Review (August 2025)
Volunteer work in exchange for free accommodation and food on farms, backpacker hostels, lodges, horse stables and even sailing boats
1.3M
Estimated Revenue
187.58k
Website Visitors
3.9/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about HelpX?
What is HelpX's Revenue?
HelpX's estimated revenue for 2024 is $1.3M.
What does HelpX do?
volunteer work in exchange for free accommodation and food on farms, backpacker hostels, lodges, horse stables and even sailing boats HelpX is provided primarily as a cultural exchange for working holidaymakers who would like the opportunity during their travels abroad, to stay with local people and gain practical experience. In the typical arrangement, the helper works an average of 4 hours per day and receives free accommodation and meals for their efforts
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Helpx?
6/mo Traffic Growth
-1.80%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
188k
Time on Site
5.6Mins
Pages per Visit
6.0
Bounce Rate
38%
How fast is Helpx growing?
Helpx has grown by -57.9% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Helpx?
Last month, Helpx received 188k visitors who spent an average of 5.6 minutes on the website and visited 6.0 different pages per session. Overall, 38% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Helpx?
118k people (63%) visit Helpx directly. 49k (26%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 6.2k (3%) discover Helpx through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 8.2k (4%) visitors come from Helpx's email newsletters. Finally, 0 (0.0%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Helpx?
Helpx's top market is the Colombia and they receive 26k (13.9%) people.Then the 2nd is Germany with 22.7k (12.1%).The 3rd is is France with 19.8k (10.6%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What do Helpx's customers say about them?
Review Score
3.9/5
Total Reviews
5
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Anthony Frawley
These people below me are more-on$
Reviewed on 2021-05-23T20:09:36
These people below me are more-on$. I stayed on an almond farm for about 2 weeks. It was awesome.The specifics aren't always the same, but essentially you work 20 hours weeks. The host provides your meals and a place to sleep. Sometimes it's a house, sometimes it's land for your trailer, etc. Sometimes you will get people you don't like. Not everyone will be honest. It's how real jobs work too for you people that like to think everything is slavery. God you people are dumb.
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Romana Vlcek
Wonderful experiences
Reviewed on 2021-05-07T14:26:04
I have had many helpx helpers over a period of many years, while I was running an animal and olive farm in South Australia (until October 2017),and I have always had only the very best experiences with the young people who stayed with us. Most of them were French and between 25-35 years old, and I stayed in contact with many of them and watched their further journeys via Facebook long after they left. Now back in Europe and going towards retirement, I consider becoming a Helpx volunteer myself when I start travelling. I am currently a TrustedHousesitter which is similarly rewarding (free accommodation in return for house and pet sitting while the owners are away), but Helpx additionally provides you two-legged company, interesting work experiences and the adventure of trying local homemade cuisine!
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Oliver Spaether
My problems with helpx customer care…
Reviewed on 2020-06-09T21:46:53
My problems with helpx customer care started with my third membership renewal that being a host.This dates back one month now and I am still waiting for the approval. Helpx being known to be over the top prestigious neglects the following standards of good practise;
+ clear and easy to find contact information (haehae; there is no fixed abode address provided, an indicator of paranoya)
+ personalized and mailed response messages to user enquiries
+ selectively chosen hosts or lack of provision of explanatory statement for declination of hosting profile approval
+ refund if approval is not granted (detracted)
Basically, helpx having become the showcase for Modern Slavery Act implementations into micro farm businesses strategies. This typical British cast mentality helper = worker and host = landlord is providing satisfying evidence after 2plus previous and consecutive membership periods in wipeboy and shithead go throughs until to the end, that a return of investment to the helper in terms of a recognition of achievements after successful completion of his and her journeyman's travels as an underdog is not constituent of the makers membership board mission and his and her choice of hosts. I hope this is clear even to those Englishmen that teach English to foreign helpxers on their premises; the lead (equilibrium) of Modern Slavery Act translation in its most positive and recommendable terms and the abuse of Modern Slavery Act Information by maximum utilization of its premonished greyzones is unbalanced towards servitude,it tips towards its own opposite by greed. Whereas a plentitude of host appear very educated in the academic, humanistic and Chistian tradition, utilising an axiom of choice that's arbitrarily approving some few favourized host whilst neglecting other with comparable potential and skills (such as me?!), spotlights the boards ambition with incredibility. Such British casts are trained down at early age and such is part of my profession, correspondingly, not satisfied with the progress at the finalization phase (-->)
This is not the last word and the reader remains encouraged to add his experiences and the volunteering platform provider his and her response to this challenge for course correction.
I do tick the box 'Let Helpx know about your review.'
Many thanks
Oliver
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Elise
Very nice
Reviewed on 2020-02-25T07:48:50
Very nice. Clear website. We as hosts never had problems with helpx.
catweazle
Stay Away
Reviewed on 2019-06-17T07:15:25
This organisation is extremely unprofessional. I worked as a helper and a host tried to exploit and abuse me,which I reported to them and they did not even react to my notification. It appears that none of the hosts are vetted, so needless to say there are many that do not abide by the rules and exploit foreign travelers. HelpX does not care, because if they did, they would not get the membership fees from the hosts anymore.
My impression is that they are very unprofessional and that website is run by a crook, who just wants to collect membership fees.
STAY AWAY and DO NOT ENTRUST YOUR NAME OR MONEY TO THIS SCAM WEBSITE.
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