PandaChat Features
Ten features, a few lines each, plus the few things PandaChat deliberately leaves out. Treat it as a map: every card points to the page that covers that part properly.
No sign-up · Runs in your browser · Free to start
You can be matched at random by video, voice or text, or pick someone from Who’s online. You can watch Live, follow people, message them and ring them back from their profile. All of it runs in a browser, needs no sign-up and is free to start.
The ten cards below are the whole product. If you’d like the plain-language version of what Panda Video Chat is first, start there; if you’d rather just try it, the PandaChat home page has the button.
Each card is a short summary with a pointer to the page that covers it properly, so nothing here is explained twice.
Three switches along the bottom of the match screen decide what the next random match will be: faces, voices only, or typing. People who are shy on camera often begin with text over breakfast and save video for later. The first few seconds of a call usually go to settling the phone and saying hi, whichever mode you chose.
The list of people around right now, for when you’d rather choose than leave it to chance. Sort it by popular, new, following or language, read a profile, then decide. From a profile you can call that person directly, which is how most people use the list.
A watching section, separate from calls, where one person is on camera for a room of viewers. It appears only when the site has it switched on; the step-by-step tour of how PandaChat works shows where to find it.
A tap on a profile adds that person to your Following list, so a good first call doesn’t have to be the last. Most follows happen a few minutes into a call that’s going well, as the guide on calling a stranger describes.
The video button on a profile rings that one person, not a random match. It’s the only call button there; voice-only calls come from the match screen. Calling someone on purpose is a little nerve-racking the first time, so a quick check of your light and background before you press it is worth the ten seconds.
Write from anyone’s profile and the thread lands in your message list. Handy across time zones: if they’re in Chicago and you’re eating breakfast in Madrid, send a line now and ring once their evening starts, once you’ve worked out the time difference.
You walk in without a form, an email or a phone number. Everything a guest can and can’t do, plus the browser side of a first call, is answered in the PandaChat FAQ.
No store listing, just the site pinned to your phone’s home screen with its own icon. The taps for each phone, and why no official APK exists, are on the PandaChat app page.
New users begin with free matches, rewards add a few more, and coins take over after that, for calls and for gifts in Live. Optional VIP sits alongside. The details live on is PandaChat free.
Both are on the other person’s profile, and hanging up needs no button beyond the one already on screen. What each option does, and what the other person can see of you, is under staying safe on a call.
Left out on purpose
It doesn’t run group rooms, it doesn’t match people by shared interests, and users can’t go live. There’s no swiping either, and no app in the App Store or Google Play; PandaChat lives in the browser. We’d rather say so up front.
Matching uses coins once your free matches are gone, a call that runs past its free part can use them too, and gifts in Live are paid for with coins. There’s an optional VIP membership as well. You buy coins in the wallet inside the app.
We don’t list prices on this page, because they’re set in the app and can change. The free matches come first, so you can try a few calls before buying anything.
Yes, they’re the same features, because it’s the same website. A phone gives you the front camera and the option to add PandaChat to your home screen; a laptop gives you a bigger picture and a proper keyboard for text matches. Pick whichever is nearer when you feel like talking.
On a tablet, use the browser just as you would on a phone. And if you came here wishing you could FaceTime people you don’t know, the random FaceTime page explains how the same face-to-face call works on Android and Windows. FaceTime itself is Apple’s calling app.
No. Each call involves just two people. Live rooms have many viewers, but only one person is on camera, and everyone else takes part through the chat.
Not on a random match; that’s left to chance. If you want to choose, open Who’s online and look through people by who’s popular, who’s new, who you follow or the language they speak.
Yes, in Live rooms. Gifts are paid for with coins from your wallet.
Yes. Live lets you watch one person on camera without being on video yourself, and the video feed has other tabs to scroll through as well.
Yes. Open the profile and write them a message. It’s a good way to see whether they’re free before you press the video button.
Yes, through the tablet’s browser, the same way as on a phone. Allow the camera and microphone when asked, and prop the tablet up so the other person isn’t looking at your ceiling.
