The app is free but wants people to pay, asking them to pay for virtual "roses" meant for standout matches the service chooses for you based on what you’re looking for. It gives you people’s last names and usually their neighborhood, age, height, job, hometown, and college. Hinge shows you more information about people, so if you’re uncomfortable meeting strangers from the internet, this makes it easier.
Profiles offer prompts to get the conversation started like “If loving this is wrong, I don’t want to be right…” and “The one thing I’d love to know about you is….” Users can choose to connect with someone by tapping the conversation button and matching or leaving a comment on a page. Now, it simply connects users with people near the neighborhood they have chosen. When it was founded by CEO Justin McLeod, the app showed people profiles based on proximity as well as Facebook friends they shared in common. Hinge started as a way to connect friends of friends and people in your network. Wants people to pay to give matches a “rose,” making the app slightly confusing Only offers a limited number of matches unless you pay to upgrade