How long do messages stay?

Six hours. A chat of a place is for the people there now.

Can somebody message me privately?

No. There are no private messages on walkintalk, only the shared chat. You can block anybody and report any message.

Who else is here?

Q: Does walkintalk know where I am?

Your phone works out a box on the map of about 1.2 by 0.6 kilometres and only that box is sent. Your exact position never leaves your phone, nothing about where you were is stored, and nobody can see how far away anyone is.

walkintalk is the chat of the place where you are. On the train, at a festival, in a stadium or on campus: open it and you are talking with the people around you. No app, no account.

Your browser asks for your location. Your exact position stays on your phone: only a box of about a kilometre is sent, and nobody sees how far away anyone is. For people of 16 and older.

How it works

Open walkintalk

Allow your location once. Your phone works out which part of the map you are in.

Pick a nickname

No account and no e-mail address. Eight characters and you are in.

Talk to who is here

You are in one chat with the people around you who have it open. Walk on, and the chat moves with you.

As close as you like

~1 km

Close by

The carriage, the field in front of the stage, the stand you are in.

~5 km

Around here

The neighbourhood, the whole festival site, the campus.

~40 km

The region

For when it is quiet nearby: the city and what lies around it.

You land in the smallest chat with a few people in it, or in the region when it is quiet. The buttons at the top of the chat switch between the three, with how many people are in each right now.

Privacy & safety, from the start

Your position stays on your phone. Only a box of about 1.2 by 0.6 km is sent. Where you were is not stored.
Nobody sees distances. Only how many people are in the chat, never who is where or how far away.
No private messages. Strangers nearby cannot message you one to one. There is only the shared chat.
Messages go after six hours. A chat of a place is for the people there now.
Block and report. Block anybody, in every chat at once. Reported messages are looked at and removed, and their writers with them.
16 and older. And never post where you live, or where somebody else is.

Questions people ask

Who do I chat with?

With the people who have walkintalk open near you at the same time. You pick how far the chat reaches: about a kilometre, about five, or the whole region.

Does walkintalk know where I am?

Your phone works out a box on the map of about 1.2 by 0.6 km, and only that box is sent. Your exact position never leaves your phone, nothing about where you were is stored, and nobody can see how far away anyone is.

What if nobody is near me?

Then you are in the chat of the region (~40 km), where everybody around meets. As soon as a few people are in a smaller chat, newcomers go there; and when a chat gets too busy to follow, newcomers start one size smaller.

What if I say no to sharing my location?

Then walkintalk can only guess your region from your internet connection, and you get the chat of the region. The two smaller chats need your location.

Do I need an account or an app?

No. It is a web page. You pick a nickname and you are in.

I want a room for my own group.

That is what klaklak.com is for, our sister site: put any name after klaklak.com and send the link.