Getting started.

Sweep Collector automates accounts you already have on third-party sweepstakes and sweeps-casino sites. A few real-world rules apply before you start, and importantly, we don't set any of them. Each site sets its own eligibility, so always check the site's official rules before you rely on it.

Age

You must be at least 18 to use Sweep Collector (see our Terms). The sites themselves set their own age minimums on top of that: most require 18 or older, and some require 21, in certain states or across the board.

Where you can play

Sweeps play is US-only for most sites (a couple also allow Canada), and each site excludes certain states. Washington is the most common, and the list has been growing through 2025–2026 as more states pass laws. We mirror each site's current rules in the table below for convenience, but they change often, so the site's own rules page (linked from its name) stays the authoritative source. Confirm your state is eligible there before you add a site.

Current as of July 2026. The linked rules are authoritative. "Min redemption" is the smallest prize you can cash out. Every site verifies your identity (KYC) before your first redemption.

What you need on your machine

• A desktop computer running macOS, Windows, or Linux. Sweep Collector is a native desktop app, not a cloud service.
• Google Chrome installed. Check-ins run in real Chrome, not a bundled browser.
• The machine on and awake when bonuses are due. By default, Sweep Collector can prevent system sleep while scheduled runs are enabled and the computer is plugged in, while still letting the display turn off. See How does the scheduler work? for the details.

Signing up at the sites

Register at each site with your real full name, address, email, and a strong password. Sweeps sites verify identity (KYC) before paying out prizes, so accurate details when you register save you a rejected redemption later. The encrypted credential records Sweep Collector stores remain on your machine; normal diagnostic text is scrubbed, with the temporary rich-capture exception disclosed in Privacy. See Where does your data live?.

Sweep Collector is a desktop app. It runs on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows, and Linux.

One prerequisite: Google Chrome. Check-ins run in a real Chrome window on your machine because a real browser is far less likely to be flagged than a bundled one. If you don't have it, grab it from google.com/chrome. The app checks for Chrome on its own and shows a banner with a download link if it's missing; install it and the banner clears by itself.

1. Hit Download on the home page and grab the build for your OS.
2. On macOS, open the .dmg and drag Sweep Collector.app into Applications. On Windows, run the .exe installer. On Linux, make the .AppImage executable (chmod +x) and run it.
3. Launch the app. The first time it runs it'll set up a local SQLite database under your user data directory and ask you to sign in.

Auto-updates ship through the same channel. Once the app is installed, new versions land in the background and prompt you to relaunch.

Accounts are managed through this website. The desktop app signs in against the same credentials.

1. Go to /signup and create an account with your email and a password.
2. Check your inbox for a verification email and click the link. Verified accounts can sign in to the desktop app.
3. Open /account and start a subscription. Checkout runs through Stripe; you pick the number of players (usually one) and the rest of the flow is standard card capture.

You can change the number of players, update your payment method, or cancel any time from the Manage subscription button. It opens the Stripe Customer Portal.

Once the app is signed in and you have an active subscription, the dashboard will show your catalog of supported sites. To get one running:

1. Pick a site from the catalog and click Add account.
2. Sweep Collector opens a real Chrome window (using your installed Chrome, not a bundled Chromium) for you to log in. Cookies persist in a per-site profile directory after that, so you only log in once.
3. Enter the credentials you want stored locally for re-login. Their encrypted database records remain on your machine; see Privacy for the temporary rich-capture exception involving binary session evidence.
4. The site's card on the dashboard now shows a schedule. Toggle Auto-run on and you're done.

Don't see a site you need? Email us. We add sites on request and the catalog ships through normal app updates.

Each site has a cadence baked into the catalog (typically every 25 hours for a daily-bonus claim that's gated on a 24-hour timer). The scheduler ticks every 30 seconds and fires jobs that are due.

• Jobs run while Sweep Collector is running. The app keeps a small browser context per site, drives Chrome through it, and records the run's logs and balance snapshot to the local database.
• Leave the app open on the machine that runs your schedules. On Windows and Linux, closing the window quits the app and stops scheduled runs. On macOS, closing the window keeps the app running in the Dock, so schedules keep firing until you quit.
• By default, Sweep Collector can keep the computer awake while schedules are enabled and the machine is plugged in. Your display can still turn off. You can disable this in Settings, or turn off the plugged-in-only guard if you intentionally run from battery.
• If your machine is asleep when a job is due, the run is deferred; overdue jobs run on wake the next time the scheduler ticks. There's no make-up window for runs missed while the app was quit; a missed cycle is just one missed cycle.
• You can run a job ad-hoc from the site card's Run now button at any time.

Run history lives on the site detail panel: open the card, scroll the activity list, and you'll see every claim with timestamps, the resulting balance, and a log download for the curious.

A player is one real person and their set of site accounts: one gains.com login, one chumba login, and so on. Most people start as a single player.

When more than one person shares a computer, each one gets their own player. Say you and your partner both play, or it's you and a roommate, or a parent and an adult child. Add a player for each person and Sweep Collector keeps every login, cookie, Chrome profile, and balance history sealed off from the others on the same PC. Nobody can open, watch, or touch anyone else's accounts. The household dashboard adds everyone's balances together, and an earnings filter lets each person see just their own.

Each player runs on one active machine at a time, so a household's players usually all run on the same shared PC. You register a player to a machine, and you can move it to another one or release it whenever you want.

On the billing side, one player is one license, one seat on your subscription. Two people means two players. See Pricing for the rate, and change the number of players any time from the billing portal.

A player is always for a distinct real person with a single account per site. It is never a way to run more than one account at the same site. Every site treats one person holding multiple accounts on the same site as a ban-worthy signal, so the app deliberately does not support it.

Sweep Collector is local-first. The split between what's stored on the server and what stays on your machine:

On the server (this website's Worker and database)

• Your account email, hashed password, and email verification status.
• Billing state: Stripe customer and subscription IDs, quantity (player count), period dates. No card numbers; that's all Stripe.
• License rows that link each player to your account (one row per active player, plus a device-binding fingerprint so the desktop app knows it's activated).

On your machine (local SQLite and per-site Chrome profiles)

• Site credentials, encrypted with your OS keychain via Electron's safeStorage (the same primitive 1Password and Slack use). Stored as opaque blobs.
• Cookies, localStorage, and IndexedDB for each site, kept in a per-site Chrome profile directory under your user data folder.
• Balance history, run logs, and schedule state, all in a single SQLite file next to the database.

No analytics, no tracking on the desktop app or the marketing site. The desktop app sends structured crash events and broken-site text diagnostics to Sentry, so we can fix what breaks; credentials and other known-sensitive fields are scrubbed before that text is sent. The Worker handles authentication/billing and receives authenticated diagnostic uploads when that feature is active; temporarily armed rich captures can contain binary session evidence that cannot be text-scrubbed. See our Privacy Policy for the full breakdown.

Want it gone? /account has a Danger Zone that deletes your account, cancels the Stripe subscription, and removes the server-side rows. The desktop app's data is yours to remove from your user data directory when you're done with it.

Email support@sweepcollector.com with anything: bugs, site requests, billing questions, "is this broken or am I doing it wrong." We read every message.