Sometimes, depending on your Revolut plan and on an offer being open. Global Dating Insights reported that Tinder and Revolut ran a promotion. It gave new Revolut customers three months of Tinder Gold at no cost. The same report says Revolut's paid Premium plan includes Tinder Plus, and its Metal plan includes Tinder Gold. Tinder's own help center does not list either deal, so confirm the details inside the Revolut app.

What was reported

Two separate things came out of that report, and they get mixed up.

The first was a welcome offer. A new Revolut customer who signed up through a specific link and then made an eligible transaction could receive three months of Tinder Gold with no charge. That is a promotion with conditions, and promotions end.

The second was a perk of the paid Revolut plans. According to the same report, customers on Revolut's Premium plan get Tinder Plus as part of the plan, and customers on the Metal plan get Tinder Gold. Here the benefit lasts for as long as you stay on the plan.

If you are asking "is Tinder Plus free with Revolut," the answer follows the same logic. It depends on which Revolut plan you pay for.

What Plus and Gold include

Knowing the gap between the two helps you decide whether a free one is the free one you wanted.

Tinder Plus includes unlimited daily Likes and unlimited Rewinds. It also has Passport Mode, a view without advertisements, and the ability to go incognito.

Tinder Gold includes all of that. It adds weekly Super Likes, one Boost a month, and the ability to see who has already Liked you before you decide whether to Like or Nope them.

A man deciding between the two should ask which feature he would actually use. Seeing who has already Liked you is the one most men notice, because it turns a stack of strangers into a short list of women who are already interested.

How to check your own account

Because plans and offers change, check the source before counting on anything.

Open your Revolut app and look for the Tinder benefit under your plan details or its perks section. See what you must do to claim it. If the perk exists, the app should say how to claim it.

Then check that the subscription shows up in Tinder. The upgrade options live under your profile icon and then Settings. If Revolut gave you a code, Tinder says promo codes are redeemed through the profile icon on Tinder.com.

Do not pay for a Tinder subscription first and hope to be refunded later. Tinder says most in-app purchases are nonrefundable, with some exceptions, so a double purchase is a double loss.

The catch with a free trial

A free period is a good deal only if you use it on purpose.

Three months can pass quickly. A man who treats it as a long period of sitting back gets to the end with the same number of dates he started with. A man who treats it as a test gets real information.

Before the free months start, write down three numbers from a normal week without it: how many women match with you, how many reply to your first message, and how many agree to meet. Then track the same numbers each week on the paid features.

If you also pay for Tinder through Revolut or another card once the free period ends, check the renewal date. You do not want a charge to arrive on a plan you stopped thinking about.

What the free months will not do

Gold shows you who Liked you. It does not make you the kind of man she wants to meet.

a dating coach's view on paid apps is that paying is probably worth it in most cases, as long as the price is not extreme, and that you should keep testing and adjusting. He also thinks of a paid feature as something that multiplies what is already there. If your photos are good and your first messages sound like a real person, the free months speed up a result that was coming. If your photos are poor, Gold gives you more women to disappoint.

So use the free months to fix the base. Replace the weakest photo. Write first messages that refer to something specific in her profile. Suggest a day and a place, instead of ending on "so what are you up to?"

The short version

Free Gold with Revolut is possible but conditional. It has been reported as a welcome offer for new customers and as a perk of Revolut's higher plans. Read the terms inside the Revolut app, check how to redeem it in Tinder, and treat the free months as a test of what you already have.