Chamet next to a chat that opens in your browser
Short answer: Chamet is an app you install on a phone, sign up for, and pay for in coins once a brief trial call runs out. Our chat, the one on this site, is a video chat that opens in the browser and has no link to Chamet: one person at a time, free to try, with sign-up optional. Which one suits you depends on what you want from the camera, and the side-by-side list further down lays it out line by line.
Adults only. Sign-up is optional, nothing to install.
What Chamet gets right, by its own description
Several ways to be on camera
A Chamet private video call is only one option. There are also live streams run by hosts and Party Rooms, where up to five people share video (voice-only rooms exist as well).
A free first taste
Installing costs nothing, a new account comes with starter coins, and the first one-on-one call includes a 90-second trial.
Faces are checked
Some functions sit behind a live face check, and one face can confirm only one account.
A busy toolbox
Live translation in chats, beauty effects, filters and stickers, games inside Party Rooms, animated gifts and PK battles between streamers.
A clear way out
Deleting the account happens inside the app (Settings, then About Us, then Delete Account), and it stays recoverable for 14 days before removal is final.
Where Chamet asks more of you
The first wall is an account. Chamet wants a sign-up through Google, Facebook or a phone number before any chat begins. It also reads your country from your IP address and your phone number's country code, and that setting can't be changed by hand. Prices for its in-app currency (called diamonds, though people often say coins) follow that region too.
Once the 90-second trial ends, a one-on-one Chamet app video call keeps running only while your coins do, at a rate the person you called has set. Gifts are paid in coins as well. An optional monthly plan, Chamet Plus, renews on its own; Chamet says nobody needs it to use the app. Its terms call every purchase final and non-refundable, and anything bought is lost if the account gets suspended or closed.
Many of the people on the other side are hosts. They earn from call minutes and gifts, pick their own rates and work through a system of host agencies. That is a business model rather than a trick, but it changes what a conversation with a stranger means there.
Then there is the phone itself. The app asks for camera, microphone, location, photo library and notification access. Its privacy policy lists profile details, IP address, device identifiers, face data from verification and messages among what it gathers, and says the data may be processed in other countries. Google's listing marks it Mature 17+ with ads and in-app purchases, while Chamet's own terms shut out anyone under 18. On iPhone, Chamet's download page points to Apple's test-build channel instead of the regular store. Google also pulled the app from its store once over its rules for user-generated content, as TechCrunch reported; it is listed there again.
What we drew differently on our screen
We started with the first screen. It has one primary action: a button whose label names the call it starts, placed low enough for a thumb on a phone. The page opens in the browser you already use, on a phone or a laptop, so there is nothing to install and nothing to update later.
The path is short, short on purpose: page, age question, camera. There is no sign-up form in front of the button. The one question is about age, because the chat is meant for people who are 18+. A yes is stored in your browser so the question doesn't return on every visit; the notice mark is the only other entry kept there, and you can delete both whenever you like. Beyond that, the site keeps no personal data and holds no accounts.
Trying the chat costs nothing. If you want more minutes on camera or added options, the call screen offers a paid plan for them, so nothing is sold before you have seen a single face. The live video comes from a technology provider that follows a policy of its own, while reporting or blocking someone happens on the call screen. Our privacy policy explains who handles what.
If a shorter path to the first call is what you were after, start a one-on-one call here and judge the first screen for yourself.
Chamet and our chat, line against line
Chamet
Our chat (this site)
A phone app, plus a web version of its own
Works on a phone or a laptop as it is, nothing to install
Google, Facebook or phone-number sign-up before chatting
Sign-up is optional
Free install, starter coins, 90 seconds free on the first call
Free to try
Call time and gifts paid in coins, at rates set by the person you call
Extra time and options through a paid plan shown on the call screen
One-on-one calls, host streams, Party Rooms for up to five
One-on-one video calls with the camera on
Region fixed by IP and phone number
Only two short entries kept in your browser
Purchases final, lost if the account is suspended
Report and block on the call screen
Terms bar anyone under 18
Grown-ups only: 18+
Questions that come along with the search
Is this site part of the Chamet app?
No. We built this chat on our own, and it has no tie to the Chamet app, the company that publishes it or the hosts who work there. It is a different video chat around a similar idea: two people, two cameras.
Which country is the Chamet app from?
Hong Kong. The publisher is Fuliao Hong Kong Limited, and the app's terms are governed by Hong Kong law.
Does talking to someone on Chamet cost money?
Past the free 90 seconds of your first one-on-one call, yes. Keeping a call going uses coins at the other person's rate, and gifts cost coins too.
Is Chamet safe to use?
We won't hand out a verdict on another company's app. Going by its own pages: faces are checked for some functions, its terms are adults only, and it collects face data, messages and device identifiers. Our page on common myths about video chat with strangers covers habits that help on any service.
Can I use Chamet on a laptop without installing anything?
Chamet has a web version of its own, run by its makers, and it still expects an account. This site is not that version. For an online video chat with strangers on a laptop, where signing up is optional, the chat here opens straight in the browser.
Are there other websites like Chamet?
Yes, and our guide to similar apps walks through the wider choice. This page stays with one comparison on purpose.
Take the shorter path
Free to try, 18+ only, and the call opens right here in the browser, with no install and no sign-up in the way.