Chatting with strangers online is easy. There are lots of instant chat rooms and apps that are fully dedicated to letting users remain anonymous while facilitating conversations between people all over the world.
Chat sites are all different. Some make you pick a username and gender, others just a gender, some a birthdate, and a few are completely void of all questions for true anonymity.
Below are some of the best anonymous chat rooms where you can meet new people, find friends, and talk with people all over the world for free. All the while, staying anonymous online.

Best ones include Chat42 and TALK.chat
No personal information required
Chat with people from all over the world
Use a VPN for greater anonymity
Tip: See this list of teen chat rooms if you want to limit the room to people within that age group.

This is about as anonymous as you can get. This chat room site is super simple: just cycle through random people and start chatting with any of them. No username, email, gender, or anything else is required.
See my Meet Skip review for more information.

Often with a few hundred people online, this anonymous chat room just needs your age and a few other details; you don’t actually register for a user account, so no email is necessary. Moments later, you can chat with any of the users. Filtering lets you find only the males or females.

Type a username and hit Start chat to be matched with someone else online. It’s built for one-on-one anonymous chats and supports images. There’s an app for Android.

Type any username or make an account, and join one of several anonymous chat rooms like Game Room, Adult Room, Dating Room, and others. Android users can use the app, too.

Anonymous chat rooms for 18+, several rooms to pick from (and you can create your own), requires only a gender and random username. A mobile app is available, too.
See my TALK.chat review for more information.

This anonymous chat site is for two-person text chatting. No images or videos are allowed. Neither a username nor a gender is necessary.

Colorful anonymous chat rooms for sharing formatted text; you can join one of a dozen rooms; only requires a random username.

Lots of anonymous chat rooms where all you have to enter is a username. Get into college room, one for adults only, singles, dating, general, teens, kids, girls, video, music, boys, and lots more.

No username or gender required; just start typing in this anonymous chat room. You can also see how many people are online at any given time. Text only; no images, videos, or other files.

Enter a username to get started using this anonymous chat room site. There are several rooms here for teens, “happy chat,” sex, LGBTQ+, depression, 21+, and other topics.
Note: This site is offline for now. Try Chatblink.com instead.

Jump from person to person until you land on someone you want to chat with. No identifiable information is necessary since this is an anonymous chat room website; just click the link and start chatting. You can send voice notes and pictures.

Get a list of all the online users (there are normally thousands) and send private messages to any of them. Specify a username, gender, and location to get into this anonymous chat room. It lets you search for users by username, gender, and country. Create your own or jump into others for singles, dating, religion, college, and more.

Pick a nickname, age, gender, and country to get into this anonymous chat room. There’s only one room to pick from but there are often several hundred people here, identifiable by age and gender. You can send pictures and text chats. This one is available as an Android app, too.