For over a decade, InterPals has been the Internet's premier free site for online correspondence, cultural exchange, and learning foreign languages.

Created in April 1998 by a then 13 year-old eighth-grade student from Tacoma, Washington, the site began as the "International Penpal Page." A friendly forum for people to find email and postal penpals from around the world, the page quickly became so popular that it was rebuilt from the ground up in 1999 and renamed InterPals. (Want to see what it looked like? View archived versions of InterPals).

Since then, the site has become by far the largest and most popular free pen pal site on the web.

Our original mission remains unchanged: to help people find penpals and friends over the Internet for free. We are dedicated to providing this service to our users for free -- and at no point do we plan to start charging for any of our services. Your support for our sponsors (whose banners appear on our pages) make this site possible.

If you are having trouble with your InterPals account, please check our FAQ before contacting us.