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Hily Review: Careful Safety Tools, a Paywall Around Who Liked You

What the Free Tier Covers, and Why Your Likes Arrive Blurred

A free account lets you build a profile, browse Finder, where a double-tap sends a like and a downward swipe passes, and message anyone you match with. The first seven Icks&Clicks questions, showing the turn-offs and priorities you share with someone, have been free since January 2025; 33 more questions measure full compatibility, but detailed match percentages need a subscription. The real line sits at incoming likes. People who liked you first appear blurred, and developer replies on Google Play confirm that revealing them takes Unblur, from a Premium allowance or bought singly. Writing before a match is paid too, as Major Crush. Daily Roulette occasionally hands regular visitors a free premium feature, but free use also carries ads that reviewers call frequent.

Consent Guard: Three Requests per Chat, Then the Recipient Decides

Consent Guard, launched in October 2025 to replace the older Explicit Filter, uses machine learning to flag explicit photos or messages before delivery. The recipient gets a request; without a yes, nothing is revealed, and a sender can ask at most three times per conversation. That puts the decision earlier than at Bumble, whose Private Detector blurs a flagged image after it lands, or at Tinder, where Are You Sure? warns the sender about harmful wording. Behind it sits moderation: the company says reports are reviewed within 24 hours and automated systems remove spam accounts, while its privacy policy concedes that genuine accounts can be caught and must appeal.

$14.99 a Week: Premium, Premium+ and Pay-per-Unblur

On October 1, 2026, the US App Store listed one week of Premium at $14.99, one week of Premium+ at $24.99, a Profile Boost at $5.99 or $9.99 and a single Unblur at $4.99; three- and seven-day free trials also show $14.99. Check the current price in the app; it varies by region. Hily lists Advanced Filters, Rollback, Visible Likes and Major Crush as Premium perks, and developer replies say subscribers lose the ads; no feature split for Premium+ is published. The billing terms hold two catches: daily premium allowances expire at the end of each day and never carry over, and fees are non-refundable unless the law says otherwise.

Pantomime Selfies, Three Ad Networks and a Seven-Day Deletion Window

Photo verification is what the privacy policy calls a pantomime selfie; the March 2026 version says the photo is kept without face geometry until you delete the account or stay inactive for two years. Moderators then compare it with your profile pictures; it never appears on your profile. The same policy names Facebook Audience Network, AppLovin and Google's ads SDK, and Apple's label says identifiers and usage data may be used to track you across other companies' apps. Google Play's Data safety form lists race, ethnicity and religious or political beliefs as optional fields. Closed accounts are erased within seven days, though purchase records and ban identifiers stay for five years.