A free Omegle alternative for meeting strangers

What happened to Omegle?

Omegle’s founder closed the site in November 2023, saying that fighting misuse had become too costly and stressful to keep going. Millions of people lost their favourite way to chat with random strangers, and many of the sites that appeared afterwards filled the gap with paywalls, coins and pushy sign-ups.

How ChatStranger compares

ChatStranger keeps what made Omegle fun, the instant one-on-one match with someone new, and changes the parts that made it hard to enjoy.

• Free gender filter: choose who you want to meet without paying.
• No sign-up: no email, phone number or profile.
• Text only: lighter on your data plan and nobody is on camera.
• Report button in every chat, with automatic blocking of people reported by several users.
• Links are blocked in messages, which stops most spam bots.
• Built-in games like Would You Rather and Tic-tac-toe so conversations don’t die after “hi”.

Who it’s for

ChatStranger is for adults (18+) who want a quick, casual conversation with someone they’ve never met: to kill time, practise English, hear about life in another country or just talk to someone new. If you want video chat, ChatStranger isn’t that. It’s deliberately text-first.