This analysis describes version 10.4.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-07 . The app may have changed since.

The store lists the version as varying by device, updated 2026-10-09.

Preview

Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Hinge, the online dating app designed to be deleted

Welcome to Hinge, the online dating app for people who want to go on their last first date. With profiles and prompts that show your personality through text, photos, video, and voice, you could have meaningful conversations that lead to great dates. Whether you’re looking to start dating with intention, or you’re unsure about your dating goals, our goal is to help you go out on promising dates.

Our dating app is built on the belief that anyone looking for meaningful connections should be able to find it. By inspiring intimate, in-person connections, we aim to create a less lonely world. With detailed profiles, meaningful likes and a nobel-prize winning algorithm, dating & relationships are at the core of everything we do.

Hinge is about fostering real connections built on compatibility and intention.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

2 published · 3 shown, not confirmed

Positives 2

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

Sources: The store listing
Agreement: A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured: From the Google Play listing

Definition

The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.

Open evidence

No advertising SDKs

Measured

No advertising or mediation SDK among the 6 SDKs detected in the package

Sources: SDKs in the app package
Agreement: A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured: Found in the Android app’s package

Definition

No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.

Package artefact

sha256:5f2b4703bbfd717a91e4ba362c930e86eda4ff3b218ee0cd8a3b85bc22287899

One source only — shown, not confirmed 3

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 1304 reviews scanned)

Sources: User reviews
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Countdown-timer purchase pressure

One source only

Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Offer ends in 50:02"

Sources: The app's own on-screen text
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.

Package artefact

sha256:5f2b4703bbfd717a91e4ba362c930e86eda4ff3b218ee0cd8a3b85bc22287899

A plan is pre-picked as 'recommended'

One source only

Purchase screen steers the choice: "Most Popular"

Sources: The app's own on-screen text
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.

Package artefact

sha256:5f2b4703bbfd717a91e4ba362c930e86eda4ff3b218ee0cd8a3b85bc22287899

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

1,304 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

1,304 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

I feel like Hinge was good a long time ago but the prime era is over. It's true that matches behave more appropriately but it's still hard. Also, Hinge is becoming the only choice where potential matches aren't locked behind a paywall…
3★ · Google Play · 2026-10-12

Hinge: The only app that figures out your exact type just so it can lock them behind a paywall and demand you buy virtual roses.
1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-07

Everything costs money. that's annoying
3★ · Google Play · 2026-10-10

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

8 measured · 0 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews

Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20

Price in the store description

States no price and billing period

Cancelling, in the store description

Does not say how to cancel

Themes reported by reviewers

1 theme reported

Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.

Five-star share of ratings

Under 65% five-star

Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

Android package 10.4.0, scanned 17 Sep 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions

6 or more requested

Counted against a fixed list of eighteen sensitive Android permissions: sixteen runtime permissions, among them location, camera, microphone, contacts and SMS, and two the user must switch on in system settings, drawing over other apps and usage access. Requesting one is not itself a finding.

Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package

1–2 found

Advertising SDKs in the scanned package

None found

Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 7 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 10.4.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-07 . The app may have changed since.

The store lists the version as varying by device, updated 2026-10-09.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version varies by device · 2026-10-09

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version varies by device · 2026-10-02

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version varies by device · 2026-09-29

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status: Automated analysis
App identifier: hinge-dating-app-google-co-hinge-app
Assessment date: 7 Oct 2026
Sources used: 6 independent signals: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read: 1,304
Package examined: Android · 10.4.0 · scanned 17 Sep 2026
Measurement vocabulary: 1.4
Human inspection: Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-07 from 1,304 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-07 Version analyzed: 10.4.06 independent signals1,304 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3

Signals run: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating: 3.54 ★ · 490,700 ratings
Version: Varies by device
Updated: 9 Oct 2026
Price: Free · In-app purchases
Age rating: 17+
Size: Not supplied

Open in Google Play

Developer: Hinge, Inc.
Category: Social
Listing price: Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

What this app sells

Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.

Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

Review thresholds Read the methodology For developers

Request a correction

[email protected]

Write to [email protected], or use the form. Name the finding, the app version and the evidence that needs correcting. Factual corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.

Report a factual error — free Email a correction