About ChatMet: a place for the first hello.

The name is the idea. ChatMet is about the moment just after you meet someone, when you know nothing about each other and the conversation could go anywhere. Most of the internet skips that moment and jumps straight to profiles, follower counts and filters. We wanted a place that starts there and stays there.

So the product is deliberately small. You press start, one person appears, you talk. There is no feed to keep you scrolling and no grid of faces to judge. If the chat is good, it lasts. If not, next is one tap away and nobody is hurt by it.

About 14,262 people are online right now across video, voice and text. That is the only live figure we quote, and it moves all day as time zones wake up and fall asleep.

Our regulars fall into a few loose groups. People who moved to a new city and have not built a circle yet. Night owls whose friends are asleep. People who want international friends and enjoy hearing how life works somewhere else. And plenty who just want a decent conversation with someone new after a long day.

It is for adults only. Anyone under 18 is not welcome, and accounts that obviously belong to teenagers get deleted. It is also not a dating site, not a streaming platform and not a support or counselling service.

We think one-on-one beats one-to-many. When there is no audience, people are funnier, more honest and kinder. That is why every ChatMet chat has exactly two people in it.

We think leaving should cost nothing. Next, block and report work instantly and never ask for a reason. And we think low pressure matters, which is why text and voice sit right next to video: plenty of good conversations start without a camera.

Finally, we think the free side should be real. Every new account starts with matches, the Reward Center keeps refilling them, and so anyone can work out whether ChatMet suits them before spending a cent. See is ChatMet free for the plain version.

Plenty of chat sites promise more than they deliver, so here is our list of things you will not find here:

However you type it, ChatMet, Chat Met, chatmet chat, chat-met or chatmet live, you have found us. Our only home is chatmet.chat. If you saved a bookmark under a different spelling, it is still this site, as long as the address bar says chatmet.chat.

Questions, bugs, account requests or feedback go to [email protected], read by people rather than a bot. For anything urgent about another user, report the chat first; it reaches moderators faster than email. What to put in that email is spelled out on the contact page.