Pidgin

Pidgin is an easy to use, multi-protocol chat client client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP, and more chat networks all at once. It has built-in...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce

1456 Like

HexChat

HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat for Linux , but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. HexChat was...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce MacPorts XQuartz

188 Like

mIRC

mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC...

Commercial Windows

86 Like

irssi

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Cygwin

75 Like

KVIrc

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

39 Like

WeeChat

WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client. It runs on many platforms (including Linux, BSD and Mac OS). WeeChat is: - modular: a lightweight core with...

Free Open Source Mac Linux Android BSD Xfce

31 Like

XChat for Linux

XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one...

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.8.8, released in May 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

103 Like

Quassel IRC

Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt4 framework. Distributed means that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted

43 Like

ZeroChat

An IRC-like internet chatroom hosted on ZeroNet, a distributed network. 0rc is a fully distributed website, and messages are shared through peers using the ZeroNet...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted ... Python JavaScript ZeroNet

10 Like

IRCCloud

IRCCloud is an IRC client with a future. Stay connected, chat from anywhere, and never miss a message.

Freemium Web Android iPhone

15 Like

Kiwi IRC

A hand-crafted IRC client that you can enjoy. Designed to be used easily and freely. More friendly than other webirc clients giving the general public an easy option to...

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Chrome

20 Like

Smuxi

Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop. Smuxi is based on the...

• Discontinued The last activity in the Smuxi project was in 2015

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

30 Like

AdiIRC

c#/csharp IRC CLient. AdiIRC stores all its settings in text files, this way you can grab the adiirc folder and put in on a usb device or external harddrive. Take all...

Free Windows Wine

26 Like

Polari

Polari is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client designed for GNOME 3.

Free Open Source Linux GNOME

10 Like

The Lounge

The Lounge is a web IRC client that you host on your own server. This is the official, community-managed fork of @erming's great initiative, the Shout project.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS Windows Phone iPad Self-Hosted Git Cloudron Node.JS npm

13 Like