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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.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • FR flagFrance
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Haiku
  • Xfce
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Support for Themes
  3.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  IRC
  2.  Command line interface
  3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  4.  Modular System
  5.  No Tracking
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  No registration required
  8.  Decentralized
  9.  Support for @mentions
  10.  Portable
  11.  Multiple Account support
  12.  Dark Mode
  13.  Support for Multiple protocols
  14. XMPP icon  Supports XMPP

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WeeChat information

  • Developed by

    FR flagWeeChat.org

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    55 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Social & Communications, OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  3,101 Stars
  •  339 Forks
  •  430 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 8, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about WeeChat, and it has gotten 35 likes

WeeChat was added to AlternativeTo by bdheeman on Aug 6, 2010 and this page was last updated Jun 23, 2022.

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High learning curve, but after that the ease of use is great. Keyboard shortcuts for anything.

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.

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