ImLive Review - Affordable Fetish Live Shows
ImLive is one of the leading premium cam sites operating on the web today, and for a reason. Apart from its hundreds of steamy cam girls ready to delight you day and night, it puts at your disposal unique features that will greatly enhance your video chatting experience in a way that very few, if any, of its competitors can match. And all of that at prices that you can definitely afford.
These features, just to mention a few, include the ability to watch 6 live performances or chat with 2 models simultaneously, a special mechanism meant to enable the site to fulfill your innermost fantasies, recorded videos, many fetish live show categories and, and no less important, an effective search tool through which you can easily get to your most favorite performers.
ImLive's most distinguished feature is its Loyalty Program with its awesome benefits comprised of access to premium features and discounts which significantly reduce the costs of using its services.
The Good and the Bad
The Good
- Unique live show and site features
- Low chat rates
- Mobile cam to cam
- A lucrative bonus given to new users
- Plenty of kinky cam chat categories
- Tons of explicit videos you can watch
- A highly beneficial Loyalty Program with many perks and discounts
- An effective FAQ section encompassing all of the site's features
The Bad
- Not all models stream in HD
- You'll hardly ever get to see models performing undressed in public chat
- Unless you become a VIP member within the Loyalty Program, you don't have access to live support
- A small selection of gay models and transgenders
The Fetish Models
At any given moment, there are around 800 cam models on the site you can chat with either in public or in private. You can reach them by selecting Fetish on the filter drop-down menu above the models' thumbnails on the main page. You'll see more than 30 sub-categories encompassing an array of classic kinks, like: Chastity Training, Domination, FinDomme, Gags and Blindfolds, Bondage, Humiliation, Submission, JOI, Whips, Outfit and Medical.
The site's advanced search tool lets you sort out performers according to a variety of parameters you can cross-reference to get precise results. The first and most basic parameter is Category where you can choose the models' gender. Here you can also find Fetish & BDSM. Additional parameters consist of show types, Age, Appearance (models' physique and ethnicities), Rating, Price, Languages and some extra kinks, e.g. Piercings, Tattos, Shaved, Hairy and Branded.
ImLive's Top Host Arena presents the leading models who have been ranked the highest based on different criteria such as Top Candy Shows, Best NewBies and Top Toy Performers.
As to other gender groups apart from females, ImLive has them for you, though in limited numbers. If you combine all the male and tranny performers (including couples and threesomes) which are live on the site most hours of the day, you'll reach around 100 - much less than most other cam sites.
ImLive's Feature Highlight
As mentioned above, ImLive has unique features which have no parallel in the cam to cam industry. The most noticeable one is the Multi-Viewer through which you can watch 6 models' public live shows at the same time. You won't be able to chat with the models, but you can pick one for more intimate interaction. The paid-for version of the Multi-Viewer allows you to watch 6 private live shows where the models shed their clothes. The price for this pleasure is 3 credits ($3.00) a minute.
The GroupCams feature lets you invite another model to your private chat as an active participant (on condition that you have the stamina for 2 performers instead of one). The second model can come from your favorite list or from the first model's list of GroupCams friends. You'll get a discount of $0.70 a minute for her. To find this great feature, go to the advanced search tool and select Participate in.
Many users will agree with us that ImLive's best feature is its Fulfill Your Fantasy (found in your Member Area). It enables you to submit your fantasies in writing and then wait for webcam models willing to realize them to reply to you, so you can invite them to an unforgettable private chat. Of course, this chat can revolve around any fetish theme you can imagine.
Other Great Features
ImLive has multiple types of hot videos available to you. They include the following:
- Top Past Live Shows - Recordings of models' best private live shows given on the site. You can purchase these recordings for 72 hours. Price is determined by the model's chat rate and the length of the video.
- Host's Video Series - Intro clips of model's private sessions meant to give you a general idea of what to expect from them. These clips can be viewed for free as long as you possess tokens.
- Monthly Video Contests - Videos which models create every months based on specific themes (e.g. Erotic Yoga Session, Private Teacher and Playing with Ice). Users with a positive account balance can watch these videos at zero cost and rank them determining the best one and, thus, the winning model.
Getting Started
Signing up for ImLive is incredibly easy. You just need to provide a username, a password and a valid email and you're good to go. The moment you finish this short registration process, you may choose to buy credits and become a Bronze member. Bronze members can access many videos on the site and can start using premium services, tipping models and engaging in private chats in particular.
Whether you obtain credits or decide to put off your purchase, validating your credit card will get you a hefty bonus of 50 credits, which are worth $50.00. With these credits you can engage in a little more than 20 minutes of chatting (based on the site's average chat rate) with one or more models and, thus, become familiar with the concept of live shows on ImLive.
Chat Show Types and Prices
ImLive has basically two premium chat modes, Private Chats, and Candy Shows. Before you spend money on them, we strongly recommend engaging in what the site defines as Free Live Chat in order to get to know the models and find the ones you believe will do a fine job dominating, humiliating, punishing and, consequently, disciplining you in a 1-on-1 fetish live show.
Free Live Chat
As already mentioned, this is ImLive's free and public chat mode all users, registered and unregistered, can watch. Yet, to communicate with a model, you must have an active account. To give her tips, this account must contain credits.
Private Chat
This is a intimate one-on-one chat between you and your chosen performer. The average rate for such a chat is $2.25 a minute. Minimum rate is $1.00 a minute. You may decide that you want to open your camera to let the model watch you as well. You can launch a cam2cam chat on your PC as well as on your mobile device with no need for an additional fee.
You don't have to be a financial genius to tell that ImLives' chat rates are highly affordable in comparison to most other cam sites. And if that's not enough, there are ways you can reduce costs even further. You can join a model's Discount Club (as will be discussed below). In addition, some of the performers will let you opt for preset time blocks of either a 30 or 60 minute chat and save 20 and 30 percent, respectively. Finally, once you make your first purchase, the first 20 seconds in every private show are given to you for free.
Candy Shows
These are group shows for which you'll have to pay a fixed sum in advance to reserve yourself a seat along with other users who paid as well. The model must meet a certain tip goal in a predetermined time frame for her show to start, so it all depends on the users' generosity. No need to worry, if the show hasn't started and you've paid for a seat, you'll be refunded.
What is great about Candy Shows is that they're much cheaper than Private Chats, with an average rate of around $0.50 a minute, and you still get to watch the model performing in the raw. To trace fetish cam girls who give Candy Shows, go to the advanced search and select Fetish & BDSM under Category and Candy Show under Participates in. You won't always get positive results, but don't give up. You'll eventually reach the promised land.
Pornstar Shows
PornStar Shows are a type of Candy Show with one major difference: the performers are a celebs from the adult entertainment industry. Once a month, you'll have the opportunity to actually chat with the actresses whose movies you have watched countless times. You can watch recordings of past Pornstar Shows for free if your account has credits.
Payment Methods
To get credits, you need to press on the Get More credits button on the header. You'll be presented with different credit packs you can purchase with a credit card. To use other payment methods, you can either press on PumaPay at the bottom or on Change Payment Method. By pressing on the latter, you will be shown different payment processors. Each allows you to pay with different means.
Generally speaking, in the United States, ImLive accepts credit/debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, Discover, JCB, Diners Club and Switch), PayPal and PumaPay. Outside the United States, you'll also be able to use Sofort, Giropay, PaySafeCard, DirectPay EU and Safety Pay.
Customer Service
You can reach a representative on the phone or via email. If you've reached a VIP status within the Loyalty Program, a 24/7 live chat will be available to you. Moreover, the site's FAQ section is superb as it encompasses virtually any feature the site has and offers elaborate explanations. There is a search tool to help you find what you're looking for.
We've used email to turn to a representative several times with satisfactory results. The site is committed to replying to your messages within 8 hours. In reality, they were much faster and they came up with good answers that rarely left us with question marks.
Membership Benefits
One of ImLive's major membership benefits is the Discount Club some of the models offer. Joining a model's club will cost you $16.00 a month or $30.00 for two months and in return you'll get significant discount on her private chat rates and on purchasing her videos depending on your membership status within the site's Loyalty Program.
ImLive's Loyalty Program is another benefit users enjoy. It enables you to upgrade your membership status based on the credits you buy and spend. You start as a Bronze member the moment you obtain credits. By increasing your spending volume, you collect points through which you can climb up all the way to VIP membership. Higher status brings with it greater discounts on chat rates and video purchases as part of being a member of a model's Discount Club. You also get awesome perks, such as Treats you can use instead of credits, access to all sorts of videos and 24/7 live chat support (as a VIP member). It might take time to gain a high status, but it's definitely worth it.
ImLive also has a VIP program you can join only after you sign up. For $19.95 or $29.95 a month, you'll become a Platinum or a Diamond member, respectively. And, you'll reap great benefits including monthly credit bonuses, free time for watching the paid for Multi-Viewer and discounts on premium videos.
ImLive on Mobile Devices
In summer 2020, Imlive launched an upgraded mobile site aimed at optimizing your user experience whenever you'll choose to access it from your smartphone. First, you'll easily and conveniently find all the features which exist on the desktop interface, plus additional ones. For example, quick buttons for tipping the performers and activating their teledildonic devices. Second, you'll be able to watch the models in full screen while writing messages either in portrait or landscape mode. By tapping on the screen, all the graphics will disappaer, so you can get a better view of the models' shows. If you sweep left or right, you'll see the entire room.
Third and most importantly, ImLive has joined the elite club of sites enabling you to engage in cam2cam chats from your mobile device. Practically speaking, you won't be dependent anymore on a cumbersome computer setting whenever you want to interactively video-chat with a cam girl.
Webcam Streaming Quality
Streaming quality on ImLive has improved in recent years with more and more models broadcasting at HD quality. Yet the majority of the performers still stream in high quality SD. Unfortunately, the thumbnails on the main pages don't give any indication of the models' broadcasting quality. You'll have to enter their rooms to find out whether the streaming is mediocre or good.
Our Readers Have Asked:
What can I ask for with ImLive's Fulfill Your Fantasy and how much will it cost me?
You can ask whatever you want including your most eccentric fantasies. This is the place to post whatever fetish act you want fulfilled. The models that can accommodate may replay to your request. A model will charge you the rate of her private cam show where your fantasy will be realized.
Does ImLive offer satisfaction guarantee?
ImLive has a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you're a new user who has made his first purchase in the last 30 days and you're not satisfied with the site's services, you can get a refund of up to $25.00. A veteran user may get a credit refund in cases such as technical problems which prevented him from using any of the site's services properly, unsatisfactory paid video chat sessions, and unspent credit purchases made in error. To get a refund, you'll need to turn to Support or fill out a request form.
Are transactions carried out on ImLive safe?
ImLive uses encrypted SSL to protect your transactions. It follows strict Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and has BBB Accreditation indicating its commitment to making all the necessary effort to resolve any consumer complaints.
Conclusion
If you're looking for some thrills in front of the cam, ImLive will most likely meet all or, at least, most of your expectations. We're especially referring to its flirtatious performers whose sole purpose in life is to entertain you, great live show options, myriad fetish chat categories meant for users who like to incorporate kinky themes into their private cam chats, unique features you won't find anywhere else, and low chat rates enabling you to engage in long live sessions without going broke. Finally, we mustn't forget the Discount Clubs and the Loyalty Program which allow you to lower your costs making ImLive's services even more affordable.
In light of all of that, if you're taking your first steps in the cam to cam world, you should, definitely, give ImLive a try. Chances are that you won't regret it. As a veteran user, you should include ImLive in your cam sites portfolio if you haven't done so already.
