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

I wasn't sure what to expect when I first joined but I've made several wonderful friends & it's been a great experience so far.

Penpal MauMom

75 (Female)

Have been using this site for about a year. Made several meaningful connections. I appreciate how easy it is to use the site as well as the security measures put in place to help establish trust between potential penpals.

Penpal Truekeui

44 (Female)

Id recommend this site for anyone wanting to make friends all over the world and for introverted people like myself

Penpal AliceInWonderland31

31 (Female)

It has everything in it, like searching some friend by language, age. it show what she loved too, perfect

Penpal Atul12

13 (Female)

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

Penpal Nikoleta Papanikolaou

24 (Female)

The website is safe and has good safeguarding features. It would be better if it would allow to upload more pictures and if it would let us choose the place of the keepsake.

Penpal Bellartina

39 (Female)

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

Penpal maple77

30 (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)

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)