Comparisons: Omegle alternatives, voice apps, text versus voice

Comparison articles, with one rule: HearMe Chat is ours, we say so on every page, and the other sites are described from their own public pages at the time of writing, not from what we would like them to be. Where a site has changed since, the page is updated and the date moves.

The articles here answer the questions people actually type: what happened to Omegle and what took its place, whether a voice call is better than a video call for talking to a stranger, when text beats voice, and which of the free voice chat apps are free in practice. Each one is judged on the same five things: whether there is a camera, whether you need an account, whether anyone is moderating, what it costs, and whether people are actually there.

The site-by-site tables live on the compare pages; the guide below is the index of all of them.