What the Buttons on Boo's Match Page Mean

On Boo's Match page, the red X passes on someone, the blue heart tells them you are interested, and the blue paper airplane sends them a direct message. The pink heart is a Super Love, which pins your request to the top of that person's request inbox. The blue spaceship activates a Boost, and the yellow lightning bolt opens power-ups such as Revival and Time Travel.

Most of your time on the Match page comes down to three buttons. The red X passes. The blue heart says you are interested. The blue paper airplane skips the wait and sends a message straight to her.

The heart is the everyday choice. It shows interest and lets her decide in her own time, with no pressure on either of you.

The X matters just as much, and men underuse it. a dating coach's warning about dating apps in general is that saying yes to everyone backfires. The apps notice when a man is unselective, and in his experience they tend to read unselective as less attractive and show that man fewer attractive people. Whether or not Boo works exactly that way, a heart that means something is worth more than a heart you hand out to everyone.

A Super Love pins your request to the top of that person's request inbox. Instead of sitting in a long list with everyone else who showed interest, you are the first thing she sees.

That has real value when she gets a lot of requests. The cost is the tone it sets. coach is not a fan of the same kind of feature on other apps, the super like. His reasoning is that it announces you picked her out as special before she has said a word, which can put her on a pedestal and leave you with more work to do once you are actually talking.

So save Super Love for the rare woman whose page genuinely grabs you. Then keep your first message relaxed. You have already shown plenty of interest, so a long, eager paragraph on top of it is too much. One light, specific line is enough.

The blue paper airplane sends a direct message before she has shown any interest in you. On the free version it costs coins. With Boo Infinity it may be free, but that depends on the country you are in.

A direct message is only as good as what it says. "Hey" costs you coins and earns you nothing. A line that picks up something real from her page gives her something easy to answer: the city in her second picture, a line she wrote, the personality type Boo shows for her.

My advice is to have a simple format for first messages rather than agonizing over each one. Notice one thing about her, react to it with a bit of personality, and send it. If a first message is taking you ten minutes, it is taking too long.

The blue spaceship activates a Boost. Boosts on the apps coach has tested did best when he had been off the app for a while, and returned less each time he ran them one after another. The way he explains it, each repeat Boost reaches a smaller pool of people who are online and have not already seen you.

So treat it as an occasional tool, not a habit. Use one on an evening when you have been quiet for a while and can answer whatever comes in.

The yellow lightning bolt opens Boo's power-ups, including Revival and Time Travel. Time Travel rewinds to the last person you passed. Revival shows you all your past souls again.

They are there for slips. Pass on someone by accident, and Time Travel brings her back. If you want a second, slower look at the people you rushed through on the bus, Revival lays them out again.

Here is a simple way to run the page. Pass freely. Heart the women you would actually take out. Send a direct message when you have something specific to say. Keep Super Love and Boost for the moments they are worth it.

Most of your results will come from the heart and the X. The other buttons can make good results bigger, but they cannot rescue a first photo that women pass on. If the hearts you send are not coming back, put your coins away and study your first photo and your written answers instead.