Alternatives to Quassel IRC for all platforms with any license

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
Support for Multiple protocols Support for Multiple protocols Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Supports XMPP ... Multiple languages Multiple Account support Multiple chat protocols Portable Video calling Voice Call Add a feature

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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...
- HexChat is a full IRC client, just like Quassel IRC. AntumDeluge • Dec 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Xfce MacPorts XQuartz
Portable Add a feature

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Trillian

Trillian is an instant messaging app that works on phones, tablets, and desktops while keeping your chats neatly synchronized between all of them! We think conversation...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Blackberry iPad
Facebook integration Support for Multiple protocols POP3 Support Team Collaboration Add a feature

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Adium

Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS Xs Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium...

Free Open Source Mac
Customizable Multiple languages Support for Multiple protocols OTR ... Supports XMPP Tabbed interface Support for Themes Add a feature

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Miranda IM

Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Support for Multiple protocols Portable Add a feature

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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
Colored Text Add a feature

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Empathy

Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those...
- Discontinued Empathy is currently unmaintained. Last version, 3.25, released in August 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Linux BSD
Integrated File Sharing Support for Multiple protocols Video calling Add a feature

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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.
- XChat is a full IRC client, just like Quassel IRC. AntumDeluge • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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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
Portable Add a feature

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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
No features added Add a feature

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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
Live Push Notifications Multiple Account support Night mode/Dark Theme Preconfigurable auto-connect ... Support for Themes Web-Based Add a feature

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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
Decentralized Distributed Add a feature

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IRCCloud

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

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
Preconfigurable auto-connect Add a feature

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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Quassel IRC Comments

Comment by monkeybear

about Quassel IRC and LimeChat · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful -3 Helpful Report as spam

I may have dismissed this too quickly, but I think you have to sign up for an account at quassel-irc.org before being able to connect to IRC. Not happening. Too bad, it looked like a decent interface. I recommend LimeChat...

TheRaven7 · Oct 2012

I use Quassel and haven't had to sign up for any account with them.

Pacien · Oct 2016

Quassel is self-hosted (client+core), no registration on any third-party service is necessary nor possible.
(Of course you may register on IRC networks you connect to.)

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