Camfrog Video Chat blends personal instant messaging, chat rooms, and video chat into one well-designed application. Very few free applications offer as many features as Camfrog, and you will find the community of users to be active and diverse, giving you an engaging experience.

Pros

Great performance: We visited many chat rooms and observed that video streamed quickly and without any significant lag or loss of quality. Chat rooms were constantly loading new messages, and we never experienced any crashes or freezing.

Fast, attractive design: Camfrog Video Chat offers an attractive design and organized layout. Chat rooms are structured in groups, such as geographical area, and navigating between rooms and video streams only takes a few seconds.

Excellent tools: We found the Facebook integration and parental controls to be very effective, and the privacy features performed well. Camfrog offers many personalization options in the free version, while the paid version adds even more.

Cons

Large advertisements: During our tests, we were constantly distracted by the various banner ads included with this application. Although Camfrog gives you excellent text and video chat options, the advertisements detract greatly from your overall experience.

Bottom Line

Camfrog Video Chat exceeded our expectations in many ways, and we found it an excellent free program. It offers easy access to a large amount of chat rooms, usually hosting well over a few hundred users, as well as the private chat tools to be used with friends. If you're interested in video chat, this is an option worth checking out.

What do you need to know about free software?

Chat with friends via instant messaging or video calls, transfer files, access various public and private chat rooms with this handy IM client

Camfrog Video Chat is an intuitive software application designed to help you join live video chat rooms, chat with your friends, as well as take part in multi-user video conferences. You may communicate via video, audio, or VOIP sessions.

Create a new profile

At the end of the installation process you are required to create a new profile by providing details about the nickname, password, gender, birthday, email address, and location.

Plus, you can make the application automatically sign in, save your passwords, as well as sing in as invisible.

Join video chat rooms

Camfrog Video Chat gives you the freedom to join the main Camfrog room or choose between several chat rooms. You may refresh the list with chat rooms and perform search operations.

The tool displays a list with all available users for the current chat room and reveals the number of total users in real-time. Right clicking on any user lets you view the webcam, add the current user to the contact list, chat with a friend using the IM service, block contacts, send files, take snapshots, insert emoticons, and get information about someone’s profile.

Additionally, you may view a list with notifications, send an instant message, specify a status that appears next to your nickname, create your own chat room, as well as pick the privacy mode, namely Online, Away, Busy or Available.

Rich suite of configuration settings

The program sports a multi-tabbed configuration panel where you can tweak parameters for running the utility at Windows startup, animating contact list, assigning hotkeys, and setting the away mode after a user-defined period of time of inactivity or when you lock your computer.

When it comes to IM & Chat settings, you may activate tabbed IM windows, join video chat rooms on startup, display your local time to IM buddies, reveal timestamp for every message, automatically answer to private calls, accept incoming calls with a password, pick the saving directory for file transfers, set the talk time limit, and make yourself heard to all visible users.

What’s more, you can make the app ask for confirmations for various actions (e.g. close tabbed IM window, start video broadcasting), activate sound notifications for incoming messages, buddy logon, privacy chat request and other options, and show popup windows when contacts come online and go offline.

Parental control mode, privacy options, video and audio control

Parental Controls features enable you to deny new nickname additions and registration, log all instant messages and block several functions, such as video viewing and broadcasting, audio listening, text chat, instant messaging and more.

For users concerned with their privacy, they can hide their popularity, disable profile comments, conceal the room they are in, enable a filter for bad words, keep history of IM messages, as well as manage the list with blocked and visible users.

You can set up parameters for picking the video and audio capturing devices and adjusting the playback volume and Camfrog sound volume.

Bottom line

Camfrog Video Chat brings together instant messaging, various chat rooms and video chat into an intuitive environment. There’s support for plenty of configuration settings, the tool works flawlessly and loads new messages very quickly, while the privacy features and parental control mode let you block several options.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• A multimedia PC with a 1GHz processor or faster

New in Camfrog Video Chat 6.14 Build 584:

• Various bug fixes and enhancements.

Read the full changelog Camfrog Video Chat was reviewed by Ana Marculescu

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Camfrog Video Chat 6.30 Build 698

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file size:

47.9 MB

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Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 2008
Windows 2003
Windows 8 32/64 bit
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP

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