Can You Use Badoo on a PC?

Yes. Badoo has a website at badoo.com, and you can sign up and use it there as well as in the app. A subscription follows your account, so what you pay for on one device works on the others as long as you are logged into the same Badoo account.

Website sign-up works with a phone number, an email address or a Google account. Two of the app's options are missing. Facebook login is available only in the app, and Apple ID only on iOS.

That matters if you already have an account. If you first signed up with Facebook or Apple, you may not be able to use that same route on a computer. Check how you joined before you sit down to log in. A Google account, a phone number or an email address is the way in from a browser.

Once you are in, the website has the parts you would expect:

• A Profile, with the Settings gear.
• A Likes tab.
• Account settings, including Delete account and Log out.
• Payment and subscription settings, under Settings.

Those are the parts Badoo's help pages describe, and they are enough for the main jobs. You can look at who Liked you, change your settings and manage what you pay for. If a feature you use on your phone is not on that list, check the app before you assume the website has it.

You do not buy Premium twice. A subscription belongs to the account, so it works on the website and in the app alike while you are logged into the same account.

The website is also a convenient place to handle payments, since the payment and subscription settings sit under Settings there. If you ever want to cancel a subscription you paid for by card or PayPal, the website's Payment settings are one of the places Badoo points you to.

The website has a Likes tab, and it is the screen most worth opening. A Like is a woman telling you she is interested before you have said a word.

Answer those quickly, because interest fades. A short message that picks up one specific thing from her photos, and asks one easy question, is enough to start.

A keyboard makes typing easier, and some men like to use one for the longer parts of the job, such as reading through who Liked them with a bigger screen.

There is a trap in it, though. A full keyboard tempts a man to write more. a dating coach's method for getting a woman from an app to a real plan takes about four to seven short messages, and every one has a purpose. None of them is an essay. A long first message from a man she has not met reads as effort, and it asks her to answer at the same length. Keep it short: one specific thing about her, one easy question.

The woman you are writing to may well reply from her phone, between other things. A man who checks only from his desk at night can leave her waiting a day.

So treat the computer as a second screen and not the main one. Use the website for the settings and the browsing, and keep the app on your phone so you can answer when she writes.

The website has a Log out option under Account settings. Use it whenever you are on a computer that is not yours. A dating account left open on a work machine or a shared laptop is a risk you do not need.

If you are logging in from a browser for the first time and the sign-up route you used is missing, do not guess at passwords. Badoo does not use individual account passwords at all. It signs you in with a code or a linked account, so go back to the route you used when you joined.