A good cheat is this. I have an iPad and I use it and it works fine.
Here are the steps.
1. Have your sims free play game open
2. Click the home button once
3. Then click it twice
4. Hold down on the Simms free play app until a red minus sign appears and the icon starts to shake.
5. Press the red minus, exiting out of the game.
6. Go to your general setting
7. Change the date and time earlier, by a few hours and by a few years.
8. Go back to the Simms, but click the home button once it says connecting on the grey screen.
9. Go back to the general settings and switch the "set automatically back on"
10. Return to the Simms free play app and you should get money and it also makes all of your Simms inspired.
hope this helps.