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The Lounge icon

The Lounge

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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Chrome OS
  • Windows Phone
  • iPad
  • Self-Hosted
  • Git
  • Cloudron
  • Node.JS
  • npm
4.5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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Properties

  1.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Multiple Account support
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  IRC
  4.  Live Push Notifications
  5.  Web-Based
  6.  Preconfigurable auto-connect

 Tags

  • theme-selector

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The Lounge information

  • Developed by

    The Lounge
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5
  • Alternatives

    14 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

Social & Communications

GitHub repository

  •  5,929 Stars
  •  711 Forks
  •  310 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 17, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about The Lounge, and it has gotten 16 likes

The Lounge was added to AlternativeTo by hferreiro on Nov 17, 2016 and this page was last updated Nov 4, 2020.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
maxleater
Feb 2, 2017
2

Awesome piece of software - FOSS Irccloud alternative

Sorin Sbarnea
Apr 20, 2021

Yeah, and with far better uptime than irccloud. I used to pay for irccloud and due to numerous outages, including one that was like 24h, I switched to thelounge. I have no love for running my own services due to lack of time, but in this case it was needed, uptime on irc is critical for me as that is my work IM.

Sorin Sbarnea
Apr 20, 2021
0

Very stable project. My only wish about it it would be too see more active development (more releases). If you have more than 30-40 channels it may be bit inconvenient to use.

What is The Lounge?

The Lounge is a web IRC client that you host on your own server. It's the official, community-managed fork of @erming's great initiative, the Shout icon Shout project. This fork aims to be community managed, meaning that the decisions are taken in a collegial fashion, and that a bunch of maintainers should be able to make the review process quicker and more streamlined.

What features does it have?

Multiple user support Stays connected even when you close the browser Connect from multiple devices at once Responsive layout — works well on your smartphone .. and more!

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