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Anyone he met earlier strange And friends from all over the world, it was inevitable Pen pals Put. But thanks to the Internet and the invention of the smartphone, doing so is easier these days.
Chat room applications allow us to exchange ideas Like minded people On a wide range of topics and in different languages.
We offer you this Applications before:
- Disagreement: iOS and Android
- In conjunction with: iOS and Android
- Club: iOS and Android
- Amino: iOS and Android
- Zillow: iOS and Android
Sedition
One of the most popular and largest chat room apps today is Discord. The application, which was released in 2015, quickly spread in the gaming sector and took its place in the first place IRC. Over the years, Discord has not only grown beyond the gaming scene, but the features it offers have also been constantly expanded. With Discord, most communication takes place on servers hosted by Discord itself.
On the one hand, we can have our own here Create a server or join a server. If the server is public, we only need to follow the server URL. Private servers require an invitation to join. Text and voice channels can then be created within the server as needed, allowing conversations to be separated according to different topics.
To enrich texts, Discord natively supports emoticons (similar to emojis), which users can upload to servers. Links from YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), and news sites are also sent directly through Preview They are presented and some of them can be played directly in the application. Spotify integration also lets you share and listen to music together.
In addition to communicating directly on servers, we can also communicate privately Direct message Individually or in smaller groups. All we need to know is the username of our conversation partner.
Disagreement is free to internal control Department And Android available.
In conjunction with
If you're learning a new language and want to use it, you're in good hands with Tandem. The chat room application focuses on the exchange between Native speakers and foreign speakers Specialized and enables both sides to find each other. To start using Tandem, all we have to do is select the languages we want to learn. We can then, within the Tandem community, search for users in our desired native language and start exchanging with them.
Tandem basically acts like a messaging app. Once you find a conversation partner, the chat continues like WhatsApp, Signal, and Co. We exchange messages with our counterparts in the relevant language. In addition to the text, here too Voice messages And Telephone calls maybe. In order to provide learning effect, Tandem also allows content correction. Our counterpart could, for example, make false statements Improving sentences And Post a commentwhich will be marked as such in the conversation.
According to Tandem, more than 300 languages are supported. The filtering option is also practical, as we are not just looking for it Language level You can choose, but it can also limit the area of our conversation partners. Although Tandem is basically free, additional tools like debugging require a premium subscription. This costs €12.99 per month.
Combined is free for internal control Department And Android available. A subscription is required to fully use the app.
The club
Launched in 2020 with a lot of hype, Clubhouse has now developed into an established app. Unlike many other chat room apps, the focus here is on talking. After registering for free on Clubhouse, we can create our own chat rooms, but at the same time we can also use the search Communities Find specific topics.
Once we join, we can then exchange ideas about it with like-minded people. While Clubhouse was basically working at first Live entertainment events Or discussions started, now too Asynchronous conversations maybe. We can do this within a group Voice messages Share with each other without being in a live chat at the same time.
Although Clubhouse Audio only concept Continuing to this day, the app now also allows for transcription of voice messages. In addition to chatting in groups and higher-level “houses”, direct exchange with users is also possible.
The club is free to internal control Department And Android available.
Amino
Amino can be confidently described as colorful Discord. The app, which was first published in 2012, was initially intended to provide a meeting place primarily for anime, K-pop, and photography fans, but today it is no longer limited to these topics. What servers are on Discord is pretty simple on Amino Communities Named. Users with common interests can meet here. Communities are usually linked by one topic. For example, Harry Potter fans cluster in the Harry Potter Community, and motorcycle fans gather in the Motorcycle Community.
Within these communities there are various opportunities for exchange. Similar to Reddit, you can Create postsWhich can be commented on by others. In our chat rooms, loose exchange takes place as in a messaging group. We can also communicate directly with others and follow them. Amino lets you share text, photos, videos, and media content as well as polls and quizzes.
If you want to create your own community, you must do so via Amino Community Manager program (internal control Department | Android) Make. Although Amino is basically free, you can get it Amino Plus users Stickers, profile adjustments, and benefits like higher upload resolution. It costs from 2.99 euros per month.
Free amino for internal control Department And Android available. A subscription is required to fully use the app.
Zillow
The Zello app also offers some interesting chat room features. In self-proclaimed Walkie talkie application The focus is on audio content, but we won't limit ourselves to that here. Zello is based on organizing groups that can be shared privately and publicly.
If we register with Zello, we can create our own group directly or through search Public groups Find. Groups often deal with common topics, but at the same time Zello is also often used to communicate with people from the same place or area. Within groups you can then cross Click to talk A voice message can be sent.
In order not to restrict users too much, you can also Text messages Beside Media content To be a subscriber. Groups can consist of up to 6,000 users, although smaller local groups are prevalent in Zello.
Zello is available for free for iOS and Android.
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