A new app that promises to pay people for their mobile phone call records, which are then used to train AI models , is becoming so popular that it's entered Apple's list of top-ranked free apps.

On Thursday, Neon was the fourth most popular iOS free app , ahead of Google, Temu and TikTok. It had earlier been as high as the No. 2 spot.

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Neon is available on iOS and Android . The company records users' outgoing phone calls and pays them up to $30 a day for regular calls or 30 cents a minute if the call is to another Neon user. Calls to non-Neon users pay 15 cents a minute. The app also offers $30 for referrals.

"You can cash out as soon as you earn your first ten cent

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