What Does Raya+ Add Over a Standard Membership?

Raya+ is the pricier of Raya's two memberships. Reviews of the app report that it adds five things. You can see who likes you, you get more recommended people each day, and you get more map and directory results for people near you. You also get unlimited likes and unlimited travel plans. A standard membership gives you a limited number of people and likes a day, and you only learn that someone liked you when you like her back and the two of you match. Like any paid upgrade on the dating apps, Raya+ is worth it only if the standard membership is already getting you somewhere.

A standard Raya membership is the full app, with daily limits.

Reviews describe it as a limited number of people to look at each day and a limited number of likes to send. You do not see who liked you. The only way you find out is by liking her too, at which point you match and can talk.

For a lot of men, that is enough. A small, steady supply of people forces you to look properly at each one. A limited number of likes forces you to spend them on women you actually want to meet.

Raya's App Store listing shows Raya+ as a separate membership priced above the standard one. Reviews of the app describe five additions:

• Seeing who likes you. The women who already liked you, visible without having to guess.
• More recommended people each day. A bigger daily supply to look through.
• More map and directory results. More results for people near you in Raya's map and directory.
• Unlimited likes. No daily cap on how many women you can like.
• Unlimited travel plans. The extra that matters if you travel often.

Raya's terms also say it can create additional tiers of membership at any time. So check the upgrade screen in the app before you buy, and read what it lists on the day you buy it.

Of the five, seeing who likes you is the one that most often ends in a date.

Every other feature gives you more people to try. This one shows you women who have already made a choice about you. Liking them back is a match you know is waiting, and a woman who liked you first is usually easier to talk to.

It also saves time. Instead of working through strangers hoping one of them already liked you, you start with the women who did.

If you are getting likes you cannot see, Raya+ turns them into conversations. If you are not getting many likes, there is little to see, and the feature is worth less to you.

Unlimited likes sound like the headline feature. For most men they are not.

The daily limit on a standard membership does a job. It stops you liking everyone. Liking everyone lowers the quality of the matches you end up with and leaves you with conversations you do not want to have. Men who hit the cap every day are often liking women they would never message.

Unlimited likes are worth paying for if you regularly run out while there are still women left who you would actually want to take out. If you run out because you like everyone, the cap is not your problem.

a dating coach puts it plainly for any app: paying multiplies what you already have. If your likes on a standard membership come back often, more likes means more matches. If they rarely come back, more likes means more of the same silence.

The map and directory results and the unlimited travel plans matter to one kind of member: the man who moves around.

If you live in one city and rarely leave, these add little. If you travel for work or split your time between places, they are the part of Raya+ that fits your life.

Start on the standard membership. Use it well for a full stretch. Answer your matches the same day, send first messages about something she actually shared, and ask the women who engage to meet.

Then look at what happened. If you kept running out of likes with good women still waiting, or you suspect a stack of likes is sitting where you cannot see it, try Raya+ for the shortest period you can. Compare the dates it produces with the stretch before. Keep it if the difference is obvious. If it is not, go back to standard and spend the difference on better pictures.

And if unlimited likes is the only feature you want, look at the smaller purchase first. Raya sells a pack of Extra Likes on its own, which tops up your likes without changing your membership.