For those of us who practice chastity but don’t have a romantic partner or friend to act as our key holder, the good news is there are more opportunities to find remote key holders than ever before. But there are always questions about whether remote, online key holders will provide the type of key holding services that will actually meet the needs of chastity device wearers or whether they are worth it when you have to pay for the services.
I know many chastity device wearers refuse to even consider paying for key holding services. I get it. Those who won’t pay are looking for someone willing to hold the keys to their device just out of a strong desire to exercise this type of authority over someone’s penis. But the reality is there are few key holders out there willing to hold the keys for some random person’s chastity device for free. That’s also true of most of the key holders available from the resource I’m focusing on today, the Chaster app. The vast majority of active key holders on Chaster require tributes.
In this Chaster review, I’m will discuss Chaster app’s features and capabilities and hopefully help readers decide whether getting a key holder via the app is worth the cost.
I’ve written about the Chaster app before, but in this article I am focusing on the key holding services available on the app, the current quality of the services, and whether the cost is worth it.
In this Chaster app review, you will learn:
- Just how does key holding work exactly on Chaster?
- How much do key holding services cost on Chaster?
- What are the major features of key holding on Chaster?
- Are the key holding services on Chaster worth the cost?
What is the Chaster App
For the benefit of those who might be unfamiliar with the app, I’ll begin with a few basics.
Chaster is a web-based chastity key holding application for wearers and key holders, that prides itself on providing remote, online key holding for those who enjoy practicing chastity and wearing chastity devices but who don’t have someone to act as their key holder.
Chaster does this in three ways. Registered users can join shared “Community locks” run by ChasterBots, create personalized self-locks, or join shared locks created by other registered users identifying as “key holders.” The two registered user identities on the app are “wearers” and “key holders.”
Shared “Community locks” are locks created by Chaster staff (the ChasterBot locks) or Chaster users who want to control the locks of others as a key holder. They are available to any registered user who wishes to join them, although some locks require the wearer to contact and get permission from the key holder before joining.
Community locks have preset initial lock durations, minimum and maximum. The initial durations may be in days, weeks, or months. Community locks have preset provisions for hygiene breaks, basic extensions like the “Wheel of Fortune” extension, and daily teasing tasks. In addition, many shared community locks allow the wearer to “trust the key holder” and this allows the key holder more extension options and greater control over the wearer, including the ability to increase the initial maximum duration of the lock.
On Chaster, chastity device keys must be stored in a secure box with a re-settable (4-digit minimum) combination lock (e.g., metal door hanger boxes used by realtors are a popular choice) or secured by whatever method specified by the key holder to prevent the wearer from accessing the keys. Use of disposable plastic numbered locks on the device is one popular option among Chaster key holders.
The Chaster app has two membership options, free and paid. The paid version “Chaster Plus” is a €9.99 (about $10.89 USD) monthly subscription that offers users more features and extension options. Free users are limited to one lock locked at a time and are limited to a maximum of three extensions per lock. Chaster Plus users get unlimited locks and unlimited extensions among other features.
You can learn more about the Chaster app, the extensions, how to join, create, and navigate locks by visiting the Chaster documentation link.
Chaster App Key Holders
When the application first allowed human people to sign up as key holders, those who did so offered free key holding services. But soon, some enterprising folks realized many men could be persuaded to pay for key holding and began offering pay-to-play services on the sly.
Probably because the developers of the app realized they couldn’t put a stop to paid key holding, they changed the terms of service to allow it but with conditions.
Anyone offering pay-to-play must declare it on the Chaster app and gets a green “Findom” badge displayed on their profile to alert wearers that payment is required to join their locks. (Note that here “Findom” doesn’t have the same meaning as it does on X (formerly Twitter) where findoms are women who solicit payments from men simply for existing). On Chaster, the term only (or at least mostly) just identifies key holders who require payment for key holding. Chaster also requires pay-to-play key holders to pay for Chaster Plus, something a key holder would have to do anyway if they wanted to offer more than one shared community lock at a time.
Some pay-to-play key holders are independents, but the vast majority of them have migrated to Chaster from fan sites like OnlyFans, LoyalFans, SextPanther, etc. Many of them offer paid key holding services hoping to lure paying customers to their fan sites to buy their amateur NSFW adult content, tip them, or pay them for other adult services like sexting.
Some of the fan site key holders are actually good key holders and adept at providing effective teasing, but most attempt continuously to upsell wearers who join their locks and pay for their key holding services. But some of them are not good key holders at all, even those who have some interest in key holding besides making money. They lack knowledge about chastity devices and the safety measures that those wearing them should observe. Basically, they know only what they have found on the internet about chastity and can’t distinguish between good and bad chastity related information. So, caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) when agreeing to pay someone for key holding on Chaster. Many talk a good game, but don’t deliver.
You can still find the occasional free key holder on Chaster, but they are few. Most Chaster key holders now require payment for their services. It also isn’t uncommon for someone to represent themselves as a free key holder and then attempt to extract payment from wearers after they have joined a lock.
How Much Does Chaster App Key Holding Cost?
Since every pay-to-play key holder sets their own prices, there is no average cost you can expect to pay. Prices range from cheap to expensive. By expensive, I mean I’ve talked with Chaster key holders (mostly the fan site types) who expect rates similar to what you would have to pay an authentic pro domme for remote key holding services. But to give you an idea, here are some representative prices I’ve seen recently. The first three prices include some amount of daily interaction with the key holder, usually limited.
- $25 per week and $5 for each additional day
- $50 per week
- £49 (about $64 USD) per week
- $100 (2-5 days), $150 (7-15 days), $200 (15-20 days), $260 (month)1
- $160 (2-5 days), $250 (7-15 days), $320 (15-20 days), $360 (month)2
1These prices are for basic key holding. No interaction with the key holder after the initial lock up and the only teasing is from completing the preset task assignments that are part of the lock.
2These prices are from the same key holder above for premium key holding with daily interaction and one weekly 30-minute text session with the key holder.
As a comparison to the last two prices listed above, here is what one reputable pro domme I’m acquainted with, charges for remote key holding that includes an initial video call lock up and daily teasing tasks (but otherwise limited interaction).
$60 (5-9 days), $130 (10-17 days), $260 (18-31 days)
As you can see, the cost for Chaster paid key holding varies widely, ranging from cheap to expensive. To complicate matters, the skill sets of Chaster pay-to-play key holders vary just as widely. And since you must pay in advance, unless you have had past experience with a particular key holder, you don’t know what quality of key holding services you will get until after you have paid and entered into an agreement.
My Experience With the Chaster App
Next, I will detail my experiences with the Chaster app and with Chaster keyholders, which is why I’m qualified to write this review.
After signing up, for my first experience with the Chaster app, I reviewed all the available public Community locks and found one that interested me.
You can view all the available shared locks, even without signing up by clicking this Chaster Explore link that takes you to the “Community locks” page. Once on the page, you will see a sample of some popular public locks. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “View all public locks” link to see all the available locks.
After navigating to the page for the public lock I had chosen, I joined the lock only to receive a notification that the key holder who created the lock was inactive. Chaster inactivates users who do not sign on for some length of time, but I’ve been unable to find out what the length of time is. The app gave me the option to leave the lock and search for another or to continue the lock self-locked. Since it was only a 2-day, weekend lock, I opted to continue. I completed all the required activities and tasks and when the time expired, the app allowed me to unlock. Absent the interaction with a key holder I had expected from the lock description, my first experience was a little disappointing. But it gave me the opportunity to learn how the locks worked.
I did a little more research, and discovered that while signed on the app, I could click on the “Members” link on the lower left hand side of the home page and see a list of active members. There were filter options (found at the top of the “Members” page) where I could choose an age range, location, chastity role, gender, sexual orientation, and in the case of key holders, whether they charged for key holding. Since I prefer women key holders, age 35 and up, I filtered the list using those parameters. Also, I found a slider at the bottom that allowed me to limit the list to only members who had been active on the app during the past seven days.
On any given day, I got a list of between 30 to 35 women members, most of whom were key holders. By checking the member list a few times a day over several days, I soon learned which key holders on Chaster were the most active and therefore most available. Then I limited my search for interesting public locks to only those key holders. I highly recommend using the “Members” link because there are literally thousands of public locks listed on the app but the vast majority of key holders who created them are inactive and unavailable to control the locks.
Eventually, I found a public lock offered by an active key holder. She turned out to be an OnlyFans person and the lock description instructed me to contact her on her OnlyFans page to request the lock. I navigated there using the link she had provided. Her page was free to subscribe to, so I subscribed and then sent her a private message. She replied right away within a few minutes.
We discussed the tribute (fee) requirement, which I found reasonable. I told her which lock I wanted to do (she had many of them), listed my favorite teasing activities, listed my limits, and provided a list of toys I had available. While I paid the tribute in the manner she required, she customized the task to reflect my specific likes and limits. Once she confirmed I had paid, she provided me the password the lock required. I locked on my device, joined the lock, and sent her the required proof of lock photo.
This was a seven-day lock, which I felt would allow me enough time to get a feel for her key holding skill set and to get acquainted with her. It was a pleasant week with plenty of interaction. She helped me sign up on her Discord channel, which is how we communicated and where I uploaded proof of task completion photos and videos she required. I was impressed enough that after the week ended, I agreed to a one month lock and paid the required tribute, which again was reasonable and well within my budget. But that’s when things went awry.
While I still got plenty of interaction and we chatted on and off daily, the daily teasing tasks abruptly stopped. She was always too busy, tired, or not in the mood to play. That went on for almost the entire month, so at the end I declined to continue with her.
After trying some other key holders I found elsewhere for several months, I finally returned to Chaster after not finding one I felt any real chemistry with. Again, I found a public lock offered by an active key holder, who turned out to be another OnlyFans person. I navigated to her page using the link she had provided, took out the free subscription to her page, and sent her a private message to request to join her lock. She also replied right away.
This time, I chose only a two-day, weekend lock since again I didn’t know the woman. Given my previous unsatisfactory experience with an OnlyFans key holder, I only wanted a short, inexpensive trial lock to get a feel for her as a key holder before committing to spending more money for a longer lock period.
Because I was new to her, she gave me her version of premium key holding services for the price of her basic services. So, I received plenty of interaction. We also chatted on and off daily from Friday through Monday. (It turned out to be a four-day lock instead of two because I caught some penalties that extended the lock duration, which she seemed to enjoy). Not only did I have a wonderful experience with her, the four days of interaction helped me get acquainted with her faster.
She has turned out to be one of the better key holders I’ve had and I always have lots of fun with her. I’ve continued with her on a week to week basis since the weekend lock and she has maintained the high quality of the services she provides. I’m getting close to taking the next step with her by moving up to a month to month arrangement. She is experienced, takes chastity seriously and is strict, but is also loads of fun and a teasing skills virtuoso. Besides the customized tasks she puts into the Chaster lock, she often randomly texts me additional tasks and teasing messages.
So, I’ve had one good and one bad experience with Chaster pay-to-play key holders. It’s a small sample, but the point is you never know what you’re going to get until you try it out with someone. That’s the only way to learn whether the key holding services are worth the cost, and you have to spend money finding out. To be honest, I feel very fortunate to have met my current key holder. I have just developed a sense that there are far more Chaster key holders like the first one I had than the one I have now.
I’m not at all averse to paying for key holding as long as I feel the quality of the services received is worth what I’m paying. In my present situation, I find my key holder is worth every penny and feel I am actually getting far more than I’m paying for. The time she spends with me, she could be spending profitably with someone else, which is another reason I’m happy to compensate her for her time and attention. Another thing I like about her is she never pressures me to buy content, tip, or buy gifts from a wish list. Our interactions revolve around chastity except when we are just chatting for fun, and I appreciate her for that.
The Verdict: Is Chaster Worth It?
Answering this question depends on what a person is looking for from the Chaster app. Are you happy with self-locking? Do you want a key holder you don’t have to pay? Are you willing to spend some money to get the quality of key holding that satisfies your needs? It’s a one of a kind chastity application with plenty to like. But I’ve found plenty of things about Chaster I don’t like.
For someone who is self-locking, I think the Chaster app offers a much more enjoyable experience than going it alone. You can use the ChasterBot public locks and get some sense of having a key holder. Or you can create your own customized locks using the extensions you find most appealing. The developers are constantly working to make the app better, and I suspect AI will become integrated into Chaster eventually and that could make self-locking even more enjoyable.
If you’re looking for a free key holder, I think you might find Chaster disappointing. No doubt your chances are probably better than finding a key holder on chastity forums or sites like Fetlife. But from everything I’ve seen, both on the app and on the Chaster Discord channel, which I spend time on, there aren’t many Chaster key holders willing to provide free services. If you’re someone who won’t pay for key holding under any circumstances, I recommend joining the Chaster Discord channel. I think that is your best chance at finding a key holder you won’t have to pay. Like anywhere else that you might look for a key holder, there are always far more people wanting someone to lock them than people wanting to be key holders. And understand that Chaster is becoming more and more a pay-to-play application.
As my experiences illustrate, even if you’re willing to pay for key holding, Chaster can be hit or miss. Eventually, I got lucky and found a good one I really like. But I not only had a bad one who bordered on being dishonest, I have some good reasons to believe there are probably many more bad pay-to-play key holders on Chaster than good ones. Also, from some profiles I’ve read, and I’ve read many, I suspect there are some women key holders on the Chaster app who don’t particularly like people with penises and use the application as an opportunity to deal out some serious misery. I’ve seen several who made no secret that this was their intent.
Still, I’m sure I haven’t found the only good pay-to-play key holder on Chaster. But you must do your due diligence. Read profiles carefully and ask plenty of questions before you make any agreements or spend money. Once you enter a lock with someone, if it all goes south, you can abandon the lock, but you won’t get your money back.
In my opinion, authentic pro dommes with an established business and professional website are the very best source for key holders if you’re able and willing to pay for key holding services. But their services don’t come cheap, even for online, remote key holding. So, I think the Chaster app is an option for finding a paid key holder for less. It’s also a much better place to look for a pay-to-play key holder than sites like Fetlife and Reddit, both of which have a lot of scammers who will take your money and promptly disappear. All the web-based chastity forums I’m aware of exclude professional key holders, so you won’t find one there. Now let’s look at the pros and cons I’ve observed with the Chaster app.
Pros
Chaster is an improvement over going it alone for someone who self-locks.
While the chances of finding someone to control your keys for free are limited, the Chaster app might offer the best chance compared to other possibilities.
There are knowledgeable, experienced, and honest pay-to-play key holders to be found on Chaster. I’m sure I haven’t found the only one.
If you have ever considered an OnlyFans person for paid key holding, I definitely believe those on the Chaster app are a cut above those you might meet on Fetlife or by going directly to the OnlyFans website. I’ve had key holding experiences with other OnlyFans and LoyalFans women I’ve met outside the Chaster app. I found only one who was a decent key holder, good enough that I stayed with her for three weeks. But she, like all the others, continually pressured me to buy videos, tip them, pay for additional sessions, or buy gifts off their wish lists, even though I was already paying them for key holding. That got old fast. And the more often I declined to pay for the extras, the less interaction I got from them.
The Chaster Discord channel makes the Chaster app even better. You have the chance to chat with other members, including key holders. You can stay abreast of the new features and extensions the developers add almost continuously. I definitely recommend joining the Chaster Discord channel (free) after signing up for the app.
You don’t have to pay for using the Chaster app. The free option works fine for device wearers. I believe the paid Chaster Plus option is only a requirement for key holders who want to create multiple public and custom locks and want access to all the available extensions to make their tasks more interesting. Also, even if you’re on the free option, if your key holder has Chaster Plus, you get access to all the extensions they include in the lock. I can’t think of a good reason for any wearer to pay over $10 a month for Chaster Plus unless they just want to support the app. You don’t need it.
Cons
There are few free key holders on Chaster anymore. The majority and the most active are now pay-to-play.
Scammers aren’t as big a problem on Chaster as they are on other sites where people go to look for key holders, but it isn’t unheard of. Fetlife and Reddit both have serious scammer problems, but I’ve chatted with wearers who told me key holders have tried to extort them after they joined a lock, and one guy told me a key holder tried to blackmail him. Use common sense. Don’t reveal personal information or provide photos or videos showing your face to key holders unless you wouldn’t mind having your information or images showing up in other places on the internet. It’s also a good idea to wipe the metadata from photos taken with your cell phone before sharing them with a key holder. Most new people you meet seem trustworthy and nice until they aren’t.
There are probably just as many bad key holders on Chaster as good ones. Honestly, probably more. Here I’m speaking mostly of people who aren’t key holding with the best of intentions, or who lack knowledge and experience. Recently, I read a public lock and saw that one of the teasing tasks required the wearer to apply dry ice directly to their unprotected skin for ten minutes. If you know anything about dry ice (frozen CO2) you know that would cause a severe cold burn (frostbite) that would likely require medical attention and could do permanent damage. Thankfully, the key holder didn’t ask wearers to apply the dry ice to their junk, but still. Remember, if you use the Chaster app, you are completely responsible for your own safety. You can’t depend on key holders.
While you can find people of all ages on the Chaster app, members skew younger. I suspect from reading profiles and reading the forums on Chaster Discord that the average is probably twenties for both active wearers and key holders. And the app has no age verification feature. They just take your word for it, so I suspect there are likely underage individuals on the app. I’m not comfortable interacting with key holders with listed ages under 35, which is why I screen for that. And I certainly won’t chance interacting with someone not of legal age for obvious legal reasons.
While locks show initial minimum and maximum durations in hours, days, weeks, or months, I’ve noticed most public locks have a disclaimer at the very bottom: “The lock duration can be increased without limit.” What does that mean? If you aren’t careful, you could join a seven-day lock and end up in permanent chastity. Not only are there ways a key holder can increase the length of the lock after you’ve joined it, there are many extensions that penalize you by adding extra time to the duration. For example, many locks require submission of lock verification photos for “peer review” by other members. I’ve seen locks where getting your verification photo rejected carries a penalty of getting seven days added to the duration of your lock. There are lots of extensions that have addition to duration penalties. Personally, I wouldn’t join any lock where the duration can be increased without limit. And from what I’ve heard, this gets abused. I recommend always nailing down a specific end date with your key holder before joining a lock. Well, unless you actually want to spend the rest of your life wearing a chastity device.
When you join a lock, there are timers at the top of the page that show how long you’ve been locked and how much time is left to go. Key holders can hide these timers if they choose, after you’ve joined a lock. And it’s quite popular to do so. An unethical key holder could increase the duration of the lock without your knowledge any time they wanted. Once again, you could be left facing permanent chastity you don’t want. You need to negotiate this in advance if it matters to you unless you have great trust in the key holder.
Paying a Chaster key holder is always inconvenient. Here’s the problem. Paid chastity key holders fall under the definition of “sex workers” under the terms of service of online payment companies like PayPal. PayPal and other financial companies prohibit sex workers from utilizing services on their payment systems. That leaves few options for paid key holders to take payments. Some take payments via fan sites like OnlyFans, even though those sites take 20 percent off the top of every dollar received. To avoid that, some set up gift accounts on fan gifting websites like Wish Tender or Throne, where they can create wish lists for gifts at different price points. They then direct chastity device wearers to buy gifts equal in value to their required tribute amounts from their wish list to pay for key holding. Even if you buy a gift of the exact value that the key holder specifies, you must also pay an additional not insignificant fee to the gift website on top of the cost of the gift, a markup that represents the gift websites profit on the transaction. You may also have to pay sales tax. But it gets worse. Credit card companies know all about OnlyFans and the fan gift websites. Expect your credit card issuer to automatically flag charges to these sites as suspicious and to decline the charge. You will then receive a call, text, or email from your card issuer’s fraud department asking you to verify the transaction. Only after you have verified it will they lift the fraud flag and then you have to do the transaction all over again. This has happened to me every single time I’ve attempted transactions at any of these sites with any of my credit cards, all issued by major financial institutions. It doesn’t seem to matter that you’ve made charges on the sites before. It still gets flagged the next time.
There you have the major pros and cons of using the Chaster key holding app. I’m sure there are others I haven’t yet experienced. I find using the app less convenient than dealing directly with a pro domme. But my current key holder insists on using Chaster because she finds it easier to control the locks there since she is routinely key holding for several people simultaneously at any given time.
You shouldn’t feel the Chaster app isn’t useful or safe. But you must accept it isn’t a perfect key holding solution for the reasons I’ve covered and always exercise common sense. No one will look out for you. You’re responsible for keeping yourself safe.
