What I like about it: Unlike traditional dating apps, Hinge sets you up with people in your social circle - making sure that you have common interests (or friends) that you can talk about over a quick beer (or five, if the friend in question is interesting).Īlso it offers great prompts for adding personality to your profile, paving the way with ice-breakers like “We’ll get along if…” and “I did this before it was cool…” making our low-pressure dating app a lot like that always-eager-to-set-you-up friend you wished you had. When do you use it: If you are really ready to commit, Hinge is the app to commit to - it takes long-term relationships so seriously, it could be your mother. Too bad you can’t ask someone to #FollowForFollow. Profiles are peppered with gorgeous pictures, tongue-in-cheek answers you would want to tongue-wrestle with and captions that are so witty they could star in an AIB video. On paper, Hinge is like the Instagram of online dating. Is your idea of the perfect date a walk on the beach? Bring it on.ĭoes hiking on a Sunday morning seem viable to you too? Let’s get the wedding rings ready.
Some call it cute some call it ‘too-much-work-to-get-into-someone’s-pants’ (side note: and yet others call it your mum’s second cousin who drinks too much vodka too early in the evenings). Instead, it’ll ask you a set of questions, props you for your interests, and it even bugs you till you upload a picture. Hinge believes that swiping keeps you single, and focuses on creating more engaging profiles that reduce users from treating other members like ‘a playing card they’d flick to the left or right’. How it works: Hinge pools all the singles in your extended friend circles (using Facebook as it’s underlying base) and matches you with the most likely of them, based on a serious of questions and common interests - which you have to ‘like’ to initiate an interaction - reducing the chance to run into a hopeless string of men who are just looking for ‘No-strings-attached’ sex. And that explains why hardly anyone (read: any gay man) uses it. It’s like the nerdier (and also less attractive) second cousin of Tinder.
What it is: Hinge calls itself the ‘Relationship App’, and it leaves no stones unturned while trying to set you up with your soul mate. When a dating app promises that ‘75 percent of their first dates turn into second dates,’ you know they’ve got their hinges sealed shut. Remember the '90s - when internet trolls, post-millennials and online dating didn’t exist? Back when people would set each other up with their friends and ultimately get blamed for heartbreak (or worse, Herpes)?
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