WeeChat
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WeeChat is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- Xfce
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
- Privacy focused
Features
- IRC
- Command line interface
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Modular System
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Decentralized
- Support for @mentions
- Multiple Account support
- Portable
- Support for Multiple protocols
Supports XMPP
Tags
- Chat Clients
- jabber
- Chat
- chat-xfce
WeeChat News & Activities
Highlights All activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about WeeChat
WeeChat celebrates its 20th anniversary and releases version 4.0.0 with major new featuresWeeChat, the popular open-source IRC chat client, has just celebrated its 20th anniversary with the...
Recent activities
WeeChat information
Developed by
WeeChat.org Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
54 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Social & Communications, OS & UtilitiesGitHub repository
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- 347 Forks
- 436 Open Issues
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What is WeeChat?
WeeChat is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.
Features
- Modular chat client: WeeChat has a lightweight core and optional plugins. All plugins (including IRC) are independent and can be unloaded.
- Multi-platform: WeeChat runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, macOS and Windows (Bash/Ubuntu and Cygwin).
- Multi-protocols: WeeChat is designed to support multiple protocols by plugins, like IRC.
- Standards-compliant: the IRC plugin is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, and 2813.
- Small, fast, and very light: the core is and should stay as light and fast as possible.
- Customizable and extensible: there are a lot of options to customize WeeChat, and it is extensible with C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme, JavaScript and PHP).
- Fully documented: there is comprehensive documentation, which is translated into several languages.
- Developed from scratch: WeeChat was built from scratch and is not based on any other client.
Comments and Reviews
High learning curve, but after that the ease of use is great. Keyboard shortcuts for anything.