POF Plus vs Premium vs Prestige: What Each Tier Gets You

Each tier builds on the one below it. POF Plus gives you unlimited likes, a first look at new members, room for more photos, extra detail on your page and no ads. POF Premium adds Interested in Me, where you see everyone who likes you, plus read receipts. POF Prestige takes the limits off First Contacts, priority likes and messages.

Plus is the tier for the man who spends his time in Meet Me. Unlimited likes means the app never stops you partway through an evening. You also get a first look at new members, more photo slots, extended details on your page, and an app with no ads in the way.

The unlimited likes are the part most men want, and they are also the part most men waste. Liking every woman who appears turns a good tool into noise. Like the women you would actually be glad to hear from, and the ones who like you back will be worth writing to.

The extra photo slots come with a similar catch. They only help if you have more good photos to fill them. Four strong pictures beat eight where half are just okay, because women judge you by your weakest one.

Premium adds two things. The first is Interested in Me, which shows you everyone who likes you together in one view instead of leaving you to find them one by one. The second is read receipts, so you can see when a woman has read what you sent.

Interested in Me is the more useful of the two. A woman who already liked you is the easiest conversation you will get on the app, and Premium stops those women from slipping past you.

Read receipts are a mixed gift. Knowing she read your message and did not answer tempts men to write again, or to spend the evening wondering why. Neither helps. If you pay for Premium, read the receipt, then leave it alone. A read with no reply is not a verdict on you, and a second message sent into the silence only makes the first one look worse.

Prestige is about reaching women first. It adds unlimited First Contacts, which are messages to women you have not matched with yet. It also takes the cap off priority likes and off messages.

Few paid features are worth it for almost every man, but this is one of them, as long as you are already getting some results. You can write to any woman you choose instead of waiting for the app to decide who sees you, so a conversation no longer depends on a match. You pick the women, and your writing does the work.

POF notes that Prestige is not available to every member, so check whether your account offers it before you plan around it.

Match the tier to what you actually do.

If you mostly like women in Meet Me and wait for matches, Plus covers you. If women are liking you but you keep missing them, Premium is the upgrade that pays off, because it puts those likes in front of you. If your photos are average but you write well, Prestige suits you best, because a good message to a woman who has not seen you yet can carry a man whose photos alone would not.

Pay for the one that matches your habits. Paying for the top tier "just in case" buys features you will not use.

Every tier multiplies what you already get for free. That is good news if you are getting something and bad news if you are getting nothing.

Before you upgrade, use the free account for a couple of weeks. If a few women like you and a few of your messages get answers, a paid tier will give you more of both. If nothing happens at all, more likes and more messages will give you more of nothing. At that point the money is better spent fixing your photos and what you have written about yourself.

When you do upgrade, change nothing else for a while. If you pay for Premium and rewrite everything on the same night, you will not know which one made the difference.

No tier writes for you. Unlimited First Contacts only help if the messages are good, and unlimited likes only help if the women you like are ones you want to date.

Keep your first message short. Pick up one detail from her page, say something about it, and give her an easy question to answer. Once she replies, keep it light, and within a few exchanges suggest a simple plan with a day and a place. That part is the same on every tier, including free.