How it works

How a private Kissend chat works

You do not hand Kissend your phone number, and Kissend does not read your contacts. An account is an email, or Google, plus a username other people can search.

In the app

A private chat, with the locks.

  • A username instead of your phone number.
  • App lock, a hidden list, and a decoy PIN.
  • A vault for files, away from the gallery.
  • Friend chats and groups are free.
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On this page

Start an account

Register with your name, email, and a password, and confirm that you are 18 and that you accept the terms. An email code verifies the account. You can also sign in with Google. A guest on the website can claim an account and bring the open text chat and the token balance with them.

Your username can change once every 24 hours. The previous name is held until that window ends, so someone else cannot take it in the gap.

Talk, then lock it

Open a friend from search, or create a group. Send text, emoji, a GIF, a photo, a video, a voice note, or a file. A single tick means sent. A double tick means read. You can hide your last seen.

Turn on the app lock if the phone is shared. Move a sensitive chat behind the hidden PIN. Set messages to disappear, or mark one photo as view-once. Files you want to keep can go into the vault instead of the phone gallery.

Keep going

Related pages

Random chat

Meet someone new by text

These pages are for random text chat. Private chat by username stays in the app.

The app

Private chat, vault, and locks.

Friend chats and group messages are free. Locks, hidden chats, and the vault are for a phone that is not only yours. Optional random chat stays off until you turn it on.

Identity

  • Email or Google sign-in
  • Username, not a phone number
  • Change a username once a day
  • Devices you can sign out
  • Delete the account from Profile

Friends and groups

  • Search a username and request
  • Accepting a request is free
  • Friend messages are free
  • Groups with admins and mentions
  • Invite links that expire

Messages

  • Text, emoji, and GIF search
  • Photo, video, voice, and files
  • Reply, react, star, and pin
  • Edit for 15 minutes, then delete
  • Read ticks, search, and forward

Privacy on the phone

  • App lock when the tab hides
  • Safety PIN for hidden chats and the vault
  • A PIN on one chat, and blur
  • Mute, and quiet hours
  • Disappearing messages and view-once

Vault

  • Albums, stars, and trash
  • Photos, video, audio, and PDF
  • Share a file with a friend
  • Free space, then token packs
  • Send a vault file in chat

Optional random chat

  • Off until you turn it on
  • Text only on this website
  • Worldwide anyone is free
  • Gender and place are optional
  • Skip, leave, report, talk again

Tokens

  • Welcome tokens for a guest
  • A seven-day claim streak
  • A bonus when you claim an account
  • Packs by country, paid with Razorpay
  • Gift tokens to a friend

Safety

  • Block and report a chat
  • 18+ and the guidelines
  • Hide last seen
  • Password strength on sign-up
  • Analytics only if you allow it

Help

Questions, answered.

A few quick answers before your first chat. The app has its own screens after you claim an account.

Can I use Kissend in the browser and on my phone?

Yes. The website and the phone app share one account.

What stays on the website without an account?

A guest can start a text-only chat with a name and a gender. Photos and the vault wait until the account is claimed.

Kissend Maintenance

Maintenance

We’ll be back soon.

Kissend is taking a short break. Please try again soon.

Please check back in a little while.

Service update

A short pause. Then we’re back to chatting.

Thanks for bearing with us while we get things ready again.