What Dating Apps Are Like Hinge for Guys?

The closest apps to Hinge are the ones that make a woman write something about herself and let you answer it. Bumble does that with bios and prompts, and OkCupid does it with written answers and questions. Coffee Meets Bagel and The League hand you a short daily batch instead of an endless stack. eHarmony does it with a quiz. None of them is a copy. Each gives you a different reason to send a first message.

Hinge calls itself the dating app designed to be deleted. It shows you a woman's prompt answers and personal details such as religion, height and politics, and every match starts when someone sends a Like or a Rose on one specific photo or prompt. You can add a comment to it.

That is the part men miss when they ask for something similar. They are not really asking for a different logo. They want an app where a woman's page gives them something to say, and where a match begins with a reason instead of a reflex.

Bumble is the nearest in layout. A profile has a short bio, prompts you can answer in text or pair with a picture, and interest badges. The People tab shows profiles that fit your filters, and a mutual right swipe is a match. After that, both of you get one opening message to send before a time limit runs out.

So the prompts give you something to answer, but the match comes first and the clock starts second. It suits a man who checks the app most days.

OkCupid leans on writing more than any app here. Its algorithm filters by basics like age, location, gender and orientation, then compares your answers to its match questions with hers. The Match % shows how aligned you are.

a dating coach has used it heavily and rates its matching as good, and he finds the women there tend to be smart and interesting to talk to. It suits a man who writes well and enjoys reading someone's actual answers.

Every day around noon, Coffee Meets Bagel sends a personalized batch of people called Bagels. They are chosen from your preferences, your past Likes and passes, and how likely each woman is to like you back. If she already liked you, your Like makes an instant match.

It is slower than Hinge and the choices are smaller, which is the point. You make fewer decisions, so each one gets more attention.

The League gives you a curated Batch every day. You can match with the people in it and message every match, all in the free version. The app says it favors showing you people who meet your preferences and whose preferences you meet.

It suits a man who wants the app to narrow things before he sees them. The cost is that you have less to browse.

eHarmony describes itself as a dating site for people who know they want a meaningful relationship. New members answer a Compatibility Quiz and see a Compatibility Score with each member on their list. A Basic membership is free to start.

It is the least like Hinge in feel and the most like it in intent. Choose it if you know you want something serious and you do not mind answering a long quiz first.

Test two, not six. a dating coach's advice is that apps differ in their algorithms and in who uses them, so some men fail on one and do well on another. Pick the two that match what you want, give them the same pictures and the same written answers, and keep the one that produces conversations.

Where you live matters too. coach says Hinge tends to beat Tinder in major US cities, and that in many places in Europe Tinder is almost the only app people are on. The same app can be the right call in one country and a poor one in another.

All of these apps reward the same thing Hinge does, which is a page with something specific on it. a dating coach's rule for commenting is that a prompt is a better target than a photo, because it reads as more genuine and less superficial. So make your own prompts worth answering.

Give her something easy to ask about. A prompt that says what an ordinary Saturday with you looks like beats a prompt that states a fact. "I make bad pancakes with total confidence" gives her a reply. "I like breakfast" gives her nothing.

coach also keeps one picture in his profile that is purely there to make her curious, so she has something to comment on. Women who comment on it write more than a bare Like, which makes the first message much easier to answer.

Then send the first message the way the app invites you to. Pick one thing she wrote, comment on it in a sentence, keep it light, and suggest meeting once she is replying. The app you choose matters less than whether your page and your first line give her a reason to answer.