How to Buy More Roses on Hinge

Once you have used the Roses you hold, tap the Rose icon and Hinge offers you more to buy. You can also buy them from the hub screen you open with the icon in the lower right corner of the app. They come in bundles of a few different sizes, and the Roses you buy stay in your account until you use them.

Hinge's help pages describe two routes.

The first is the one you run into naturally. When you have used all your available Roses and tap the Rose icon, Hinge offers to sell you more right there, in the middle of whatever you were doing.

The second works from your Profile Hub. Tap your photo icon in the lower right corner of the app, then tap the Rose icon just above the row of icons at the bottom of the screen. The same screen shows how many Roses and Boosts you already have, as a small number in the upper right of each icon.

Roses are a one-time purchase, which Hinge lists under its other purchase options, apart from the Hinge+ and HingeX subscriptions. Subscribing happens somewhere else in the app, through your photo icon, the gear icon and Subscribe to Hinge. If you only want Roses, you do not need to go near the subscription screens at all.

Hinge sells Roses in batches of a few different sizes, from a small pack up to a large one. Check the price the app shows you before you tap. This article leaves prices out on purpose, because a number that was right once is easy to read long after it has changed.

Two facts are worth knowing before you choose a size. Purchased Roses do not expire until you use them, so a bigger bundle will not go stale in your account. And Hinge's refund page lists Roses among the virtual items it treats as final and nonrefundable. Whatever you buy, you keep, used or not.

Every Hinge member gets a free Rose each week, and free Roses do not carry over to the next week. A man who buys Roses while letting his free one lapse is paying for something he was already being given.

Make sending the free Rose a weekly habit first. If you then find you want more than that, buy.

There is no right number, but there is a wrong way to use them. Picture a man who buys a large bundle and sends a Rose to every woman he vaguely likes. He has paid to sit at the top of screens where a like with a good comment would have done the job.

Buy for specific uses. A few Roses make sense if you check Standouts often, because that feed only takes Roses and Hinge describes it as people catching the most attention on the app. They make sense for the handful of women in Discover each week you would most like to meet. Past that, the money is usually better spent elsewhere.

This is the part that saves the most money. A Rose moves you up her list. It does nothing about what she sees when she gets to you.

If your first photo is dark, blurry or taken from below, or your answers read like a job application, a Rose just gets you passed over faster and with more fuss. Some men buy Roses because ordinary likes are not landing, which is treating the symptom. If likes with thoughtful comments are getting almost nothing back, the problem sits in your profile, and no quantity of Roses reaches it.

Fix the set first. One clear photo of your face in daylight, a couple that show your actual life, and answers that sound like you talking. After that, Roses start doing what they are for.

Every Rose you pay for should go out with a comment. Hinge lists the comment as optional when you send a Rose from Discover or Standouts. It is also the difference between a Rose that starts a chat and a Rose that just sits at the top of her screen.

React to one specific thing she wrote or showed. Keep it short and a little playful, and leave out the compliment about her looks. When she accepts and replies, answer properly and suggest a place and a day within a few exchanges.

That is how a bought Rose pays for itself: not by the placement alone, but by the date that placement makes possible.