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Dating, decoded.
Guides and data-driven insights on dating apps: how to get your data out, what your numbers actually mean, and what's changing in the apps you swipe on.
Read the latest: Why Swiping More Makes You Reject MoreInsights · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Why Swiping More Makes You Reject More
New research on "choice overload" shows your judgment gets measurably worse the longer you swipe in one sitting — and it's tanking self-esteem along with match quality.
News · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
California Just Advanced Two Bills That Would Force Dating Apps to Run Background Checks on You
Two California bills moving through the legislature this year would require Tinder, Hinge, and other Match Group apps to screen users for violent criminal records and publicly report on safety failures.
Insights · 5 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Breadcrumbing Isn't Ghosting. Here's Why Your Brain Falls For It Anyway
New 2025 research on breadcrumbing shows why sporadic, low-effort attention from a match messes with your head more than a clean disappearance ever could.
Insights · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
The "Date Me Doc" Is Gen Z's Weirdest, Most Honest Dating Trend
Why thousands of daters are ditching swipe profiles for multi-page personal dossiers — and what that says about what dating apps actually fail to capture.
Guides · 5 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Your Rizz Score Is a Snapshot, Not a Verdict. Here's How to Turn It Into an Experiment
A step-by-step guide to using your RizzStats match rate, reply rate, and activity timeline as a before/after test instead of a one-time report card.
Guides · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
The RizzStats Feature Nobody Opens: Your Activity Timeline and Streaks, Explained
A practical walkthrough of RizzStats' activity timeline and streaks — the two tabs most people skip on their way to the Rizz Score, and what they're actually telling you.
Guides · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
How to Actually Read Your RizzStats Rizz Score (Without Obsessing Over It)
A practical walkthrough of what feeds your Rizz Score, how to upload your data, and why staring at one number too long backfires.
Insights · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Your Attachment Style Is Quietly Running Your Swiping Behavior
New research shows anxious attachment predicts who swipes the most, feels the worst, and gets hurt by dating apps — here's what the data says and what to do about it.
Guides · 5 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
A Walkthrough of RizzStats, From Upload to Rizz Score
A step-by-step guide to using RizzStats — from exporting your dating app data to understanding what each number on your dashboard actually measures.
Insights · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Why You Remember Every Match and Forget Everyone You Swiped Past
A 269-person memory study found people recall the faces they matched with far better than the ones they passed on, and who matches whom isn't random either.
Insights · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
AI use in dating jumped 333% in a year. Here's what people actually want it to do
Match's latest Singles in America study found AI dating use quadrupled year over year, but the top two requests aren't a chatbot boyfriend. They're a filter and an editor.
Guides · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Researchers Sorted 1,000 Tinder Profiles Into Just 9 Photo Types. Here's How to Actually Stand Out
A peer-reviewed study found daters overwhelmingly copy the same nine photo strategies, here's what the research says separates the ones that read as authentic from the ones that just blend in.
News · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Grindr Is Testing a $500-a-Month AI Subscription. Here's What's Actually Inside It.
Grindr's new EDGE tier bundles AI matchmaking, chat recaps, and compatibility scoring into a subscription that can cost nearly $6,000 a year.
Guides · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
How Does the Hinge Algorithm Actually Work?
Hinge doesn't score your attractiveness. It runs a Nobel Prize-winning matching formula on your own likes and passes, here's how that actually plays out in your feed.
Insights · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
The dating app number that predicts loneliness isn't your match count
A Stanford panel study found that feeling successful on dating apps predicts well-being better than actual matches do, which is an argument for checking your own activity data before you trust the story in your head.
Guides · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
The privacy screen on RizzStats' upload page, actually explained
RizzStats' upload page used to have privacy toggles. As of July 2026 it doesn't — the safest option is now the only option. Here's what that means, and where the one real choice moved to.
News · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Tinder's World Cup numbers are incredible. Match Group's revenue isn't.
Tinder matches jumped 60% during the World Cup's opening week, but Tinder's paying subscribers were still falling before kickoff. Here's the gap between engagement and revenue.
Guides · 4 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Why "Wyd" Is Quietly Killing Your Dating App Replies
A 2024 psychology study on Tinder conversations and Hinge's own internal data point at the same fix, ditch the shorthand and get specific, and here's how to actually write it.
Insights · 3 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
What your reply rate actually measures (it's not who ghosted you)
RizzStats' reply rate isn't a ghosting score. It measures how often you follow through on your own matches. Here's why that distinction matters and what a low number is actually telling you.
News · 3 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
Tinder and Hinge want to verify your face. It won't tell you what your matches think of you.
Face Check is rolling out across Tinder and Hinge through 2026, a facial verification badge meant to filter out bots and catfish. Here's what it actually measures, and what it doesn't.
News · 3 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
Hinge's new Signals badge is grading your consistency. Do you have it?
Hinge's Signals badge rewards daters who show up with care over 30 days. Here's what it actually measures, and how to check your own consistency before Hinge does.
News · 3 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
Bumble is killing the swipe. Here's what that means for your data.
Bumble is phasing out swiping for an AI matchmaker called Bee. Here's why that mechanic mattered more than it looked, and why now is a good time to snapshot your own Tinder or Hinge history.
Guides · 2 Jul 2026 · 1 min read
How to download your Hinge data
How to request your Hinge data export and find the matches.json and account.json files RizzStats can analyze.
Guides · 2 Jul 2026 · 1 min read
How to download your Tinder data
Step-by-step guide to requesting your full Tinder data export, the data.json file you can analyze on RizzStats.
Insights · 2 Jul 2026 · 1 min read
What is a good match rate?
What match rate actually measures, why comparing yours to viral screenshots is misleading, and what to look at instead.