Is Plenty of Fish Premium Worth It?

Premium is worth it for one kind of man: the one who already gets some likes and replies on the free account and wants to stop missing the women who liked him. It is not worth it if nothing is happening on free, because it multiplies the result you already have. Test it for a single term with your numbers written down, and keep it only if they move.

Premium is the middle of the three paid tiers, above Plus and below Prestige. It carries everything Plus does, then adds two things. The first is Interested in Me, which shows you everyone who has liked you in one view. The second is read receipts, so you can see when a woman has opened what you sent.

The tiers change over time, so read the purchase screen before you pay and trust it over any list, including this one. What does not change is the shape of the thing. A paid tier adds reach and convenience. It does not change what a woman thinks once she looks at your page.

It pays off in one situation above all. Women are liking you, and you keep missing them. A woman who already liked you is the easiest conversation on the app, because she has said yes before you wrote a word. Seeing all of them in one place turns a few lost chances a week into a few extra chats.

It can also pay off for a busy man who wants to spend an evening answering women who are already interested, not searching for new ones. The time saved is real.

Both cases have the same condition. You are already getting a response. Premium removes friction from something that works.

If nobody is liking you on the free account, Interested in Me shows you an empty list. Read receipts then only tell you who ignored you, which is a way to feel worse without learning anything.

a dating coach's rule for every dating app is that a paid feature multiplies what you already have. A man with likes and replies gets more of both. A man with nothing gets nothing, shown to more people. Paying cannot repair weak photos or a page with no specific line in it.

Read receipts carry a trap of their own. Seeing that she opened your message and stayed silent makes a man send a second one, or lose an evening to guessing. Both make things worse. If you pay, note the receipt and move on to the next woman.

Before you pay anything, give the free account two proper weeks. The free tier already covers a lot. Search works at every membership level, Meet Me lets you like and pass, and a mutual match gives you unlimited messaging.

Use a clear lead photo of your face in daylight, a page with one specific line, and a distance you would honestly travel on a weeknight. Like only the women you would be glad to hear from, and write to each one the same day. Count likes sent, matches, replies and dates planned.

If those numbers are weak, change one thing, usually the lead photo, and count again. That costs nothing and tells you whether Premium has anything to multiply.

If the free account gives you a few real conversations and you wish you could see who liked you, a short stretch of Premium is a fair experiment. Make it a clean one.

1. Write down your free numbers for the last two weeks.
2. Buy the shortest term on offer.
3. Change nothing else while it runs. If you rewrite your page the same night you upgrade, you will not know which change did the work.
4. Answer everyone who liked you within a day.
5. At the end, compare dates planned, not likes seen.

Put the renewal date in your calendar before you pay. Paid memberships charge the full price up front and renew on the same date until you turn the subscription off. Cancel in the place you bought it, whether that is the app store or the site, and do it before the date, not after.

Many men would get more from spending on their photos than on a tier. A lead picture where your face is clear and relaxed does more for you than any feature, and you can take one with a friend and a phone in daylight. If you do not have a friend or the time, a full set can be built for you from selfies you already have.

The same goes for what you write. A line that gives a woman something to answer will beat a hundred extra likes sent with nothing to say.

a dating coach is just as clear that never paying is a mistake. His view is that men are too reluctant to spend on dating, and that apps look after paying members. The point is to spend on purpose and measure it, not to refuse on principle.

If you are matching and replying, Premium is a reasonable bet for a month. If you are getting little or nothing, skip it, fix the photos and the page, and come back to the question with numbers. A tier is worth what the free account has already earned, and nothing more.