How Does SalaChat Work?

Open the match screen, leave the mode on Video, tap Start random chat and allow the camera when your browser asks. A moment later you’re face to face with one other person. That’s the whole first call; there’s nothing to fill in beforehand and no account needed to try it.

If you’ve never done a video chat before, sit somewhere with light in front of you, say hello first and ask something easy, like where they are or what time it is there. The page of conversation starters has plenty more if your mind goes blank.

At the bottom of the match screen, just above the start button. Video shows your face and theirs; Audio is a voice-only call, with no camera at all; Text matches you with someone to type to. Choose the mode before you tap start.

At the top of the same screen you’ll see History, your call history, plus VIP and your coin balance. If you want to know how a voice match feels, the 1v1 chat guide compares the three modes side by side.

Open the online list instead of the match screen. Along the top you’ll find Popular, Online, New and Following, and next to them a row of languages: English, Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, RU/UA, Portuguese, Turkish, French and Italian. Each card shows a person’s country and the languages they speak.

Tap a card to open the profile. From there you can follow, message, or start a video chat with that one person. If choosing feels like more work than chance, go back to the match screen; the two paths are compared on the meet new people page.

Every profile has three buttons: Follow, Message and Video chat. Follow saves the person to your Following list, so you can find them again on the online list. Message opens a conversation that stays in your inbox. Video chat rings that person directly, rather than leaving the next match to chance. Calls from a profile are video; there’s no separate voice button there.

Messaging and keeping follows ask you to sign in, because those things have to be saved somewhere. Random matching doesn’t. The idea of turning a good first call into a second one is what SalaChat is built around, and making friends online walks through it from start to finish.

The video feed has a Live section where people broadcast to whoever drops in. You can watch, leave a comment that scrolls across the stream, send a gift, and ask for a one-on-one call from inside the room. You can’t start a live broadcast yourself; this part of SalaChat is for watching. To go straight there, open Live in the video feed.

SalaChat is free to start: new users get free matches, rewards pop up now and then, and after that matching uses coins. VIP is an optional monthly membership. The details, including what you’ll see before anything is charged, are on the page about what’s free.

Nine times out of ten it’s a permission or another app holding the camera. Work through these in order before writing to support; most problems are fixed by the second or third step.

Open their profile and use Report or Block. Report sends SalaChat the reason you pick; Block makes it harder for that person to contact you. You can always just leave a chat first. The safety guide covers this in more detail, along with what’s worth keeping off camera.