Why Your RizzStats Numbers Look Different on Hinge Than Tinder

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Why Your RizzStats Numbers Look Different on Hinge Than Tinder

Upload a Tinder export to RizzStats and you get a streak number: your longest run of consecutive days actually opening the app. Upload a Hinge export instead, and that number barely moves, or reads as effectively nothing. It looks like a bug. It isn't. It's a gap in the raw files themselves, and once you know it's there, half of RizzStats' other quirks stop being mysterious too.

The streak lives in a file Hinge doesn't send

Tinder's export contains a genuine day-by-day usage log: did you open the app on this date, yes or no. RizzStats builds your streak by finding the longest unbroken run of "yes" in that log. Hinge's export isn't built that way. It's organized around events, likes, matches, messages, not a daily ledger of whether you opened the app. There's no equivalent record to count a streak from, so Hinge accounts don't get one.

You can see why by comparing how the two files get to you in the first place. Tinder's data request page routes you through account.gotinder.com/data, and the download that arrives includes both a browsable HTML summary and a structured JSON with daily swipe and usage counts baked in. Hinge's privacy request page instead has you request through Settings, and what comes back is scoped around your own activity events, deliberately excluding almost everything about the people you matched with. Neither company owes RizzStats a daily log; they built the files around what each product actually tracks.

Match rate isn't the same formula on both apps

Tinder's export separates likes from passes, so RizzStats can divide matches by likes sent to get a real like-to-match rate. Hinge's export only ever records the likes you sent, not the passes, so the closest RizzStats can build is a like-to-match conversion, a related number, not an identical one. If your Hinge match rate looks oddly high or low next to a friend's Tinder score, this is usually why. It's not a worse measurement, it's measuring a slightly different thing because that's all the underlying file gives you.

Neither export includes what the other person said

This one's true on both platforms. Tinder and Hinge exports contain only messages you sent, never your matches' replies. RizzStats counts a match as a "conversation" the moment you've sent at least one message into it, since it has no way to know whether you spoke first or replied to them. Reply rate works the same way: it's a real signal, just built entirely from your side of the exchange.

Your weekday chart might be running on the wrong clock

Here's a smaller one worth knowing if you're outside the UK: Hinge's exported timestamps carry no timezone information, so RizzStats treats them as UTC. If you're several hours behind Greenwich, that late-night message you sent locally can land on the next calendar day in your activity timeline. Tinder's daily log doesn't have this issue, since its entries are already bucketed by date before you ever download them.

None of this is RizzStats hiding anything. Open the footnotes at the bottom of your dashboard and every one of these caveats is spelled out in plain text next to the number it applies to. If a stat looks off, that's usually the fastest place to check before assuming something broke. Upload both exports if you have accounts on both apps, and you'll get the fullest, most honest picture either file can actually support.