Social Chat: Make New Friends

★ 3.8
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Jun 19, 2026
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Oct 6, 2026

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Marketing versus reality estimates how well promised features are supported; stability estimates complaints about crashes and speed. Project activity is calculated from update recency, review activity and store availability. Percentages are not guarantees or success probabilities; missing data does not mean a zero score.

What it actually doesSoChat is an app for finding conversation partners and new acquaintances worldwide through a likes-based system and random matching, but in practice suffers from multiple critical issues: overwhelming 18+ content, non-functional gender filter, frequent crashes, broken description filter, and synchronization problems.

35%Marketing ≈ reality15%Stability98%Live project

Actually does

  • ✓Anonymous chat90% of reviews
  • ✓Dating80% of reviews
  • ✓Social network40% of reviews
  • ✓Профили пользователей с описанием50% of reviews

Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews

  • ⚠Language learning

Common complaints

  • ✗Lack of child protection, pedophiles in the app15% of mentions

    «Complete cesspool full of perverts targeting minors!»

  • ✗Overflowing with crude and sexual content, obscene advances from users40% of mentions

    «I downloaded this app to chat with people, but it's just perverts asking me to do explicit things»

  • ✗Frequent crashes, freezing, loading errors and glitches25% of mentions

    «I open the app, select gender and then it glitches, everything freezes and doesn't let me proceed»

  • ✗Non-functional gender filter — receiving messages from gay users despite selecting that preference20% of mentions

    «No way to unlock full features even for 3 days. Guys keep messaging me, because I can't change the search to women»

  • ✗Excessive and incorrect filtering of profile descriptions — the system rejects safe text as 'explicit content'20% of mentions

    «The description censor seems broken, it doesn't let anything through, even safe texts»

What people praise

  • ★Simple and intuitive interface, quick to start

    «Yeah, the app is pretty solid»

  • ★Like and mutual interest system for finding compatible people

    «Probably the best chat connection app for similar people»

  • ★Ability to communicate with people from all over the world

    «people tried»

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