Azar, the mobile equivalent of Chatroulette who makes a cardboard

The Chatroulette online chat service has met with some success, despite its sometimes unexpected nudity and some strange users, but it seems that the Internet has moved on to something else since. But the Korean application Azar wants to put the idea back on the agenda, this time on mobile, taking again the same principle: two unknowns are randomly connected, and the discussion starts with the video bonus.


The application is not entirely new, however, since it was launched almost three years ago in Asia, before being progressively deployed in nearly 200 different countries where a growing number of users Try. Recently, its publisher Hyperconnect has disseminated some figures which give the turn: more than 100 million downloads carried out throughout the world, for a total of nearly 13 billion connections between unknowns.

Azar however pushes the concept of Chatroulette a little further, since many more functions on the agenda have been added. As with Tinder, when connected to another person, you can simply drag your finger to the edge of the screen to end the discussion and move on to the next one. As for Snapchat, the application offers filters to integrate to its image and that will be added to the current discussion. As for Whatsapp, it is possible to add a contact in a list of friends to continue private conversations with in the future.

It is this last point that could pose a problem to the popularity of Azar. Because if the application brings a lot of new features compared to Chatroulette, it shares at least one common point: the nasty surprise of crossing one or more users completely naked and not very modest. A problem that could cause Hyperconnect to take action, since the minimum application age is 14, a limit that can in any case be bypassed by the younger ones by simply lying on their date of birth. Samuel Anh, CEO of Hyperconnect, assures Mashable that the company is looking for a better way to check the age of its users, but that for now, more than 90% of users would be over 20 years old, Accurately verifiable.