Snapchat Launches Paid Version With Extra Features

Snapchat is inviting is 330 million-plus customers to check out its new options — through subscription. On Wednesday, the social media firm introduced the launch of Snapchat Plus, which grants entry to “a group of unique, experimental, and pre-release options obtainable in Snapchat.”

The price is $4 per 30 days, and whereas the paid tier would not eradicate the stream of adverts you see on Snap’s platform, you may at the least alter the Snapchat emblem in your account. The subscription will solely be obtainable in the USA, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, however there are plans to broaden the rollout of Snapchat Plus.

Along with remixing the app’s icon, customers can pin a Snapchat pal on the high of their chat window as a “BFF” or see who rewatched their tales. To enroll in the subscription, you may solely need to faucet Snapchat Plus in your profile.

Snap has reportedly been testing out the paid tier for weeks as an providing for its “most passionate members” and to generate extra income. The transfer echoes what Twitter did final yr when it debuted Twitter Blue, a subscription plan that gives further options equivalent to the power to undo tweets. It’s unclear what different perks include the paid choice, however Snapchat encourages customers to supply suggestions.