Match by interests
Pick topics you actually want to talk about.
Omezy: #1 Omegle Alternative
Talk to strangers in your browser — text, voice or video, each with its own queue. Start anonymously in one click, or sign in free to drop the limits, get matched sooner and keep your settings for next time.
Match by interests
Pick topics you actually want to talk about.
Unsafe video, blurred
Explicit video is blurred the moment it appears, automatically.
People worldwide
Meet someone nearby or from a completely different place.
Private quick start
Chat anonymously without sharing your name or profile first.
Getting started
Starting a chat takes about ten seconds
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Pick text, voice or video
Three separate queues. Whatever you pick is what you get — nobody can move you to another mode once you're talking.
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Add an interest, or leave it blank
One honest word beats five popular ones. Blank puts you with other people who also left theirs blank — though if you're signed in, interests saved in My account still apply.
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Press Start, then say something first
"hi" has close to a 100% failure rate. Ask a real question — "what are you supposed to be doing right now" works alarmingly well.
Omegle
Looking for an Omegle alternative that still feels like Omegle?
Omegle did one specific thing very well: you opened a page and, about thirty seconds later, you were talking to a stranger in Ohio about their dog. No profile, no swiping, no algorithm deciding in advance that the two of you would get along.
Omezy is built around that same thirty-second promise. What we changed is the part everyone complained about — you could spend a long evening on Omegle without meeting anyone you actually wanted to talk to, and reporting someone felt like shouting into a well.
What actually happened to Omegle
It closed on 8 November 2023, after fourteen years. Its founder wrote an open letter saying the cost of fighting misuse — financial, and personal — had stopped being sustainable for one person to carry. The demand never went anywhere. The moderated place to put it did.
Where Omezy sits next to OmeTV, Monkey and Chatroulette
OmeTV and Monkey both work, and both would much rather you installed the app, because that's where retention lives. Chatroulette stayed video-only. Omezy is browser-first on purpose: if you have to visit an app store before you can say hello, the impulse has usually passed. There's a straight comparison further down this page.
How it works
Random chat with strangers, minus the parts nobody misses
Most random chats are forgettable, and that's fine — it's the format working as intended. The good ones pay for the forgettable ones. So the only real design questions are how fast you get from one to the next, and how many genuinely unpleasant ones you have to sit through on the way.
Everything below is us answering those two questions. None of it makes a conversation good; that part is still on you and a stranger. It just removes the reasons people gave up on random chat in the first place.
Text, voice or video — you pick how exposed you are
Text asks nothing of you. Voice gives you a real person's tone without putting your face on a screen, and it survives a bad connection far better than video does. Video is the closest thing to actually meeting someone. Each runs its own queue, so choosing voice means you'll only ever match with people who also chose voice.
Interests nudge the match, they don't lock it
Type "guitar" and Omezy looks for someone who typed it too. If nobody has, the search quietly widens instead of leaving you watching a spinner forever. Anonymous users get one interest and signed-in users get several — though that's the smaller half of what an account changes.
You won't get handed the same person twice
Skip someone and you won't be matched with them again for a while — a noticeably shorter wait if you're signed in. It's a small rule that matters most at quiet hours, when a small pool would otherwise start feeling like a carousel.
Same country, if you want it
It's on by default, which usually means a shared language and a reasonable time of day at both ends. It's a toggle, not a wall: turn it off in the chat panel and the whole world is back in the pool.
Comparison
Omezy vs Omegle, OmeTV, Monkey & Chatroulette
Omegle shut down in November 2023. Here's how Omezy compares with the active alternatives.
| Feature | Omezy | Omegle | OmeTV | Monkey | Chatroulette |
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| Free video + text chat | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Video only |
| Voice-only (audio) chat | Yes | — | No | No | No |
| Works in browser — no app | Yes | — | Yes | App-first | Yes |
| Start anonymously — no signup | Yes | — | Yes | Sign-up | Yes |
| Interest-based matching | Yes | — | Limited | No | No |
| Same-country match by default | Default | — | Optional | No | Optional |
| Real-time AI nudity blur | Yes | — | No | No | AI flags |
| Show-your-face matching | Yes | — | No | No | No |
| 18+ age gate | Yes | — | Policy only | Policy only | Policy only |
| Active moderation | Yes | — | Basic | Basic | Yes |
Comparison based on publicly available information; competitor features may change.
Safety
Safety you don't have to ask for
We take safety seriously enough to build for it, not just write a policy about it. Both of these run on every chat, automatically, whether or not anyone reports anything.
Unsafe video is blurred before you see it
Most sites answer explicit video with a report button — which only helps after you have already seen it. Omezy watches the incoming video as it plays and blurs it the moment it turns explicit. On by default, in the browser, no app and no extension. Report it too if you want; you just don't have to look at it first.
Scams and sextortion don't last here
Some people arrive with something other than a conversation in mind. Omezy is built to find them and remove them — automatically, before anyone has to notice or report anything.
About & safety
About Omezy
Omezy is a random chat site built after Omegle closed. Small team, no venture funding, no ambition to become a social network. The goal is deliberately narrow: make it fast to meet a stranger and cheap to leave one.
Anonymous works. An account works better.
You can chat with no account at all — no email, no name, nothing to verify. Anonymous mode has a daily allowance and a cap on how long any single call runs, which most people never reach. Signing in is free, takes about twenty seconds, and changes four things: the limits come off, your account is prioritised when the matcher pairs people up, your interests and settings are waiting next time instead of being set up from scratch, and your standing builds the longer you use it well. There is no paid tier above that — nothing is held back for one.
How moderation works
Every chat has a report button, and reports reach human moderators with the conversation attached, so nothing gets judged on a single line taken out of context. Anything reported on video is re-checked by a second model. Accounts that keep crossing the line lose access. Omezy is 18+ and asks you to confirm that before your first chat.
What we keep, and for how long
Video is not continuously recorded. What we do keep is the limited operational and safety data a moderator needs in order to act on a report, and it is deleted automatically after 30 days. Anonymous mode never asks for a name or an email address in the first place.
What Omezy is not
It isn't a dating app, it isn't moderated in real time by humans watching every call, and it can't promise every stranger will be pleasant — no site with an open door can. What it can do is make the bad ones end in one click and make the reports actually go somewhere.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Anonymous mode has a daily allowance and a cap on how long a single call runs. Signing in is free and takes about twenty seconds: the limits come off, your account is prioritised when matches are made, you can save more interests, and your settings are ready next visit instead of being set up again. There is no paid tier above that — nothing is being held back for one.
Same basic idea: random one-on-one conversations with strangers, no profile, no algorithm deciding in advance who you'd get along with. What's different is that interests actually influence the match, text, voice and video run as separate queues, and reports reach a person. To be clear about it: Omegle closed in November 2023 and this is not a mirror or a revival of it — it's the same format, run by different people.
Type something you'd genuinely talk about and Omezy prioritises strangers who typed something similar, while keeping the rest of the match random. Specific beats popular — "shoegaze" finds fewer people than "music" but starts a much better conversation. If nobody matches, the search widens on its own instead of leaving you waiting.
If you're signed in, the interests saved in My account still apply even when the homepage box is blank — that box only sets interests for that one start. Open My account and clear or update them if your matches feel stale.
Leave first, report second. End it the moment someone pressures you for personal details, shows unsafe content, appears underage or breaks the rules. You don't owe anyone an explanation, and the report form still works after the chat has ended.
Yes. Reports go to human moderators with that conversation attached, so nothing is judged on one line out of context, and the person you reported is never told who filed it. Being straight about the limits: one report on its own rarely decides anything. What it does is build the pattern — and the pattern is what gets an account restricted or removed. If nobody reports, that pattern never forms and the same person carries on.
Before you appeal, it's worth a minute of honest checking, because almost every ban comes down to one of these. Are you 18 or over? Did anything explicit appear on your camera, even briefly, even in the background? Did the conversation turn abusive — insults, slurs, threats — even as a joke? A ban follows the account, not the browser, so signing out or starting again anonymously won't clear one. If you've been through that list and still think it's wrong, use the appeal form and say what you think happened.
Yes, in any reasonably modern mobile browser. There is deliberately no iOS or Android app: the point of the format is that you can start a chat in the ten seconds you actually have, not after a download and a sign-up.