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Paltalk has a rating of 1.9 stars from 61 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Paltalk most frequently mention chat rooms, death threats, and religious section problems. Paltalk ranks 219th among Mobile Applications sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Great app”

Tim A.
3/1/20

I will say like everything else, is how you handle your self. Great groups from all over the world, was able to meet a lot of people. The sound and video are unbeatable, best in the market. No place that you can open a group and gather 500 and up friends to chat, video and talk voice. I am not sure why all these negative reviews, when you can open your own group and handle it teh best way, and not join other groups, if you got issues with other users, this doesn't mean you can assume that everyone in there are bad. There will be always fake people, isn't everywhere? But at least on Paltalk you can view their cam and speak to them. I will give the thumbs up to all the people that working to make such an app.

Top Critical Review

“Blatant lie to extract your money”

Andrew W.
3/13/24

Blatant scam! I only use sites like Jst4HookUp Now where you are not required to pay anything upfront, there is less bs there. It takes a few cents to see a woman's live video but this is how you know for sure she is real. I don't query these profiles anymore after seeing them on video and talking to them on phone. Paltalk as fake as Kim Kardashian's $#*!. The only " service" they provide for the money you pay is showing you the gallery of fake photos of the women who in fact have nothing to do with Paltalk. At first they had showed me lots of matches in my area in the selected age range but then they were nowhere to be found after I paid to contact them.

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Thumbnail of user annaa14
Georgia
1 review
16 helpful votes
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June 26th, 2013

I was dating a guy in an LDR for 12 yrs, he sent me pics and we had them on my profile, as he wasn't to keen on getting pics on at the time. Well I caught him cheating in a hidden nic and found out he had been for over a year, lying to me as well. I dumped him, blocked him, but he was allowed to make as many new nics he could to send me mean messages. I kept the pics up and moved to a new nic, and his new girlfriend reported me. I got banned. I told them the pics were mine. It was her that reported me not him. I lost my account, that's fine. I reported him for stalking me and telling women to attack me, they did nothing.

Thumbnail of user daveg47
GB
1 review
16 helpful votes
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July 21st, 2015

I been on pal for over 6 months, got banned from help room because red admins couldn't deal with the problem, 2 of them which gang up on me. They even told me to uninstall after I had paid for a year. They have a lot of server issues and for the price, I suggest looking else where.
I am unable to find there official complaints procedure to complain about the red admins so I will have to write to the company in hopes they deal with this problem.
I will leave this review and hope it helps in choosing a chat client
Sometimes it's better to not know what you missing...

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Thumbnail of user georgeb167
West Virginia
1 review
17 helpful votes
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October 12th, 2016

There service sucks big time there security is horible letting pedifiles come on to the site and letting hackers screw up computers and there red admins are all useless in helping people they have no custom, er service number for you to contact them for real help

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not a good site its pure junk

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Thumbnail of user maryaml1
Canada
1 review
27 helpful votes
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November 25th, 2016

VolunteersMost users in paltalk are losers who have no job, no family, and no education. The interesting part is that this website is running by volunteers. Imagine a social media website is running by guys who have failed in their life. So
If you want to lose your wife, join paltalk,
If you want to lose your owner, join paltalk, but
If you are a loser, join paltalk ASAP.

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Australia
1 review
60 helpful votes
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June 1st, 2019

Wost chat cam app I've ever used. Fake profiles, chat rooms with drone accounts that never chat, rude old hillbillies everywhere, ugly old perverts everywhere, not to mention tossers, admins who ban you for no reason, ive even seen terrorist inducting room a few times in there, list could go on forever, hardly anyone is really friends at all in there. It's basically a social network of losers.

Rubbish app!

Thumbnail of user putini
New Mexico
1 review
4 helpful votes
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May 22nd, 2022

Beka Lyons and Bluagent007. Owners Support Russians and have their Admins to Boot, Dot and Ban those that disagree with them. They do not like God. They are not Transparent, for a News service they dare not show their faces on Cam to prove and show that they are News people. Stop the Booting and Banning, Just because you can. Disgusting

Thumbnail of user rickb95
Oregon
1 review
26 helpful votes
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May 23rd, 2017

Just because people are behind a computer monitor typing is no reason to be rude to people. I spent five minutes on PalTalk, that was more than enough for me. Rude people rule there!

Thumbnail of user jessim22
New Zealand
1 review
24 helpful votes
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January 4th, 2022

Paltalk's Religion-&-Spirituality Christianity section is more of a verbal abuse section where people are continually taunting, belittling, degrading and demeaning others constantly. There very little actual religious debate at all. Paltalk's Terms of Service are broken consistently and no action is taken. Cyberstalking and Cybermobbing happens there on a regular basis. I would urge newbies to keep out of " The other debate room" mainly because plenty of gangs await newbies in that room to scam them, verbally abuse them, target them and harass them or stalk them. PALTALK KEEP BANNING The other debate Room and letting it reopen which is disgusting. This room should be closed completely. The religious section of Paltalk to need monitor this section for scammers, hackers, and chatters who's sole purpose is to abuse cyberstalk and cybermob innocent new chatters.

Thumbnail of user johnl565
Virginia
1 review
18 helpful votes
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December 31st, 2017

Pure Organised Garbage, What A great program they had. Now it's a gig saw puzzle on the screen.Not even good eye candy A sending Adware with every Upgrade. I Refuse to Run it
Looks like A Bad put together HTML Website Are they trying to create A all for one Site for both PC and Tablet And other devices phone, iPad, Android. I could not believe my eyes when it upgraded into this POS "Please get it out of my site it's Sickening"I find it hard to find words to describe how shocked I was when this so called update drooped down.It's took own the look of Cam Frog another ugly duckling. I would describe it as highly unorganized add generating picture linking nightmare. I would not pay for it now I have in the past RIP Paltakk

Thumbnail of user divinas3
Australia
1 review
93 helpful votes
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April 8th, 2021

0/5 Paltalk fails members because it does not care about cyberbullying or cyberstalking on it's platform. There are current chatters who think this program is excellent merely because they lack education and enjoy watching other chatters who are mentally ill or high on some substance abuse each other on a constant basis. Paltalk has a really bad history if you do an online search - There's been 2 suicides, 1 murder suicide, 4 murders and more - all related to the chat program - Please do yourself a favor and do your own research before joining Paltalk. If there are suicides livestream on this program or people getting murdered, This program can not rate as excellent in fake marketing reviews yet there are people that will turn a blind eye to the hideous things that happen on Paltalk and rate this program a 5/5. Sorry this program is a failure because there has been deaths related to Paltalk. Beware of toxic people on this program ready to attack your person in any way they are able to for their entertainment. Get informed and keep away.

Tip for consumers:
Beware if you are new - cyberstalking happens on this program

Thumbnail of user markm4264
Florida
1 review
17 helpful votes
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May 23rd, 2022

Not a good chat room to use. The site is full of the lowest of the low in society. I consider it an evil chat site and would recommend any decent people to stay away.

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Thumbnail of user nalakaj
Sri Lanka
1 review
21 helpful votes
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January 2nd, 2021

I am not a native English speaker then I join this web but there are many English learning rooms I went these rooms but they are every time every day use rude words and i didn't have a mic for chat but if i couldn't talk they kick me off that room It is a absolutely bad website I do not recommend for English learners.

Thumbnail of user williame27
Australia
1 review
21 helpful votes
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October 22nd, 2015

Loved it then got the starters wrong font too loud too quiet then the last was too rude, and yes from the same people wrong colour red is admin only, blue is too quiet - I won't be back

Thumbnail of user jimb470
Arizona
1 review
34 helpful votes
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January 15th, 2018

Ok, I've used this app chatted to hundreds of people on there. I think I am qualified to write a review on this garbage app. Some of the things that come to mind are
1. The chat rooms are run by power hungry narcissist losers that ban/bounce users for no decent reason
2. Many of the users that pay as subscribers are treated with respect whereas free users are generally treated like crap in many rooms
3. The app has a feel like the majority of rooms are run by volunteers that support the app
4. A lot of users don't accept private messages they only want to talk in room which is really odd, some users ban you to chat via pm in a chat room!
5. there are a lot of paedophile type personalities
6. Many of the people on there have limited contact with real people i. E. no real friends, no families, limited education, no job etc.
7. being on there actually makes me feel repulsed and sick from the number of rude people
8. There are many people with serious mental problems, its known that paltalk has even had users commiting suicide on cam with users encouraging it in chat rooms
9. What strikes me is how the name paltalk does not live up to its name in the slightest sense
10. I'm of the opinion that its an app made by losers for losers ie the majority of pal users don't win at anything in life, ie no friends, no sex, no job, no praise in anything in fact many of the people on there only use it to masturbate on cam or to watch others in the act
11. Extremely hard to recommend, your time is better spent elsewhere

Thumbnail of user jacquis42
Alaska
1 review
22 helpful votes
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December 16th, 2021

In the HUMAN RIGHTS section of Paltalk - there are many TOS violations occurring and red admin are not paying attention. Death threats by chatters. Admins are abusing their power by targeting chatters they dislike and harassing chatters and cyberbullying them. If that's not enough someone has created a room called Java718 is a pedophile. How much longer is Paltalk going promote their chat client by selling shares, having fake reviews giving Paltalk 5/5, as well as false room numbers most rooms in the Social issues section, Religious section say they have over 6000 followers in rooms when there is very few active chatters and less than 30 people in the room. Mostly bots, lurkers and duplicated nicknames by chatters being on more than 1 device or being in more than 1 room at a time. Red Admins in Paltalk are useless - How is it possible that Paltalk allows a chatter to create a room calling another chatter a pedophile?

Thumbnail of user outo4
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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March 19th, 2022

Paltalk are day lite robbers, there is so much scum and scammer of this program with hackers - even gross adult section where any child can walk into just by a flick of a switch, your will see full adult material, this is the only program i ever been on that same to get away with allowing porn. TRUST no one at all on this ripp of program they want you to pay for everything, people are leaving in there flocks and i dont blame them at all, you make a complaint about any room they RED $#*! ADMIN will tell u there more room join one of them NO ONE cares about the bullying the slappers who show everything one cam in G RATED ROOM which are for young one
SO PEOPLE DONT JOIN THIS NASTY EVIL SITE AS I WOULD NEVER ALLOW MY KIDS NEAR IT IT VEROM

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Thumbnail of user jacquelinev232
New Zealand
1 review
22 helpful votes
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April 17th, 2022

BUYER beware, although Paltalk says it monitors cyberbullying it 100% fails to do so. This chat client allows continual cyberbullying by admin and toxic chatters with substance abuse issues join in. It has become a sad environment where continual attacks occur. The religious section of Paltalk is continually inciting bullying by admins. The rooms which is suppose to be a religious debate room are very scary, because in the majority of the religious rooms chatters attack each other as if it was a verbal abuse section. There are drunks and drug addicts on mic making up stories about people. Admins in this room are in their 60s they spend their time posting trolling statements and dotting and bouncing anyone they don't like without good reason. If you are a friend of an admin you can insult, attack and be toxic without any consequences. Although this room shows there is 50 people in the room. There are about 10 people active and of those 10 people maybe 3 people are sober. Paltalk promised to monitor cyberbullying and this room was ban for a long time but they have allowed it to operate again and the way people act out on each other is disgusting and inhumane. KEEP OUT OF PALTALK UNTIL they monitor cyberbully as they promised to do so.

Tip for consumers:
Keep out of the religious section of Paltalk, Cyberbullying happens DAILY in the OTHER DEBATE room daily. You only have to sit there for 1 min to confirm this. KEEP OUT OF PALTALK unless you want to experience continual cyberbully by anonymous strangers.

Thumbnail of user matthewc848
GB
1 review
8 helpful votes
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November 5th, 2020

People like miss_natochka actually hack your IP and stalk you round the chatsite and internet.
You go to both paltalk and Ukrainian police and nothing is done about cyber crime.

Thumbnail of user jerryj374
Alabama
1 review
0 helpful votes
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August 23rd, 2021

Their rooms are better than zoom because there is no time limit. Easy to use and does not appear to be any charge unless I do the upgrades

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Do the download if using it on a laptop. I ended up doing it on my iphone more and it is easier there in some ways but more tools on the laptop version

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Thumbnail of user jamiem638
Florida
1 review
42 helpful votes
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May 20th, 2021

It was a horrible experience. STAY AWAY. I would never go back. The@'s are terribly unfair and there are tons of fake profiles

Thumbnail of user randys94
Canada
1 review
21 helpful votes
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December 28th, 2017

Pal talk sucks with it's recent up date ruined their chat client. It is all geared now to force people to buy a colored nic name. What a shame

Thumbnail of user john.t.bowman1978
Missouri
1 review
4 helpful votes
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May 14th, 2023

Paltalk is a pedophile haven for MAP'S. This chat app should be investigated for child trafficking as well.

Thumbnail of user vidam10
Texas
1 review
37 helpful votes
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June 14th, 2020

I use to chat on this site many years ago, I decided to get back on it but now leaving it again due to too many predators,

Thumbnail of user davidt3422
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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January 25th, 2023

What is Paltalk's intention. Actually the classic version is a version that many people like and is most beautiful to use

Thumbnail of user stephw60
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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April 12th, 2023

Paltalk has hackers and capable of ruining your life. Just NO! Not worth risking everything you are!

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You don't get your money back in this hacker overran program. They take your money and give it amongst each other to keep people from giving away their so called secrets. They do very bad things there and get away with it.. They ruined my life and several others lives. If I could prove it I would but I'm not a person to give up and just let them ruin me forever. This is how I'll get justice. I'll write a bad review everyday for years if I have to. There's more but I think I'll save it..

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