How to Send a Rose on Hinge From Discover

In Discover, tap the heart on whatever caught your eye, add a comment if you want one, then tap the Rose icon instead of Send Like. That sends a Rose rather than an ordinary like, and it lands at the top of her Likes You screen with a Rose icon on it.

Hinge's help page lays out the steps like this:

1. Tap the red heart on a photo or prompt answer on her card in Discover.
2. Add a comment if you want to. Hinge calls this optional, but says it adds a personal touch.
3. Tap the Rose icon instead of Send Like.

That is the whole difference between a Rose and a like in Discover. The first two steps are identical. The only change is which button you press at the end.

So slow down on the last tap. A man sending likes on autopilot can easily hit Send Like out of habit when he meant to spend the Rose, or spend the Rose when he meant to send a like.

Hinge shows your available Roses each time you send an outgoing like, so the count appears right where you are about to choose. You can also see it by tapping your profile photo in the lower right corner to open your Profile Hub, where a small number sits in the upper right of the Rose icon.

Every member gets a free Rose each week, and free ones do not carry over. If you have used everything you hold, tapping the Rose icon gives you the option to buy more.

The heart is not just a way in. Hinge lets you like a specific part of her card, whether that is a photo or an answer she wrote, so the part you tap is the part your Rose is about.

Choose it on purpose. Her first photo is the one every man reacts to, and a Rose on it says little beyond "you are attractive". A photo further down, or an answer with a real opinion in it, gives you something specific to talk about and shows you looked past the first second.

The comment box comes before the choice between Send Like and the Rose icon. Use that order. Write the comment first, read it back, and only then decide whether this woman gets the Rose.

A good comment is short and specific. On a travel shot, "Is that the Amalfi coast or a very convincing hotel poster?" works because it is easy to answer and a little playful. "You are gorgeous" works on nobody. It works even less when it arrives with a Rose, because now it reads as a man who has made up his mind before she has said a word.

If you cannot think of anything specific to say about her, that tells you something. She might be a like, not a Rose.

Discover is where you will spend most of your time on Hinge, and most women in it should get an ordinary like with a good comment. The Rose is for the few where position changes the result.

It helps to know how the feed is built. Hinge says Discover fills with recommendations based on mutual interest, meaning the women you see fit your preferences and you fit theirs. So the question is never whether a woman is in range. Everyone in front of you already is. The question is which one you would be most disappointed never to hear from.

That usually means the woman you would most like to meet this week, especially if she looks like someone who gets a lot of attention. An ordinary like from you would land somewhere down her list. A Rose lands at the top of her Likes You screen, above ordinary likes and above the Priority Likes that HingeX subscribers send.

Do not spend your weekly free Rose on the safe pick, the woman you are fairly sure would like you back anyway. A like handles her.

Now you wait. If she accepts, you match and she moves into your Matches tab. When she accepts she can add a message of her own, and if your comment handed her something to answer, that message often writes itself.

When she replies, answer the way you would across a table. React to what she wrote, add something of your own, and keep it moving. After a few good exchanges, suggest a place and a day. The Rose got you to the top of her screen, and the messages after it are what turn that into a date.