About ChatLite
ChatLite is a communication tool that runs in a web browser. You can start without an account, invite someone with a link and talk, send files and share your screen, and nothing has to be installed.
What it is for
ChatLite is meant for quick, direct conversations between people who do not want to set up an account or install software first. You choose a nickname, send an invite link, and the conversation lives on your own devices.
A collection of browser tools
Besides the messenger, ChatLite is a collection of free tools that run in your browser: a screen recorder, a voice recorder, a webcam mirror with photo and video, a QR code generator, a camera and microphone test, a call quality test, a WebRTC connectivity test and a screen share check. They are listed on the Tools page, each with an explanation of how to read its results.
One rule applies to all of them: media tools process everything on your own device. Recordings, camera pictures, microphone sound, screen content and the text of a QR code are not uploaded, not stored and not counted. Two tools use the network on purpose and say so on their pages: the call quality test sends tiny timing requests to this site, which stores nothing, and the WebRTC connectivity test asks public STUN servers, which every WebRTC call does.
What it can do
- Text chat between two people, and group chats.
- One-to-one voice and video calls, with screen sharing during a call.
- File transfer, directly up to 100 MB or through the server up to 8 MB.
- Invitations by link, QR code or user ID.
- Seven interface languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French.
- Optional push notifications and an optional account for receiving messages on several devices.
- Installation as an app from the browser, where the browser supports it.
Where its limits are
- There is no application-level end-to-end encryption.
- Calls depend on the network between the two browsers, and ChatLite does not guarantee a relay path.
- Conversation history lives in each browser. There is no export and no server-side archive.
- Calls are one-to-one only.
The how-it-works page and the guides explain each of these in detail.
Advertising
The public ChatLite website may show advertising from Google AdSense. The chat application itself does not load any advertising code.