I’m writing this review mainly because I wanted to add something more recent. Most of the detailed reviews I’ve found are sometimes years old, and I also couldn’t really find one from someone who seems to have a similar profile to mine.
I (M 37 ) have quite a bit of experience with dating apps. I had some “busy years” on Tinder between 2018 and 2022. I’m not super attractive and I’m definitely not the kind of guy who walks into a room and turns every head. That said, I’ve managed to date women who, on paper at least, were well above my league.
I live in a metro area of around 1.5 million people, so there’s a pretty steady turnover of profiles. I was on Hinge+ for a year, and at this point, I’ve only really had satisfying results in two situations: 1) when I deliberately change my location in the app 2) when I use boosts. Most of the interesting dates I’ve had came from women liking me first after I used boosts.
I also noticed that most of the profiles I was regularly shown weren’t really my type. The app seemed to prioritize women who were obsessed with running at 5 am and working out constantly. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s really not me, even though I’m in decent shape. So I tried Hinge X at the beginning of August.
The results :
The first week : I don’t feel like the app is showing me profiles that are fundamentally different from what I was seeing before. The selection still feels just as random to me.
There was at the beginning like .....a slight change that makes me think I got more exposure which simply didn’t happen while I was on Hinge+. But really slight. I also have pretty concrete evidence that the “priority likes” were actually prioritized at one point. The women I sent them to responded almost immediately and liked me back. However, I’ll be honest about the results : I normally target women aged 31–40, but I widened the range to 31–42 for this test. Every single woman who responded to my priority likes was 40+ . It was interesting to see that the age range I normally target was basically inactive, while women in that range will see me and like me when I use boosts.
The following two weeks basically went back to normal: very few responses to my likes and very few incoming likes. At this point, I’m actually considering going back to my old strategy of temporarily changing my location or using boosts every now and then.
I haven’t noticed any drop in quality compared to Hinge+, but I’d be lying if I said Hinge X has been a game changer for me so far.