Questions & answers

A free random text chat. You're matched one-to-one with a stranger, you talk, and you can skip to someone new whenever you like. There's no account, no download, and no camera.

No. There's no account system at all — no email, no phone number, no username, no social login. You confirm you're 18 or over and start chatting.

Yes, entirely. There's no premium tier, no credits, and no point at which you're asked for payment details.

No. It runs in any modern browser on a phone, tablet, or computer. There's nothing in an app store to download.

Usually a few seconds. If nobody suitable is free at that moment you'll wait in the queue until someone is, and you'll be connected automatically.

Tap skip. Your current chat ends and you're put back in the queue for a new random stranger straight away.

No. opentalk.buzz is text only, deliberately. The site never requests camera or microphone permission, so there's nothing to switch off.

Matching is random — that's the format. If a conversation isn't going anywhere, skipping costs one tap and a couple of seconds.

No. Once a chat ends there's no way to reconnect with that person. Without accounts there's nothing to reconnect through — it's the trade anonymous chat makes.

You'll be told the chat ended and put back in the queue for a new match automatically.

Usually the other person disconnected or closed their tab. Losing your own connection — switching networks, or a browser tab sleeping in the background — will also end a chat.

Yes. Explicit language is filtered automatically in every conversation, and every chat has a one-tap report button. Reports are reviewed by a person, who can ban the reported user from the platform.

There's a report button in the chat itself — one tap, no form to fill in. It flags the conversation for human review. Use it for anything that crosses a line, then skip.

Report and disconnect. Nobody in a random chat has a legitimate reason to ask you for money, payment details, or images, regardless of the story attached. Don't negotiate and don't pay.

Yes — 18 and over. You confirm your age before your first conversation, and the service isn't intended for or directed at anyone under 18.

Your full name, address, school or workplace, phone number, email, payment details, or photos of yourself. Also be careful with handles you use elsewhere — an Instagram username usually exposes your real name and face in one step.

While you're waiting for a real person to become free, you may be shown an automated conversation, which is labelled as such and visually distinct from a real match. Your place in the queue is kept the whole time, and the moment a real stranger is available you're switched over to them.

To the person you're talking to, yes — they get no identifier for you, no profile, and no way to find you after the chat ends. Like any website, we can see connection information such as your IP address, and messages are retained for a period so abuse reports can be investigated.

Messages are retained for a period so that reports can be investigated and abusive users banned. A service that stored nothing couldn't act on a report at all. Our privacy policy sets out what's kept and for how long.

No. Traffic to the site is encrypted in transit over HTTPS, which is not the same thing. End-to-end encryption is fundamentally incompatible with filtering content and reviewing reports, and we'd rather be able to act on reports.

Through device and connection signals stored in the browser rather than an account. It isn't perfect — a determined person can get around it — but it raises the cost enough to stop casual repeat abuse.

Yes. Our privacy policy explains what's held and how to request deletion.