Free text chat with strangers: no camera, no mic, no real name
Sometimes you just want to type — no camera, no microphone, no "hi, can you hear me". Press Start text chat and Veilr pairs you with a random stranger: write first or wait for their opening line, and if it is not working, press Next. The chat itself is free.
There is no email sign-up: you sign in with an account you already have. The first time, we ask for a short profile: name, gender, date of birth and native language. No questionnaire about your height or star sign. For the search you can set the other person’s gender, age and country.
Languages are not in the way either. A message can arrive already translated into your language, and the original opens with one tap, so you can always see what was really written.
What makes Veilr different
You can start in silence
No camera, no microphone — the text format never even asks the browser for permissions. Open it, press Start and type.
Translated conversation
Messages can arrive in your language, with the original one tap away. Translation is paid for by the person who READS it — so, for everything you read, by you. Every new chat starts with its own free allowance, and the rewards you earn extend it; once both are spent, the current conversation is still translated to the end, while the next ones start untranslated for a day. Boost lifts that limit on everything you read.
You decide who you are looking for
Gender is a preference: ask for women and we try that first whenever a woman is online in this mode; if nobody is, you are connected to someone else rather than left waiting. The other person’s choice is always respected, people who picked non-binary are matched by those who chose ‘Any’, and with Boost your choice is a hard filter. Age and country are a soft priority: an exact match first, then a wider search so you are not left waiting.
Matching on shared interests
Tick a couple of interests and we try to find someone who cares about the same things. Tick none and we simply find the next available person.
Not in a permanent database
A random chat’s text is not written to our permanent database — the server only passes messages on. A short buffer of the session’s last 50 messages expires by itself within 15 minutes of the chat ending, so a report about that chat is not empty. The one exception: if you both press Add to contacts, the chat turns into an ordinary conversation in your contacts.
Reporting takes one tap
Every conversation has a report button with a reason to pick. Violations cost the account restrictions, up to a ban.
Voice and video are right next door
Same account, same contacts: you can move from typing to a voice or video conversation whenever you are ready.
Common questions
If the chat is anonymous, why do I need an account?
The search only starts once you are signed in, with an account you already have: no password to create and no email sign-up form. The anonymity is in the conversation itself. The stranger you are matched with does not see your real name, your email address or your city, and your profile photo shows up blurred for them. Revealing it takes an active Boost on their side, and even then it is for that one conversation only.
Is there an app, or does it work on my phone?
Both. Veilr runs in the browser on a phone or a computer, with nothing to install, and there is an Android app on Google Play. On an iPhone you use it in the browser. Your account and your contacts are the same everywhere.
Is my conversation saved?
No — not into our permanent database: the server only passes messages to the other person. A short buffer of the session’s last 50 messages expires by itself within 15 minutes of the chat ending, so a report about that chat is not empty. The one exception: if you both press Add to contacts, the history moves into your private conversation in contacts.
What if they write in a language I do not know?
Usually their message arrives already translated into your language; tap the line under it to see the original. Incoming translation is paid for by the person reading it — here, that is you. Every new chat starts with a fresh free allowance and the rewards you have earned extend it; once both are spent, this conversation is still translated to the end and the next chats start untranslated for a day. Boost lifts that limit on everything you read.
How can this be free?
Finding people and typing to them costs nothing. Paid extras are optional — Boost, for example, gives unlimited translation, priority in the queue and strict filters. One-off payment, no subscription, no auto-renewal.
Is this like the text chat on Omegle?
It feels like it: you write to a stranger and press Next when it is not working. Omegle closed in November 2023; here the format is the same, except messages can arrive already translated, the conversation does not go into a permanent database, and the search only starts after you sign in, with reports and restrictions tied to your account.