One of the most popular alternatives to Pidgin is Element, which is open source and free for personal use. Other popular alternatives are Matrix, Beeper, Jami and Jitsi Desktop. You're spoiled for choice with Instant Messengers like Pidgin: we list more than 100 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and Android.
Messenger for Desktop is a wrapper for the official client messenger.com. Therefore it works like a regular browser which can only navigate to the messenger.com web app. MFD doesn't touch your messages, account or personal data. All that is handled securely by Facebook.
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Brosix is a secure communication tool for businesses that need a functional way to organize their internal communication.
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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.
WebIRC runs as a server and is always connected to your favorite IRC networks. Seamlessly open the same session from home, work, and your mobile devices to continue exactly where you left off.
MCabber is a small XMPP (Jabber) console client. It includes features such as SASL/SSL/TLS support, MUC (Multi-User Chat) support, history logging, command completion, OpenPGP encryption, OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) support, dynamic modules and external action triggers.
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jakeIRC is a web-based Meteor IRC client that allows users to connect to their favorite IRC channels.
A server-less network video phone that is powered by DirectX for real-time video streaming. SSuite UltraCam Video Phone was designed to be a server-less communicator for use within any LAN or Wi-Fi network.
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Retro AIM Server is an instant messaging server that revives AOL Instant Messenger (and ICQ!) clients from the 2000s.
CGI:IRC is a Perl/CGI program that lets you access IRC from a web browser, it is designed to be flexible and has many uses such as an IRC gateway for an IRC network, a chat-room for a website or to access IRC when stuck behind a restrictive firewall.
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Toxic is a client with an ncurses interface, written entirely in C. It has support for all basic features, as well as 1-on-1 audio/video chats, and is capable of working on bare-bones systems that lack graphical interfaces.
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A simple-to-use messaging app for 1:1 communication and small groups supporting SMS, MMS, matrix and XMPP through libpurple.
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