Anonymous video chat, enforced on your own phone
Anonymous usually means "we promise not to look". On Peel it means the frames that leave your phone are cut to the step you agreed to, so a modified app on the other side has nothing extra to uncover.
Start a random callWhat actually leaves your phone
- Masked: black frames. Your camera runs only to drive the avatar and the safety checks.
- Background step: the picture with your face painted over before it is sent, and black whenever your face cannot be found, is too close, or runs off the edge of the frame.
- Face step: the camera itself, because you both said so.
What other people know about you
- A public name you choose. Your phone number or email is never shown to anyone.
- Nothing about a guest at all, beyond the avatar and what they say.
- Incognito calls go under a throwaway alias, leave no history, and never peel.
How a call on Peel works
- You are an avatar first. Your camera drives an avatar that copies your expressions, and your voice can go out in a persona. The other person sees the avatar, not your face.
- Peel one step at a time. Background, then face, then real voice, then a private room you both keep. Each step needs both of you to agree, and either of you can go back at any moment.
- Or skip the mask. Turn on "Show my face from the start" and you are matched only with people who chose the same, so nobody sees a face they did not opt into.
What Peel does about the usual problems
Nudity. Every call is checked on both phones, in the call itself. One hit masks the camera and warns; a second ends the call and keeps that person off the grid.
Under-18s. A face age check with a liveness step runs before random calls, for guests too, not a tick box. Three failed tries lock the device for 24 hours; all three under 18 refuse it for good.
Screenshots of your face. What leaves your phone is cut to the step you agreed to: black frames while masked, and at the background step the face is painted over before the video is sent, not just hidden on the other side.
Reports. Reporting sends the last seconds of what the checks saw, and bans key on the device, not only the account, so a fresh sign-up on the same phone does not wash it off.
Questions people ask
Are calls recorded?
No. Frames are looked at on the phones for the safety checks and dropped. A report attaches only the last few seconds of what those checks saw.
Do you sell my number?
No. It is the key to your account on the server and is never shown to other people.
Can I use Peel without any account?
Yes, as a guest. You will be asked what you are and to pass the face age check, and that is all.