New Gig App Provider Ranking Shows Reassuring Steadiness in the Gig Economy

Almost everyone wants a steady gig. That’s the dream. Do gig apps supply these? Kind of, yes.

Perusing the latest PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Gig Economy Apps, you can see a person hitching their wagon (or Prius) to any of these powerful brands and gigging the night away. Not the same way that, say, a blues guitarist would gig the night away, but you get the general idea.

Driving more mileage from the “steady gig” gag, this is one of those ranking updates that goes by fast — it’s like a 23-second read — because almost no one has changed position. “Steady.”

Technically that makes the joke about “steady gig apps” but let’s not get distracted like a bunch of English majors at a camp for easily distracted English majors. We’ve got a ranking. Focus up.

The Top 5

It’s happy times and fast deliveries for the Uber Driver app, staying put at No. 1.

Coming up on their right rear bumper at No. 2 is DoorDash, hungrily eyeing the No. 1 spot.

The Instacart Shopper app remains in its comfortable No. 3 position. Or is it aisle 3?

What keeps things moving while not moving itself? Obviously the answer is the Amazon Flex app, unmoved at No. 4 even as indie contractors use it for a wealth of delivery options.

At No. 5 for another cycle, we’ve got the Fiverr app, accessing its large online marketplace for freelance services. The trick is to keep busy. Fiverr knows what we’re talking about.

The Top 10

Down below the Top 5 line, things look pretty much the same as last month, with two notable changes that we can’t tell you about yet.

Let’s begin at No. 6, a spot that the Grubhub for Drivers app has occupied for a few cycles.

At No. 7 it’s still the Upwork gig app. No change here.

Idling at No. 8 for another month it’s the Lyft Driver app. Their new CEO hails from Amazon, so who knows what to expect from the ride-hailing service in 2022?

There’s no such thing as a small change in the Provider Ranking of Gig Economy Apps, so when TaskRabbit hops up one chart position to take No. 9, we think it’s a big deal.

Sometimes in the life of apps, a rabbit’s gain is an origami bird’s loss. Dropping a spot to No. 10 and taking us out of the Top 10 this month it’s the Freelancer app. What’s important to remember is that they stayed in the Top 10. To quote Metallica, “nothing else matters.”