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Empathy
Open Source by The GNOME Project |
- Linux
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Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting...

Social chat, instant-messenger, jabber, sip, xmpp, icq, aim +1 more, google-talk
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XChat for Linux
Open Source by Peter Zelezny |
- Linux
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XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux (Open Source) and Windows (Shareware, 30-day trial). It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one...

Social chat, social-application, irc, xchat
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Jitsi
Open Source |
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Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo! and many other useful features. Jitsi is...

OS & Utilities, Social voip, instant-messenger, instant-messaging, jabber +5 more, sip, desktop-sharing, video-calls, softphone, voip-chat
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Kopete
Open Source by kde.org |
- Mac
- Linux
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Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It is designed to be a flexible and extensible multi-protocol system suitable for...

Social chat, instant-messenger, msn, icq, aim, google-talk +2 more, aol, yahoo-messenger
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Psi
Open Source |
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Psi is an instant messaging application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X that connects to the free, open Jabber IM network (also known as XMPP). Localized versions of Psi are available in almost twenty...

Social chat, instant-messenger, instant-messaging, jabber +2 more, xmpp, google-talk
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HexChat
Open Source |
- Windows
- Linux
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HexChat is a patchset for XChat SVN which allows for building on Windows using the Windows Driver Kit, allowing it to use the system's msvcrt.dll. It's a free build of XChat for Windows.

Social portable Just pick the "portable" checkbox in the installer to prevent registry changes, creation of an uninstaller, etc. and pick an appropriate directory., chat, irc, irc-chat, xchat
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Emesene
Open Source by emesene team |
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A python/Gtk Instant Messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network.

Social chat, instant-messenger, social-application, live +3 more, msn, windows-live, wlm
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aMSN
Open Source by aMSN Development Team |
- Windows
- Linux
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aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone. aMSN attempts to emulate the look and feel of Windows Live Messenger, and supports many of its features. Offline Messaging Voice Clips ...

Social portable, multi-language, instant-messenger, msn +5 more, tabbed-interface, group-chat, msn-messenger, emoticons, built-in-file-transfer
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Instantbird
Open Source by Florian Quèze and Quentin Castier |
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Instantbird is an instant messaging client based on Mozilla XULRunner and the open source library libpurple created by the software developers of Pidgin. Instantbird is free software available under the GNU...

Social chat, twitter, facebook, instant-messenger +14 more, instant-messaging, irc, jabber, msn, yahoo, xmpp, icq, aim, google-talk, facebook-chat, multiprotocol, windows-live-messenger, gadu-gadu, netsoul
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KVIrc
Open Source by HelLViS69 - code - hellvis69 @ netsons.o... |
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KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit. KVirc is being written by Szymon Stefanek and the KVIrc Development Team with the contribution of many IRC addicted developers around...

Social chat, irc, kde
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qutIM
Open Source by Rustam Chakin & Ruslan Nigmatullin |
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qutIM - free open-source multiprotocol ( ICQ, Jabber/ GTalk/Ya.Online/LiveJournal.com, Mail.Ru, IRC ) instant messenger for Windows, Linux, MacOS X, OS/2, Symbian, Maemo/MeeGo, Solaris and *BSD.

Social instant-messenger, instant-messaging, jabber, icq +3 more, multi-protocol, gtalk, im-client
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Gajim
Open Source |
- Windows
- Linux
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The goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use Jabber client. Gajim works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

Social chat, instant-messenger, jabber, xmpp, aim, google-talk
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Retroshare
Open Source by DrBob |
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RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, private and secure decentralised communication platform. It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to...

File Sharing, Social file-sharing, chat, file-transfer, peer-to-peer +7 more, messenger, decentralized, anonymous-file-sharing, secure-chat, private-file-sharing, serverless, encrypted-communication
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Spark
Open Source by Ignite Realtime |
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Spark is an Open Source, cross-platform IM client optimized for businesses and organizations. It features built-in support for group chat, telephony integration, and strong security. It also offers a great...

Social chat, instant-messenger, messenger, jabber, xmpp +5 more, tabbed-interface, group-chat, spell-check, im-client, conversations
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Torchat
Open Source |
- Windows
- Linux
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TorChat is a peer to peer instant messenger with a completely decentralized design, built on top of Tor's location hidden services, giving you extremely strong anonymity while being very easy to use...

File Sharing, Social portable, security, file-sharing, chat +11 more, instant-messenger, instant-messaging, anonymous, chat-client, cryptography, anonymity, secure-connection, secure-chat, tor, anonymous-file-sharing, secure-internet
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Finch
Open Source |
- Linux
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Finch is a console-based IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, IRC, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It runs on Unixes. It uses GLib and ncurses.

Social cli, instant-messaging, terminal, irc, multi-protocol +1 more, ncurses
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Konversation
Open Source by The Konversation Team |
- Linux
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Konversation is an easy-to-use IRC client for novices, nut novices and experts can take advantage of its rich featureset.

Social chat, irc, kde
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Kadu
Open Source by KaduTeam |
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Kadu is an open source Jabber/XMPP and Gadu-Gadu instant messenger client for Linux, *BSD, Mac and Windows.

Social instant-messenger, instant-messaging, messenger +4 more, gadu-gadu, messanger, gadu, komunikator
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BitlBee
Open Source |
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BitlBee is a IRC gateway program for MSN, ICQ, AIM and XMPP (Jabber, Google Talk, Facebook). It acts as a IRC server, creates a IRC "channel" with all your contacts and allows you to talk to them as...

Social chat, cli, instant-messenger, irc, gateway, tunnel
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Psi+
Open Source by http://psi-plus.com/ |
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Psi+ is a development branch of Psi IM XMPP/Jabber client. Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP/Jabber client (Qt, C++) designed for the Jabber power users.

Social plugin / add-on http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr, chat, instant-messenger +10 more, instant-messaging, messenger, jabber, chat-client, xmpp, video-call, multi-protocol, jabber-client, otr, off-the-record

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