Random video chat with strangers

How it works

Give a display name, your gender and your age the first time, then press start and your browser asks for camera and microphone permission. Once you allow it you go into the queue, and you are matched one-to-one with another person. Either of you can skip at any point, and you are immediately back in the queue.

The call is peer-to-peer wherever the network allows it, which means the video travels between the two of you rather than through a server that keeps a copy.

• Front or rear camera on mobile
• Mute audio or stop video mid-call without ending the match
• Unlimited skips
• Nothing to install on desktop or mobile

Video or text — you pick

Not everyone wants to be on camera, and treating text as a second-class fallback is the mistake most video chat sites make. Text chat here is a full mode in its own right, with its own page and its own audience.

If you are not sure, start with text. Nothing forces you to turn a camera on, and the browser will not even ask for permission in text mode.

Camera safety, plainly

Turning your camera on for a stranger carries real risk, and it is worth being deliberate about it. Check what is behind you before you start — a visible address, a school uniform, a work badge or post on a desk gives away more than people expect.

Assume anything on camera can be recorded by the other person regardless of what any site promises. That is true here and it is true everywhere. If someone asks you to do something on camera you would not want recorded, that is the moment to skip and report.

Permission is revocable at any time from the padlock or camera icon in your address bar.