Guides
How to run a chat room people can just open.
Seven pages on the things people actually want a room for — an event, a batch, a trip, one afternoon — and on what this does and does not do compared with the group chat you already have.
Create a chat room link and share it with anyone
A chat room here is a URL. You make one, you paste it wherever the people already are, and whoever opens it is talking within seconds — no account, no download, no phone number.
A temporary chat room, for one thing at a time
Some conversations do not deserve a permanent group. A wedding weekend, a trek, a match, a two-day handover at work — you need everyone talking now, and nobody carrying the group around for the next four years.
Group chat without WhatsApp — and without giving out your number
WhatsApp is where most groups live, and for most groups that is fine. It stops being fine the moment the group includes people you would rather not give your number to, or people who would rather not give you theirs.
A study group chat room, made from one link
Study groups are the clearest case for a room that is not a permanent social group: the membership is a batch or a subject, people join and leave as terms change, and nobody wants their number circulating around a coaching class.
Run a fest or an event team from one chat room
Organising anything with volunteers means a group that changes weekly, includes people you have never met, and has to be joinable by somebody who turned up on the day.
ChatEasily vs a WhatsApp group
This comparison is written by the people who made one of the two, so read the framing with that in mind — but the trade-offs below are real and stated plainly, including the ones that go the other way.
Looking for a tlk.io alternative
tlk.io does one thing very well: type a name into a URL and you have a room. If that is all you need, it is hard to improve on. This is for the case where the room turned out to matter more than you expected.
Or look at what is already being talked about: public chat rooms.