81 Like mIRC Good alternative? YES NO 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 Colored Text Add a feature
72 Like irssi Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
100 Like XChat for Linux Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.8.8, released in May 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
18 Like Kiwi IRC Good alternative? YES NO 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 Preconfigurable auto-connect Add a feature
13 Like Shout Good alternative? YES NO What is it? Shout is a web IRC client that you host on your own server. What features does it have? * Multiple user support * Stays connected even when you close... Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature Discontinued Shout's development has stopped early 2016 and replaced by its official community fork: http://alternativeto.net/software/the-lounge/ . See https://github.com/erming/shout
12 Like IRCCloud Good alternative? YES NO IRCCloud is an IRC client with a future. Stay connected, chat from anywhere, and never miss a message. Freemium Web Android iPhone Offline logs Add a feature
56 Like Lime Talk Good alternative? YES NO Lime Talk is an online application that allows you to easily embed a chat widget onto your site. In a couple of minutes you can communicate with your website visitors... Commercial Web Customer Chat Add a feature
13 Like Mibbit Good alternative? YES NO No Java, no flash. With Mibbit, chatting online is easy, just choose your nickname and press go! No sign-up is required and you can use it from wherever you are with... Free Web No features added Add a feature
19 Like Konversation Good alternative? YES NO Konversation is an easy-to-use IRC client for novices, nut novices and experts can take advantage of its rich featureset. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
6 Like Qwebirc Good alternative? YES NO qwebirc is a web based AJAX IRC client. Free Open Source Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
5 Like Convos Good alternative? YES NO Convos is the simplest way to use IRC. It is always online, and accessible to your web browser, both on desktop and mobile. Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
6 Like Maid-IRC Good alternative? YES NO A modern web IRC client. Built on Node.js. Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Node.JS No features added Add a feature
4 Like ZeroChat Good alternative? YES NO 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 Decentralized Distributed Add a feature
22 Like X-Chat 2 for Windows Alternative? YES NO A freeware build of X-Chat for windows, as opposed to the official 30-day-trial shareware Windows build. Free Windows No features added Add a feature Discontinued Author announed EOL on homepage.
5 Like jsIRC Good alternative? YES NO jsIRC is written using Socket.IO, node.js, jQuery Title Alert and Sencha ExtJS, relying on string.js, Lo-Dash and PhantomJS. Implemented Features: * Webcam Chat *... Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Socket.io Node.JS jQuery No features added Add a feature Discontinued The official website is no longer accessible and the GitHub repo hasn't been updated since May 17th, 2015.
