WeeChat Alternatives

WeeChat is described as 'Free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts' and is a IRC Client in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WeeChat for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best WeeChat alternative is Pidgin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WeeChat are HexChat, SeaMonkey, Adium and mIRC.

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  1. Konversation icon
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    Konversation is an IRC client which gives you speedy access to Freenode network's channels, where you will find support for most distributions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
     
  2. Kaidan icon
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    Kaidan is a simple, user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client providing a modern user interface using Kirigami and QtQuick. The back-end of Kaidan is written in C++ using the QXmpp XMPP client library and Qt 5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • Ubuntu Touch
    • Plasma Mobile
    • Flathub
     
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    A freeware build of X-Chat for windows, as opposed to the official 30-day-trial shareware Windows build.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Colloquy icon
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    Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Smuxi icon
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    Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. IceChat icon
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    IceChat is a fully featured, simple to use IRC Client allowing you to chat online with your friends and for meeting new people as well. It can be used in Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista and also Windows...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    ScrollZ is an advanced IRC client based on ircII. It incorporates many useful features found in all sorts of scripts. The main difference between these scripts and ScrollZ is the code - whereas ircII scripts take a lot of disk and memory space and run slow, ScrollZ only takes a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux (Open Source) and Windows (Shareware, 30-day trial). It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Shout icon
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    The self-hosted web IRC client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. BitchX icon
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    BitchX is a free software text-based IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for UNIX-like systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. Polari icon
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    Polari is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client designed for GNOME 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Flathub
     
  12. CoreIRC icon
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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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