Hinge's new Signals badge is grading your consistency. Do you have it?

Hinge quietly changed what a good profile looks like. In June 2026 it launched Signals, a purple heart badge that appears on your profile in other people's Discover feeds — a public flag that says you've been showing up on the app "with care and consistency."

What actually earns the badge

Per Hinge's own help center, you need the basics first: a complete profile, an account in good standing, Selfie Verification, and an account at least seven days old. On top of that, Hinge checks your last 30 days of behavior and looks for thoughtfulness in at least three of these:

• Spending real time on a profile before sending a Like
• Leaving a comment on someone's profile instead of a bare Like
• Reviewing the Likes you've received (not just ignoring them)
• Actually messaging your matches

The badge recalculates daily off a rolling 30-day window, and Hinge says it can't be bought — it's purely behavioral. It's also not a compatibility score; per Hinge, it just adds context about how someone shows up on the app. Worth noting: it's currently rolled out globally except the UK and EU, presumably pending a regulatory review.

Why this is actually a data story, not a UI story

Every one of those four behaviors is something you're already generating data about — Hinge just decided to start scoring it. And it's the same shape of data RizzStats has been showing you all along, just from the other direction:

• "Reviewing incoming Likes and messaging matches" is basically your reply rate.
• "Showing up over 30 days" is your monthly activity timeline — are you actually opening the app and engaging, or did you install it in a burst of motivation and go quiet three weeks ago?
• Consistency itself is what RizzStats tracks as streaks — the active periods versus the dead zones in your own history.

The difference is Hinge only shows other people whether you clear a pass/fail bar right now. It doesn't show you the underlying trend, and it throws away everything before the last 30 days.

Check your own trend before Hinge does

You don't need to wait for a badge to know whether you're actually being consistent, or whether last month was an anomaly. If you export your Hinge data (matches.json and account.json) and upload it to RizzStats, you get the longer version of what Signals is trying to measure in one snapshot: your reply rate over time, your like-to-match conversion, and your monthly activity broken into the streaks and gaps that make up your actual pattern — not just whether the last 30 days happened to look good.

If your reply rate is low or your activity is spiky, that's useful to know regardless of whether a badge shows up on your profile. And if you want to show off a real trend instead of a single badge, RizzStats share links let you send someone the whole curve, not a purple heart.