Omegle alternatives in 2026

Checked 25 September 2026. By the Veilr team. We make Veilr, so it sits in the last row of the table and answers the same questions as everyone else.

Omegle closed on 8 November 2023, and nobody inherited it: the people who used it spread across many different sites. Four things decide how a replacement will feel — which formats it runs, whether you need an account, what it costs to choose who turns up, and what else it sells.

Omegle alternatives compared

Omegle is not a row here: it stopped in 2023, and the service at that address today is a different product with a login and a coin store. The twenty-four below are the services we have compared one by one. Three no longer do what their name was known for: Uhmegle no longer starts a chat, Whisper has closed, and the Tinychat address now carries another company's video chat. Clubhouse and imo are here because people search for them as alternatives, though neither pairs strangers one-to-one: Clubhouse runs group audio rooms, and imo calls people already in your contacts. A dash means our page on that service does not state it — we would rather leave a cell empty than guess.

How we checked

• Sources are first-party: each service's own site and help pages, its App Store and Google Play listings with the prices shown there, and a company filing where our page cites one. They are listed under Sources below.
• Dates are the ones each of our pages states. Most store listings were read in August 2026; archived pages carry their own snapshot dates.
• We did not test the services ourselves. No accounts were bought, no queues were timed, and nothing in the table says how good the conversations are.
• Every other row has a full page behind it with the quotes and the numbers — the links are in the two lists below; the last row is us.
• Prices a service does not publish are named as what they are: figures quoted by reviews or reported by users.

What actually separates them

Where the price sits. Getting in is free nearly everywhere. The free part ends the moment you want a say in who appears — a subscription on one site, coins on another, gems on a third. Not everything fits that pattern: Uhmegle's country selector and interest tags cost nothing, Chatib sells no way to choose, Chatki gives its country filter away, ChatVille's gender filter is free and rests on each user's word, TalkWithStranger keeps its Girls, Boys and Teens rooms open to everyone, and Chatzy, Clubhouse and imo don't pair you with a stranger at all.

Whether there is an account. Skipping sign-up puts you in front of a stranger with nothing to fill in, a genuine advantage. The cost comes later: a ban with no account behind it lands on an IP address, and IP addresses change.

Video chat

• Omegle — the one that cut the shape the rest still use: fourteen years of random chat with no account at all. Its founder switched it off on 8 November 2023, and the address now belongs to different owners, who ask you to sign in and buy coins.
• Monkey — dating-flavoured video roulette where a match opens as a 15-second call and continues only if both people press to extend it, which ends the dead ones early; the gender filter only comes with the subscription.
• Uhmegle — the Omegle clone that made you keep your face in frame, checked by face detection, and never charged a penny for the chat itself; today it no longer starts one, and its own page sends visitors to another service.
• Flingster — 18+ browser video and text chat whose AR masks let you be on camera without showing your face, a real privacy feature rather than a gimmick; the gender and country filters need VIP, quoted at $19.99 a month.
• Thundr — browser video and text with interest matching and a coin balance on top, sold once rather than as a subscription; thirty minutes of queue priority costs 1,000 coins, about $10 — the same thing we sell as Boost.
• Emerald Chat — one-on-one text, one-on-one video and group text rooms, and the group rooms are something we do not have at all; the gender filter sits behind Gold, with country and language on a tier above it.
• Azar — a Korean-built video app now owned by Match Group, where you swipe from one stranger to the next and speech turns into live captions as you talk — its signature feature, free at the basic level; gems run down as you swipe, and its store listings put the gender and region preferences behind a paid tier.
• Tinychat — fifteen years of topic rooms with up to 12 cameras each, shut on 16 December 2024 as a condition of its owner's merger; the address now belongs to an affiliate marketer, and the one-on-one chat on it is CooMeet's widget.
• Chatspin — swipe-right video roulette with free AR face masks and more than 10 million Android downloads; its own Google Play description lists chatting with only girls or guys under Chatspin Plus, and the iPhone app is gone from the App Store.
• LivU — a Hong Kong video app with more than 50 million installs where every video chat opens blurred; control over who you meet is sold as premium features paid in coins, and Turkey's regulator blocked it in August 2025.
• Camgo — browser roulette since March 2018 that matches on shared interests and lets you switch between video and text without dropping the call; it publishes no prices, and its terms call token and subscription purchases final.
• Chatki — Omegle-style browser video from the company behind Chatrandom, with a free country filter across a claimed 190-plus countries; its separate Girls section opens only after you create an account.
• ChatVille — free adult video chat that, by its own description, fits up to four cameras in a room, offers private cam2cam and gives away a gender filter that rests on each user's word; its own homepage tells visitors they are not going to be monitored by staff.
• Chamet — one-to-one video with hosts who each set a per-minute price, after a free call that typically lasts about 90 seconds; it grew as the top-grossing app in India, was pulled from Google Play in August 2023 and came back, and its system can switch your profile's gender on its own.
• imo — a free calling app with more than a billion Android installs, built to hold up on 2G and 3G for people whose number you already have; strangers meet only in its voice rooms, and on 27 August 2026 the US App Store didn't list it.

Voice chat

• Clubhouse — live audio rooms with moderators, raised hands and listeners, still updated in 2026; rooms and speaking are free, while anonymous listening comes with Clubhouse Plus, from $4.99 a month, and signing up asks for a phone number.

Text chat

• Chatib — nickname, gender, age, country, and you are inside topic and country rooms, with private messages alongside them and no account required at any point; its own safety page says the anonymous nature of the site makes it impossible to verify the age of the people using it.
• Chatiw — no queue: after a nickname, an age, a gender and a country you land on an open list of everyone online and pick who to write to first; its VIP page has given the same answer in every snapshot since 2021 — no membership left to buy.
• Chitchat — text with no account at all and video after a social sign-in, no advertising in either, and a moderation report it publishes itself, dates and method included, down to a list of the figures it is holding back; the gender and country filters take a subscription in text and coins in video.
• Y99 — group rooms sorted by subject and by language instead of a queue, with a shared drawing board, watch-together video and group video calls that a free chat site usually skips; a nickname is the only door, nothing checks the age behind it, and banner advertising rather than a paid tier pays for all of it.
• Skout — in business since 2007: profiles of people nearby and across the world to read and message for free, with the money sitting in Points that turn into gifts inside its live broadcasts and a Premium subscription above them; its opt-in Verified check, a selfie video tested for liveness and compared against other users' scans, goes further than our own face check.
• Chatzy — private text rooms you create with one form and share by link, running since 2002 with no registration; Premium at $24 a year lifts the ten-person cap and the idle timeouts, and its own rules say the rooms are not monitored.
• Whisper — the anonymous confessions app of 2012 to 2025, short text over a picture plus one-on-one messages; by April 2025, Forbes reported, it had quietly gone offline, and neither store lists it today.
• TalkWithStranger — a chat portal since 2016 with more than 50 rooms by country and topic, India first among them, entered with a nickname and one click; everything is free, the gender rooms included, and its terms and its footer name two different minimum ages.
• AntiLand — text clubs by topic and region, private messages and a public karma score, with more than 10 million Android downloads and, by its own cookie banner, no ads; there are no calls at all, and paid Super Powers sit on top.

What stays free here

We give away what this list charges for. State your own gender and you can choose who to talk to: free, tried first whenever someone you asked for is online, and if nobody is, you are connected to someone else rather than left waiting. The other person’s choice is always respected. With Boost your choice is a hard filter and you go first in line; people who registered as non-binary are matched by those who chose ‘Any’. Without Boost, age and country are soft as well: the search widens rather than stalls. Declare different languages and live captions can run in your language over your partner's video — five free minutes with a new account. Sixteen interface languages, an Android app. The format you pick holds until the match ends; typing works inside video and voice too. Two things are sold here, both optional: Boost — priority in the queue — and extra caption minutes, bought once, not a subscription.

You arrive with a social account you already have: no password, no guest mode, no search without one. Adults only, 18+: our servers refuse a match to any account recorded as under 18. Block someone and neither of you is offered the other again.

Sources

• Monkey — its own site, and its Google Play listing (the app cool.monkey.android): the Android app, its release and its in-app products.
• Thundr — its own coin and boost pages, and its Google Play listing (the app com.thundr): coins are bought once, and thirty minutes of priority has a price.
• Emerald Chat — its own post on the subscription tiers: what Gold covers, and what sits on Platinum above it.
• Azar — its own site, its Google Play listing (the app com.azarlive.android), which says the base features are free and then puts the gender and region settings behind a subscription, and Match Group's quarterly filing with the SEC for the period ended 30 June 2026, which records Apple removing Azar from the App Store on 22 February 2026 and a reworked version being reinstated.
• Chatib — its own safety page: the line about the anonymous nature of the site making it impossible to verify the age of the people using it.
• Chatiw — its own site, and its VIP pages as archived on web.archive.org: the 2019 sales page for what VIP removed, and the later snapshots for the answer that there is no membership left to buy.
• Chitchat — its own transparency report, and its own guide to gender filters: the moderation figures with dates, and coins to switch the filter on in video.
• Skout — its own site, its App Store listing (the app id302324249) and its Google Play listing: the Premium prices and the in-app items.
• Uhmegle — the page itself: it no longer starts a chat and sends visitors to another service.
• Chatspin — its own terms and privacy policy, and its Google Play listing (the app com.Chatspin): what Chatspin Plus covers, the in-app price range, and the token rules that disagree with it.
• LivU — its own site and terms of service, its privacy policy, and its Google Play listing (the app com.videochat.livu): the coin range per item and the premium features that decide who you meet.
• Camgo — its own about page, chat FAQ and terms: the launch date, the interest matching, and purchases called final.
• Chatki — its own FAQ, about page and terms: the free country filter, the account behind the Girls section, and the tokens and subscriptions its terms describe.
• Clubhouse — its own site, its privacy policy and its help-centre page on Clubhouse Plus, with its App Store and Google Play listings: what Plus includes, the prices the US App Store shows, and what signing up asks for.
• imo — its own site and terms of service, its Google Play listing (the app com.imo.android.imoim) and Apple's store lookups country by country: the free core, the in-app price range and the missing US listing.
• Flingster, Y99, ChatVille, Chatzy, Tinychat, Whisper, TalkWithStranger, AntiLand and Chamet — named, not linked. Flingster is an 18+ site; its VIP prices are the figures four independent reviews quote consistently through 2025 and 2026, and what VIP covers comes from those same reviews, while what the site sells is from the site itself. Y99 checks nothing about who joins — its own terms say 18, or 16 with a parent supervising, and its front page advertises rooms for teens — so we name its own about, rules and terms pages rather than send you to them. ChatVille is an adult site whose homepage promises visitors they will not be monitored; its own FAQ, terms and privacy policy are the sources. Chatzy states no minimum age in its terms or privacy policy while its room search leans toward roleplay and fandom rooms, so its premium page, FAQ and rules are named, not linked. Tinychat's rooms closed on 16 December 2024, as its archived homepage announced; today's refund page at that address is where the CooMeet billing is stated. Whisper has closed, and its address now shows an unrelated music label; its facts come from Wikipedia, the Forbes report and our own check of both stores. TalkWithStranger gives one minimum age in its terms and another in its footer, and a nickname is all it asks for; its about page, terms and Trustpilot page are the sources. AntiLand calls itself 18+ while nothing checks age at sign-up; its site, FAQ, community guidelines and Google Play listing are the sources. Chamet was pulled from Google Play in August 2023 under the policy on objectionable user-generated content, and its own agreement gives two age rules; its help pages, user agreement and Play listing are the sources, with TechCrunch's report for the removal.

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Common questions

Which Omegle alternative should I pick?

It depends on what you came for. If you want to be talking in one click with nothing to fill in, the sites with no account are the fastest, and nothing with a sign-in beats them on that. If you want a room with several people in it, the group ones have that and we do not. If you want to choose who turns up without buying the right to, and to find the same person again next week, that is the last row of the table.

Is there a free Omegle alternative?

Several, and the word free is where they differ. Getting in costs nothing almost everywhere; what usually has a price on it is choosing who appears — a subscription on one site, coins or gems on another. The table above says which is which, service by service.

Three ways to start

• Video chat — camera on both sides, one stranger at a time.
• Voice chat — audio only, camera off, just voices.
• Text chat — typing, and available inside the other two as well.

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