How to Send a Rose in Hinge Standouts

Tap the star at the bottom of the screen to open Standouts, tap the Rose icon on the part of her card you like, add a comment if you want, and tap Send Rose. In Standouts a Rose is the only thing you can send, because that feed takes Roses rather than likes.

1. Tap the star to open Standouts.
2. Tap the Rose icon on a photo or prompt you like.
3. Add a comment. Hinge says this is optional, but calls it an excellent idea.
4. When you are ready, tap Send Rose.

Your Rose then appears at the top of her Likes You screen. If she accepts, you match and she moves into your Matches tab.

Before you start, check that you have a Rose to send. The count sits in the upper right of the Rose icon in your Profile Hub, which you open by tapping your profile photo in the lower right corner. Every member gets a free Rose each week, and if you have run out, tapping the Rose icon offers you more to buy.

Hinge describes Standouts as a feed of people catching the most attention on the app, tailored to your preferences and recent activity. Its help page is direct about the rule: in Standouts you can only send Roses instead of likes.

That makes sense from her side of the screen. A woman in your Standouts is getting a lot of attention, and Hinge notes that people in that position may no longer be looking for a match. A Rose moves you to the top of her Likes You screen, which is where you need to be for her to see you at all.

Hinge also says that sending a Rose increases your chances of matching with someone who is receiving a lot of attention.

Standouts does not stay still. A Next Refresh timer shows how long you have to interact with someone before the page refreshes and new people appear. Hinge says some of the people you see there may turn up in your Discover feed on a later day, but it makes no promise.

So if a woman in Standouts is exactly who you would want to meet, send the Rose while she is on your screen. Hinge's own advice is not to wait too long when someone catches your eye. Hoping she reappears somewhere a plain like would do is a bet the app tells you not to make.

Standouts can feel like a gallery of women out of reach. Some of them are. That is no reason to skip the feed, but it is a reason to choose carefully.

Look past the first photo. Every man looking at her card sees the same striking picture, and a Rose on it says the same thing all of them are thinking. Scroll to her answers instead. The woman whose writing makes you want to reply, whose sense of humour you can already hear, is the one worth a Rose, because you will have something real to say to her.

Check the basics too. She should live near enough to meet, and what she says she wants should line up with what you want.

A Rose in Standouts lands in front of a woman who is getting a lot of attention. Plenty of that attention will be the same compliment in slightly different words.

Give her something else. React to one specific detail, ask a question she would enjoy answering, or tease an opinion she wrote. Keep it to a sentence or two. Hinge calls the comment optional, but in Standouts it is the reason the Rose works.

Not every card in Standouts deserves a Rose. To skip someone there, swipe the card to the left.

If you skip someone by mistake, the undo arrow brings back your most recent skip. Free members get a limited number of Undo Skips, while Hinge+ and HingeX subscribers can undo their most recent skip as many times as they like.

When she accepts, answer whatever she sent, add something of your own, and keep it light. After a few good exchanges, suggest a place and a day.

A woman getting this much attention on Hinge is not short of men to chat with. The man who turns the chat into a plan quickly is usually the one who actually gets the date.