# Wakie Chat: Talk to strangers

> Meet in voice & video chats

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id879488038](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id879488038)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id879488038`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Wakie Inc.
- **Category:** Lifestyle
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (18,613 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.41.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-14
- **First published:** 2014-12-09
- **Size:** 193 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wakie-chat-talk-to-strangers/id879488038)
- **Website:** [https://wakie.com](https://wakie.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/7935935](https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/7935935)

## Description

**Wakie Chat** helps you connect with real people through one-to-one and group voice chats, video conversations, and messaging. Explore topics and user profiles, choose who you want to talk with, share your feelings, make friends, reduce boredom, or practice a foreign language with people around the world.

Wakie offers community-focused safety tools, including reporting, moderation, blocking, mutual consent for one-to-one conversations, and automated detection of potentially harmful content. The app is free to download and use, with optional Wakie Plus features available through an automatically renewing subscription.

## Rankings

- #12,532 — Overall
- #2 — wiki
- #23 — week
- #25 — room
- #69 — chat
- #77 — live

## Review summary

User sentiment is mixed: many praise Wakie for easy onboarding and global reach, but safety and moderation issues dominate complaints. Repeated themes include underage and explicit content, catfishing and scams, and reports that go unanswered. Users report unfair or random bans, including age-related bans, and perceived favoritism by moderators. Fake profiles and scammers are common, eroding trust. Some also miss certain features like topic calls. Overall, while the app works well for connection at times, the risks and inconsistent enforcement significantly hinder a satisfying experience.

### Pros

- Easy to meet people from around the world; strong social reach.
- Fast, efficient, and easy-to-use interface.
- Fun and engaging; many users feel they can make new friends here.
- Overall positive sentiment when it works well and there is a broad user base.

### Cons

- Significant safety concerns: underage users, exposure to sexual content, and catfishing/scams.
- Ineffective moderation and unhelpful support; reports often ignored and abusive users not acted on.
- Unfair or unpredictable bans (including age-change bans) with little chance of reversal.
- Prevalence of fake profiles and scammers; many users report not meeting real people.
- Removal of the 'topic calls' feature and related functionality; requests to restore it remain unaddressed.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id879488038)