- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Some features disabled); $49.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: April 25, 2006
- Total Downloads: 40,815,909
- Downloads last week: 139,977
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A newer version of Camfrog Video Chat is available.
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- Average user rating: stars out of 2473 votes
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Publisher's description
From Camshare :Camfrog Video Chat allows you to join real streaming video chat rooms where you can hear, see, and chat with many people at a time. Instant message a user to get to know them before you Webcam chat, and add them to your contact list. This videoconferencing software also works behind most firewalls and routers. Camfrog Video Chat allows multi-user videoconferencing where you can join a room with up to 1000 users and just click a user name to begin seeing someone. Press the 'talk' button to talk to the entire room with audio. The video chat rooms are hosted by broadband users who are running the Camfrog Video Chat Room Server software so any user can set up their own multi-user videoconference for other users to join. No Webcam is required to see people, but some rooms might not allow users without Webcams. Camfrog Video Chat is optimized for broadband users so it has fast video.
Version 3.71 allows listing rooms by geographic location and enhanced user interface and stability.
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User reviews of Camfrog Video Chat 3.71
- Average user rating: 3.3 stars out of 2473 votes
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109 out of 126 people found this review helpful
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 3.71
"'Free to try' if it says 'This room requires Camfrog Pro to chat' ???"
Pros: Simple installation, many chat roms, ease of use, PAID version has option to open more than one video window.
Cons: The 'free to try' version is very limited, I can't even change size of video window; the free functionalty for private chat is not as good as Yahoo/MSN/Skype; there are geograpgic area restrictions (i.e. your location is monitored!!!) that prevent users from room chatting, asking instead to upgrade.
--- can't relly recommend the 'free to try' due to newly introduced limitations wheras the PRO version is not worth paying for if one does primarily private chat for which there are many alternative and better solutions that are even for free.
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71 out of 86 people found this review helpful
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 3.71
"FREE version not as good as it used to be"
Pros: It used to work when I travelled into other geographic locations and connected from there to chat rooms of my home region.
Cons: FREE version introduced a discriminating room access policy according to geographic location: I cannot chat in my favorite rooms when I'm away, neither can my friends chat with me in rooms of my location if they belong to another geographic location.
The Limitation description "Some features disabled" is misleading. Now it is "Main features disabled"!
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65 out of 80 people found this review helpful
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 3.71
"International video chatting unfortunately restricted"
Pros: + good video quality
+ simple installation
+ probably best option for room chatting for users of the same regional zone
Cons: - requires PAID version for international video chatting.
- PAID version (multiple video windows) not of much value unless high bandwidth connection available (additional cost)
- requires PAID version at both ends to avoid recently introduced zoning restrictions (since May 2006, see camfrog forum), i.e. your buddies may no longer join you in the same room if they have a FREE version (as most camfrog users do) regardless if you have a PAID one or not
Probably would rate it as 4 stars if no zone restrictions. Recommend the PAID version only if camfrog server operators commit not to impose further zone restrictions.
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62 out of 78 people found this review helpful
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 3.71
Pros: Smooth installation, software is technically stable (noticed just 1 crash within 2 weeks) and UI is easy to use.
Cons: 1. Publisher notes "Version 3.71 allows listing rooms by geographic location" which effectively means you can no longer have room chatting with people in locations others than your own (unless you pay).
2. The 'FREE' version is practically limited to 1:1 video chatting for which Skype, MS Messenger, etc. provides far better and more functionality.
3. The concept of rooms is only good in theory: endless text feeds, single video window, the fight for the mic (Push-to-talk model!) and the message "this room requires Camfrog Pro to chat" takes all the fun away.
4. Users fully depend on the mercy of room operators, i.e. the PAID version functionality may become worthless if a user can no longer join certain rooms anymore.
5. Many rooms consist of pre-recorded fake users to make the room look fuller.
6. Software entirely lacks security and privacy protection: your cam feed can be easily recorded by malicious users in the same room.
7. The ability to have multiple video windows open in the PAID version is in practice limited by your internet connection speed.
8. Dynamic IP internet connection users run the risk of not being able to enter rooms if the specific IP address was already banned while it was in use by another user.
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Camfrog Video Chat 3.71
"I deaf and new limitations no good"
Pros: I use for 1 year and make new friends.
Cons: Many friends can no longer visit me in deaf room. Why do this new geographic zone limitatation for deaf people too?
I paid for software but what does help me if some friends with free version are not allowed to chat with me. I don't love new limitations.
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