Finding 01
2% → 10%
The match-rate gap. Most people have no idea what fraction of their likes actually convert. You might be at 2% when you could be at 10% — that five-fold gap is costing you dates every week.
File 01 — The data your app hides
There's a folder on Hinge's servers with your name on it.
Match rate. Ghost rate. The exact hour your matches happen. The settings quietly throttling your reach. Hinge tracks all of it. They just decided you didn't need to see it. We disagree.
Your export is read locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded unless you choose to save the audit.
Decoded — Volume 1Hinge supported · Bumble in research2026
File 02 — Method
Other apps want your password. We never will.
The tools you've seen on TikTok ask you to hand over your data and trust them. We took the harder path: build the audit so it runs entirely on your device. The receipts stay with you.
The other guys
matchdata.me
Upload your data to their servers
Read your file in your browser, locally
Store your personal information by default
Never see your raw export — we don't have the keys
Ask for your dating-app login
Never. We don't touch the apps themselves
Vague privacy policies, opaque retention
Open about exactly what we read (and don't)
You hope they delete it eventually
Saving is optional. One-click delete, anytime
FootnoteWhen you upload, your browser parses the ZIP the same way a spreadsheet opens a CSV. The file exists in tab memory and vanishes when you close it — unless you save the audit.
File 03 — Method of investigation
Three steps, none of them suspicious.
No accounts to link. No swipe-along browser extensions. You hand yourself a copy of your own data; we read it back to you in plain English.
01
Request your file from Hinge
Settings → Download My Data. Hinge emails you a ZIP within 24–48 hours. No login, no API key, no scraping — they're legally required to give you your own data.
GDPR · CCPA · DMA
02
Drop the ZIP into your browser
Drag the file onto matchdata.me. Your browser parses it locally — the same way a spreadsheet opens a CSV. Nothing leaves your device unless you choose to save the audit.
Local-only by default
03
Read your dossier
Match rate, ghost rate, prompt performance, peak match windows, the silent settings throttling your reach — and a written audit of what to change and why.
Specific. Receipted.
File 04 — Findings
What your dating app won't tell you.
Finding 02
“29% of your matches will never reply. The data already knows which ones, and why.”
Read against opener length, response time, and prompt mix.
Finding 03
When to actually be on the app.
You're swiping at 11pm on a Tuesday. Your matches happen at 7pm Friday. Timing matters more than most people think.
MTWTFSS
Finding 04
3.msgs
Where your conversations actually die.
There's a specific message number where most of your chats fade out. Once you can see the pattern, you can change the move that comes before it.
Finding 05
The settings sabotaging your reach.
- ·Distance filter quietly set to 1 mile.
- ·Push notifications off — fewer matches see your replies.
- ·Age range that excludes the people who actually like you.
Findings vary by user. Yours will be specific.
Finding 06 — Outcome
Then: what to actually change.
Not vague advice. Specific changes — which prompts to retire, which photos to reorder, which settings are silently throttling you. Written for your data, not a generic dating-coach script.
File 05 — Sample dossier
This is what your file looks like.
A sample. Every figure on a real dossier is traceable to a row in your Hinge ZIP — receipts, not vibes.
Subject — Sam K.
Hey Sam, here's your dating audit.
Based on 6 months of Hinge data · 247 likes sent
Vol. 1 · 2026
Critical
Distance filter set to 3 miles
Your reach is throttled to ~12% of your city.
Warning
Push notifications are off
Reply-time median is 4× slower than your matches expect.
Note
3 profile attributes hidden
Voice prompt, height, and education set to private.
Match rate
4.8%
12 of 247 likes
Ghost rate
31%
4 of 13 matches
Best day
Friday
38% of matches
Chat drop-off
3 msgs
median before silence
Your funnel
Likes sent247
Matches13
Conversations9
4.8% of your likes turn into matches.
When you match
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W
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F
S
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Ghost analysis
31%
4 of 13 matches went completely silent.
Industry median: 25–35%.
Audit — Recommendations
01 — Tighten distance filter
Your distance filter is set to 3 miles. In Sydney this covers a tiny stretch of the inner west…
02 — Retire two prompts
“A life goal of mine” and “The way to win me over is” are under-performing your other four by a factor of…
Unlocks with your audit
File 06 — Terms
Less than a coffee a week. One audit.
You're already spending money on the apps. This tells you if it's actually working. Cancel anytime, one click, no retention obstacle course.
Loading plans…
File 07 — Cross-examination
Questions you've already started typing.
File 08 — Closing
Your dating app has the answers. You just can't see them yet.
Every like, every match, every conversation is already on file. The only question is whether you'd like to read it.
Open my file →
Read in your browser. Saved only if you say so.
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