Questions, answered plainly

Usually somewhere between 5 and 20 seconds. You are not browsing a list and nobody has to accept you — the system pairs two people who both pressed start.

The mode: video, voice or text. That is the only choice, and it is made before matching rather than during.

Yes, in the browser — there is nothing to install. On a phone you also get the option to switch to the rear camera during a video call, which laptops usually cannot do because they only have one.

Free to start, and free for a lot of what you will do — getting matched, text chat, skipping to the next person. Some things run on coins, mainly longer video calls and gifts. We are not going to claim it is free forever, because that would not be true.

No. You can go through the whole flow — pick a mode, get matched, talk, skip — before any question of coins comes up.

Mostly video call time, plus gifts and some premium profiles. The two-column breakdown is on the pricing page.

Not if you pick text or voice — neither of those switches a camera on at any point. Video mode is different: it needs camera access before it can start, so there is no version of video chat here that runs with the camera off.

It covers the picture on both sides. It does not stop your camera capturing, so it is not a way to be on a video call privately. If you do not want a camera running, start in voice or text mode.

Not by us. Being precise: chat messages do have a history, the way messages do in any messaging app, so "calls are not recorded" is a narrower statement than "nothing is stored anywhere". And nobody can prevent the other person recording their own screen — that is true of every video call, everywhere.

Yes, from the call screen, and it genuinely mutes your microphone. There is no control for muting the other person.

No. The pairing is random — that is the format, not a missing feature. What you choose is how you want to talk, not who you get.

Skip first if you need to get out. Then open their profile page — report and block both live there, not on the call screen. Report opens a separate page where you describe what happened.

They will not be matched to you again.

Yes — there is a human moderation team, working around the clock, not just an automated filter and a report button that goes nowhere.

No. It is the normal move here and it happens in both directions. Nobody is owed an explanation for leaving a conversation with a stranger.