Is there an App Store version to download?

No. This site runs in Safari, and adding it to your home screen is an iOS feature rather than an installation. There is no store listing and no IPA file — anything claiming to be one is not from us.

How do I add it to my iPhone home screen?

Open the site in Safari, tap the Share button (the square with an arrow), scroll to "Add to Home Screen", and confirm. The icon then opens the site full-screen, without the address bar.

Does it work in Chrome on iPhone?

Yes for the calls themselves — every browser on iOS is built on the same system engine. The "Add to Home Screen" step is the reliable one to do in Safari, so do that one step there even if you browse in Chrome.

Will it ring for incoming calls when my phone is locked?

No — this site has no incoming-call push, and it is worth being honest about that. iOS has allowed home-screen web apps to receive push notifications since 16.4, but that is a feature a site has to build, and this one has not. You start calls when you are on the site. Locking the screen or switching apps pauses the video.

Is it free on iPhone?

Free to start: browsing who is live costs nothing and new accounts begin with free calls. After those, calls run on coins you buy once — there is no subscription renewing in the background. The pricing page shows the real numbers.

Can I choose who I talk to?

You can narrow the live list by country, language and age before calling anyone. There is no gender filter — saying that plainly is better than implying one exists.

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A video chat app for iPhone that never touches the App Store

The search is always phrased the same way: an app, for the iPhone, from the store. But the store route is only one way to get an icon that opens a live video call — and on iOS it is not obviously the best one.

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Open the App Store and search for a video chat app and you get pages of near-identical results: a gradient icon, screenshots of smiling faces, and a description that promises the world. What none of them lead with is the actual deal — the account, the subscription auto-renewing next month, the permissions bundle you approved in half a second. On an iPhone there is a quieter alternative that most people never try: run the whole thing in Safari, and let iOS itself provide the app-like parts.

What Safari on an iPhone can actually do

On an iPhone, every browser is built on the same system engine, and that engine is capable. A web page can ask for your camera and microphone, and when it does, the prompt comes from the operating system — the same system dialog a native app would trigger, not a form the site drew itself. Granting it applies to that one site. Taking it back is two taps: the "aA" button in the address bar, then Website Settings, where camera and microphone each get their own Ask, Deny or Allow.

A page cannot browse your photo library or your contacts on its own — anything it sees is a file you picked yourself — and it cannot look at other apps or install anything. Whatever it stores lives inside Safari's container and goes away when you clear website data. For something you are trying out of curiosity — which describes most people's first week with any video chat service — that is a meaningfully safer starting position than a signed-in native app with notification rights.

The two-minute setup

Open the site in Safari. Tap the Share button — the square with the arrow pointing up — and scroll down to "Add to Home Screen". Confirm the name, and an icon lands on your home screen next to everything else. Tapping it opens the site full-screen, with no address bar and no tabs, in its own slot in the app switcher. At that point the day-to-day experience is an app: one tap from the home screen to the live list, one more to a call.

Removing it is the same gesture as removing any app: hold the icon, tap Remove. There is nothing left behind to uninstall, no account signed in on a device you forgot about, and no subscription to cancel because there is no subscription.

What iOS still keeps for native apps

It would be dishonest to call this a full replacement, and the gaps are worth knowing before they surprise you. The big one is reach: a native app with push notifications can wake your phone for an incoming call when the screen is locked. Technically, home-screen web apps can receive push too — iOS has allowed it since 16.4 — but a site has to build that, and this one has not. On this site you start calls — you open it, see who is live, and call them — so the limitation rarely matters in practice, but if what you want is a service that rings you, today that still means a store app.

The second gap is behaviour when you leave. Lock the screen or switch to another app mid-call and the video pauses; iOS does not let a browser page keep streaming in the background. Audio-only calls survive the switch better than video. And on long calls, Low Power Mode will throttle things it would not throttle in a native app, so a charger and a full battery are the unfashionable but real advice for an hour-long conversation.

Habits that make iPhone video calls better

Most call-quality complaints on a phone are environmental, and they cost nothing to fix. Face a window or a lamp rather than sitting with the light behind you — the front camera copes with almost anything except backlight. Prop the phone at eye level instead of holding it; a steady frame reads as more attentive than anything you say. Use Wi-Fi when you can, not because cellular fails but because a stable connection matters more than a fast one for live video. And if the phone gets warm on a long call, dropping to voice for a while cools it down and, on a metered plan, costs a fraction of the data.

The money question, answered on the iPhone specifically

Store apps in this category are mostly funded by subscriptions that renew quietly, and iOS makes them easy to start and mildly annoying to stop — Settings, your name, Subscriptions, find the right one. The web model here is simpler: browsing is free, new accounts start with free calls, and after that calls run on coins you buy once. Nothing renews on its own. The pricing page lists the ladder with real numbers, which is the page to read before spending anything anywhere in this category, not just here.

Where this site sits

This site is only a web address. There is no App Store listing and no file to sideload, which means the answer to "where do I download it" is that you do not, and the answer to "how do I remove it" is that you close the tab or remove the home-screen icon. You can browse who is live without an account, narrow the list by country, language or age, and start on video, voice or text. It is free to start, and the trade it makes — no incoming-call push in exchange for nothing installed — is one most people trying a video chat app for the first time come out ahead on.

Frequently asked questions

Is there an App Store version to download?: No. This site runs in Safari, and adding it to your home screen is an iOS feature rather than an installation. There is no store listing and no IPA file — anything claiming to be one is not from us.
How do I add it to my iPhone home screen?: Open the site in Safari, tap the Share button (the square with an arrow), scroll to "Add to Home Screen", and confirm. The icon then opens the site full-screen, without the address bar.
Does it work in Chrome on iPhone?: Yes for the calls themselves — every browser on iOS is built on the same system engine. The "Add to Home Screen" step is the reliable one to do in Safari, so do that one step there even if you browse in Chrome.
Will it ring for incoming calls when my phone is locked?: No — this site has no incoming-call push, and it is worth being honest about that. iOS has allowed home-screen web apps to receive push notifications since 16.4, but that is a feature a site has to build, and this one has not. You start calls when you are on the site. Locking the screen or switching apps pauses the video.
Is it free on iPhone?: Free to start: browsing who is live costs nothing and new accounts begin with free calls. After those, calls run on coins you buy once — there is no subscription renewing in the background. The pricing page shows the real numbers.
Can I choose who I talk to?: You can narrow the live list by country, language and age before calling anyone. There is no gender filter — saying that plainly is better than implying one exists.

No App Store detour. Open it in Safari.

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