The Lounge Alternatives
The Lounge is described as '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' and is an app in the Social & Communications category. There are more than 10 alternatives to The Lounge for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted solutions, the Web, Linux, Node.JS and npm. The best alternative is Quassel IRC, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Lounge are Kiwi IRC (Free, Open Source), IRCCloud (Freemium), Mobile Node (Free) and ZNC (Free, Open Source).
- Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt4 framework. View 61 alternatives to Quassel IRC
- A hand-crafted IRC client that you can enjoy. Designed to be used easily and freely. View 68 alternatives to Kiwi IRC
- IRCCloud is an IRC client with a future. Stay connected, chat from anywhere, and never miss a message. View 65 alternatives to IRCCloud
- Chat, date, find taxis, manage projects and tasks and more all in one app. Mobile Node is a feature rich app that lets users to communicate securely, and since no user generated content are stored on the server-side, your privacy is guaranteed. View 578 alternatives to Mobile Node
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 3.001.005, released in February 2017, can be still downloaded from the Google Play Store.
- Free • Proprietary
- Android
- znc is an IRC proxy. It runs as a daemon and connects to IRC server, then allows you to connect from a workstation and work as the user that is logged in to the IRC server. View 12 alternatives to ZNC
- What is it? Shout is a web IRC client that you host on your own server. What features does it have? View 69 alternatives to Shout
Discontinued
Shout's development has stopped early 2016 and replaced by its official community fork: The Lounge .
No screenshots yet- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- qwebirc is a web based AJAX IRC client. View 64 alternatives to Qwebirc
- Convos is an IRC client that runs in your browser and brings the IRC experience into the 21st century. View 64 alternatives to Convos
- A modern web IRC client. Built on Node.js. View 64 alternatives to Maid-IRC
- jsIRC is written using Socket.IO, node.js, jQuery Title Alert and Sencha ExtJS, relying on string.js, Lo-Dash and PhantomJS. View 68 alternatives to jsIRC