CryptoCat is a free to use web app that offers users an encrypted chat interface. The site is quite easy to use: the chat host creates a room by naming it. He is then taking to the room’s URL and picks a nickname for himself. Next he shares the room’s URL with friends who then join the room by choosing nicknames for themselves.

Your messages are encrypted inside your own browser using AES-256 and 4096-bit asymmetric keys. After one hour of inactivity, conversations are automatically wiped by the site.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service
• Offers secure chatting interface
• Encrypts your chats
• Deletes messages after 1 hour of inactivity
• Similar sites: OneTimeSecret, Encipher.It, File-Encryptor and Encodor.
• Also read related article: Five Online Encryption Tools to Protect Your Privacy.

Check out CryptoCat @ www.crypto.cat (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Connected2Me is a free to use web service that lets others anonymously chat with you. You start by registering for an account by selecting a username and password for yourself. You are automatically logged in and given a URL to share with others. Visitors to this URL can start sending you messages to which you can reply. Each conversation appears in a new tab in your dashboard and each recipient’s name is coded thus keeping identities anonymous. The entire process is very fast and extremely user-friendly.

Features:

• A user-friendly web app.
• Lets you create chat rooms.
• Lets you chat anonymously.
• Sorts different chats into different tabs.

Check out Connected2Me @ http://connected2.me (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

SimpleMeet is a free to use web service that lets you instantly create chatrooms for 2 or more participants. The unique thing about SimpleMeet is its user-friendliness. Unlike other sites that require you to register for an account, SimpleMeet assigns a number to all of its site visitors. You can then share this number with friends who can then use it on the site to join your chatroom.

Visitors to the chatroom can choose their own nicknames for interacting with one another. Along with textual chats, the rooms of SimpleMeet also support attaching files to be read by other chatroom participants.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you instantly create chatrooms.
• Supports 2 or more chatroom participants.
• Supports text chat and file attachments.
• Similar tools: PrivyTalks and NeatChat,

Check out SimpleMeet @ www.simplemeet.me (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Once you create a secure chatroom, send that link to your partner and start talking. Both you and your partner are provided with a unique fingerprint that can be used to ensure privacy. You can clear messages or disconnect when you are done. The tool has an option to notify you with a sound when a new message arrives.

Features:

• Create an encrypted chat room online within a few seconds.
• No middle man and no sniffing makes your communication secure.
• Session automatically disconnects if idle for a few minutes.
• No registration required.

Visit PrivyTalks @ https://privytalks.com

To activate Envo.lv chat on a website, first you need to save their bookmarklet from their homepage. Then, go to the website where you want to chat and click on the Envo.lv bookmark. Alternatively, you may also paste the URL of the website in the Envo.lv homepage to activate the chat.

After that you will be able to see a familiar chat menu in the lower right section of the website where the names of people who are online on the site are displayed. From there you can create your own chatroom or join other previously existing chatrooms on the site.

Envo.lv is a very handy online platform for discussion with your friends and other people, as it takes the very familiar Facebook chat form to any other websites that you can think of.

Features:

• Chat with your friends or other people on any website.
• Easy to use Facebook chat-styled interface.
• Log in to chat using your Facebook, Twitter, or Envolve account.
• Invite friends to chat via Facebook, Twitter, or by giving them a direct link.
• Create public or private chatrooms.
• Site owners can also integrate Envo.lv chat to their website.
• Similar Tools: Talkinator, Chatroullete, and 99Chats.

Check out Envo.lv @ www.envo.lv

The good thing about PlusRoulette is that since everybody needs to sign in with their Google Plus account that displays your actual name, a lot of issues that ChatRoulette faces won’t be present here. It is also a great tool if you want to use a hangout with a large group of people that are not added to your Google Plus network since you can just email them the URL of your PlusRoulette session.

Features:

• Create a random video chat session or join existing ones.
• Use Google Plus’ HangOut feature as the base technology.
• Displays existing public Hangouts that you can join.
• No registration required.

Visit PlusRoulette @ http://www.plusroulette.com/hangouts [Via TechCrunch]

To create a Chattp chat window, all you need to do is go to the app’s homepage and enter the URL where you want your chat window to appear. Upon clicking “Chattify”, you will be redirected to the URL you have specified with a chat window as a sidebar on the left side of the page. Now all you have to do is share the link to your friends in order to get the discussion rolling.

Each Chattp link is unique so you don’t have to worry about other strangers joining your chat window.  Chattp is a simple and no-frills ad-hoc chat client which is very useful for discussing a website or any particular content of a website to your buddies.

Features:

• Create an ad-hoc, realtime chat window that is augmented with a particular webpage.
• Each Chattp links are unique so that multiple chats can take place in a single URL.
• Change your chat nickname.
• Free to use, no installation required.
• Similar Tools: TinyChat, OnlyChat, and Head-To-Head.

Check out Chattp @ www.chattp.com

HelpOnClick is a web service that lets you add a live chat to your website through an embeddable HTML code. You can customize the chat interface to a great degree. For instance you can decide whether to pop up the chat dialog immediately after somebody visits your website or after a few seconds have passed by. New chat notifications to you are delivered through a desktop client.

In addition to providing you with a way to talk to your site visitors online, HelpOnClick lets you save chat conversations in your online account. The messages sent to you at the time you were offline are emailed to you for later reading. IP blacklisting and seeing the visitor’s characters as he types them are also supported.

You can set up different operators for a single HelpOnClick account – this helps you to divide the customer assistance between yourself and other site owners and administrators.

There is also a real time traffic monitoring which allows you to see exactly who’s on your website, on which pages, which keywords were used to get to your website and more.

HelpOnClick offers an absolutely free 14 day trial; after the trial period people who want to continue using HelpOnClick need to opt for the site’s paid services.

HelpOnClick has offered 10 free basic accounts for 3 months each to MakeUseOf readers. To take advantage of these licenses please leave comment on this post (using your email address).

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you add a live chat interface to your website.
• Lets you customize the chat interface.
• Notifies you of new messages through desktop notifications.
• Real time traffic monitoring.
• Lets you setup multiple operators.
• Emails chat messages sent when you were offline.

Check out HelpOnClick @ www.helponclick.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

For every block thats is taken off, you accumulate points (0,5 points/block). The more points you get, the higher you rank among the users of the game. To try it out simply log in with your Facebook account.

Features:

• Meet new people by video chatting with strangers.
• Discover people behind blocks by trying to keep the conversation going.
• Users’ pictures are taken from their Facebook profile.
• Sign in with your Facebook account to start playing.
• Display or hide your Facebook gender/age.
• Similar tools: Lissn, RandomDorm, iChatr, OnlyChat and Head-To-Head.
• Also read related article: 3+ Sites To Chat With A Random Stranger.

Check out Wozz.me @ www.wozz.me

FaceFlow is a web service that lets you video chat with up to four people for free. A full screen mode lets you expand the friend’s feed to the entire screen. Audio and text chatting are also supported. In addition to letting you video chat with other FaceFlow users, the site lets you broadcast a live feed from your webcam and obtain its public URL. You can also randomly video chat with somebody from the FaceFlow network.

The site also provides number of free single player and multiplayer flash games. You can play against strangers you meet or simply against your friends.

Demo video:

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you video chat with up to four people.
• Lets you randomly chat with other people from the FaceFlow network.
• Lets you broadcast a live feed from your webcam.
• Lets you  video chat for free with up to 4 people.
• Supports single player and multiplayer flash games.

Check out FaceFlow @ www.faceflow.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)