Where to See How Many Roses You Have on Hinge

Tap your own picture in the lower right corner of the app to open Hinge's hub screen. The small number in the upper right of the Rose icon is how many Roses you have available. Hinge also shows your available Roses every time you send an outgoing like, so you can check without leaving the feed.

Hinge calls this screen your Profile Hub. To reach it, tap your profile photo in the lower right corner of the app. Your available Boosts and Roses appear as small numbers in the upper right of each icon, so one glance tells you both.

The same screen is also one of the places to buy more Roses. Hinge's page on purchases describes it as tapping your photo icon and then the Rose icon just above the row of icons at the bottom of the screen.

The count beside the Rose icon has a neighbour: your Boosts. A Boost is a different tool. Hinge says it makes your profile more visible to more people for a set window: one hour for a Boost and 24 hours for a Superboost. Hinge also says other users are not notified that you are boosting.

The two are easy to confuse because they sit side by side. A Rose moves you up one woman's list and she can see it. A Boost puts you in front of more women without telling any of them. When you check your Roses, glance at the Boost count too, so you know which of the two you are actually holding.

You do not have to go looking. Hinge shows your available Roses each time you send an outgoing like, right at the moment you are choosing between Send Like and the Rose icon.

That is the most useful place to see the number, because it is where the decision actually happens. If you are about to tap the Rose icon on a woman you only half like, the count is a small reminder of what you are spending.

A zero means you have used everything you hold. Tapping the Rose icon at that point gives you the option to buy more, in bundles of a few different sizes.

Before you pay, remember the free one. Every Hinge member gets a free Rose each week, and free Roses do not accumulate. A zero today does not mean zero for good, because a free Rose arrives each week. It just will not roll over if you leave it unused.

Two quick readings are worth making.

If the count has shown the same unused Rose for days, you are close to wasting your free one. Pick someone and send it. The weekly Rose only has value in the week it arrives, since Hinge's rule for free Roses is use it or lose it.

If the count is dropping fast and your matches are not rising with it, the Roses are going to the wrong women or arriving without a reason to reply. That is worth fixing before you buy more.

Treat the number as a short list of chances, not a balance to protect.

The best use of a Rose is a woman where your place in her list decides whether she ever sees you. Standouts is exactly that. Hinge describes it as people catching the most attention on the app, and it only accepts Roses. In Discover, it is the woman you would most like to meet this week, not the one most likely to say yes.

Purchased Roses do not expire until you use them, so there is no need to rush a bought one onto the first woman you see. The free one is different. Use it every week.

Whatever the count says, each Rose should go out with a comment. Hinge lists the comment as optional when you send a Rose from Discover or Standouts. It is also what turns a Rose into a message she can answer.

Keep it to one specific reaction: a question about the place in her second photo, or a light tease about an opinion she wrote. Leave out the line about how beautiful she is.

The number on the Rose icon tells you how many chances you have left. What you write with each Rose, and how good your own card looks when she reaches it, decides how many of those chances turn into matches.