Talky.Io

Talky is a simple video / audio chat program. Just open a chat room, share the name with others when you invite them to join the chat and you're connected. No downloads, signup, or payment required.

Talky's privacy policy states: Our default privacy policy is never to gather or store or sell information about you, to log your conversations, or to engage in any other behavior that would compromise your privacy and security in any way. However, we do need to gather one piece of personally identifying information in order for you to use Talky in the first place: your computer needs to tell us its “IP address” so that we can connect you with your friend’s computer (which needs to tell us its “IP address” too). Although we do not track this information or keep a long-term record of it, we do log it for brief periods of time so that we can perform diagnostics that help us improve the service (these logs are erased after 30 days).

I note that you cannot use Talky over Tor, because Talky uses WebRTC. However, Talky works just fine over a VPN, which would mask your actual IP address.

Talky also gives you the option of password protecting your chat room. Choose a unique name for your chat room, set up a password to keep out uninvited guests, and meet friends and family on-line for a regularly scheduled live chat session.

There is an iOS Talky app available, but currently not one for Android. If I am on an iPhone, I would probably just use FaceTime for video chat. But it is from a desktop / laptop that I found Talky to be a quick, easy, and reasonably secure way of having an on-line video / audio chat.  (It was a lot easier than Skype.)

Talky is built and run by the &Yet team in Richland, WA.