Chamet

Chamet is a live video platform rather than a one-to-one chat app, and its listing leans into that: party rooms, live rooms, talent shows, group video for up to 5 people at once. Its own description says it reaches people in over 150 countries, a figure it does not source and we have not verified. The shape of the product is closer to a small social network with live video at the centre than to a place you go to meet one stranger.

You can join a party room and take part in a group video chat with up to 5 people, or stay off camera entirely in a voice room, or open a live room of your own and perform — singing, dancing, games — for whoever turns up. Party rooms also carry interactive games. Translation runs in real time, and the app itself is offered in seven languages. Discovery is personalised, which in practice means the streams you are shown are chosen for you rather than browsed by you.

The app is free to install and free to join rooms, and the economy runs on gifts: animated gifts, festival gifts and event-specific gifts that you buy and send to performers, along with medals and cosmetic effects. That is a different model from the subscriptions elsewhere in this category. Nothing is gated behind a filter purchase, but the money still moves — toward whoever is performing, rather than toward control over who you meet.

The listing says the app is committed to a safe and welcoming community and that verification features help confirm you are connecting with real people, though it does not say what that verification consists of, which is the part worth knowing. It also asks for location permission, which it says is to provide content relevant to your region — a real permission with a real privacy cost, and the kind of thing a live video app does not strictly need. Treat a platform whose economy depends on gifts to performers as one where the incentive to keep you watching is structural.

People who want live video as entertainment rather than as a way to meet one person, and who are comfortable in a group setting where the room is the point. Anyone looking for a quiet one-to-one conversation will find the format loud.

A live-streaming social app with a gift economy, and it is honest about being one. The group rooms and voice rooms are a real range of ways in, but the listing's promises about verification and community are thinner than its promises about gifts and effects, and the location permission is a cost worth noticing before you install it.