Lox Club charges for membership in three plan lengths: three months, six months or twelve months. There is no monthly option. Its FAQ lists the fee for each length, and the in-app purchase screen shows the price you will actually pay on the day you buy. Accepted members pay through the Apple or Google in-app payment system. Every plan renews automatically for the same period until you cancel it. So before you worry about the number, understand the shape. You are choosing a commitment of at least three months, and it rolls over unless you stop it. That is not how swiping on a free dating app works.

Three lengths, no monthly plan

The FAQ lays out three options and says there is no monthly plan. The shortest commitment Lox Club offers is three months.

That matters more than the fee itself. On a lot of apps you can pay for one month, look around and leave. Here the smallest bet is a season, so it is worth deciding up front whether you will actually use a season of it.

Checking the exact price

The fees for each plan are listed in Lox Club's FAQ. The number that counts is the one on the purchase screen in the app when you buy, because that is what Apple or Google will charge you.

Prices on any dating app can change, and figures repeated on forums and in old articles are often stale. Check the source on the day, and read what the plan length includes before you tap.

You pay after you are accepted, through the app store

Lox Club's terms say accepted members pay through the Apple or Google in-app payment system. Two things follow from that.

First, you pay after the membership committee admits you, not as part of applying. Second, your subscription lives with Apple or Google. That is where you will manage it and where you will cancel it: the subscriptions under your Apple ID on an iPhone, or Google Play on Android.

It renews for the same length

The terms say subscriptions auto-renew for the same period until canceled. That detail is easy to skim past and expensive to miss.

A three-month plan renews for another three months. A twelve-month plan renews for another twelve. If you buy the long plan and forget about it, the renewal is a full year, not a single month you barely notice.

So the day you buy, set a calendar alert for a week before the plan rolls over. That way the renewal is a decision you make on purpose. If you decide not to continue, cancel through the store you paid with well ahead of time, not on the morning it renews.

How to choose a length

Choose by your calendar, not by whichever option looks like the best deal.

If you have never used Lox Club, the three-month plan is the trial. It is long enough to learn whether the women on it in your city are the women you want to take out, and short enough that a wrong guess is not costly.

A longer plan makes sense once you have tried it, know it produces dates for you, and expect to be around to use it. Before committing to six or twelve months, look at what is coming. A stretch of heavy travel, a move or a big project at work is time you will pay for and barely use.

Is it worth paying for

a dating coach is blunt about paying for dating. He thinks men are far too reluctant to spend anything, and that the reluctance costs them. If a paid app is where the women you want are, and your time is worth something, the fee may be the cheap part of the equation.

His other advice is to try a thing once rather than argue about it. A single shortest plan, used properly, will tell you more than any amount of reading. Judge it by one number, the evenings it put on your calendar, and ignore how many likes you sent.

Get ready before you pay

The three months begin the day you buy, whether or not your photos are any good yet. So do the free work first.

Pick photos from the last year, sharp enough to see your eyes, from a few different days and places. Write a couple of lines about your week that a woman could actually picture. Then treat the membership like the investment it is. Reply to women the same day. Open with a question about something she actually wrote. When the back-and-forth is easy and she is asking you things too, name a place and an evening. If the plan puts a few good evenings on your calendar, it paid for itself. If it leaves you with a stack of chats that never went anywhere, no price would have been low enough.