Text-only conversations, paired by shared interests. Earn rank with every good talk. No photos. No followers. No noise.
No setup theater. Pick what you like, see who you've matched with, talk.
Up to 5 interests across culture, tech, lifestyle, sport. We match you with someone who shares at least one.
Handle, avatar, bio, shared interests. Tap [connect] or [skip] — your call, no penalty.
No photos. No voice. No video. Every chat earns a grade — quality moves you up the rank ladder.
Every choice — from interest matching to ephemeral chats — is in service of one thing: a talk worth having.
Topic-based pairing on the interests you opted into. You always know why you got paired.
Every chat closes with a grade: S, A, B, or C. Quality matters; quantity doesn't.
NEW to LEGEND. Climb through talk.
Tap, wait seconds, you're in.
Spend credits to send one message to everyone online. Be heard, not scrolled past.
Classic green, amber, white phosphor, blue terminal, red alert, matrix dark. Make the terminal yours — 6 ways.
Your rank reflects how you talk — not how you look, who follows you, or how long you've been here. Every chat earns points. Every grade is public.
/shout is a paid broadcast to everyone online. The latest ones land on this wall.
broadcasts are AI-moderated before sending · report: [email protected]
Earn credits, unlock themes. Six terminal looks to choose from inside the app.
No photos to leak. No followers to flex. Less to lose, more to say.
Report or block in a single tap. Community-moderated with strict standards.
A behavior signal keeps low-grade talk away from people who put in the effort.
No phone. No email. No photos. Conversations are ephemeral by default.
Free · iOS · no account required · community-moderated
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stdout.chat is a free text-only chat app for iOS that matches you with people who share your interests — no video, no camera, no sign-up, no phone number.
You pick up to five interests, and the app pairs you with someone who shares at least one of them — so every conversation starts with common ground. There are no photos, no followers, and no feeds: just two people typing. Every chat ends with a session grade, and good conversations move you up a 16-tier rank ladder, from NEW to LEGEND.
Conversations are ephemeral — when a session ends, the messages are gone. You never hand over a phone number, an email, or a photo. If you want to know why we skipped the camera entirely, read why text-only chat works better.
Yes. The app is free to download and free to chat — matching, messaging, and the rank system cost nothing. Optional in-app credits unlock extra themes and shout broadcasts, but you never need them to talk.
No. There is no sign-up at all — no phone number, no email, no password. The app creates a random device identity on first launch, you pick a username, and you're online in seconds.
No — and that's the point. stdout.chat is text-only by design: no video, no camera, no voice. Unlike video chat roulettes, nobody judges you by your face or your room. The conversation is the whole product.
You choose up to five interests across culture, tech, lifestyle, and sport. The app pairs you with someone who shares at least one of them, and the profile preview shows exactly what you matched on — before you say a word.
No. Chats are ephemeral — once a session ends, the messages are gone from our servers. The only exception is a short buffer kept temporarily when someone files a report, so moderation actually works.
Not yet. stdout.chat is currently available for iPhone on the App Store. Android is on the roadmap.