Chatville Review 2026: Video Chat Rooms and Roulette

Chatville is a video chat community that tries to be several sites at once: a Chatroulette-style random chat, a set of video chat rooms, and a place where you can see who is watching your webcam. It is free, works in the browser, and offers a gender filter without charging for it. This Chatville review covers how the pieces fit together, what to expect from moderation, and how it compares in 2026.

What Chatville is

Chatville is a browser-based service where random one-on-one chat and multi-user video rooms sit side by side. You can use it as a guest, or register for a free account that adds unlimited messages, private webcam chat and a reserved nickname. The site explicitly positions itself as an alternative to Chatroulette, Chatrandom and OmeTV, and it is smaller than all three. The site lists a long set of competitor alternatives on its own pages, which tells you how it sees its place in the market: a smaller, friendlier version of the big names.

How Chatville works

• Random chat. One-on-one video with a Next button.
• Video chat rooms. Multi-user rooms where several people broadcast and everyone chats by text.
• Gender filter. Free. Chatville makes a point of not charging for it.
• Guest or account. Guests can chat; accounts unlock extras.
• Text chat. Alongside video in both modes.

Safety and moderation

Chatville publishes rules, including a ban on false gender declarations, and runs moderation across rooms and random chat. The rooms give you witnesses, which helps; the random mode relies on reports. Because the gender filter is free and self-declared, expect some people to game it, which is exactly why the rule exists. The site is small, so queues can be thin at off-peak hours.

Chatville does not advertise IP protection on video connections, so treat them as direct.

Who Chatville suits

People who want a free gender filter, do not mind a small community, and like having rooms as well as roulette. It is a weaker fit if you want a large pool, translation, or a polished modern interface. It also works as a place to watch rooms without broadcasting, if you want to get a feel for random chat before turning your own camera on.

Chatville vs RandomChat

RandomChat is one-on-one only, and it handles the gender filter differently: signed-in users unlock it after five hours of chat time, which keeps it out of the hands of drive-by users without a paywall. Every connection is relayed so partners never see each other’s IP address, live translation covers more than 100 languages, and text runs alongside video. Private password-protected rooms cover the “same person again” case. Sign-in is optional and there is nothing to install. See our Chatroulette alternative page for the wider comparison. Chatville is at chatville.com.