When Should You Use Badoo for Dating?

Use Badoo when you live or travel somewhere it is active, when you want a free dating app running beside your main one, or when the other apps hardly show you to anyone. Skip it when your city is quiet on it or when you want it to be your only app. The honest test is how many women near you answer, and you can find that out in three days.

Bumble Inc.'s annual report to the SEC calls Badoo a market leader in several countries in Europe and Latin America. It names no country list in the pages we read, so we will not name countries.

If you live in one of those regions, Badoo is worth a real try. a dating coach's rule for every app is that results depend on whether the women on it are really looking to date. The same app can be busy in one city and thin in the next. A man in a busy city may find it full. A man elsewhere may find it quiet. Both are right about where they live.

Because strength depends on place, a trip can change things. A man who travels to a city where Badoo is busy can use it for the length of the stay.

Treat each city as its own test. Do not assume a good result at home carries over, or a bad one. Update your photos and your city before you vote on anyone, because an old page shows the old you.

Free members can vote, match and chat on Badoo. That makes it a cheap second source of conversations, with no payment needed to find out if women answer you.

My advice on apps is to run more than one and let the results decide. A man who struggles on one and does well on another has learned something useful about which pool suits him. Badoo can be the second one, with the same best photos, for two weeks.

On some apps a woman's age range or distance setting can keep you from reaching her. A different app has a different pool and different settings, and a man who gets few matches on one can do better on another.

That is not a promise. It is a reason to test it, since the cost is a few minutes a day.

• When your area looks empty. Spend a few days in Encounters. If most women have old photos and blank details, you have your answer. Badoo's dots help here, where green means online now and red means within the last few hours, and a lot of grey suggests a quiet pool.
• When you plan to pay before you test. Premium and Credits are multipliers. If your free week gives you nothing, they multiply nothing.
• When you want one app only. Running a single app turns a quiet month into your whole dating life.
• When you will not ask for a date. Chatting for weeks with no plan is not what the app is for.

Finish your page first, with clear, recent photos, your face in the first one, verification and a few lines in your own voice. Set a distance you would truly travel for a weeknight drink.

Then vote in short daily sessions instead of a weekend binge. Give each card two honest seconds. My warning on every app is that liking nearly everyone tends to make an app treat you as less attractive and show you fewer of the women you want. Like the women you would be glad to hear from.

When you match, send a first line within a few minutes about one specific thing in her photos or details. Ask a question she can answer in a sentence. coach usually gets a woman from the app to her number in four to seven messages. Every message heads toward a plan, so suggest something simple and specific within a few exchanges.

Premium lets you see who likes you, gives your messages priority, and removes the limits that come with the free version. Credits pay for extras such as chatting before a match. We give no prices, because they change. Read the plan screen on the day you buy.

Seeing who likes you is the feature that changes results most, because every vote you send from that list goes to a woman who has already shown interest. Test one paid feature for a short stretch and drop it if the numbers do not move.

For three days, look only at the pool. Write down how many women near you look recent and how many have filled in their pages.

If the pool looks alive, use the app daily for two weeks and write down four numbers: women you liked, matches, conversations and dates you set. If the dates are there, keep going. If the pool is thin or nothing comes back, Badoo is not the place for you right now, and your time is better spent on the app that works where you live.