Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux

BitchX is described as 'Free software text-based IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for UNIX-like systems' and is a IRC Client in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to BitchX for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best BitchX alternative is SeaMonkey, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BitchX are HexChat, Adium, mIRC and WeeChat.

Famous IRC client created by Oliver Wagner and Jamie van den Berge for VaporWare. Its look and feel was copied many times and inspired the creation of XChat.




HoloIRC is an open source IRC client for Android 4.0 and up. It is designed to be as simple to use as possible while being extremely small in size and fairly light in resources. It works with IRC bouncers as well as regular servers.



Ergo (formerly known as Oragono) is a modern IRC server written in Go. Its core design principles are:
