How it works

1. Pick someone

Every woman here works in a real bar in Pattaya or Bangkok, and all of them joined because they chose to. The name on her card is the nickname she actually uses at work, not an invented one. On public pages her photo is blurred, and you see it clearly once you have signed in. A woman with no photo yet has a drawn character on her card instead, and that drawing is the one part of her card that is manufactured.

Some women reply within minutes and some are working and will get to it later. Where there is enough history to be fair about it, her card says so. Where there is not, it stays quiet rather than guessing, because a wrong label on a card is something she has to work off and cannot.

2. Write in English

Say it the way you would say it out loud. Do not simplify it, do not write in the broken English people fall into when they think it helps, and do not paste in a phrasebook line. It arrives as natural Thai, and the more natural your English is, the more natural her side reads.

She gets it on her phone, on LINE or in her own app, in Thai. She does not have to learn anything new to read you or to answer, which matters more than it sounds: an app she has to be persuaded to install is an app she will not answer on.

3. Read her reply

She writes back in Thai, from her own phone, in her own words. It reaches you in English a few seconds later. Nothing is written on her behalf and nothing is put in her mouth. When you are reading her reply, you are reading her.

Buying her a lady drink

You can put a real soft drink on her bar's till from anywhere in the world. It costs from ฿200, depending on the bar, and she earns her usual commission on it exactly as she would if you were standing next to her when you bought it. Alcohol cannot legally be sold online in Thailand, so it is always a soft one, and the bars are held to that. She hears about it straight away and her thank-you lands in your chat.

This is the part that has no equivalent anywhere else. A message is a message, but a lady drink is money in her pocket on a slow night, from someone who is not in the country.

Every drink also adds messages to your account, and they never expire. Anything you buy here, a drink, a pass or something from a bar's Shop, also lets you message any woman on the app, not only the ones you have already written to.

Video calls

When she marks herself free for a video call, her profile says so and you can ring her phone. Two drinks at her bar are held on your card when it rings, and charged only once you have been talking for a minute. If she does not answer, or cannot take it, the hold is released and nothing is charged. A call you ring is live, face to face and translated while you speak. It runs 10 minutes, and in the last minute you can add two more drinks for another 10, as often as you like. She can also send you a call invitation herself. Joining it costs nothing, and it is a plain video call. Two drinks at her bar turn on translation for both of you for 10 minutes, and in the last minute two more keep it on for another 10. When it runs out the captions stop and the call carries on.

What it costs

You get 6 free messages to start, and every morning at 9am Thai time you are topped back up to 3. They are free every day, not just on the first day, and you never need a card to send them. You can start 3 new conversations a day. Messages to someone you have already written to do not need a new one. Her replies do not count against them, so when she writes back you can write back. Every word she sends stays readable forever whether you have a pass or not. Charging to unlock words a woman has already written is a mechanic we will not run. See what it costs for the numbers.

When you want more than the free messages, a pass is ThaiPo Pro. It does not buy her reply, and it gives you this:

• Unlimited messages to every lady here.
• See when she has read your message.
• Ladies see you first when they look for someone to message.
• Marked Pro in her inbox, and back at the top after a day if she goes quiet.
• 10 seconds to take a message back before it reaches her.

What this is not

It is not a dating app. There is no swiping, no matching and no profile to fill in. It is not a live stream either, which is what most of the bars run now: a camera pointed at a room, a few hundred men typing into one chat, and nobody in it having a conversation. Here it is one person, one conversation, and nobody else in the room.

We are a messenger. We do not arrange, book or broker anything, and what you and she talk about is between the two of you.