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Chatiw has a rating of 1.2 stars from 74 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Chatiw ranks 251st among Chat sites.

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Top Positive Review

“VERY GOOD”

James T.
8/7/22

This site is very casual, Only problem very hard to stop scammers fakes an underage, also guys trying to be woman to scam you out of your hard earned money, so beware don't get sucked in for the sob story's. ( my mother in hospital aan iv no money for food an electric, o Or il come an visit you if you send money for journey, or loads hookers want 300£ to spend the night with you, Oh I'm at airport an cant get through customs till I pay my fine, £600,) THESE ARE ALL FAKES SCAMMERS

Top Critical Review

“Garbage site.”

Danielle H.
11/2/24

Where to start. Both on computer and on laptop, repeatedly get a you have been banned message - after it lets me log on, listing reasons which looks standard. None of these alleged activities I have done. The phone app now redirects you literally every 30 seconds to some obviously fake claim prize rubbish, and makes it all but impossible to chat. Chat history does NOT work - it retains zero information about who you have spoken to while logged on making it impossible to do more than one chat at once. Names and messages, from older men in particular, are offering clearly dubious and borderline illegal activities yet NOTHING is done to prevent these. I suspect the site is not maintained at all by any humans, and that recently some AI has been installed and is blocking random stuff. This site is better off closed and deleted. Zero stars if I could select.

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GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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November 2nd, 2024

Where to start. Both on computer and on laptop, repeatedly get a you have been banned message - after it lets me log on, listing reasons which looks standard. None of these alleged activities I have done.
The phone app now redirects you literally every 30 seconds to some obviously fake claim prize rubbish, and makes it all but impossible to chat.
Chat history does NOT work - it retains zero information about who you have spoken to while logged on making it impossible to do more than one chat at once.
Names and messages, from older men in particular, are offering clearly dubious and borderline illegal activities yet NOTHING is done to prevent these.
I suspect the site is not maintained at all by any humans, and that recently some AI has been installed and is blocking random stuff.
This site is better off closed and deleted.
Zero stars if I could select.

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Missouri
1 review
6 helpful votes
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October 22nd, 2022

Don't waste your time... terrible site, if you do happen to find someone real... they will cut you off... i'm sure the people running site are young Indian boys... most likely stroking $#*!... stay away from here...-, - one star... really bad

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GB
1 review
31 helpful votes
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March 31st, 2020

I'v done nothing wrong on the site. I've been polite and not abusive or rude. But it's banned me for the third time this week for 48 hours. I think it's something to do with sending messages too quickly as a caution against scammers. But that's a bit rich as the site hosts scammers posing as women. I had 27 messages from them in 15 minutes one evening. Also, click on 'chat history' and it will lock out for over a minute. Many people can't load images as it asks for points. More fool them if they pay. Also, beware of the awful, clunky beta version.

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New York
1 review
40 helpful votes
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May 23rd, 2019

The monitors are completely out of control. Anyone who wants to have a decent chat and blocks the sponsored paid sex ads becomes automatically targeted and banned. The police should shut this site down. They allow the dating site Ashley Madison--a site that encourages married people to cheat on their spouses--to advertise on their site. This really says it all. Inane supervision, banning of legitimate people. However 14 year olds are allowed free access.

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GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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April 19th, 2021

I enjoy using this site BUT... (1) It sets my location as India even though I'm actually in the UK, and there's no way to change it. (2) Trying to notify Chatiw of this has been fruitless -- they can't even be bothered to acknowledge my email. As customer service goes, it's disgusting.

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New York
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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July 6th, 2021

Once again while I was enjoying some clean conversations, the monitor broke into my chat and cut me off from those I was talking to. Mind you, there are planet ads from children stating they are under age, and there are many who advertise various sex sites, however I know the monitors do nothing to block them because the same user names appear time after time. Amongst all the trash there are a few diamonds, however the monitors are destroying this site.

Tip for consumers:
Use a different site. Chatiw is a waste of your time.

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North Carolina
1 review
4 helpful votes
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May 20th, 2022

Chatiw isn't a bad app my main problem with it is that it randomly ip bans me for no reason. I mainly use the site to make friends (and I've made a lot) but it always wants to ip ban me for apparently (looking at to many profiles) I think they need to just fix they're moderation system

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GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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June 15th, 2023

So manly men staying they are paedophiles and others with inappropriate names being allowed to remain active
Men speak to women in a disgusting manner but you can't do anything a they just create a new profile for the abuse to continue

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GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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November 9th, 2021

This site is completely unusable, with constant time outs, non-functional chat history and unreliable blocking. On top of that, you can be barred from having a 'rude' chat name, but this doesn't stop some utter filth being used by some people. I wouldn't recommend this site to anyone.

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GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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January 12th, 2020

Dear Sr/Madam

I made an statement last week 05/01/20 that someone has used my numberregistered under the name called of a girl. Therefore, I'm receiving non-stop phone call and text messages from whatsApp. Could you please do the necessary to stop this. I've also reported to the cyber crime police and they'll get in touch with you soon. Please also provide me a number to speak to you.

Thanks

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GB
1 review
13 helpful votes
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June 5th, 2021

I think they're using a vintage second hand Amstrad for their server. It freezes every thirty seconds for minutes at a time. It's impossible to have a flowing chat. You'll spend most of your time browsing YouTube to keep you amused whilst you wait for it to unfreeze. It's awful. They also ban you for no apparent reason.

Tip for consumers:
Beware of sending them money for a subscription, you'll regret it.

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Thumbnail of user catek19
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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September 14th, 2022

Without a doubt the most frustrating, aggravating and broken app on the web. How can anyone carry on a conversation with a junky app that constantly needs refreshed and ends up booting you off?
Your garbage should be banned forever IMHO!

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GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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February 8th, 2023

Freechatiw us and uk has 90% scammers working the same or similar scam. Many pretend to be females search for men to meet. Then when the haul u in they ask for money such as to cover gas for car journeys or steam card to keep their child happy while they entertain u. Scam is they always want these up front prior to meeting u. Basically to extort u from your hard earn cash with no real reason to meet u. Most these scammers come from Nigeria and US. Beware dont fool for anyone who's asks u for any kind of payment up front

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Rhode Island
1 review
7 helpful votes
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October 6th, 2021

There is absolutely no way to continue a conversation after a few PMs. Without fail it stops working and then crashes totally resetting everything. There is also no shortage of fake accounts to help waste your time and seize up the site. The dev's should be ashamed allowing this gatbage

Thumbnail of user dorothyp62
GB
1 review
17 helpful votes
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November 30th, 2018

The site is well designed and easily acccessble. But it has two versions: the standard and the beta. It's pot luck which will load. The beta version is slow, clunky, doesn't load image files very well and the contacts list overflows such that names overlap. The standard one is fine until you click 'chat history'. Then it locks out for a minute. When you log on, you will be inundated by female profiles selling you porn sites. But the main problem is that the site will block you for for 48 hours for no apparent reason. It is probably because you have tried to contact too many profiles in too short a time. Avoid it.

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GB
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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June 24th, 2023

How this site has the nerve to class itself as a chat site I'll never know! A) it takes forever to load, or doesn't load at all B) it's impossible to have a chat conversation here because it's so slow, and messages you send just disappear from the screen.
All in all a car crash of a site, don't bother!

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GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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November 6th, 2022

This British women is an anti-vaxxer who promotes conspiracy theories on her cringe inducing Twitter account called Tess Summers 98. She has some kind of dubious agreement with the criminal gangs who own this chat site and she creates numerous aliases both male and female to satisfy her depraved sexual appetites and also to exchange illegal beaches of personal information about unsuspecting members of the public she has taken a dislike toward, with thuggish ex military types, drug dealers from Manchester and corrupt local landlords and lettings agencies. She is utterly corrupt yet still ironically she calls great philanthropists such as Bill Gates corrupt.

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Thumbnail of user gregm764
New York
1 review
6 helpful votes
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April 29th, 2021

The site stands as a great way to meet people with whom you would otherwise never interact. The biggest problem are the moderators. Instead of allowing a user free unimpeded access to every person on the site, if one sends out multiple messages the monitors will inform you that you are spamming the users... the implication being that if you continue you will be permanently banned from the site. Thus there is an "us vs. them" Gestapo attitude which pervades the site.

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GB
1 review
19 helpful votes
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June 12th, 2020

If your after a quick jolly and are attached/unattached this is definitely a great site.
If you want a clean conversation and have a moral compass then I'd avoid like the plague.
For people wanting to make friends have an intelligent meaningful connection you'll find it demoralising.
In my opinion chatwi is pretty vile and if your not like minded get abused for not wanting to "play".

Thumbnail of user hollyi47
France
1 review
11 helpful votes
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June 28th, 2022

Absolutely worst type of man possible on this site. 95% are married. 95% are looking for lewd chat. 99.9% are very unattractive physically, semi illiterate, unintelligent and very, very dull to interact with.

Thumbnail of user victorian021100
Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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October 8th, 2023

The men on here are majority creeps. You are not likely to find a decent conversation with a decent person. Even the men who aren't creeps and claim to be different, if you go under a different name and message them pretending to be underage or whatever else, they are just the same as the rest. Site is full of pedos, cheaters, and overall morally bankrupt men. Use at your own discretion when you're bored but I would never date anyone off of here without some serious vetting.

Thumbnail of user kates668
California
1 review
24 helpful votes
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June 7th, 2023

This site is nothing but pedophiles and scammers of all sorts…And, the worst offenders are the moderators. Tons of out in the open pedophile names, people who have "Under age" in their screen name… phone card scams, streaming scams…The moderators will even use your information to hack into your own personal account.

There is no "chat" going on at this site… FBI, shut this place down.

Thumbnail of user davidb635
Arkansas
28 reviews
140 helpful votes
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March 19th, 2017

Found this site on Google, messed around on it a while. Most of the people there wouldn't even respond to a simple "hi," and of those that did, didn't even talk much. Actually had a girl on there ask me for Skype sex.

Thumbnail of user jamest2680
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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August 7th, 2022

This site is very casual,
Only problem very hard to stop scammers fakes an underage, also guys trying to be woman to scam you out of your hard earned money, so beware don't get sucked in for the sob story's. ( my mother in hospital aan iv no money for food an electric, o
Or il come an visit you if you send money for journey, or loads hookers want 300£ to spend the night with you,
Oh I'm at airport an cant get through customs till I pay my fine, £600,)
THESE ARE ALL FAKES SCAMMERS

Thumbnail of user officialv2
Nigeria
1 review
1 helpful vote
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June 17th, 2022

Please one more chance please I you please just allow me use this app for one last time promise to use good name

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