Text chat with strangers: free, no login
Written by the HearMe Chat team · Updated 8 November 2026
Text chat on HearMe Chat is a typed one-to-one chat with one random stranger. It is free, with no login and no camera, for adults 18 and over, on a phone or a computer with nothing to install. The median wait for a text chat was 6.1 seconds (7 Oct–5 Nov 2026).
Start here
Text needs nothing. A voice call asks for your microphone only when you tap the mic button.
How a text chat starts
- Press Start a text chat. On a first visit the site checks that you are an adult and asks one matching question, then gives you a random nickname to chat under.
- Pick up to 5 interest tags, or none. With tags, the search tries for a shared one before anyone else; random chat explains the timing.
- Type to the one person you are matched with. Skip closes the chat on both screens, and you choose when to search again.
Typing is the quiet way in. Nobody hears your voice or sees your face, you can answer in your own time, and it works with the sound off. Text chats go through our servers, so the other person's browser never receives your network address; on a call the two browsers exchange addresses, which is one reason to start here.
More people are waiting for text, too. Between 7 October and 5 November 2026, 81% of text searches ended in a chat, against 52% for voice. Nine in ten text chats started within 36 seconds. What the other person can see about you is listed on the home page.
Text chat at a glance
- One stranger at a time, by typing. No camera, and no microphone unless you both accept a call.
- The phone button asks your partner to move to a call, and they can answer Not now.
- Skip needs a second tap before the chat ends (Esc on a keyboard skips at once).
- If your partner's connection drops, the chat is held for a short while.
- 4 games inside one-to-one text chats: tic-tac-toe, rock paper scissors, four in a row, dots and boxes.
Moving from text to a call
A phone button in the chat header asks your partner to switch to voice. They see your name with two choices, Accept or Not now. If they accept, you both move to a call with each other, microphone only, and nobody is re-matched. If they decline, you see "Not now. You can keep chatting here." and nothing else, so a no never says more than that.
The number of asks per chat is limited, and after a decline there is a short wait before you can ask again. A request that nobody answers expires by itself. If the call you moved to never connects, the call ends and so does the text chat. If you are both on the website, you may be asked whether to start a new text chat with each other.
Between 7 October and 5 November 2026, 228 call requests from text chats were accepted. If a call will not connect or your mic stays silent, voice chat explains what to try.
Text chat
132,233 text searches between 7 October and 5 November 2026; 81% ended in a chat.
Voice chat
Prefer to talk? A voice call is mic only, with one person, and starts from the same screen.
Games
4 two-player games in one-to-one text chats: tic-tac-toe, rock paper scissors, four in a row, and dots and boxes.
Skips, dropped connections and bad behavior
Skip shows "Tap again to skip" first. Tap again within a few seconds and the chat ends for both of you. Do nothing and the button returns to normal, so a slip of the thumb costs you nothing.
If your partner's connection drops, the chat does not end at once. You see "Reconnecting…" with a note that the chat is being held for them, and a choice to wait or leave. If they do not come back within a short time, the chat ends.
Adults may swear here. A filter blocks slurs, threats and telling someone to hurt themselves, and "Hide swear words" in the chat's settings masks swearing on your own screen. About one in 200 text chats was reported (263 reports from 53,855 text chats, 7 Oct–5 Nov 2026); how Report and Block work is on the home page.
Text chat here and on three other sites
| HearMe Chat | ome.gg | StrangerLine | Omezy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text chat without an account | Yes | Yes: "You don't sign up, you don't hand over an email" | Yes: "Starting a chat never needs an account" | Yes: "Start anonymously in one click"; guests have a daily allowance |
| Video | None | Not stated; its text chat has "No mic, no camera" | "Free random chat by text, voice or video" | Yes: "text, voice or video, each with its own queue" |
| Interest tags | Yes, free | Yes: "Match by shared interests" | Yes: "Add interests, if you like" | "Anonymous users get one interest"; more when signed in |
| Gender or country filter | Premium | Premium: "gender and country filters in random chat" | Not stated on its homepage | "Same country" on by default; gender Not checked |
| From text to a voice call | Ask with the phone button; the other person accepts | Not stated on its homepage | "switch to voice or video with one tap" | "nobody can move you to another mode once you're talking" |
| Group chat rooms | One text room, General | "Public chat rooms" by topic | Not stated on its homepage | Not stated on its homepage |
| Adults only | 18+ | "Strictly 18+" | "18+ only" | "18+ and asks you to confirm" |
Read on the homepages of ome.gg, StrangerLine and Omezy on 6 November 2026; Omezy's text and voice pages asked for a browser check we did not pass, so anything only there is Not checked. Each site may have changed since. Where they do more: ome.gg has topic rooms, games and themes; StrangerLine has video, voice notes and, with a free account, message requests to people in your history; Omezy has video and voice queues and same-country matching on by default. Fuller comparisons: ome.gg, StrangerLine and Omezy.
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Text chat - frequently asked questions
Can someone see my IP address in a text chat?
No. Text goes through our servers, so the other person's browser does not receive your network address. What they can see is listed on the home page.
Can I send photos in text chat?
No. Pictures cannot be sent in text chats. You can send GIFs from the picker, which asks its provider for its strictest content filter.
Are my text chats saved?
What you type is not saved to a profile. Signed-in people see who they matched with in History, not what was said. The last 30 messages of a chat stay on our servers for 24 hours after its first message, so a report can be checked, then expire unless a report or safety review kept them.
Can I choose who I text with?
Partly. Interest tags are free and steer who you meet first; random chat explains how. A women-or-men filter for text comes with Premium; what Premium adds is on the home page.
Is this a one-on-one text chat?
Yes. Every text chat is you and one other person, and nobody else can join it. For a crowd, there is one text room, General.
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