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Quassel IRC

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Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt5 framework. Distributed means that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core that stays permanently online -- much like the popular combination of screen and a...

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  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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  1.  QT Based
  2.  Standalone
  3.  IRC

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  • Developed by

    The Quassel IRC Team
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.5
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  740 Stars
  •  225 Forks
  •  33 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 20, 2025 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Quassel IRC, and it has gotten 49 likes

Quassel IRC was added to AlternativeTo by moonwreath on Jan 3, 2010 and this page was last updated Mar 20, 2023. Quassel IRC is sometimes referred to as Quassel.

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Top Positive Comment
Seth
Jun 8, 2014
1

After using Textual on the Mac for a while, when I had to switch back to using Windows for work purposes I was unimpressed with the substandard and outdated IRC gui app offerings until I discovered Quassel.

jcrben
Jun 8, 2015
0

I like this project in theory: as an open-source Qt project, it is approachably hackable and cross-platform. But when I went to install it on my OSX Yosemite laptop, it started crashing soon after I did a little configuration; I didn't bother to report a bug given there's already reports of OSX issues. Plus, I had to search and find a bug/feature request to figure out how to access the channel list, so its UI is not terribly intuitive. Judging from Github, it looks like Hexchat has more traction but there are also reports of stability issues.

[Edited by jcrben, June 08]

monkeybear
Jul 19, 2010
-5

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 28, 2012

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

Pacien
Oct 28, 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.)

What is Quassel IRC?

Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt5 framework. Distributed means that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core that stays permanently online -- much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, and similar to (but much more featureful than) so-called BNCs.

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