Bumble Premium: Is it worth your time? Let's find out

What a convenient yet awesome way to make new connections at the tips of your thumbs, swiping left or right on people’s profiles. (left to reject and right if interested) Either you or the person you’re matched with will be required to make the first move. Bumble users often connect with others that have similar interests or share similar ideologies, thanks to the filter choices the app offers!

By specifying what you’re looking for, there’s a higher chance of you finding your ideal match and then you make the first move. This is aimed to break the archaic system of online dating.

Here are the Bumble rules:

• Only women get to make the first move. Here's how you can respond.

• If within 24 hours no one responds, both users are removed from the matchmaking pool.

• If a man is not interested in a match, he can swipe left on a woman’s profile picture to mute.

  
  

• The women on Bumble define what happens next. If they dislike your profile, they can swipe left (reject) you, and you won’t know it ever happened. However, if they are interested in your profile, they’ll send you a chat request or “buzz,” which you, the man, then responds to.

  
  

• Women making the first move can’t allow men to send unsolicited messages to women. Also, the woman has 24 hours to buzz first before her match disappears forever.

  
  

• Men get ten matches per day, and they need to pay $5 each time they want to extend their matches. Women receive unlimited matches each day, but they don’t have to pay anything.

  
  

According to Moneycontrol.com, Bumble is now the third-most-popular dating app in India in terms of user base. With their graph growing exponentially, nearly every Indian millennial is now buzzing on Bumble. With tons of users, how must you find an ideal match by just swiping through profiles? Here’s where Bumble Premium or Bumble Boost can give you a kickstart.

Besides providing a secure, safe environment for new meets and connections, Bumble Premium is an optional service with an aim to provide Bumble users with some additional benefits to those who choose this subscription. This is to maximize your bumble experience and ultimately make more meaningful connections.

Enhance your online dating game with Bumble Premium where this subscription allows Bumble Premium users to match with others like them, giving access to upgraded features and tools that regular Bumble users have no access to. What does this do? Creates an extra layer of exclusivity, starting a competition among members of the same interests and age groups.

With women making the first move on Bumble, men have to pay if they want to use the app, unlike Tinder, that’s free for everyone. Men can purchase a lifetime subscription for $119.99, which will save you money if you plan on using Bumble regularly that is.

Bumble has 2 subscription plans from which you can pick the one that best suits you.

1. Bumble Boost Membership

Bumble Boost is a new subscription plan promoting a Bumble user’s profile to other members in their local area. With Bumble Boost, users can purchase additional features for $9.99 a month.

There are five unique features to choose from:

• Change your username

• Add up to 10 photos or videos (up from 5)

• Remove the BFF tag on all of your existing photos and videos (up from 2)

• View everyone that right-clicked you to extend your matches by 24 hours (your Beeline).

• Rematch with connections that have expired.

  
  

This cost can be paid by credit card, PayPal, or Apple Pay. Just like any other monthly subscription, this plan automatically renews at the end of each billing cycle unless it’s cancelled beforehand.

2. Bumble Premium Membership

On your Beeline, click on the pixelated square in your match queue to sign up for Bumble Premium, or click on the pixelated square in your match line to see both options.

Compared to Bumble Boost, here are some additional features of Bumble Premium:

• Access to unlimited Advanced filters

• Access to your Beeline so you can view your admirers

• Travel mode, which allows you to switch your location to a different city. (not available on Bumble web)

• Backtracks so you may undo accidental left swipes

• The ability for time limit extensions on your current matches.

• Rematch with users who have reached the end of their subscription period. (Please note that men cannot rematch with a woman who has not sent the first message in an opposite-sex match.)

• Unlimited swipes

• Weekly Spotlight feature that advances your profile to the top of the matching pool to be viewed instantly by many people for 30minutes.

• Five Super Swipes per week. You can Super Swipe a Bumble user’s profile to signal them that you’re serious and really interested.

  
  

Although meeting people organically and genuinely by putting yourself out there on dating apps is a different connection, Bumble Premium simply boosts your profile to save your time swiping right on multiple profiles.

If you get a lot of people in your beeline, then it's worth it to pick and choose the ones you want, and then initiate the match.

Also, people bustling in busy cities with jobs that don’t get you your ‘me time’, Bumble Premium gives you the liberty to advance-filter your options and match you with much more meaningful connections be it dating, BFF, or even Bumble bizz for business!

Yes, you can get bumble matches, including the perfect match, on bumble without a premium subscription. You can use the free version of the dating app or use bumble boost to get potential matches.

If you are not happy with Bumble premium features, you can cancel your premium subscription at any time. Simply head to my profile section by clicking on the profile icon. Next, click on ‘My Plan’ and the ‘Premium’ and select the on-screen option to cancel.