ZamTalk Messenger

ZamTalk Messenger is a free program that allows you to chat not only by text but also by video and voice. It can help you keep in touch with your friends from around the world or help you make some brand new friends online.

If you're interested in meeting new people there are lots of chat rooms that you can join. Chat rooms are arranged by category, so you can easily find a room for the topic you are interested in. Additionally, there are chat rooms in lots of different languages, so if you speak a language other than English you can easily find other people who speak that language, which also helps if you are trying to learn a foreign language. And if you can't find the right chat room you can create your own public room, configure it and invite your friends to join you.

You can join multiple rooms at once, and the multi-window communicator lets you keep several chats open at the same time. You can also send private messages (whispers) and transfer files to other members. You can save people who you've become friends with to your personal list so you'll be able to find them again in the future.

To start, you register a nickname with a short form (name, gender, age, location and email) and log in. The login window can save your username and password, log you in automatically or sign you in as invisible. The website asks members to avoid nicknames with trademarks, country names or advertising.

Voice chat uses your microphone and video chat uses your webcam, and a set of animated smiley icons is available in the text chat.

ZamTalk Messenger's basic version is completely free. Paid premium services add a colour nickname, a colour room, a space nickname or a crown next to the nickname. ZamTalk Messenger requires a Windows computer (the website lists Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8); Android and iPhone versions are announced on the website but are not available yet.

ZamTalk Messenger features video chat rooms as well as more standard text chat rooms.