Anonymous Chat Without an Account

Most apps that promise anonymous chat still begin with a sign-up form. One New Friend does not have one. There is no account anywhere in the app: no email address, no phone number, no username and no password, so there is nothing for you to make up and nothing for us to lose.

That is worth being precise about rather than slogan-shaped. This page sets out what you are asked for instead, what recognises you when you open the app again, and what having no account genuinely costs you.

There is nothing to fill in

Not “optional”, not “later”. There is no field for any of it anywhere in the app.

No credentials of any kind. The app signs you in without an account, through Supabase Anonymous Auth. No email address, phone number, name, username, password, profile or social login exists in the app, so there is no sign-in step to come back to and no password that could be reused or leaked.
Onboarding is a single button. There is no text input to complete before your first conversation. The walkthrough of a day picks up from there.
No profile and no photo. Without an account there is no profile to build, nothing to be judged on, and nothing for the person you talked to to look you up by afterwards.
One question, asked once. The app is for adults, so at first launch it asks your date of birth to check you are 18 or older. The date is used to work that out and then discarded: it is never saved on your phone and never sent to us. Only the result of the check is kept.

What recognises you instead

No account does not mean nothing at all. Something has to know that today's person has already had today's conversation, and these are the three things that do.

An app identity that persists

Your app identity is reused every time you open the app rather than regenerated, which is how you are recognised between sessions. It carries no real-world name, but your activity in the app can be linked over time to the same identity.

A device id, not random noise

The device id stored alongside your session is derived from your device brand, model, OS name, OS version and device year class, plus one random component, then hashed. Treat it as a device identifier rather than as anonymity.

Your time zone

Matching has no profile to work from, so it goes by who is online and whose waking hours overlap yours. No interests, location or preferences are involved, because none are collected.

The full list of what sits on your phone and what sits on the server is in the privacy policy.

What having no account costs you

An account is a way of proving you are you. Removing it removes the paperwork and the risk that comes with it, and it also removes everything that proof was good for. Three of those are worth knowing before you start.

What identifies you lives on the phone. Your authentication session and device id are stored on your own device, so deleting the app removes that local copy. It does not remove anything from the server.

Support cannot look you up by name. There is no account and no in-app data controls, so a request about your data goes through the contact page and has to describe roughly when you used the app and on what device — we have no name or email address to search by.

A conversation closes whether or not you meant it to. After 24 hours the conversation is hidden from both of you and neither can open it again. The message text itself stays on the server, where it is kept to investigate safety reports and to improve the service.

And one thing no account buys: messages here are encrypted in transit but not end to end, so they are not beyond our reach. What anonymous chat really means goes through that and the other promises the word carries, one at a time.

No account, still a room with rules

Anonymity is often sold as the absence of consequences. It is not that here.

Messages are screened before they are delivered. A filter on your own device blocks phone numbers, email addresses and links, and the text is then screened by OpenAI's moderation API for harmful content. No filter is perfect.
A report still lands on someone. The conversation ends, the reported person is blocked from you, and someone reported by two or more different people within 90 days is permanently banned. The reporting page explains how, and the community guidelines set out the rules being applied.
You can block and leave at any point, with no explanation owed to anyone. The safety tips cover what to keep to yourself in the first place — advice that matters more, not less, when neither of you has a name.

One New Friend is for adults: you must be 18 or older to use the app or this website. It is also not a dating app — nobody is matched for dating or romance.

Where to read the rest

One New Friend is anonymous chat built around one conversation a day on a shared theme. How it works covers a day from open to close, what anonymous chat really means reads the word closely, and the privacy policy lists what is stored and for how long.