no prize-funding disclosure, no winner record, just a rotating catalog of template-ruled promotions with different prize partners. There is nothing our rubric can score as one program; ranking Vast would be ranking a bulletin board.
One caution worth printing for readers who use it: despite no-purchase-necessary boilerplate in the campaign template, at least one live campaign we opened awarded bonus entries for paid actions (subscribing to a sponsor's Twitch channel), and a live campaign on the research date was co-branded with Hellcase, a CS:GO case-opening site. On a hosted platform, the free-entry promise is only as good as each campaign's sponsor. Read the specific campaign's rules every time.
Scale for context: the iOS app (id6761522423, Vast LLC) shipped May 2026 with zero ratings; the web platform has hosted several hundred giveaways over 2-plus years. Sources: vast.gg terms and conditions, per-campaign rules pages, App Store listing, all retrieved 2026-08-31.
Robin: rules nobody can currently read
Ground: not verifiable. Robin (The Robin App, Inc. per its archived rules; Robin Tech, Inc. on the Play listing) is a young giveaway app whose store listings are live and whose binaries were updated in late June 2026. But the operator's entire legal domain, therobinapp.com, has returned an HTTP 402 payment-required error on every path since sometime after June 12, 2026, including the terms, privacy policy, and official rules links that the store listings and the operator's own host portal point to. The rules exist only in the Internet Archive.
Our listing bar is that we can confirm no-purchase entry from a public rules page we opened. An app whose rules are unreachable everywhere live, whose store reviews stop in January 2026, and whose draws have no visible evidence of being conducted does not clear that bar, regardless of the "No purchase necessary, EVER" promise in its store copy. If the operator restores its site, we will review it properly; the archived rules describe an eligibility floor of thirteen with parental consent, which we would also examine closely.
Scale for context: 11 iOS ratings, about 500 Play installs. Sources: App Store listing id6754417467; Play listing com.Liebman.Robin; therobinapp.com (HTTP 402, Vercel deployment-disabled body); archived rules at web.archive.org (captured 2026-04-21), all retrieved or verified 2026-08-31.
Wave: Sweepstakes Arcade, reviewed defunct
Ground: defunct. Wave (Upward Spiral Technologies, Inc.) was a free sweepstakes arcade that, by its most-helpful reviews, genuinely paid: a $150 PayPal transfer, a $50 gift card, a prize confirmed by a video call from the team. Its store listing is still live with 943 ratings at 4.8 and looks healthy at a glance. It is not. The app was last updated September 12, 2025; from October 2025 the review feed documents the collapse in real time: broken sign-ins, silent support, deleted accounts, drawing dates pushed back, the cash leaderboard quietly switched to coins. The operator's domain, joinwave.com, expired around early 2026 and is now listed for sale, while the still-live store listing links to it for its website, support page, and privacy policy.
We publish this note because the zombie listing is a trap: an app store page with a 4.8 rating whose operator has vanished. Do not spend time in it expecting a drawing.
Sources: App Store listing id6739902824 (last update 2025-09-12); joinwave.com (redirects to a domain-sale page); archive.org captures of the live site (through November 2025) and the expired-domain page (April 2026); dated store reviews October 2025 through March 2026. All retrieved or verified 2026-08-31.
Lucktastic, reviewed defunct
Ground: defunct. Lucktastic, the free scratch-card sweepstakes app launched in 2013 by Jump Ramp Games and acquired with it by MobilityWare in September 2019, retired on March 16, 2022; its final $1 million jackpot contest closed to entries on April 7, 2022, per the shutdown notice archived from its own homepage. Both store listings are delisted, and lucktastic.com now redirects to mobilityware.com. Nothing branded Lucktastic operates today. It appears here because it is still widely recommended by outdated roundup articles; if a page tells you to download Lucktastic in 2026, that page has not been fact-checked recently.
Sources: iTunes lookup for ids 976708161 and 1459529288 (both delisted); play.google.com com.lucktastic.scratch (404); archived shutdown notice (web.archive.org, April 2022 capture of lucktastic.com); MobilityWare acquisition press release (GlobeNewswire, September 3, 2019). All retrieved or verified 2026-08-31.
What would change these calls
WYN, Play To Win, and SpinToWin: remove the paid path into entries (and, for SpinToWin, the prize-transfer and maintenance fees), and each becomes rankable on its merits. Robin: restore the rules to a live URL. Vast: publish a standing first-party program, with its own rules page, prize-funding disclosure, and winner record, and it becomes reviewable. Wave and Lucktastic: nothing; the notes stand as history. Corrections and challenges are welcome; every claim above cites the document it came from.