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Free, anonymous text chat. Meet someone, explore rooms, or reconnect with friends. Matching depends on who is available.
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No forms, no waiting rooms. One tap and you're talking.
Rooms and friends
Drop into rooms that are always open, add the people you click with, and message them later.
Disappearing photos
Send pics that vanish from the chat on a timer. Stored privately, erased on schedule.
Private by design
Choose what you share. Report, block or leave whenever you need.
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Yes. Core text chat, rooms, interests, translation and friends are free. No paid subscription is required.
No account, email or app is needed to start a search or join an accessible room. A match depends on who is available. A free account in your profile uses a recovery key you keep, with no email. It saves your profile across devices and enables friends, your own rooms, points and drops. Friend messaging is available when the inbox feature is enabled.
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. Only reported conversations get a separate moderation transcript, kept for up to 24 hours after reporting and across restarts when durable storage is enabled.
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.
Photos use private storage, with memory fallback for live-chat photos. Live-chat photos expire on the sender's timer; view-once access ends shortly after opening. Moderation can keep images for 30 minutes afterwards, or up to 24 hours if the chat is reported. Rooms keep up to 80 messages for up to 30 days. Friend text and photos expire after 1 day, 7 days, or 24 hours after opening, with a 7-day maximum. Reported friend-photo evidence can remain for up to 30 days, separately from the message.
Someone can screenshot or copy a photo before it expires. Hold-to-view and a watermark discourage copying but cannot prevent it. The watermark uses the viewer's chosen chat name and a time; that name is unverified and does not prove who saved or shared a copy. Friend messages do not send read receipts. Never send a photo you would mind someone keeping.
Yes. When enabled and available, incoming text in live chats, rooms and friend messages can be translated, with the original still visible. Friend messages use your account profile's language. Profile bios use your site language; About shows the original too. A compatible browser and language pair can translate on your device. Otherwise, or when a model still needs downloading, the server relay can send message text to DeepL if that path is enabled and available. Chrome and Edge do not guarantee local translation. Preferences let you control automatic translation and the device and server paths separately. Turning yours off does not prevent another reader from translating what you send.
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.
Rooms are group chats: the Lobby, language and community rooms, and rooms people create. They can keep their latest 80 messages for up to 30 days, but may be empty. Some have self-declared profile requirements or need an invite. An account is needed to create rooms or send room photos.
If you both have accounts, you can add each other as friends during or after a chat. When friend messaging is enabled, send text and photos from Friends. Choose 1 day, 7 days, or 24 hours after opening, with a 7-day maximum. Opening does not send the sender a read receipt.
Two daily sessions, at 12:00 and 23:00 UTC, shown on the site in your own time. They are when everyone is pointed to come at once, so the room is more likely to be busy. Chat Hour is a schedule, not a promise that anyone is online.
With an account, chatting can earn points, levels and sparks for cosmetic drops. You can enable the companion pet in Preferences; it starts switched off. Drops change profile cards, bubbles, titles and pet looks. These features are free and do not change who you match with.
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.
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Public text chat rooms you can join in seconds: a Lobby for everyone, a room for each of eight languages, and community rooms. Free, with no account or email needed to join.
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Chat Hour runs daily at 12:00 and 23:00 UTC. See the times in your timezone.
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