Lead by Joachim Reinwein, professor in the Département de linguistique et de didactique des langues at the Université du Québec à Montréal, many people contributed to preliminary models of the program, which was originally developed as a research tool for the MacIntosh platform and was later extended (in 1999) to run on the Windows platform (version 1). In alphabetical order: Michel Bastien, Gladys Benudiz, Yanik Bergeron, Sylvain Campeau, Robert Ciesielski, Valentin Coroiu, Alexis de Werra, Colette Dubuisson, Aloui Faicel, Léo Gagné, Pierre Kohler, Marie Leconte, Madalina Miertescu, Sylvain Paradis, Chantal Sabourin, Jacques Rinfret.

Zigzag Reader version 2 for Windows was conceived and created by Joachim Reinwein and Marc St-Jacques.