Chitchat is an English-language random chat site that pairs you one-on-one with strangers by text or video.
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Text chat sites and communities
Places to chat by typing: chat room websites, IRC networks you can join from the browser, and one-to-one stranger chats. Many are organised by country, language or interest, and most let you in with just a nickname.
Every listing is checked automatically every few hours and reviewed for moderation, privacy, ads and ease of use. Use the language filter to find rooms in your language.
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Strangerline is a free English-language random chat site that pairs adults one-on-one by text, voice or video without an account.
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English-language chat room site sorted by topic, with guest access and separate dating and 18+ sections alongside general rooms.
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Knotchat is an English-language random chat site that pairs strangers for one-to-one text or video chat, with guest access and no signup required.
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Free one-to-one random text chat with strangers, mainly in English, that you can use as a guest without registering.
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English-language chat room site with no-registration guest access and rooms sorted by sexuality and interest, many of them adult-themed.
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Free English-language chat rooms and random chat with strangers, entered with a nickname and no registration.
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Closed sites
These sites have shut down. They stay here for reference and are not ranked.
The original random video and text chat with strangers. Shut down on 8 November 2023; a relaunch under a new owner has been announced.
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How we ranked this list
Communities are ordered by their overall score: a weighted sum of activity, moderation, privacy, ads and ease of use. Activity comes from automatic checks every few hours; the other criteria from an editor’s tests.
Unverified listings are not shown here, and closed sites are not ranked: they appear separately at the end of the list. Communities we could not reach at the last check stay visible with a warning, because outages are often temporary.
Sponsored listings are labelled and never move up the list.
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