Lumi is a place to meet someone new, built safe from the first hello.

Free, anonymous video, audio and text chat with a stranger one to one, or with friends in a room. No account, no ads, no trackers, no data sale, and nothing to install.

What it is

Lumi pairs you with a random person for a video, audio, or text conversation, and lets you skip to meet someone new whenever you like. You can also open a group room, public or private, and bring your friends in with a six-character code. In an adult chat you can pin a video or a track and watch or listen together, in sync.

The name comes from lumen, light. The idea is a conversation that lights up, not a feed that follows you around.

Who it is for

Anyone aged 13 or over. Adults and teens are kept in separate lanes: a user aged 13 to 17 is only ever matched with other teens, is never monetized, and cannot use shared video. Everything below 13 is refused.

How the age check works

Before your first chat you enter your birth year and look at your camera for a moment. Software running on Lumi's own servers estimates your age group from a few frames. No outside company is involved, and no face template is ever stored. Borderline cases go to a person before you are let in; the software's automatic decisions are checked by a person afterwards. If the software cannot read your face you get one retake, and then a person decides.

The photo exists only for that check. It is deleted the moment a person has reviewed the decision, and after 90 days at the latest whatever happens.

Privacy, in plain words

• The person you meet never sees your IP address: audio and video are relayed through Lumi's own servers.
• Lumi does not record your conversations. Automated screening, run on Lumi's own servers, may sample camera frames and check text to catch abuse; what gets flagged is kept as evidence and reviewed by a person, the rest is discarded.
• No ads, no third-party analytics, no data sale, and no cross-site tracking. Lumi is funded by optional adult-only extras, so it has no reason to learn about you.
• Bans stick to the device and the connection, using one-way codes, so a banned person cannot simply come back under a new name.

What it costs

Nothing, to chat. Adults can choose to pay for extras that never change who they meet: Lumi Plus ($4.99 a month or $49.99 a year) for priority matching, a higher video-quality ceiling and cosmetic flair; Room Pro (about $9.99 a month) for a persistent room that holds up to 50 people with 6 on camera; one-time cosmetics; and donations.

Who runs it

Lumi is built and run by a small independent team on its own hardware. Every moderation and age-assurance model is self-hosted. Support inside the app reaches a person.