Global Penfriends

Write to pen pals online from 195+ countries — and swap letters by post when you're ready. Safe, secure and family friendly.

Find new International Friends

Our members come from all over the world to make new friends, share their culture, learn a language and talk about travel. Most write to each other through our safe online messaging, and many also enjoy swapping letters, postcards and mail art by post. All ages are welcome, from school age to seniors, in a family-friendly, secure club.

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Message your penpals in our secure online messaging, and swap postal addresses safely if you'd like to write by post too.

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International friendship online and by post

Global Penfriends has been connecting penpals for 30+ years. Send a message to a new friend today.

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Members can select penpals based on common interests such as international friendship, language partners, travel friends and e-pals, plus snail mail, postcard and mail art swaps.

What our members say

A wonderful platform to meet people worldwide, make genuine friendships, and learn about different cultures.

Penpal Rising Phoenix

52 (Female)

Nice site , good to make new friends across the world and learn their culture and language.

Penpal maple77

30 (Female)

Global Penfriends has helped me find lovely penfriends with whom I have been in contact for many years. I've even met one of them in person. I recommend giving it a try.

Penpal Chirpychirps

49 (Female)

Sadly have not connected with many people willing to share their life experiences or cultural differences

Penpal Fleur57

72 (Female)

I love this website. It gave me the opportunity to see the other side of the world, and I've made many friends. I feel lucky to have opened this website in 2023. It gave me the opportunity to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds and share things we both like. I feel incredibly happy about this. Perhaps this is some kind of destiny guiding me? In any case, I'm grateful for the existence of this website. 我很喜欢这个网站,它给我看见世界另一端的机会,我也认识了很多朋友,我感到幸运,在23年打开了这个网站,我有了和不同文化背景人们的交流机会,分享着我们共同喜欢的事物,我对此感到无比的幸福,这或许也是冥冥之中命运的指引吗?无论如何,感谢这个网站的存在

Penpal YuJie

18 (Female)

This site helps to improve your lanuages without even trying.You get to know people from all around the world and learn about their culture

Penpal Eraaa77

20 (Female)

Great experience in tis amazing website. Thank you Global Penfriends.

Penpal Nikoleta Papanikolaou

24 (Female)

This app/website is very good. Its easy to use and navigate. The people ive met here are very kind and its cool to meet new people from other cultures!

Penpal XoxoMochi13

12 (Female)

It's a really awesome website, and i've made a lot of new penpal friends! It's so fun to use, but I put only 4 stars because they update all the time and I feel like there needs to be directions on how to work/understand all the new updates.

Penpal Amber Lafleur

12 (Female)

I love that we can find people from many different countries and backgrounds here. The site pays a lot of attention to security, too. It's a friendly and diverse site, I like that.

Penpal Starlight20

45 (Female)