There are many different chat apps online, ranging from a random stranger to filtered stranger apps that focus on anything from multiple subjects, child-safe dating sites, and adult sites.
The success of a site is based on three factors, the number of active participants at any given time, the ease of access (Registration and Pricing), and the ease of use (GUI).
In this article, I present the 34 leading English-speaking chat sites that give you plenty of variety and opportunity to meet the perfect stranger.
Oh, and guess what? Omegle, Emerald Chat, and some others are not featured here. That’s like featuring Google and Bing in a Search App review. Let’s give someone else a chance too, OK!?
I have arranged the order Alphabetically. This reduces any bias, except that related to the name.
Azar
Azar is an Android and iOS chat app with around 10 million registered users. This app has a gender and location filter to focus your search on specific reasons.
Azar includes Video over IP with 3G/4G and WIFI connectivity, and you can add friends to create a not-so-stranger complete list. The service is secure and free with video, text, and VoIP options.
Anonymous Chat Rooms
This is an anonymous random stranger chat app for Android and iOS, as the name suggests. It has additional features, including a truth and dare game and an ask personal question chat room.
Badoo
Badoo chat has over 405 million subscribers, and this makes it one of the largest there is. While it is new, it’s part of the Chinese Badoo group and is multilingual (38 languages to choose from). It has a neat “locational” feature for finding strangers near your location and a gender filter.
You have to register to use it, and they require a name, birth date, and email. You can add a photo to your profile too. It’s PC, Android, and iOS compatible.
BeeTalk
BeeTalk is a free stranger chat app that comes with a doodle and some neat stickers you can use to send during the chat.
This site offers group chat and creates and joins clubs; another neat feature is the “whisper” message that disappears after the recipient has read it.
Cake
The cake is an android and iOS live stream video chat app that comes with both a free and a paid-for subscription. One exciting feature is the solo press button option, which finds you a stranger to chat with on video. This app has plenty of anonymous chat rooms or live public broadcast rooms you can join.
Cipher
Cipher is a secure chat app, which encrypts messages, and you can safely transfer delicate information without worries of being hacked. This app secures the messages with a digital signature and a unique ID so that only people with the passcode can access the data.
Chat for Strangers by FunPokes
Chat for Strangers is a chat suite (text, VoIP, and Video) for Android and iOS users. This app gives you an age and gender filter, so you can be secure in chatting with legally aged strangers. You also get a picture-sharing option with this app.
ChatOften
ChatOften is a popular stranger chat app for iOS users. This app lets you create a detailed profile with a photo for sharing and has a subscription model that opens up extra functions.
Chatous
Chatous is a mobile and PC random stranger chat app that syncs the chat across platforms. This is a classic random stranger app with #hashtag keyword selection to find like-minded people for a chat.
Connected2.me
Connected2.me is a chat app for Android and iOS users. This app has a shuffle option; you can see who is online and ready to chat. The platform is designed for chatting and flirting safely and comes with a secret, confessions, or gossip mode.
Fake Chat
Fake Chat provides you with two services. It is a direct message app for Android and iOS. As such, it lets you start a chat with strangers for free. The second feature is the fake chat feature that allows you to send and receive fake media, often used in pranking or hiding subversive activities.
Flurv
Flurv is a stranger online chatting and dating app that connects you with users worldwide. You can filter to meet strangers online that live near you or just choose one of the many millions of users from around the globe. The main feature is the ability to see who looked at your profile. You need to buy a paid subscription if you want access to all the features.
Hitwise
Hitwe is a small random chat app for Android and iOS platforms. It has around 10,000 users and does not restrict use. It is fast, extremely random, and has a friend’s platform option with stickers and emojis for texting.
hi5
hi5 is an anonymous chat platform; it caters to full stranger chat, where you can hide your name, location, and other information. As such, it delivers total anonymity and provides you with a set of filters to set location, age, and gender, as well as keywords.
HOLLA
HOLLA is one of the most popular random chat sites at the moment and sits on the top favorite lists of many sites. HOLLA lets you filter and search to the degree that others do not. As such, you can focus your “stranger” on specific attributes. It also includes a feature that will disregard the finds and people you chatted with before and only give you total strangers.
Kampus
Kampus is an anonymous chat app with photo sharing and the standard signup, login, and manage profile features. Since it’s an anonymous site, you can meet strangers without giving away personal information.
LOVOO
LOVOO is a photo searchable dating site aimed at connecting strangers with each other based on location preference. You chat online, see each other’s photos and then decide to meet.
Meet4U
Meet4u is a flirt, date, and meet chat site aimed at connecting total strangers online on Android and iOS platforms. This is a free site; you can share photos, videos, voices, and other media files. You can also see when your matched stranger was last online.
MeetMe
MeetMe is another popular free stranger chat app that works on Android and iOS platforms. This is a standard app that comes in several language options. If you buy a subscription, you will unlock extra features.
Mico
Mico is an android and iOS cha app for meeting strangers. You can sign in anonymously or use your Facebook account. It is multilingual, and you can use this feature to find people using your native language.
Moco
Moco is a great and popular flirt, date, and meet app for Android and iOS users. This one has fantastic features that include a full range of filters, including age, gender, location, sexual preference, and others. As such, you can narrow and focus your search on a particular stranger profile and get stickers, emoji apps, themes, and more.
psst
psst is a Facebook secret chat app for android users. You need Facebook to use this, and you can then chat in private with anyone on Facebook anonymously. You also get to block people too.
Qeep
Qeep is a tremendous and famous stranger chat app for Android and iOS with over 20 million listed users.
This app includes a photo-sharing option and a nearby function for speed dating.
SayHi Chat
SayHi Chat has an excellent geolocation option; this lets you quickly find strangers by their location and create a fake GPS position for yourself. This app comes with free video chat, emojis/ text emojis, share pictures, click-by 3d camera apps, and much more.
Scandal
Scandal is one large community chat site with multiple rooms to choose from. The site is international, and you get to meet with random strangers online for basic chat. A dating section also has neat options, such as sharing funny pics, photos, stickers, videos, and more.
Skout
Skout is another security-minded app where strangers are totally obscured using their hidden information option. This app has millions of users worldwide and provides exciting filter and search options.
SPARK
SPARK is a free social messaging app for Android and iOS. This text-based app was designed to work like Twitter and comes with a selfie mode with emojis so you can share your status online with total strangers.
Stranger By Brainsoft
Stranger by Brainsoft uses an exciting algorithm to match you with new friends and strangers from over 200 countries. Once you start a chat, you can decide to change the strangers’ status to a friend’s and keep them for future conversations. This app comes with a private dating room option too.
Stranger Chat & Date
Stranger Chat & Date is a new Android and iOS dating platform that is totally free, and what is really great about it is that there is no need to register, log in, or use payment details. This is an entirely anonymous platform, as these platforms were intended to be from the start.
Twoo
Twoo is a classic dating and flirting platform that connects people together. It is only really effective when you pay for the subscription, but when you do, you get access to some fantastic features, including millions of users that you can search and filter by age and location.
Wakie
Wakie is a social app that aims to connect people who want to ask, learn and teach. The concept is a stranger connectivity platform for professional or social services. You ask a question; you get an answer, hope it’s the correct answer, and so do I.
Waplog
Waplog has 60 million members from more than 25 countries. This dating app is designed to help you find your stranger for a profound dating experience. You get to filter by age, gender, and location. The app features a free VIP Boost service for extra visibility. This is not a random chat site since it has a rigid verification system to protect users from scammers.
Whisper
Whisper is another online chat community that uses the PR message of “sharing secrets” and ideas with strangers. This app has Android and iOS compatibility and lets you share photos, thoughts, and more. OK, it’s a primary chat site like all the others.
Zooroom
Zooroom is the last but not least in their review. It starts with the letter “Z,” so there you are. This app is designed with user comfort, making it easy for mobile battery usage. You don’t need to register to use this app, but you do need to create a new chat room to chat with strangers, which you can share as a link with friends and other strangers.
Conclusions
So there you have it, 34 apps for chatting, dating, sharing photos and secret messages, and guess what, they are all the same. Honestly, there are differences in functionality, where the more popular ones get densely populated and have hundreds of millions of users, and the less functional ones will die out slowly.
Functionality is GUI; it’s a mixture of the following features:
- Multilingual to attract as many users as possible.
- Free to allow connectivity at a basic level, including chatting and video chatting with strangers.
- Filter, include as many filter options as possible to focus your search on a specific group of strangers.
- Secure, where you are totally anonymous if you want to be.
- VIP paid, where you get a paid-for service for added features, but not at the expense of an excellent free experience.
