Hinge
95 reviews
I think this is a terrible site for the 50-60 age bracket for men. I was on here for 2years both subscription and non. There is lots of ghosting and fake profiles. I say the later because I believe there is a lot of married women in this age bracket who frequent this app for either a laugh or to see if they still have it. I had so many last minute… Read more
cancellations on dates or simple no shows never to be heard from again. All after long engagements via text and even phone calls. One woman text me as I was leaving to tell me her flue shot from day before was making her sick I kid you not. Men stay away from this site go to the pub have a better chance of meeting a woman there.
Girls who don't like your profile instead of swiping left report you. Your account gets banned and and membership and roses you pay for doesn't get refunded. Scam app. Show details
Hinged seemed to be okay as it was free, but, the matching program is useless. Quite often not even close, such as being matched with smokers when it's a deal breaker for you. The big negative happened today, I was banned, supposedly for breaking a term of use, which the won't say what it is. I am sure I never broke any rule without needing to… Read more
know what it might be. They pretend to have an appeals process. I appeealed, (hard to do when you don't know what you're appealing). Which was denied, again without explanation. Not sad to be off the site. But, this action was very unprofessional and I'm happy to have my name identified in this review.
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Well, the app sells itself as "designed to be deleted". Little I'd known that I would be banned for no apparent reason, and when I appealed they didn't tell me the reason for the ban. Also, please note that I had Hinge X for a month, and decided to cancel my subscription before the next month was due. Disappointing experience, not to mention how inefficient the app is to get you matches, let alone dates. Show details
Hinge permanently banned my account within days for allegedly violating their Terms of Service—except I did nothing wrong. I barely used the app, sent one message to a single match, and had no inappropriate activity. Yet without warning or specifics, my account was removed. The appeal process was a joke: a canned rejection with no explanation,… Read more
no evidence, and no human review. If Hinge can’t distinguish between actual violations and harmless usage, their moderation is fundamentally broken.
This isn’t just frustrating—it’s unacceptable. Users deserve transparency, fair appeals, and respect for their time. Until Hinge fixes its arbitrary enforcement and non-existent customer support, stay away. You could be next.
Hinge: Criminals or Fraudsters? You decide… – Hinge’s tag line is “Designed to be deleted” which is what they do to legitimate user’s accounts. If you read other negative reviews, you will find that many accounts are removed without reasons provided. Hinge states that they will not provide reasons for bands even though you may appeal the decision. You have my word that I followed every policy… Read more
by the letter.
The only possible reason for the removal of my account was “revenge reporting” perhaps because I was approached by a member asking suspicious questions using poorly worded language. In an effort to establish if they were genuine or not, I asked questions based on their location, questions that only a local would know. Obviously they caught on, realised that they had been caught out and preemptively reported my account before I could report theirs.
Think about this: Hinge’s policy, justified by privacy reasons actually *protects* scammers and penalises genuine users without recourse. To and insult to injury, they do not provide a refund for the balance of the membership period you have paid for and actually tell you to approach Apple for a refund who have “may or may not grant the refund”.
In Australia, this is illegal. In my honest opinion (a legal term equating to sans prejudice), stick to other more reputable sites eg Plenty of Fish, but still be vigilant of scammers and start off with the minimum membership term to ensure that you are not only protecting yourself from criminals but also corporate fraud.
Sue me Hinge, I dare you. At least then you will be legally obliged to provide users with the reasons for being banned. I am not holding my breath.
So to be sure that Hinge understands what I am implying if it wasn’t clear: you are fraudsters until *you* prove otherwise. That’s my policy…
Account removed for no reason – Yep… I had my account removed with no explanation. All it says is that I violated one or more of their policies. I didn’t do anything wrong, I was talking to a woman for a phone days on our phones. Spoke with her over the phone. Then she kept saying I must be a catfish. I did everything to put her mind at ease. Meanwhile she wouldn’t even send me… Read more
a photo of her face. Think she was the catfish. She said I sound too good to be true and that I must be a catfish Then last night she kept doing it so I ended it. This morning I wake up to my account being removed. Not sure what I did wrong. Nasty human Sent an email with no response. It’s all too strange. I had 10 other matches I’ve lost now too. They say you can appeal. But there’s no info as to what I’m appealing against. Just that I’ve violated one or more of their policies. This world?!!
They will ban you – Banned without reason, all they said is that, I was banned for breaching some policy. But this is the thing! Always polite to other users. Never disrespected anyone. Profile clean: bio/pics & respectful. But today I got banned. Worse part is.. They won't even tell you WHY Still had 4 month left on my subscription.. No refund either! Show details
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Hands down EPIC WASTE of energy & $ – Joined as an experiment as a first time dating app user & can honestly say it’s THE biggest waste of money & energy! The “matches” are so FAR from my bio & the experience has proven to be an absolute WASTE OF TIME & $! Unless you invest more money… Read more
past the initial signup, you can’t even message. Just get a bunch of supposed “” who are not even close, in geographic location or other. Do not bother!!!
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I think Hinge is essentially a scam. I have had one reply from about 30 odd messages (all clean and respectful) and I have even asked ladies to give me a reply even if they are not interested just to let me know they have received messages, to date I have not received one reply. Show details
Follow-up · Since my original review, nothing has changed, still hands down the worst app for responses and I put most of that down to the fact that even after you pay a sub, there's a "oh so you want to chat with people?" extra sub, I've cancelled mine
A scam and fraud.I joined and banned within 24 hours.I did nothing wrong. I didn't have any conversations with anyone given the short time.I didn't have a date.I was banned for violating their terms.They would not give me a reason other than send us… Read more
a picture of your license for verification.Oh figure it out after the fact. They approved my selfie no problem. A dating app that is not worth the time nor money or effort.
Follow-up · I think for one thing it a a dating app that entertains 3 users .A few people might find a relationship.However investigating further the app is dangerous. A way in which people scam you out of your money. Gain trust then appeal for money.. One really can't difrentiate who is real and who is a dangerous . I have talked to people who had very… Read more
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Not an app that is safe for women. Constantly matching with men that are inappropriate in the chat or on other apps and get aggressive and call you names when you disagree or turn them down, and then ban your account because a man reported you for warmly and respectfully stating you didn't want to see him anymore (which he got very upset about… Read more
despite my never have meeting him). Attempted an appeal to have a human person review my very genuine and appropriate account but they stood by their ban.
It is clear that this app rewards or ignores nasty behaviour from men but have no issues banning women for doing nothing wrong. Do not recommend.
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I didn't have any problem getting responses from guys or dates. I won't use a dating site again that has a free account option as the guys have nothing to lose in terms of time or money and many therefore aren't genuine and play games. I've been on a few different dating sites and this is the only one ever where I've had multiple guys cancel the… Read more
night before a first date and one creep just stood me up on a date - I was shocked that after messaging me multiple times over two weeks he didn't even have the courtesy to cancel. It's time wasting juvenile behaviour. AVOID this dating platform - none of the dating apps are great, but this one's the worst.
It appears I've somewhat cracked the Hinge fake profiles issue. I've X'd about 150 of the initial 'stunner profiles' which are clearly created by AI/scammers/maybe even Hinge itself to get you to buy boost and roses; all [Content Removed]. Now I'm at the back end of the availability list where they at least appear to be real profiles. Their… Read more
algorhythms seem to be sending me less fake ones as well. Chatting and catching up with some ok women. I have had one where it's clearly a syndicate scammer trying to take you to Whattsapp and do video calls. It was the girl in the photos but her eyes gave her away when she kept looking at someone else in the room. I didn't have my camera on yet and deleted the convo. Be careful there as they will capture precarious video of you to try to blackmail you with later. It's a bit of work initially, and it shouldn't be, but most of these apps are exactly the same. Alternative is live speed dating which is massively hit/miss/expensive/time consuming. Good luck fellas.
"Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is, do you Mr Jones" I think of this line in the Bob Dylan's song Ballad of a thin man best describes my experience on this app. Show details
Banned before I even had a chance to use it. Setup a profile, within hours I was kicked off saying you’ve broken our policies. Now I’m banned for life. They won’t respond to my appeal. Steer clear. Other apps out there.
Hinge is not good for somebody dating with intention. It's business model relies on return users not successful relationships. Furthermore it's process for dealing with member complaints is flawed. I received a disgruntled member whom I politely had told I didn't feel we had chemistry after a date, tell me she was going to 'show me' and report my… Read more
profile, which she did. My profile was banned without recourse. Report hinge to the BBB as they act as a law unto themselves.
Paid for a months subscription and got quite a few matches. I decided not to renew after the first month expired and then the trouble started. For no reason my account was removed. I asked Hinge to explain why and they would not tell me. All I had done was to say hello to my matches and ask them how their weekend was! I happened to add one of my… Read more
matches to another social media platform prior to my account being removed and he told me that Hinge sent him an email saying that my account was removed as I had acted fraudulently!?! This email presumably went to all of my matches. For no reason Hinge slandered me to all of my matches. It's a trashy app and I am actually going to seek legal advice for their slander and misinformation.
My Hinge account was permanently banned without any explanation, even though I did not violate any Terms of Service or Community Guidelines. I wasn’t messaging anyone or doing anything inappropriate at the time of the ban. I submitted an appeal through the app, but it was rejected instantly with only a generic response. After that, the app… Read more
removed the appeal option entirely, so I can no longer contact support or provide any verification. There is no way to speak with a human or have my case reviewed.
This has left me with no transparency, no explanation, and no dispute process, which is unacceptable for a service operating under Australian Consumer Law.
I am simply asking for a proper manual review of my account and clarification of what supposedly triggered the ban. I am more than willing to verify my identity.
Location: Victoria, Australia
I just got banned from hinge for nothing .. I posted on my profile “ that if youre older then me please dont ask me to drive to you” I was receiving so many older men asking me this and I got tired. So it must of been an older person that flagged me! Hinge is the worst dating app a bunch of entitled older men who think a woman should go to them !!… Read more
So I sent an appeal to hinge not because I wanted the account back ! Just to let them know the account sucks!!! The real people should get banned are the guys on there wasting you’re time!!
I initially used Hinge’s free version and decided to upgrade to a subscription for a month to see as Hinge advertised this as I better chance for a match etc.All I’ve got is a recycle of people I have already seen. Any new ones I am unable to like and it wants me to pay more for Roses to send to people. It is impossible to get Hinge Bot to… Read more
understand the issue. The Bot sent me links and neither of them worked as they kept defaulting back to the previous screen. Give dating apps a bad name really. I’ve lost my money which is annoying
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I felt Hinge was a scam I paid the $50 for four weeks and put effort into the pictures I posted and my likes etc, received zero likes which didn’t make sense. I was constantly prompted to post more money to boost interest, absolutely NO.. my profile was the same on bumble and received a lot of likes so I believe Hinge withholds your profile to get… Read more
money out of you.. Not good to treat ppl that way! I’ve lost my money but will definitely not use Hinge again.
I approached this site with an open mind, but my experience has been quite disappointing. The few dates I went on were with men whose photos were clearly outdated and did not reflect their current appearance. In addition, many matches never respond once a connection is made, which makes the process frustrating and unproductive. Another concern is… Read more
that a large number of users seem to be looking for casual hookups rather than genuine relationships, which is not what the platform promotes itself as. Overall, I feel this site does not deliver on its promise of fostering authentic connections and, unfortunately, has been more of a waste of time than anything else.
Rubbish… They hustle you for money and trust me it’s very expensive for only 3 months you would be $279 out of pocket let alone if you don’t pay for membership at all they won’t let you have free access to what would actually make a dating site worthwhile.. terrible experience Show details
Absolutely terrible experience, my account was banned after 1 hour and i hadn't even used the app after purchasing, i sent 10 emails requesting a reason why which they wouldn't give me and just kept requesting i upload my identification, they also refused to provide contact details to lodge a complaint. Show details
Banned for no reason: The only thing I can think of that would have triggered their removal is an attempted joke which had nothing sexual, no innuendo, nothing offensive in it. I followed with 'on a serious note', indicating that it was a joke. Someone somewhere does not have a sense of humour. The appeal to Hinge was also rejected in a matter of… Read more
minutes. That shows how much consideration was given to fairness. Anyway, they make money off men, so removing us is bad business. Also, to those who read this, a personal advice: save your money and don't spend on dating apps. PS. Looks like there are a few reviews of this nature 'banned for no reason'.
Hinge gatekeeps your decent matches to force you to purchase ‘roses’ to match with them. The algorithm is a scam to make money, it’s not about genuinely matching people. Show details
They say its not a hookup app, but it is. After using Hinge for quite a few years, Hinge has effectively banned me from using their service. This makes the 4th dating app to ban me. I am a transwoman but I am not woke and this has gained me a lot of discrimination especially from so called "allies". Dating apps that ban me always give me a round… Read more
about reason, or they just quote their TOS line that states "we can ban you for any reason or no reason."
Not to mention, its been a few years now and they havent updated their category "covid vaccination" which only has the options of "yes", "partially" and "not yet" but theres no option for "never". I was reading that Hinge is owned by the exact same company that owns all the dating apps so its no wonder.
Another dating site full of fake profiles. Google "start your own dating site" and this fact will be confirmed. I call it Unhinged. The women who are actually real are the type that jump from man to man, always looking for something better.
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