Chat USA: meet Americans on live video.

USA chat on OmeLiveChat is a one-to-one live video call with someone who may be in the States, not a crowded chat room. Old-school versions meant scrolling a busy room and hoping someone noticed your message. Here you press start and meet one person on live video, so there's always someone actually talking to you, not a wall of text rushing past.

The reasons people look for it are plain ones: practising American English, making a friend in another time zone, finding someone awake at 2 a.m. There's no country filter, so the lever you do control is timing. When it's evening across the States, your chances of meeting someone there go up.

US online chat here needs nothing but a browser. Open the site on your phone or laptop, choose video, voice or text, and press start. Guests can go straight in without signing up. It's the same live video chat everyone else on the site uses, just timed to American hours.

A US chat won't always stay in English. Every message you receive has a translate button next to it, so a match who types in Spanish or Tagalog is still easy to answer. The ground rules are short: be respectful, follow the community guidelines, and report anyone who doesn't.

Every American chat online here is one to one: you and your match on a private call, with no group room listening in. Ask where in the States they are and take it from there.

Matching is random for everyone, so you can't filter to Americans only. What you can do is chat when the US is awake. Your next match might be in Chicago, Miami or Denver, or in a country you didn't expect, and the table below shows when the odds tilt toward the States.

The best time to chat? US evenings, from about 6 p.m. to midnight Eastern Time and 8 p.m. to midnight Pacific. The mainland US alone covers four time zones, and with Alaska and Hawaii there are six, so chats in USA evenings run from dinner on the East Coast to well past midnight in California. The table uses US daylight saving time, roughly March to early November, when Eastern Time is UTC-4 and Pacific Time is UTC-7.

Questions about their state, their team, the holidays and the weather get American matches talking faster than a bare "hi". In chats, American matches tend to open up when you ask about something specific to where they live. Some easy starting points:

English speakers from the UK, Canada, Australia and Ireland are part of the mix too, so UK chat and USA chat can happen in the same session. Put a Londoner and a Texan on the same call and "chips", "pants" and "football" can fill ten minutes on their own.

Want the full picture of how matching works? Read the random video chat page, or talk to strangers by voice or text if you're not in the mood for a camera.

USA online chat here is free to start. Every free chat USA users start follows the same rules as one started anywhere else: video and voice matches include free matches, and the Reward Center adds extra rewards several times a day while you're online. Coins only come from top-ups you choose, and how free time turns into paid time is laid out on the 1-on-1 video chat page. Calling from a phone in the States? An online video call runs in Safari or Chrome with nothing to install.