To start, this app doesn’t offer a lot of safety features. Your active/online status is constantly on and there’s no way to turn it off, this causes people to feel entitled to get answers. On top of that, anyone can message you, not only people who you like back, meaning the active status makes those not matches feel they should be replied to. They don’t make it clear that your profile will be shown internationally, which I think is an issue. A lot of people don’t have the money to travel internationally, so it doesn’t make sense to be shown that way. You have to pay in order to have a preference on the distance to yourself, meaning you have to go premium in order to see people 30 miles or under away. Hily just wasn’t an app for me. They don’t filter out to match your preferences, they claim by liking or not liking, you help them know, yet they don’t actually show people on your preference. They also send notifications that you “swipe no” too often but if I was shown people I prefer, I wouldn’t have to swipe no. To end, I tried to delete/deactivate this app, they didn’t delete my account!! They “paused” it. I definitely clicked “deactivate account” not pause. I hated this app and wanted to be off it completely. I felt unsafe and feel very unsafe it’s still “paused”. Thankfully, I did delete all the pictures of myself and added filtered ones that don’t look anything like me.

Tinder is bad at matching, and requires a lot more effort to be in the top 20% plus the majority of the people who are active really are there for clout. Tinder has a better messaging system. Hily on the other hand is very good at showing the spectrum of people but its still a 60:40 ratio which is underwhelming, again dating apps keep forgetting the main purpose of what people are actually looking for and that is to establish a good connection, and this app fails on how you actually are able to communicate with people especially when it comes to the messaging system, its pay to see who likes you, then if the other person doesnt have it they cant respond, again getting ones attention is very very hard on this app, and most of the people who return the favor of replying usually reply one time and then leave you on read, which is a downfall. So again paying to see who you want to chat with, then failing to actually respond and or see the response kills the chances of matching... So yeah they need to improve the messaging system and make it so that priority users get the attention first especially since they bought the fact to see them in the first place... also gifting is absolutely useless from what i can tell...

This is, on my opinion, the best dating app out there, there is a reason why it’s one of the fastest growing, there is a reason why the close to 15 million people, on here, and that being there free version is really good, you can basically send unlimited likes, it is an app-based platform so you don’t like that well there it is. it’s layout style and match feature is very similar to Tinder and Hinge. you can either swipe right/left on a person or you can send them a message (via when someone their hobbies on their bio ) for free. The only few downsides it is that a lot of the people are just simply looking to chat and not interested in a relationship unlike most dating apps, nothing wrong with that but the app feels more casual then a lot of others. and another downside is this app will hound you for money more than any other dating platform. and some of the real dating features are blocked by a pay wall. but the free version is just so good where you can easily find what you’re looking for just by casually talking to others. overall, it is the best dating app whether it is a chatting with new people, looking for something casual, or looking for a serious relationship, this app has it all. you could say I hily recommend. :/