What Is MeetMe Premium?

MeetMe Premium is the app's paid tier. It lets you see who likes you and adds a boost that MeetMe says brings you a lot more views. It removes ads, lets you discover people in your area before others do, and lets you undo swipes in the match game. It also includes an incognito mode that shows you as offline. Whether it is worth buying depends on a plain test: are women near you already responding to you? If they are, Premium can speed things up. If they are not, it will not change that.

MeetMe lists these features for Premium:

• Seeing who likes you.
• A rocket boost for more views, along with higher visibility that MeetMe says can mean more likes and views.
• No ads.
• Discovering new people in your area before everyone else.
• Undoing swipes in the match game.
• Rediscovering likes you have given.
• Incognito mode, which displays you as offline and lets you visit pages without being seen.

MeetMe puts specific multiples on the boost and the visibility. Those figures are the company's own advertising, and they are the sort of claim that moves around, so treat them as a promise of "more", not a number to plan around.

Seeing who likes you is the most useful one. A like from a woman is a reason to write first, and a man who can see likes can start a conversation with a person who has already shown interest. That beats guessing.

The boost puts you in front of more people for a while. More views only help if what they see is good. A weak first photo shown to a far bigger crowd still loses, only faster.

Undoing a swipe is a small fix for a mistaken tap. Discovering people first and rediscovering likes you have given are ways of widening the pool, which matters most when the area around you is small.

Incognito mode is the odd one for a man who wants dates. It lets you look at pages without announcing yourself, which is a convenience. It does not help you start a conversation, and a woman cannot reply to a visit she never saw.

a dating coach has spent years testing boosts on dating apps. His experience is that a boost works well when you have not been shown to many people for a while. Using boosts again and again in quick succession gives less each time, because the app has fewer fresh, active people left to show you. He also believes apps limit how many matches they hand out to a person, so more boosting is not more results.

For MeetMe Premium, do not buy the boost to fix a quiet week. Use it after a gap, with your best photos in place, and then measure what came back.

MeetMe's terms say subscriptions bought through the Apple App Store or Google Play renew automatically unless you switch off auto-renew at least a day before the period ends. So the habit to build is simple. Open the subscription setting in your Apple or Google account the day you subscribe and switch off auto-renew right then. You keep the time you paid for, and renewal becomes a choice you make on purpose.

Prices change and vary by length, so check the screen in your own app instead of trusting a figure from an article.

Run the free version first. MeetMe says chat is free, and a fair test is two weeks of steady, short sessions with clear photos taken in daylight and first messages about something specific on her page. Count conversations, replies and plans.

Pay for Premium if you are getting replies and want to see likes and reach more women faster. Skip it if you are getting nothing, because the cause is nearly always the photo she sees first and the first line you send, and neither is for sale.

Put the money into what women see before anything else. A friend with a phone and an afternoon of daylight can take better photos than most men own. After that, send first messages that name one real detail and ask something easy to answer, and move a good conversation toward a call within a few messages.

If you would rather not spend your evenings on this, a service can build and run your online dating for you, with photos checked by hand, so the time goes to the dates and not to the app.