What Are Coins?
Coins are build capacity, not currency. They decide how many premium widgets you can have unlocked at once. You never buy coins with cash, and they never convert to cash.
Coins are not money
Coins can’t be purchased, cashed out, or transferred. They’re simply a budget for unlocking premium widgets. Cash earnings from hosting ads are a completely separate system — see Earnings & payouts.
Where coins come from
Every plan includes a coin allowance:
| Plan | Coins included |
|---|---|
| Free | 50 |
| Pro | 500 |
| Premium | 1,500 |
You can also earn bonus coins through the referral program and occasional promotions. Internally your balance is tracked in three buckets — base (from your plan), bonus (promotions), and referral — but they all spend the same way.
How coins are spent
Premium widgets cost coins to unlock. When you install one, its cost is deducted from your available balance:
available = (base + bonus + referral) − coins currently in use
Free widgets — text, background, followers, timestamp, and more — cost nothing and always work, regardless of your coin balance.
Coins are refundable
Coins are a hold, not a purchase. Uninstall a premium widget and its coins return to your balance immediately — there’s no penalty and nothing is consumed. This means you can freely experiment: install a widget, try it on your banner, and remove it to get your capacity back.
Because coins refund on uninstall, the only thing your plan really limits is how many premium widgets you keep active at the same time — not how many you try.
Referrals
Share your referral link and you and the person who signs up each earn coins, up to a cap. See the referral section of your account for your personal link and current total.
Related
- Plans & billing — what each plan includes.
- Widgets overview — free vs. premium widgets and how installing works.