The idea here is that a mobile’s home screen is an excellent place to advertise to the smartphone users. Users watch their home screens every once in a while, which means that any ad placed on the home screen will surely be viewed. Locket has been launched on Thursday and is currently available for Android phones alone.

The good thing about Locket is that it pushes out specific ads to your home screen. You are initially required to provide certain details such as age, gender and location. Once Locket app has these details, it puts only relevant ads on your home screen.

However, viewing these ads pays very little. The app will pay you one penny for a single view, and currently it caps the total sum at three pennies per hour. It will take you months of viewing the ads before you pile up even a small sum, which can then be received through PayPal.

The idea here is not to make you rich but simply offer something in place of nothing. While conventionally, you swipe through home screen without even noticing anything, you can now spare a second to view an ad and you get paid for that.

According to Yunha Kim, the co-founder of the company, “At first many people say ‘I have enough ads in my life,’ but as soon as they see the application and the beautiful ads they don’t see them as ads.” Kim is very hopeful about the future of the app and is getting its ads from some of the Fortune 500 companies. You can download the app from this page.

Courtesy: ABC News

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Meet Locket, the app that pays you for unlocking your phone.

Locket is free and pays you just for having ads on your lock screen. With one swipe, you can either open the ad or unlock your phone the way you always do. No matter what, you get paid. Real money. Up to hundreds of dollars per year. (Featured on TechCrunch, ABC News, PCMag, Engadget and more.)

So what are you waiting for?

Download Locket and let that be the last time you unlock your phone without getting paid.