HeyHeyChat is a free group chat at an address you choose. Share the link, and everyone who opens it is talking with you in their browser. Nobody signs up, nobody installs anything.
No idea for a name? Leave it blank and we will make one up.
Small conversations that do not need a permanent group.
Everything a small chat needs, and nothing to set up first.
How a room behaves, in plain numbers.
| Account | None. No e-mail, phone number or password. |
|---|---|
| Nickname | Up to 8 characters, chosen when you enter |
| Room name | Letters, numbers, - and _, up to 24 characters |
| Messages kept | The latest 50 |
| Room resets | After 24 hours with nobody in it |
| Vanishing messages | Optional: after 1 minute, 1 hour or 24 hours |
| Encryption | HTTPS in transit, not end-to-end |
| Price | Free |
Not a good fit for anything confidential, or anything you need to keep: there is no archive and no export.
A free group chat that lives behind a link. You give a room a name, send heyheychat.com/that-name to the people you want to talk to, and everyone who opens it is in the same conversation. Nobody signs up and nobody installs anything.
No to both. There is no registration, no e-mail address, no password and no phone number anywhere. When you enter a room you choose a nickname of up to eight characters, and that is all you give.
Send them the room's address in whatever you already use: a text, an e-mail, a comment, a slide. You can also show the QR code from inside the room. Opening the link is the only step; there is no request to approve.
Not by browsing. Rooms are not listed or searchable on the site and room pages are kept out of search engines. The flip side: anyone who has the link can walk in. Treat the link like a key and choose a name that is hard to guess.
A room keeps its latest fifty messages. After a day in which nobody is in the room, it resets and the address is free again. The person who opened the room can also make messages vanish after a minute, an hour or a day.
Whoever opens a room first becomes its moderator and stays moderator after a reconnect. The moderator can set a topic, delete messages, remove people and ban them. Everybody can mute a single person for themselves with the ignore option.
It is private from people who do not have the link, not from the service itself. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted, and the operator can read rooms to handle abuse reports. For confidential business, use a tool built for that.
Yes. It is a web page, so it runs in the browser of a phone, tablet or computer. There is no app to download, which also means it works on a work laptop where you cannot install software.
Who makes this. HeyHeyChat is made in the Netherlands by Hertge VOF, the same small company behind klaklak.com and chatinbrowser.com. We do not sell data; a single line of text under the chat box helps pay for the servers.
Something not working, or something you miss? Write to info@hertge.com. A person reads it.
Rather walk into a room that is already busy? HeyHeyChat is for your own room with your own people. To drop into a conversation that is already going, try chatinbrowser.com, which has rooms that are always open.
On your own website? Put a room on any page with one line of code. Get the embed code.