Do Comments on Likes Get More Matches on Hinge?

Yes, according to Hinge's own numbers. Its help center says adding a comment makes a like more likely to get a response. When it announced Convo Starters, Hinge also said likes sent with a comment are twice as likely to lead to a date. The catch is that those figures cover comments in general, and a lazy comment does far less than a good one.

Hinge has put three claims on the record.

The help center, on both its Likes page and its Discover page, says a comment makes a like more likely to get a response.

In its announcement for Convo Starters, Hinge said its data shows likes sent with a comment are twice as likely to lead to a date. That finding is the reason it gives for building the feature.

The same announcement cites Hinge research finding that 72% of daters are more likely to consider someone when a like includes a message. Hinge's help page on Convo Starters repeats that figure.

Put plainly, the app is telling you that the comment is part of the like.

A bare like hands her a decision and nothing else. She looks at your photos and decides yes or no. If it is yes, she still has to think of something to say.

A comment does two jobs. It proves you read her page, which a bare like cannot prove. And it gives her a first line to answer, so the conversation has started before she taps anything.

Hinge's own relationship scientist made the same point when Convo Starters launched. Her advice was to skip the generic hello and the surface-level compliment, because they give the other person nothing to work with. Say what caught your eye instead, or how something she wrote connects to your own life.

A figure about likes with comments is an average across every comment sent, the good and the bad together. It does not mean any comment doubles your chances.

"Hey" is technically a comment. So is "You're gorgeous." Neither gives her anything to reply to, and both look like what every other man sent her that day. The comments worth writing are the ones that start something.

A comment also cannot rescue a page that is not working. If your photos are dark and your prompts say nothing, a clever line gets her to look, and then your page loses her. Fix both, and each one makes the other work harder.

The best comments react to one specific thing and leave room for her to answer.

Ask about a detail with a story in it. A photo of her on a sailboat invites "Captain, or were you just allowed to hold the rope for the picture?"

Make a guess she can confirm or correct. "You look like the friend who plans the whole trip and then gets blamed when it rains."

Disagree with something she wrote, playfully. If her prompt says she is never wrong about restaurants, "Bold claim. I know one place that will change your mind" gives her something to push back on. It also plants a date idea at the same time.

Keep it short. One or two sentences carry more than a paragraph. They read like a man who is interested, not one who is auditioning.

The most common waste is writing good comments for the wrong women. If you like everyone, you comment on everyone, and your effort gets spread across women you do not care about. Hinge's help center suggests liking the people you feel would be a good match rather than a greater quantity. That advice pairs well with commenting every time.

The second is writing the same comment on every page. It is faster, and she can tell. A line that would fit under any woman's photo tells her it probably has.

The third is sending something crude. Hinge's Comment Filter can hide likes whose comments contain disrespectful language, or words a woman has chosen to block. Hinge says the sender is not told when that happens.

Yes. If Hinge says comments bring more responses and more dates, a like without one is the weaker version of the same action.

If you honestly cannot find anything on her page worth reacting to, pay attention to that. It usually means she is not someone you want to take out, and the better choice is to skip her and save the like.

And when a comment does turn into a match, keep going from what you wrote. You already have a topic. A few good exchanges later, suggest a real day and place, because the date was the point of the comment all along.