Chamet

Is Chamet safe?

Chamet is a real, very large app, but it sells paid time with strangers on camera, and that model carries more risk than most social apps. We score it 39/100, level with Poppo Live (39) and just below SUGO (40). The main problems are its history: Google pulled it in 2023 for objectionable content. Its data disclosures are thin, and the company behind it is hard to reach.

On US Google Play, Chamet has more than 50 million downloads and ranked #8 top grossing in the Social category in October 2026. The publisher is Fuliao Hong Kong Limited, at an office address in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. Its support email and its privacy contact are both Gmail addresses.

How Chamet makes money

The website is open about the business. Users buy diamonds. Diamonds pay for gifts, for party-room games and, above all, for one-to-one video calls, which are charged by duration at a price set for each host. Hosts receive Beans, which they convert at 10,000 Beans to US$1 and withdraw from US$10 through MetWallet, Chamet's own wallet app.

Chamet says hosting needs no application, no agency and no experience. Hosts at level 6 can open party rooms and receive "an automatic Bean share" from games played in them, whoever wins. Eligible hosts can also earn from "Private Album" photos and videos that users pay to view. The website promotes "women video chat" and female hosts' livestreams. Put together, this is a pay-per-minute video service with strangers, wrapped in the language of making friends.

Why Google pulled it in 2023

In August 2023 Google removed Chamet from Play. Google confirmed to TechCrunch that the app broke its user-generated content policy, which says: "Apps whose primary purpose is featuring objectionable UGC will be removed from Google Play." TechCrunch reported that, despite rules against pornography and vulgarity, the app was full of suggestive content and ads, and that Indian users alone had spent about $38 million on it, according to data.ai.

The app was back on Google Play under the same package name by January 2024, when the Internet Archive captured its listing rated PEGI 18. Today Chamet says every person in a one-to-one chat goes through "real-person verification", that moderation is "24/7 AI", and that human reviewers check content flagged for child sexual abuse, threats or harassment. Its community rules ban users under 18 and warn of fines and device bans for violations. Chamet publishes no transparency report, so none of this can be checked from outside.

What Chamet collects

Google Play's data safety form makes Chamet look like a light app. It says the app collects only an email address and user IDs, and shares crash logs and photos. The same listing asks for your camera, microphone and location.

The privacy policy, posted in June 2025, covers much more: your name, address, sex and gender identity, IP address, MAC address and other device identifiers, face verification for some features, purchase records, and everything you send, including messages, pictures, video and audio. Chamet keeps user content to meet content rules. It uses data for advertising and lets "analytics, personalization, fraud, security, and advertising companies" collect data through its apps. Data can be shared with group companies and is processed in Singapore, among other places.

The policy refers to a "Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Technologies section above" that is not there. It names no security measure beyond a request that you use a strong password. Rights requests and account deletion go to [email protected]. When a form says much less than the policy, we score the broader one.

Who should be careful

Anyone who pays. The obvious risk is spending: per-minute calls and gifts add up fast, and the app ranks among the top-grossing social apps for a reason. The less obvious risk is what happens on camera. A call can be recorded by the other side with any screen recorder, and recorded calls are the raw material of sextortion. Chamet's own homepage warns users to be cautious "if someone asks you to move the conversation elsewhere, send money or keep a secret."

Parents should treat Chamet as an adult service. It has no iPhone version that we could find, so on Android, block it in Google Family Link, and check for APK installs from chamet.com, which offers a download outside Google Play.

How to use Chamet more safely

1. Set a monthly budget in Google Play before you buy diamonds.
2. Keep your face and body covered on calls in any way you would not want recorded.
3. Never pay a host outside the app or move a chat to WhatsApp or Telegram.
4. If anyone threatens to share a recording, do not pay. Report the account, keep the evidence and contact the police.
5. Turn off location for the app in Android settings.

How we scored it

Regulatory record (85) is the strongest factor only because no regulator has acted on Chamet that we could find. Scams and harmful content (25) is the weakest, because of the 2023 removal and a business built on paid private video calls and pay-to-view albums. Privacy (32) and security (38) reflect a data form that leaves most collection out and a company that handles requests through Gmail. For a gift-based live app with a better-known owner, see Bigo Live.