LiveChat Gratis
Italian-language general chat site with public text rooms, member profiles and video options, plus dating and adult sections.
Editor score: 6.3 / 10
- Languages
- Italian
- Topics
- General
- Sign-up required
- Sign-up required
- Online now
- —
- 30-day average
- —
- Uptime (90 days)
- 100%
- Last checked
- 2 minutes ago
Editor’s review
Chat Gratis is an Italian chat site for a general audience, offering text and video chat alongside a forum-style Threads section and public member profiles. The homepage advertises free chat and basic use without registration, but in our test registration was required to get in, and an age confirmation step appears before entry. Inside the chat, a bot message tells users with unregistered nicknames that registering takes only an email address.
The chat runs in a browser client with a channel list on the left, the main #ChatGratis room in the centre and a user list on the right, which showed 149 people when we tested. There are buttons for images, voice and emoji, and even a built-in radio player. Despite the long user list, conversation was slow: short messages and greetings rather than sustained discussion. The homepage counters showed 51 members active that day. The site is general-purpose, but it also has a dating section and an erotic room.
Moderation is clearly visible. A bot posts the room rules on entry, banning spam, flooding, vulgarity, insults, offensive or sexual nicknames, all-caps, foreign languages and dialects, and the sharing of personal data. Moderators and helper users are marked in the nickname list, and there is a report and block function as well as a profanity and spam filter. Note that the rules require Italian, so this is not a place for English speakers.
Advertising is light. We saw an occasional sponsored message posted in the chat stream, with an offer to remove ads through a premium plan. The site uses HTTPS, and our monitoring recorded 100 percent uptime over the past 90 days. Member profiles, including gender and last visit time, can be viewed without logging in, which is worth keeping in mind before filling yours in. On mobile the site was usable.
Chat Gratis suits Italian speakers who want a moderated, old-style public chat room with profiles, and who do not mind registering first. Those looking for a busy, fast-moving conversation, or for chat in any language other than Italian, will likely find it too quiet or too restrictive.
Good
- Clear rules posted in the chat, visible moderators
- Report, block and spam filter in place
- Light advertising
- Chat client with images, voice and emoji
- Usable on mobile
Not so good
- Registration required despite homepage claims
- Slow conversation in our test
- Italian only: other languages and dialects banned
- Profiles publicly visible without login
- Includes erotic and dating sections
When it is busy
Not enough data for an activity map yet.
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