Free Viatous or Plus: what really changes (and everything that doesn’t)
Viatous, Rooms & Roomi · Équipe Viatous · 4 min
Before you reach for your card, some good news: between free Viatous and Viatous Plus, most things don’t change. Same matching, same safety, same Roomi. What changes fits in three lines. Here’s everything, with no hidden small print.
What you get for free
With free Viatous, no payment card needed:
one completed Room free each week , which comes back every Monday;
full matching and all safety protections ;
Roomi and the formats for every activity;
preferences and scheduling for your Rooms;
your full history and statistics;
the option to join a private Room if a Plus member invites you;
1 active Circle , to meet up again with a group you liked.
One Room a week is already a real ritual: reading on Tuesday, a walk on Saturday, a work session whenever you’re procrastinating.
What counts (and what doesn’t)
So what actually “uses up” that Room? The principle: only a Room you actually take part in uses your free Room. In practice:
a search that doesn’t find a group: doesn’t count ;
a group you decline: doesn’t count ;
a cancellation before the activity starts: doesn’t count ;
leaving during the activity: doesn’t count ;
still being there when the activity ends: counts , even if you leave during the review.
Extending a Room doesn’t count as an extra Room. A Circle Room counts like any other. The week that counts is the week of the Room’s time slot, starting Monday at midnight in your time zone. Already done your Room this week? You can schedule one from Monday.
What Viatous Plus adds
Plus adds three things, and only those:
Unlimited Rooms , subject to a fair use policy. No more one-a-week limit.
Creating private Rooms : you choose the activity and invite up to three people you know. Your guests don’t need Plus: they can join with a free account, and the Room then counts as their Room for the week.
Up to 5 active Circles instead of one: your running group, your book club, your Spanish session…
In short, Plus gives you more moments with people : more Rooms, the option to choose who you do them with, and several groups to meet up with.
Private Rooms, in practice
That last option deserves a closer look: it’s often what makes people switch to Plus. You create the Room just like on the home page: one sentence, Roomi reads it and only asks what the Room needs (duration, language, time, and the place for an outing). No matching here: you choose who comes.
Then you invite up to three people. Every guest is notified. Someone who doesn’t have an account yet gets an email inviting them to create one, then reply. And if a guest’s free Room for the week is already used, they see it on the invitation page, without the others knowing.
What Plus doesn’t change
This matters: Viatous doesn’t make the free plan worse to sell Plus.
Matching quality stays the same , free or Plus.
Plus doesn’t promise an instant group : availability depends on compatible people at the time you search.
Safety protections are identical : leave, block, report, identity verification.
Nobody knows who’s free or on Plus. In a group, it never shows.
Price, commitment, cancelling
Viatous Plus costs €4.99 a month , with no commitment . Stop whenever you like, and Plus stays active until the end of the paid month.
And when Plus ends, nobody gets removed from anything: your Circles stay, private Rooms already planned go ahead, and the one-Room-a-week rule simply comes back.
So, which one?
Start free if:
you’re discovering Viatous;
one shared moment a week is enough for you;
you have one favourite group to meet up with.
Switch to Plus if:
you want several Rooms a week, for example a focus session every morning;
you want to suggest an activity to friends or family in a private Room;
you’d like to keep several Circles going.
If in doubt, the simplest approach is to start free and see. Try writing: “I want to work for 50 minutes tomorrow morning without procrastinating.” If you find yourself wanting one every day, you’ll know Plus is for you.
Compare both plans on the Pricing page , or see how it works .