Chitchat alternative: RandomHey, free random video and text chat

Chitchat is a random text and video chat with filters, friends and media sharing. People look for a Chitchat alternative when they want video chat without signing up, a simpler chat without friends lists or chat history, or matching by language instead of gender.

RandomHey is a free random chat for adults: one-to-one video or text with a stranger, in your browser, with optional interest and language matching. This page compares the two using only what Chitchat says on its own website, so you can decide which suits you.

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RandomHey and Chitchat at a glance

“Not stated” means its website does not say. Features change, so check before relying on this.

What is Chitchat?

Chitchat is a random chat service at chitchat.gg. This is what its homepage said when we checked it on 28 September 2026, in summary:

• Random one-to-one text or video chat with strangers, free to use; optional subscriptions fund the site instead of ads.
• Matching can be fully random or narrowed with interest, region and gender filters. It also offers chat history, friends, and photos, videos, GIFs and avatars in chat.
• States that automated filters check chats in real time, human moderators review flags and reports 24/7, and anyone who signals as underage must pass an age check.

How RandomHey is different

• No signup for video or text: nothing to register, for either mode.
• No friends lists, chat history or profiles. When a chat ends, it ends, and nobody can find you again.
• Matching by interests and languages, with an optional goal such as practising a language. No gender filters, and no subscriptions.
• Reports are reviewed by people, and video is not recorded.

Read how matching works and our safety features and their limits.

When Chitchat may suit you better

• You want to add people you meet as friends and keep your chat history.
• You want gender or region filters, or to share photos, videos and GIFs in chat.
• You want automated real-time moderation and age checks, which Chitchat says it uses.

No random chat is right for everyone. Whichever you use, never share your name, address, phone number or social media with a stranger.

Is Chitchat safe?

We cannot vouch for another service, and no random chat can guarantee your safety: you are talking to someone you do not know. Before you use Chitchat or any site like it, check that it:

• is for adults only and says how it keeps minors out;
• shows Report and Block during every chat, and explains what happens after a report;
• publishes clear rules and says how they are enforced;
• tells you what it records and keeps, and for how long;
• does not show the other person your IP address, account name or location;
• never pressures you to pay, buy coins or move to another app.

On RandomHey, Report and Block are always visible, blocks are enforced by our server, reports are read by people, and video is never recorded. What we do not have: age verification (being 18+ is self-declared) or automated video moderation. See safety features and their limits.

How to switch from Chitchat to RandomHey

1. Choose video chat or random text chat. Text never asks for your camera.
2. Optionally add up to five interests and up to three languages. They help you meet someone with something in common, and they are free for everyone.
3. Confirm that you are 18 or older. There is no account, email or app. For video, allow your camera and microphone when your browser asks.
4. Say hello. Press Next whenever you want to meet someone new.

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Can’t reach Chitchat?

RandomHey is not Chitchat and cannot help with its accounts, bans or outages. Its own website is chitchat.gg. If it does not load, the problem may be on its side, on your connection, or a block on your school or work network; its own website and support are the place to check. If you just want to talk to someone right now, RandomHey works in your browser on phones and computers.

Chitchat alternative questions

Guides

• Staying safe when you talk to strangers online, including sextortion
• How to talk to strangers from other countries online
• 200 things to talk about: topics for friends, strangers, text and video

Sites like Chitchat

Other random chat services we have compared, each described from its own homepage:

• OmeTV alternative: Random webcam chat with no time limits, according to its homepage.
• Thundr alternative: Describes itself as a free one-on-one video or text chat with “zero sign-up”, and as “AI-safe”.
• Chatroulette alternative: Describes itself as “the original free random video chat”, running since 2009.
• Monkey alternative: Requires a “1-tap social login”, which it says keeps bots out.
• Chatrandom alternative: Free random video chat with a location filter and a choice to chat with “women, men, or couples”.
• Emerald Chat alternative: Free access includes interest matching, text and video modes and group channels; subscription tiers unlock gender, country and language filters, according to its homepage.
• Umingle alternative: Random video or text chat with strangers, with optional interests to match on shared topics.
• Uhmegle alternative: Describes itself as random video or text chat with strangers, with interest-based matching.
• Joingy alternative: Describes itself as a random webcam chat with a text-only section and a one-to-one video chat roulette.
• Chatspin alternative: Random video chat where you choose your gender (male, female or couple) and can filter by gender and country.
• Azar alternative: A video chat for meeting new people, with interest-based matches.
• TinyChat alternative: Describes itself as free, anonymous random video chat in the browser, with no sign-up and no downloads.

The full list, including services without their own page, is in Omegle alternatives: sites and apps like Omegle compared.

Chitchat is a trademark of its owner. RandomHey is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Chitchat.