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We checked 15 sites like Omegle in October 2026: which still have text chat, which make you sign up, what the filters cost, and which lost their iPhone apps or shut down.
6 min
Random chat gives you free, unplanned speaking practice with strangers from all over the world. It works best from around B1, and for steady partners or lessons a language exchange app or a tutor will do more.
7 min
Random chat can connect you with someone on the other side of the world in seconds. A good chat depends on catching people while they're awake and having a plan for when you don't share a language.
9 min
Press Report, pick one of six reasons, and the chat ends for both of you. Moderators get the last 50 messages and one video frame, and some cases also belong with the police or a national hotline.
7 min
Most bad webcam pictures have the light behind the person and the camera below their chin. Fixes for both with a lamp and a few books, plus framing, sound, and when your phone beats your laptop camera.
6 min
Text gives a stranger your words and your country. Video adds your face, your room and usually your IP address, but it moves about three times faster. How the two compare on privacy, speed, comfort and data.
5 min
Omegle's interest tags paired you with someone who typed the same word, or with a random stranger if nobody had. {{siteName}} matches on interests the same way, with up to 10 tags and a few seconds of waiting before it falls back to anyone.
8 min
First lines for random text and video chat that give a stranger something easy to answer, and what to try when the chat starts going quiet.
7 min
Omegle closed on November 8, 2023, about a week after settling a lawsuit over a child it had matched with an abuser. In 2026 a new company took over omegle.com. Dates, sources and what the domain shows today.
6 min
Omegle is gone, and the sites that replaced it share its risks. What a stranger can learn from a video chat, how sextortion and chat scams usually start, and what to do if one reaches you.