Anonymous Video Chat on your terms.

A private video chat is one where you, not the other person, decide when your face appears, and here that decision happens before every match. Before you press start, you pick video, voice or text. Choose video and the stranger sees you. Choose voice or text and your camera stays out of that match entirely.

Nothing carries over. Last night's video call does not make tonight's match a video call. That per-match choice is the main privacy control on Anonymous Chat Live, and the rest (what is behind you, how you are lit, what you say) is covered below.

Before you choose video, check what the camera will show besides your face, because a background can say more about you than a name ever would.

Video chat with strangers here is always one-to-one: one random person, one camera each, and no audience.

That is what separates it from a live stream. Nobody is broadcasting, nobody watches from the side, and there are no comments scrolling past. It is two people on a live video call, and either one can end it. Most matches are a few minutes of chat over video, a laugh, then a next. The good ones last a lot longer.

In random video chat you choose the mode and when to leave; you do not choose who you get. There are no filters here, not for gender, country or interests. Every match is simply whoever is next in the queue. Prefer the classic random format? Our Omegle alternative page covers it.

The upside is that nobody can filter for you either. You turn up in a stranger's random video call exactly as randomly as they turn up in yours.

Cam to cam chat simply means both people have their cameras on at once, and that is what video mode is here: two webcams, two people, one conversation.

Keep it about the conversation. The same rules apply as everywhere on the site: adults only, no harassment, and anything that breaks the community guidelines can be reported and reviewed by a human moderator.

For privacy, cam chat calls for one extra habit: glance at your own frame now and then during the call. A roommate walking past, a notification lighting up a screen behind you, a delivery label on the table. Small things drift into view without you noticing.

Many of the people you will meet on video are women, but matches are random and there is no way to choose anyone by gender.

If you came here hoping to video chat with girls, the best advice is the ordinary kind. Say hello like a person, ask something real, and take a next without sulking. Pushy messages, requests to "show more" and demands for social handles get reported, and reports are reviewed by people.

Women on the other side have the same privacy choices you do. Some start on voice before they pick video, and some never pick video at all.

When a video chat goes well, the safest next step is another chat on the site, not an immediate swap of social handles.

People are easier to read after two or three conversations. A social account links to your friends, your photos and your history, which is far more than a video call ever shows. If you do decide to share contact details later, share the least revealing one first. There is more on that in our page on talking to strangers anonymously.

Anonymous video chat is free to start: new users get free matches, and the Reward Center at the top of the match page adds more while you stay online.

You can claim several times a day. Once they are used up, coins keep you matching. How it works walks through the whole flow, from the first match to the Reward Center.

To leave a video call, tap next: the call ends and you go back to matching.

You do not need a reason. If the stranger crossed a line, block or report before you move on so a moderator gets the details. And if a call left you feeling exposed, stay on text or voice for the next few matches. The choice is yours every time you press start.