One New Friend
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One conversation a day

How One New Friend Works

One New Friend is daily themed anonymous chat. Each day you are matched with one person who is online, you both see the same conversation theme, and the conversation stops being accessible in the app a day later.

There is no profile to fill in, no photo to choose and no real name to give. This page walks through the whole thing, including the parts people usually want the small print on.

A day, from open to close

Four steps, and only one of them asks anything of you.

1. The day's theme appears
Every day has one conversation theme — a question like “a childhood memory that still makes you smile”. Both of you see the same one, so neither of you has to think of an opening line.
2. You are matched with one person
Matching goes by who is online rather than by any profile, and your device time zone is used to look for someone whose waking hours overlap yours. One person a day, not a queue of them.
3. You talk
Two people, words and ideas, and no usernames, photos or real names on either side. Phone numbers, email addresses and links are blocked automatically in messages, and you can block or leave at any point.
4. After 24 hours it closes
An hourly job on the server hides the conversation from both people, so neither of you can open it again. The next day brings a new theme and a new person.

What “disappears after 24 hours” actually means

It means the conversation stops being reachable in the app. An hourly job sets a flag on the match that hides it from both participants. It does not mean the message content is erased: it stays on the server, where it is kept to investigate safety reports and to improve the service.

That distinction matters enough to say plainly rather than leave to a policy page, and the privacy policy sets out the full list of what is stored, for how long, and how to ask for it to be removed.

The other promises people read into the word are worth the same treatment, so what anonymous chat really means goes through them one at a time.

What it is not

Not a dating app

Nobody is matched for dating or romance. It is a conversation with someone new, and that is the whole of it.

Not a feed

One conversation a day is the design, not a limit waiting to be lifted. There is nothing to scroll once today's conversation is over.

Not a profile

The app never asks for your name, email address or phone number, and there is no permanent profile to build or to be judged on.

Questions people ask first

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Anything this page does not answer goes through the contact page, and anything about safety belongs on the reporting page instead.