Zovine Messenger

Users who maintain numerous friendships, manage business contacts or just need to converse with their buddies, might be interested in finding a straightforward solution for keeping in touch with their friends. Zovine Messenger is a basic instant messaging utility that was aimed at helping people communicate through an IM platform that could offer them ease of use, account customization and user database search.

Supposedly user-friendly, Zovine Messenger’s interface will offer its basic tools in a somewhat distracting layout that might confuse users at first. They will be able to view their contacts in a side panel, input formatted text below and view the conversation in the center-view.

However, the design of all its messaging features is inconsistent and this might be baffling for inexperienced users. All the secondary menus or tools are hidden and also present uninspired designs, with vivid-textured backgrounds that could distract people and reduce ease of use.

Zovine Messenger provides an internal module that allows users to browse all the registered members and define their own search criteria parameters: name, sex, age, interests, city, etc. In order to simplify things, the application allows them to search directly for a boyfriend / girlfriend or view only the online members.

The application offers a four page profile customization wizard, where users can add endless details about their physiognomy, personality, social preferences, location and much more. Unfortunately, this menu is utterly cluttered with too many text-entry fields and dropdown menus that might bore users very quickly and even induce eye disorientation just by looking at it.

Those who require a basic IM platform, without too much hassle, might not be satisfied by Zovine Messenger and could be inclined to seek other software solutions. Featuring a non-appealing design and cryptic features, this application fails to provide the much-needed ease of use an IM would require. Its messaging capabilities are decent, but misleading, as they cannot compensate for the other drawbacks that impair user-friendliness.