What Do You Get With Bumble Boost?

Bumble Boost includes a weekly allowance of SuperSwipes and Spotlights. It also adds three tools for second chances. Extend gives a match more time. Rematch revives matches that expired before you could chat. Unlimited Backtrack undoes a no swipe you regret. It is the base paid plan, and everything in it carries over to Premium and Premium+.

SuperSwipes. A SuperSwipe tells a woman you are especially interested before you have matched. Bumble says she sees a clear sign that you went beyond a regular swipe. Boost gives you a set number each week.

A weekly allowance of Spotlights. Spotlight pushes you out to more people in your area for a set period of time, so you are seen by more members right away.

Extend. Gives a match more time before it expires. Everyone gets a free Extend, and Boost makes it unlimited.

Rematch. Lets you restart the timer on a match that already expired.

Unlimited Backtrack. Undoes a no swipe, for the times your thumb moved before your brain did.

For most men, the valuable part of Boost is Extend and Rematch.

Those two protect matches you have already earned. A match on Bumble only lasts a limited time before someone has to send the first message, and busy men lose a lot of good matches to that clock. If that keeps happening to your best matches, Boost fixes a problem you actually have.

Backtrack belongs in the same group. It is small, but the woman you swiped past by accident is sometimes the one you would most have wanted to talk to.

Paid features on dating apps work as multipliers. A multiplier on a set of photos that is not converting just gets you passed over by a bigger crowd. Fix the lead photo first, then pay for volume.

These are the two features where men waste the most.

A SuperSwipe shows your interest before she has shown any. She knows you picked her before she has decided anything, which helps if you have a specific reason and a good first line ready, and hurts if you follow it with "hey". Send them rarely, and only on women where you can name what caught your eye.

A Spotlight is exposure for a short burst. Starting it at a random moment spends it on whoever happens to be scrolling at that moment. Start it when people are likely to be on the app, such as an evening, and when you will be around to write to whoever matches. Exposure you are not there to follow up is wasted.

Boost is not the plan with the Liked You queue. Seeing who has already liked you, advanced filters, Incognito Mode, and Travel Mode all sit in Premium, which includes everything in Boost and adds those four.

Boost also leaves your photos, your written answers, and your messages exactly as they were before you paid. A SuperSwipe does show her a clear sign that you went beyond a regular swipe, but the page behind it is the same one she would have seen anyway. Everything else in the plan changes how many women reach you, or how long a match lasts. None of it changes the photos and words she is deciding on.

Run the free version properly for two weeks first. Keep a rough count of the women you like, the matches you get, and how many matches expire before anyone writes.

If plenty of your matches are expiring, Boost is aimed squarely at you. Extend and Rematch will save matches that are otherwise dying in your queue.

If you are getting very few matches at all, do not buy Boost yet. No plan changes the photos she is deciding on, and the photos are the first thing to fix.