Pick a name. Start a conversation.
Random chat with someone new, right now.
Free, anonymous text chat. Meet someone, explore rooms, or reconnect with friends. Matching depends on who is available.
Start chatting →Free · anonymous · 13+
Free, anonymous text chat. Meet someone, explore rooms, or reconnect with friends. Matching depends on who is available.
Start a conversation
No forms, no waiting rooms. One tap and you're talking.
Shared interests
We pair you with people who like the same things you do.
Disappearing photos
Send pics that vanish from the chat on a timer. Never written to disk.
Private by design
Choose what you share. Report, block or leave whenever you need.
Pick a name & interests
Stay anonymous, no email, no account.
Get matched
We connect you 1-on-1 with a stranger who fits.
Chat, or skip
Hit it off, or tap Next for someone new.
Yes. Core text chat, rooms, interests, translation and friends are free. No paid subscription is required.
No. There is no signup, no email, and no app to install. Pick a name, or let us generate one, and you are chatting in about five seconds. If you want your profile to follow you between devices, a free account is one tap on the profile icon in the top bar: it asks for no email either, just a recovery key you keep.
Live random chats are held in memory for moderation for up to 30 minutes after ending. Public rooms may retain their latest 80 messages for up to 30 days, including across restarts. Friend inbox text uses separate durable storage with the expiration choices described below. Screenshots and copies are possible.
Omegle shut down in 2023. chatsizzle offers anonymous one-on-one text chat, rooms and friends. Interests and language, age and gender preferences rank available people. They do not guarantee a match or a shared interest. Blocks and access rules still apply.
They are held in memory, never written to disk, and expire on a timer. Send one as view-once and it disappears from the chat the moment the other person opens it. We keep the image for up to 30 minutes after that, visible only to a moderator reviewing a report, and then erase it.
Yes. The disappear timer removes the photo from the chat, but anyone can screenshot their own screen or save the image before it expires, and no website can prevent that. What we do instead: the viewer has to hold a finger on the photo to see it, so it is on their screen for seconds rather than the whole timer; every photo is stamped with the name of the person viewing it and the time, so a leaked copy points back at whoever it was shown to; and you are told the moment they open it. Treat the timer as a courtesy, not a guarantee, and never send anything you would mind a stranger keeping.
Yes. In private chats and rooms, incoming messages in other languages are translated into your language, and the original always stays visible underneath. In Chrome and Edge this happens on your own device, and no message text leaves your browser. In other browsers, including Safari, Firefox and most phones, the message text is sent through our server to DeepL for translation, and nothing else is sent with it. You can switch incoming translation off in Preferences; the person you are talking to can still translate what you send them.
Interests and language, age and gender preferences rank available people. They do not guarantee a match or a shared interest. Blocks and access rules still apply.
You must be at least 13 to use chatsizzle. Ages are self-declared, so treat everything a stranger tells you as unverified, and read our safety page before you start.
No signup, no app, no waiting for an email. What talking to strangers online is actually good for, how to do it without getting burned, and where we fit.
Omegle closed in 2023 and the searches never stopped. What actually replaced it, what to look for, and where we honestly fall short.
Why matching on interests beats pure random, how our matcher really works, and how to pick interests that find you someone.
An honest answer. The real risks, the habits that remove most of them, and the difference between what a site can prevent and what it can only deter.
There is no single best one, there is a best one for what you want. How to choose between video and text, accounts and anonymity, and where we honestly do and do not fit.
Practice a language with short, friendly text conversations. Choose a question, take turns, and use translation when you need it.
A shared question, a comfortable pace, and a way to reconnect. Practice starting an online friendship without pressure.
Explore traditions, everyday life and different points of view in text chat. Start with a personal question, listen, and share your own experience.
Chat Hour runs daily at 12:00 and 23:00 UTC. See the times in your timezone.
Stuck on the first message? Add your interests and get opening questions that actually get a reply, then take the good ones straight into a chat.