Is Hinge for Men and Women?

Yes. Hinge is open to men, women and non-binary people, and every member picks the gender or genders they are interested in. A man looking for women sets his preference once, and what he sees from then on is shaped by that choice and by what the women he sees have chosen too.

Hinge's gender options are Man, Woman and Non-binary. A member can also add a more specific gender identity if one of those three does not fit.

Separately, each member chooses who they are interested in. Those are two different settings, and mixing them up is the main source of confusion in this question. What you are and who you want to see are set independently.

There is also a checkbox called Visible on Profile that lets a member show or hide their gender on the page. Hinge says it added the range of options to create a more welcoming environment for all members.

Hinge says the Discover feed shows people who fit your preferences and whom you fit too. The second half of that sentence is the part men skip.

It means the feed is built on mutual interest. A woman who has set her interest to men and fits what you asked for can appear for you. A woman who is not interested in men does not turn up as a hopeful, because the match depends on both sides, not on you alone.

For a man looking for women, that is a quiet advantage. The feed is not full of people who would never consider you, and each profile you see has at least cleared the first bar of being interested in someone like you.

When you are interested in more than one gender, a Gender filter appears at the top of your Discover feed. You can toggle among the genders instead of seeing everyone mixed together.

If you are only interested in women, you will never need it. It is worth knowing it exists because it explains why some friends see a feed that looks different from yours.

The app being open to everyone does not change the work, which is the same for any man looking for women.

Be honest in your settings. A man who sets his interest too widely, hoping to see more people, does not get a bigger useful pool. He gets a feed full of people he will skip, and Hinge learns from what you like and skip, so a muddy feed trains the app on muddy signals. Set it to what you actually want.

Spend your time on the part that decides your results, which is whether the page you show women makes sense to the ones who see it. My coaching on the apps puts it plainly: the app brings people into view, and what happens next depends on you. Picking your settings is a one-time task, and the other work is ongoing.

Do not read the gender mix as a problem to solve. Some men treat the fact that the app serves everyone as a sign that fewer women are there for them. Hinge's pages do not give figures for who uses it, so nothing in them supports that worry, and any number you see quoted on a forum is a guess.

If you are a man looking for women, you will probably leave your gender visible, and there is no reason to hide it.

The Visible on Profile checkbox exists for members who want their gender kept off the page, and it is a setting the member controls. Hinge's pages describe it as a choice about what shows, so a hidden gender is not a reason to read anything into a page.

Hinge is a single app for men and women and anyone else, with separate settings for what you are and who you want to see. Set yours honestly, let the feed fill with people who fit you and whom you fit, and put your effort into the page and into what you say to the women you like.