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iChat

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iChat (formerly iChat AV) is an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MobileMe, ICQ and XMPP client by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. Using a Jabber-like protocol and Bonjour for user discovery, it also allows for LAN communication.

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  • US flagUnited States

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  • Mac  Mac OS X built-in.
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Discontinued

Replaced by Messages icon Messages in OS X 10.8

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  • Chat
  • google-talk
  • skype
  • aol
  • adium
  • icq

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  • Developed by

    US flagApple

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.

  • Alternatives

    18 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about iChat, and it has gotten 39 likes

iChat was added to AlternativeTo by sceptiQ on Apr 15, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 13, 2021. iChat is sometimes referred to as iChat AV.

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DanMan
Apr 15, 2011
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It's Jabber support is really weak. It's also annoying that you still can't have one contact list for all protocols without plugin.

What is iChat?

iChat (formerly iChat AV) is an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MobileMe, ICQ and XMPP client by Apple Inc. for their Mac OS X operating system. Using a Jabber-like protocol and Bonjour for user discovery, it also allows for LAN communication. iChat's AIM support is fully endorsed by AOL, and uses their official implementation of the AIM OSCAR protocol. Using a Jabber transport, iChat users may also integrate their MSN, Yahoo! and Google Talk contacts into the Jabber pane.

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