Textual Alternatives

Textual is described as 'The world's most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on macOS' and is a IRC Client in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Textual for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Textual alternative is Pidgin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Textual are SeaMonkey, HexChat, mIRC and WeeChat.

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  1. Iris IRC Client

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    Web IRC client for the Atheme platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • JavaScript
     
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    Visual IRC 2

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    Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    CoreIRC

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    IRC chat client and DCC file transfers.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
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  5. Ergo icon

    Ergo

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    Ergo (formerly known as Oragono) is a modern IRC server written in Go. Its core design principles are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • Docker
    • OpenBSD
     

  6. SSH Chat

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    Chat over SSH.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Snak icon

    Snak

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    Popular shareware IRC client for Macintosh.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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