Monkey App girls
If what you are after is a conversation with a woman rather than whatever the next spin lands on — this is how that works here.
One conversation, not a queue
Most video chat is a lottery: you press next, a screen appears, and one of you leaves within seconds. Monkey App is built the other way round. You look through who is available to talk, choose someone, and have a single video call with that person — no room full of people, no audience, nobody else competing for her attention.
That difference is the whole point. You are not rolling the dice hoping to land on someone who wants to talk to you; you are calling someone who is there to talk.
Who is available
Availability changes constantly — who is around right now is not who was around an hour ago, and there is no waiting list to join. You see who is there, and you start a call. Everyone taking part is at least 18 years old.
Nothing on this page or the one before it turns on your camera. It stays off until you start a call and your browser asks you separately.
What a call costs
Calls are paid, and being straight about that up front saves everyone's time.
- Each person sets her own price. There is no single rate across the service — the price is shown before you connect.
- Coins are bought in advance, from inside your own account.
- A new account gets a trial allowance. How much is decided automatically, which is why you will not find "X free minutes" promised anywhere on this site.
- A notice appears before billing starts on a call, so it never begins quietly.
Nobody should ever ask you for payment details inside a call. If it happens, it is not how this works — end the call and report it.
What actually happens when you call
It is worth walking through, because the unfamiliar part is not the technology — it is not knowing what the other side looks like.
- You browse. Who is available now, not a directory of everyone who ever signed up.
- You pick one person and start the call. There is no queue and no matching algorithm deciding for you.
- Your browser asks for the camera and microphone. Separately, and you can say no and still be on the page.
- The price is on screen before you connect, and a notice appears before billing starts.
- You talk. One person, one conversation, for as long as you both want it.
- Either of you can end it at any point, without a reason.
The whole flow runs in the browser. Nothing installs, nothing sits on your home screen unless you put it there yourself, and nothing about it appears on any public profile.
Where this is different from swiping
Dating apps ask you to earn a conversation: match, wait, message, wait, hope it turns into a call in three weeks. Random video chat gives you a conversation immediately but with nobody in particular — you are a slot machine handle to the person on the other side, and she is one to you.
This sits between the two, deliberately. You get the immediacy of video without the roulette: you choose who, she is there to talk, and the conversation starts at the beginning instead of three weeks in.
That trade has a price attached, and being straight about it is the point of the section above. Free random chat is free because your attention is the product and the next stranger is always one tap away.
Getting a conversation past the first minute
The opening is where most calls are lost, and it is not about having a good line. Say hello like a person, use her name, and ask something she can actually answer — where she is, what her day has been, what is behind her in the room. Anything that can be answered with one word will be.
Then listen to the answer. The single biggest difference between a call that ends in thirty seconds and one that runs is whether the second question follows from the first answer or from a script.
What is expected
The short version: no pressure, no explicit content, no recording the other person, and take the first no as the answer. Anyone can hang up, block or report at any point, and blocking is permanent. Reports are read by people, and accounts that break the rules are removed for good.
The full list is in the community guidelines, and how the controls work is in the safety centre.
Questions people ask before the first one
Do I need to look a certain way?
No — but you do need to be visible. One light in front of you, phone at eye level, plain wall behind. A dark silhouette ends more calls than any face ever has.
Will she know who I am?
She sees what you show her and what you choose to say. There is no public profile of you being browsed, and a conversation here is not posted anywhere afterwards.
Can I talk to the same person again?
Availability changes constantly, so nobody can promise a particular person will be around at a particular hour. That is a real limitation of a live service rather than a policy.
What if it gets uncomfortable?
Hang up. Block — it is permanent. Report if it was more than awkward. You never owe anyone an explanation, and none of the three counts against you.
Is anything recorded?
Calls are not recorded by this service, and recording someone else's call is against the rules here. Messages are not read as a matter of routine — only a part that has been reported.
Before your first call
- Open the site in Safari or Chrome — another app's built-in browser usually blocks the camera.
- Look at what is behind you, not just at yourself.
- Run the camera check on the homepage if you want to see yourself first. It looks only at your own device and records nothing.
- Have coins in the account before you start, so the first good conversation does not stop mid-sentence.