Does Your Tinder Elo Score Affect Hinge?

No. Tinder's help center calls Elo old news, an outdated measure its technology no longer relies on, so there is no Elo number to carry anywhere. Hinge's own list of what it uses to recommend people, such as age, gender, location and who you like, skip or match with, does not include a Tinder score. Neither company describes passing a matching score from one app to the other.

The Elo idea is that Tinder gives every man a hidden desirability number, and that number decides who gets shown to him and to whom.

Tinder says that is not how it works now. Its help center describes a system that continuously factors in how you engage with others through Likes and Nopes, and what is on users' pages. Nothing in that description is a stored grade for a man to carry to another app.

A former Tinder programmer once said that some parts of the old process stayed and that rapid right swiping is always a red light for the app. Tinder's own help center says Elo is outdated, and that is the page this article follows.

Hinge says its matching algorithm is powered by information members give it or create by using the app. The examples it names are age, gender, location and preferences. It also names who members might exchange phone numbers with, and who they like, skip or match with.

Read that list for a Tinder score and you will not find one. Everything on it is something you did on Hinge, or something you told Hinge.

Tinder and Hinge belong to the same parent, Match Group, and Hinge says it shares information across Match Group companies. It names five purposes. They are running daily operations, keeping people safe, and providing features across Match Group. The other two are personalizing experiences, such as discounts, and promoting Match Group's services.

Safety and verification are on that list, so a ban for something serious can reach more than one app. What is not on the list is a matching score. Hinge does not describe sharing one between apps.

A man who does well on Tinder and badly on Hinge, or the reverse, often decides the scores must have carried over. They did not. Two simpler things changed.

The first is the crowd. Different women use each app, and different men compete for them.

The second is your page. A set of photos and a style of writing that suits one app's crowd can fall flat on the other.

a dating coach says the apps are all programmed independently and set up a little differently. They share a business reason, which is to keep people on the app and paying, but not a rulebook. His advice is not to be loyal to one app. Get the most from whichever works for you, and move to another when the first runs thin.

Something does carry from app to app, and it is you.

Your photos are the same men looking back from every screen. Your habits go with you as well. A man who likes everyone on Tinder usually does the same thing on Hinge. a dating coach believes the apps notice and discount a man who shows no standards, and whether or not that is true of any one app, a wide net is also bad for you. You end up matched to women you did not want, and with less time for the ones you did.

One man described improving the page on his Tinder account, with the same account, the same city and the same search radius. Afterward he saw many more likes arrive and a noticeably better group of women appear. That is a story about a page, and about a man's own choices, not about a number the app was keeping.

Skip the number and count what you can see. Likes you send, how many become matches, how many matches reply to your first message and how many replies become a plan for a drink.

If those figures are low on Hinge, the fix is on your page and in how you message, not in a hidden score from another app. Change one thing at a time, such as your first photo or your opening line, and watch the numbers for a week.