No. Pure's App Store listing says the app uses auto-renewing subscriptions and that you have to subscribe to get inside. Getting in means choosing a weekly, monthly or annual subscription. The listing says prices vary by country and are shown in the app, so check the figure there before you commit.
What the subscription covers
Pure offers weekly, monthly or annual plans. The listing says one subscription works across devices if you sign in with the same Apple, Google or Huawei account.
That last detail matters if you change phones. Sign in with the same account and the subscription follows you, so you do not pay twice for the same thing.
Since the listing says you have to subscribe to get inside, assume there is no free way in. If a friend tells you otherwise, believe the app's own screens over the story.
How renewals and cancellation work
Pure's subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You cancel in your App Store settings, not inside Pure.
Put a reminder in your phone the day you subscribe. The men who get annoyed at a charge are nearly always the ones who forgot the renewal date.
A weekly plan renews far more often than a monthly one, so the reminder matters most there.
The extras you pay for separately
Pure's FAQ lists some extras that are bought on top of a subscription. One is virtual gifts. Another is a feature for men only, called King of the Hill, which pins your ad at the top of the feed for a limited time.
Be careful with anything that promises to put you in front of more people. Treat each paid feature as a multiplier. If your ad already earns replies, showing it to more women earns you more replies. If it earns none, a boost earns you more silence, and the money is better spent on rewriting the ad.
Pure's FAQ also describes Pure Queen, a premium subscription for women that adds features such as incognito mode, smart likes and filtering all likes. A man cannot buy it, but it is worth knowing that the women's side of the app has its own paid tier.
Test it before you commit
You have to pay to see the feed, so test with the plan that costs you least if it fails. Start on the shortest term. Spend the first few days doing the thing the app is built for: post an honest ad that says what you want, and see what comes back.
Judge it on replies, not on how the app looks. a dating coach's advice for any app is that men should try several and keep the ones where they succeed, because different apps suit different men and different cities. A man who struggles on one often does well on another. Pure is one test among several, not a bet on your whole month.
If a week of real effort brings nothing back, cancel before the renewal and move the money and the time to another app.
Make the ad earn its place
Everything on Pure starts with the ad you post, so it is the one piece of writing that decides your results. Say what kind of experience you want, in plain words, and be specific about one thing in your life. Vague lines such as looking for fun and good vibes are what every other man writes.
My version of this for bios is to stand out by being specific, not rude. A sentence about what you do on a weekday evening, followed by a question a woman can answer in one line, will do more than a paragraph of adjectives.
Count what the money bought
A subscription is easy to justify in the first week and hard to justify in the third, so decide in advance how you will judge it. Keep four numbers: how many ads you liked, how many women liked you back, how many conversations reached a real exchange, and how many ended in a plan to meet.
a dating coach treats the apps as a numbers game that rewards steady effort, so the men who do well are the ones who watch what their effort returns. If the last number is zero after a fair trial, the problem is in the ad or the way you write, and a longer subscription will only repeat it. If the numbers are healthy, keep the plan and cancel the extras you do not use.
The short answer
Pure is paid. Budget for a subscription, set a cancellation reminder, treat the extras as optional, and give it a fair, short trial before you decide it is worth keeping.
Written by Matthew Stevens, Co-Founder & Head Coach. More than half a decade coaching men across the US and worldwide.
Everything here comes out of real coaching work: the approaches, dates, texts and profiles we go through with the men we coach.