Chaturbate

Though Chaturbate.com is a more recent addition to the adult webcam landscape, having opened up in 2011, almost ten years after one of the pioneers of the genre, LiveJasmin, it has quickly grown. As of today, it’s the largest site in the niche, receiving over three hundred million visitors each month. As such, it’s one of the best sites for both quantity and variety of performers—with literally thousands of live options at any given time, it’s next to impossible not to find at least one that meets your needs.

 A Gallery of Cams

The core of Chaturbate.com is the site’s various streams. By default, you will be presented with a selection of the featured performers, where you’ll see an updating thumbnail, the streamer’s username, a viewer count, and a brief description of the show.

Upon clicking on any thumbnail, you’ll be brought immediately to that performer’s stream. Once there, you can adjust the volume and video resolution to your liking, as well as toggle between the standard view and fullscreen—do note, however, that you won’t be able to chat, read messages, or send tips while in fullscreen. Though it would be nice to be able to stay in fullscreen mode throughout the experience, it’s not too cumbersome to have to switch back and forth occasionally.

Immediately below the video and chat window, you’ll find each performer’s bio. This will always contain certain basic information about a streamer: name, followers, age, sex, sexual preferences, language, and body type. In addition to this standard information, you’ll also see an About Me section, where the camgirl/guy has a bit more leeway for creativity. Usually this section will also contain a set of rules for the channel, as well as a set exchange rate of tips for activities that is normally referred to as a “tip menu.”

Finding Your Way Around

The desktop site does contain a few ads, but they’re not numerous or large enough to substantially distract from the experience. The actual content itself is presented clearly, so you’re unlikely to ever mistake a paid ad for real Chaturbate content.

The streams on Chaturbate.com are first split into six top-level categories: Female, Male, Couple, Trans, Featured (which primarily shows streamers from the Female and Couple categories but occasionally does host Male and Trans streamers, so be aware if you’re not open-minded), and finally, Followed, which will show you each performer that you’ve followed, regardless of their category.

Within each category are several tags that streamers can apply to themselves. These can include physical descriptions (Asian, Young, or Hairy, for example), descriptions of the action occurring (Anal, Striptease, or Blowjob), descriptions of age (both specific like 18 or general like MILF), and more.

The mobile layout is equally as effective, though the options are a bit less easy to spot. The categories are here within a submenu, and the tags are only accessible by clicking on one appearing in a stream’s description, rather than at the top of each page. Still, despite this minor issue, the mobile site works perfectly and lacks none of the features of the full desktop version.

To Pay Or Not To Pay?

Chaturbate.com’s income model revolves primarily around the purchase of tokens, which have two uses. The most basic usage is as a currency that can be used to tip performers. Performers will often set up goals that must be reached before performing a certain act: for example, a single girl might say that they’ll remove an article of clothing for every thousand tokens donated, or flash the camera whenever anyone donates six-hundred-sixty-six tokens, while a couple might offer a blowjob, sex, or anal sex when a tip goal is reached.

Some performers also have other incentives tied to token donations. They might offer videos for download as a reward for large tips, or even access to a personal Twitter or Snapchat account. Many girls, guys, and couples also have a Lovense Interactive Toy that is set up to respond to token tips. When a viewer sends tokens to a performer, the vibrator will react based on the tip—a quick, less intense burst for small tips and a long, powerful vibration for large tips.

The other key use of tokens is to gain access to private shows, where a small group of users can interact directly with the performers. Some streamers use these as a way to limit their most hardcore content to only the highest-paying viewers, while others just use private shows as a way to offer a more intimate and interactive setting.

The cost of private shows on Chaturbate.com varies depending on the performer. The most basic tier costs six tokens (roughly sixty cents at the most expensive rate) per minute, while the most expensive premium performers can command rates up to ninety tokens (about nine dollars) for each minute of a private show. Most performers fall somewhere in between, and categories for each rate tier can be found on the bottom right of the Chaturbate.com home page.

In between the cost of private shows and the absolutely free standard viewings are spy shows—these lack the interactivity of private shows but do allow you to enjoy the content that some performers decide to hide behind closed doors. While many will go all the way on their free cams, others won’t perform certain acts outside of private, so these can be an affordable way to access the full experience.

All of the content on Chaturbate.com does get significantly cheaper if you purchase tokens in bulk, however. At the smallest purchase level, one hundred tokens will cost about ten cents per token, but this drops down to about eight cents per token when purchasing in groups of one thousand. Though the savings aren’t huge, this can be worthwhile if you know you’re going to stick around with the site for a while.

In addition to the pay-to-play model that a lot of the content on Chaturbate.com is hidden behind, there are also a small number of ads on the website. These ads, however, are mostly limited to banner and sidebar ads—there are no pop-up or pre-video ads that will get in the way of your experience on the site. The advertisements do take up quite a large portion of some of the site’s pages, but they can easily be hidden while focusing on the streams themselves by switching to a fullscreen view, where no ads will appear.

There are also a few ways to obtain free or discounted tokens. Chaturbate.com is currently running an offer where upgrading your account to unlock private messages and remove advertisements will net you an extra two hundred bonus tokens, and you can also get free tokens both by increasing your spending limit on the site or referring other users. If you’re brave and attractive, you can also obtain free tokens by streaming your own sexual activities to others.

Altogether, the reasonable pricing structure combined with Chaturbate.com’s unobtrusive ads make it an excellent value. While the site can quickly get expensive for power users, you by no means need to spend any money to have a good time. By switching between streamers when shows go private and using your tokens sparingly, Chaturbate.com does not require you to break the bank to obtain a top-notch porn experience.

Bringing It All Together

Chaturbate.com is, in pornsites.com’s opinion, the best adult webcam site. The popularity of the site means that there are attractive models in just about every niche, and the free content is much more extensive than what models on most other similar sites will offer. The desktop and mobile site both make it easy to narrow down on whatever type of performer you’re looking for, and the high-quality free streams will ensure that your visit to the site is enjoyable.

The site can get expensive, however—even though the free content is excellent, the temptation to make things even hotter by spending more and more is undeniable. Though you could easily regularly visit Chaturbate.com without spending a cent, you could also very easily spend far more money here than you could on just about any other porn site.

Altogether, if you’re in the mood for live webcam porn, Chaturbate.com can’t be beaten. As long as you keep your spending in check, the site is essentially flawless— pornsites.com’s only minor quibbles are the advertisements, but they’re so unobtrusive that they wouldn’t even be worth mentioning, aside from the fact that there’s nothing else on Chaturbate.com to complain about.