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KVIrc

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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 the world.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • IT flagItaly
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • PortableApps.com
5 / 5 Avg rating (4)
45likes
4comments
0news articles

Features

Suggest and vote on features
  1.  Logging
  2.  IRC
  3.  Avatar
  4.  KDE
  5.  Portable
  6.  Custom notifications
  7.  Themes
  8.  Support for IPv6

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KVIrc News & Activities

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Recent activities

  • K0RR added KVIrc as alternative to SSH Chat
    23 days ago
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    POX added KVIrc as alternative to Ergo
    6 months ago
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KVIrc information

  • Developed by

    IT flagHelLViS69 - code - hellvis69 @ netsons.org
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    54 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Social & Communications

GitHub repository

  •  256 Stars
  •  76 Forks
  •  213 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 17, 2025 
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about KVIrc, and it has gotten 45 likes

KVIrc was added to AlternativeTo by Farow on May 7, 2010 and this page was last updated Jun 2, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Peter Mello
Nov 10, 2021
1

It's exceptionally stable and has all of the hallmarks of a FLOSS project with over 20 years of active development, like a robust but well-pruned feature set, lots of subtle ways of providing contextual information such as with tooltips, and is easy to write scripts for.

The topper for me is that it honestly makes the nicest channel/query/session logs of any client I've used over nearly 30 years on IRC; I love it when devs anticipate what users may need but don't know they do.

Even something as small as adding the co-channels (chat rooms in common with another user) to the top of every query log, I would've never thought to script that myself but they knew it was good to have on hand and sure enough, not too long ago I did in fact have a need for it.

akaoveve
Aug 16, 2022
0

Excellent in terms of features, how easy to use it is etc. I find it way better than mIRC, for example. I tested version 5 and it crashed on me once (on windows 10), but I still recommend version 4 which I used extensively back in the day.

Vondu
Nov 17, 2019
0

Still the best IRC client for windows, esp. if you look for more customization and script possibilities

suryyo
May 2, 2011
0

This applications beats the s*** out of both mIRC and XChat for the scriptability, features and GUI.

If you like mIRC or XChat, then you will like this even more.

mtelesha
Feb 23, 2012

Yes I am shocked that all of the streamers I see online use mIRC when this is soooo much better. Also XChat and mIRC cost $$$ on windows. Heck you can get a script that makes it look and act just like mIRC.

TDL
Jul 5, 2012

Xchat is $$$, not Xchat-wdk though.

EDIT : Xchat-wdk is now known as HexCHat

[Edited by TDL, August 30]

What is 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 of many IRC addicted developers around the world.

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