Hitch Review February 2025

Signing up to Hitch is easy as because it will be connected to your Facebook profile. However, all your activities on the app will not reflect on your Facebook account. It only needs it to verify that you are a real person. It also imports your photos and basic information like name, age, location, work, and education which will be kept in private as well. 

The sign-up process is not applicable for everyone since not everybody has a Facebook account, but if you really want to try it out, you can create a private account for yourself for the sake of your Hitch registration.

Hitch promises to find you connections by using your network of contacts to find people who know people you know. It does this by importing your phone contact address book. This is optional though if you (like us) are not comfortable giving out your address book (or the private information of your contacts).

Once you open the app, before signing up or logging in, a prompt will pop-up asking for permission to turn on your GPS settings. You have the option to keep it disabled if you are paranoid about your safety. You can always turn it on when you feel like it because the prompt will be there every time you open the app.

There is no matching as such in Hitch. The main way the app connects users is by group conversations and as it gets to know your interests, it will suggest conversations on topics that you may be interested in.

The advertising for the app shows group conversations that have many users interacting about common interests. We struggled to find group conversations initiated by US members in our test, as well as any conversations with multiple participants.

One cheeky user even suggested that the app is “Facebook without friends’.

Profiles are very basic in Hitch and the vast majority of users have little, or no information displayed in their profile, which makes the credibility of the users appear quite low. Nonetheless, a lot of members have profile photos displayed which you can hope is real.

To feel safer, you can see the reputation point of a member on his or her profile, the higher the reputation points might mean that he/she is a good date.

A little bio about the members is available if they prefer to share more about themselves.