Add a real-time chat room to your site in two minutes — no third-party ads on your page, and a full moderation toolkit built in. One account, unlimited chatboxes, no credit card.
Free, ad-free, unlimited chatboxes. No credit card.
You added Chatango because it was free and easy to drop in. The catch shows up later: an ad-supported widget puts someone else’s promotions on your page — including in front of your mobile visitors — and the moderation tools run out of road once a room gets busy.
The complaint we hear most from owners who move over is ban evasion. One person decides to ruin your chat, you ban them, and they are back a minute later on a different IP through a VPN. Banning stops meaning anything, and your moderators give up.
Bantertalks keeps the part you liked (free, one-line install) and fixes the rest.
Bantertalks is free and ad-free, on desktop and on mobile. Your visitors see your chat and your brand — not a banner for something you didn’t choose.
Switch on VPN and proxy blocking and the troll who reconnects through a fresh IP every few seconds gets nowhere. Blocked people can still read, so a false positive never loses you a reader, and moderators are never affected.
The mode you rely on, kept: with no owner or mod connected, guests can read but not post, and the room reopens by itself the moment a moderator arrives.
Ban by user or IP, timeouts, block, delete, purge someone’s whole history, pin, slow-mode, clear the chat in one click — backed by auto-moderation (flood control, anti-shouting, repeated-spam blocking, link rules, banned-word filters) and a full mod-action log.
Polls that post their result into the chat when they close, a G-rated GIF picker, likes and dislikes, replies, @mentions, direct messages, a typing indicator and a leaderboard of your top posters.
Thousands of people in one room without it falling over — our busiest chatbox has passed 4,000 at once, spread across every CPU core on the server.
One script tag drops the chat onto your own domain, in your own colours — set the accent, background and text to match your site, light or dark.
Let people chat as guests with a name they pick, or sign in — including with Google — using one account that works on every Bantertalks chat. You don’t lose anyone at the door.
| Bantertalks | Chatango | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free tier available |
| Third-party ads on the widget | None | Yes, on the free widget |
| Ads shown to your mobile visitors | None | Reported by owners who switched |
| VPN / proxy blocking (ban evasion) | Optional per chatbox, mods exempt | — |
| Closes when no moderators are online | Yes — reopens automatically | Yes |
| Moderation | Ban by user/IP, timeouts, purge, delete, pin, slow-mode, clear chat, mod roles, action log | Basic moderation |
| Auto-moderation | Flood control, anti-shouting, spam blocking, link rules, banned-word filters | Limited |
| Polls (result posted into the chat) | Yes | — |
| GIFs | Built-in G-rated picker | — |
| Likes and dislikes on messages | Yes | — |
| Leaderboard of top posters | Yes | — |
| Direct messages | Yes | Yes |
| Your own colours | Accent, background and text | Colour and layout options |
| Install | One <script> tag or iframe | Embed code |
| Chatboxes per account | Unlimited | Varies |
| Anonymous guests | Yes | Yes |
Comparison reflects publicly available information about Chatango as of September 2026, plus what owners who moved their rooms across have told us. A dash means we could not find an equivalent feature, not that it definitely doesn’t exist. Features change on both sides — check Chatango’s current site before deciding.
A few seconds, no card needed.
Give it a name and a handle. You’re the owner and can appoint mods.
Drop the embed where you want the chat to appear. It’s live instantly.
Prefer an iframe? Use <iframe src="https://bantertalks.com/c/your-handle"> instead. Both are generated for you in the dashboard.
Yes. You can create an account and unlimited chatboxes for free, with no credit card. It’s ad-free, too.
You create a fresh Bantertalks chatbox and swap the embed code on your page. Your community keeps chatting at the same spot — the room just gets cleaner and better moderated.
It’s a single script tag that loads the chat where you place it. Nothing else to install.
No. Guests can chat anonymously, or sign in with one Bantertalks account that works across every site running Bantertalks.
Yes — that’s the point. Bans (including by IP), slow-mode, auto-mod filters, multiple moderators, and a full action log are all built in.
Yes. Turn on VPN and proxy blocking in the chatbox settings and messages sent through a commercial VPN or proxy are refused — either from guests only, or from everyone. The person can still read, moderators are never affected, and you can switch it off at any time. It catches commercial VPNs and proxies rather than residential ones, so it stops the usual ban evader without a blanket block.
Yes, and it works the same way: with no owner or moderator connected, guests can read but not post, and the room reopens on its own the moment a moderator arrives. It is one checkbox in Chat restrictions.
The opposite, normally. Alongside chat they get polls whose results are posted into the room, a G-rated GIF picker, likes and dislikes, replies and @mentions, direct messages, a typing indicator, a leaderboard, and optional emote packs — World Cup flags, Premier League badges and footballers.
Yes. The busiest chatbox on Bantertalks has had over 4,000 people in one room at the same time, and the chat runs across every CPU core on the server.
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