About Us

1What ChatRoulette Live is

ChatRoulette Live pairs two strangers for a live one-on-one conversation over video, voice or text. There is no profile to build and nothing to download: you open the site, allow the camera, and the first match loads in about a second. A gender filter lets you steer the shuffle toward real girls when you want to, and every match ends the moment either person taps next.

Everything on the site serves that single loop — match, talk, skip or stay. We would rather do one thing well than ten things loudly.

2Why we built it

The original roulette idea was one of the best things the early web produced: two strangers, a camera, and ten unscripted minutes. What rotted was the execution — bots farming the queue, pools with no moderation, and sign-up walls in front of the first hello. ChatRoulette Live is our rebuild of that idea with the rot removed: real people on camera, a moderation team that actually answers reports, and a front door you can walk through without registering.

We keep the format deliberately simple because simple is what made the idea work in the first place. A stranger, a camera, and an exit button one tap away — everything else is decoration.

3How the site earns money

ChatRoulette Live is free to start: new users get free matches so the product can prove itself before anyone spends. Longer sessions can run on coins, sold in one-time packages with the price shown before you confirm. There is no subscription — nothing renews, nothing rebills, and there is no plan to cancel. The full breakdown lives on the is ChatRoulette free page.

4How we keep the pool real

A random chat is only as good as the people in it, so moderation is not a department here — it is the product. Every chat carries skip, block and report controls, reports land in a human queue around the clock, and confirmed violators lose access. The rules we enforce are written down in the community guidelines, and they start with the obvious one: there is a real person on the other side of your screen.

5What we refuse to do

A few lines we do not cross, said out loud so you can hold us to them. We do not record your conversations — a finished match is gone for good. We do not sell or rent personal information to data brokers. We do not seed the pool with bots or pre-recorded video. And we do not hide costs behind the reply button: if something uses coins, the price appears before anything is spent.

6Where we are going

The roadmap is not more features; it is a better version of the loop. Faster matching on slow networks, sharper abuse detection, and a cleaner mobile experience. If you have an idea we should steal — or a problem we should fix — the contact us page reaches a human who reads every message.