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See our ethics statement. Tinder β the massively popular smartphone app that has radically simplified the process of online dating β is becoming a household name. Hinge, for example, is also on the rise. The basics of Hinge are very similar to Tinder. In both apps, you build your profile by importing pictures and other personal information from Facebook.
While Tinder gives you a never-ending stream of nearby users, Hinge only provides a select list. Previous iterations of the app gave users new potential matches once a day, but now matches come in a regular trickle, like Tinder but with lower volume. The main difference, though, is that Hinge focuses on matching you with people you share Facebook friends with, if you have a Facebook account. But the focus is on finding people who are somewhere in your social network.
See the little dots to the left? Those represent how many matches you have to choose from at that moment. You can also pull up Ed W. But pulling up a profile like this one, which Jimmy Fallon and the staff of The Tonight Show cooked up for Britney Spears looks quite different in Tinder:. If you share friends or likes on Facebook, you see that, too. This is a good time to recommend that you like Vox on Facebook , thus enabling you to match other Vox fans on Tinder and keep the lineage of Vox fandom running for many generations.
But overall, you get a lot less information than on Hinge. Sort of? While you can specify that you want people close to you, there are limits; whereas Tinder lets you look for users within one mile of you, the lowest Hinge goes is 10 miles.
