New Gig App Provider Ranking Works Wonders With Startling Switch-ups

What’s your gig? Driver? Videographer? Blogger? Personal shopper? It’s a long list.

Here in the gig economy, people don’t sit around waiting for the phone to ring or the email to arrive. They tap on an app and it’s all there — a self-contained world with all the info you need to bring your talents and abilities to the party — with a joy that only freelancers fully grasp.

In that happy spirit we give you the latest edition of PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Gig Apps.

This is our gig, and we think it’s pretty important. This month’s ranking is extra special in that we’ve got a new name at the very top, it’s a big one, and that doesn’t often happen.

Pull over for this 3-minute read on who’s up and who’s down in the gig app giddyap.

The Top 5

Sound the trumpets. It’s a historic moment (at least for this ranking) as the Uber Driver app moves up one spot to take No. 1. Shouts of joy are echoing through Silicon Valley as we write.

Elsewhere in the Bay Area, longtime king of this ranking DoorDash, may not be celebrating its new rank of No. 2, but these things clearly change without notice. Don’t stop door-dashing.

The Instacart Shopper app is chill at No. 3, perhaps in aisle 5 having a cupcake.

Amazon Flex is also unchanged, still found at No. 4.

We love funny typos and numerical oddities, which explains our tireless amusement at the fact the Fiverr app keeps holding at No. 5. Get it? You may be less entertained. It’s quite subjective.

The Top 10

Another big gainer this cycle is the Grubhub for Drivers app, motoring up three chart positions to grab No. 6 this month. We were expecting some movement on this one — and move it did.

The Upwork app has no trouble keeping the No. 7 spot. If only all gigs were that steady.

Meanwhile, in another part of San Francisco, Lyft Driver is putting it in reverse, tumbling two chart positions since last month to park it at No. 8 this time around. Happens to the best.

Also dropping — one chart position in this case — is the Freelancer app, to No. 9. As we like to remind all app contestants, staying in the Top 10 is a victory, whether you’re up or down.

Taking us out at No. 10 as it did last month we’ve got the TaskRabbit app, recently featured in our closely-followed Disbursements Tracker. It’s definitely worth a look.

That concludes this installment of Provider Ranking of Gig Apps. Until next time, good gigging.