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Encyclopedia > Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients

The following comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients gives an overview of features and differences between various Internet Relay Chat clients. IRC redirects here. ...

Contents

General information

First public release date Latest stable Date of latest Cost (USD) Software license
0irc 2000 1.4.53 Free Freeware
AmIRC 1995 3.5.28 2007 $30, or 30-minute per session trial Proprietary
BitchX 1996 1.1 2004 Free BSD License
Bersirc 1999 2.2.14 2005 Free LGPL
ChatZilla 2001 0.9.78.1 2007 Free MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Colloquy 2005 2.1 2007 Free GPL
EPIC 1994 epic4-2.6 2006 Free BSD License
HydraIRC 2002 0.3.160 2007 Free Proprietary
IceChat 2002 7.60 2007 Free Proprietary
ii 2006 1.1 2007 Free MIT/X Consortium License
ircII 1990 20060725 2006 Free BSD License
IRCle ? 3.1.2 2005 $23, 30-day trial Proprietary
Irssi 1999 0.8.12 2007 Free GPL
Jini 2002 0.0.6 Free GPL
Klient 1999 2.2.1 2006 $24.95, 30-day trial Proprietary
Konversation 2002 1.0.1 2006 Free GPL
Kopete 2003 0.12.4 2007 Free GPL
KoroIRC 2004 0.2.061104 2006 Free Proprietary
KSirc 1997 3.3.2-5 Free GPL
KVIrc 1998 3.2.6 "Anomalies"  (January 7, 2007) 2007 Free GPL
LeetIRC for DOS http://www.rubbermallet.org/mysoftware.html 2006 1.1 2006 Free GPL
Linkinus 2007 1.1 2007 $20, 15-day trial (optional) Proprietary
Miranda IM 2000 0.7.1 2007 Free GPL
mIRC 1995 6.31 2007 $20, 30-day trial (optional) Proprietary
nexIRC 2004 2.26 2004 $20 Proprietary
Opera ? 9.24  (October 17, 2007) 2007 Free Proprietary
OrnateIRC 2001 1.6 Free Proprietary
Pidgin 2000 2.2.2  (October 23, 2007) 2007 Free GPL
pIRCh 1995 1.0.1.1190 1998 Shareware $20 (optional) Proprietary
savIRC 2001 2.1.0 2007 Free GPL
ScrollZ 1994 1.9.99 2007 Free BSD License
Snak 1997 5.3.1 2007 $29 Proprietary
ShadowIRC 1996 1.1.0b2 2001 Free GPL
Trillian 2000 3.1.0.121 2005 Free Proprietary
Trillian Pro 2002 3.1.0.121 2005 $25 Proprietary
TurboIRC 1998 6.030 2005 $20, or free unregistered Proprietary
Visual IRC 1995 2.0pl2 2007 Free GPL
WeeChat 2003 0.2.6 2007 Free GPL
Wookie Chat ? 2.6 2007 Free Freeware
XChat 1998 2.8.5 2007 UNIX/Linux versions Free, Windows version $20 GPL
PJIRC 2002 2.2.1 2004 Free GPL
PhibianIRC 2005 1.2.5218 2007 Free Proprietary
First public release date Latest stable Date of latest Cost (USD) Software license

*Note that there are free builds of X-Chat for Windows. USD redirects here. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... AmIRC is a MUI based IRC client for the Amiga. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... BitchX ANSI splash screen (one of several in rotation). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... Bersirc is a multi-platform Open Source IRC client currently in development for the Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. ... This article is about the year. ... The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. ... ChatZilla is an IRC client, written in XUL and JavaScript for Mozilla web browsers. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... In computing, the Mozilla Public License (MPL) is an open source and free software license. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. ... Licenses are granted by copyright holders to grant exceptions of copyright law to users for a work. ... Screen grab of #wikipedia Colloquy is an IRC and SILC client for Mac OS X. It uses Irssi as its IRC protocol engine, and supports customizable message views using XSLT and Apple Computers WebKit renderer, which is based on KHTML. The software supports plugins enabling integration with the OS... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... The Enhanced Programmable ircII Client (ircII-EPIC) is an IRC client for Unix systems descended from the ircII client. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... HydraIRC is an Internet Relay Chat client for Windows, created in June 2002 and developed by Dominic Clifton. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... IceChat is a Windows IRC client written in Visual Basic. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... ii (irc improved) is a minimalist and innovative FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client created by the wmii development team. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The MIT License, also called the X License or the X11 License, originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a license for the use of certain types of computer software. ... ircII is a Unix IRC client that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... Ircle (sometimes spelled IRCle) is an IRC client written by Onno Tijdgat for the Macintosh computer platform. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Irssi is an IRC client program originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Klient is a shareware IRC client for Windows. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Konversation is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Kopete is a multi-protocol, free software instant messaging client. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... KVIrc started as an alternative IRC client for KDE under GNU/Linux by Szymon Stefanek. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... This article is about the family of closely related operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Linkinus is a shareware IRC client for Mac OS X. Linkinus features a easy-to-use user interface that fits very well into Apples GUI, Aqua. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Miranda Instant Messenger is a minimalist, open source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... mIRC is a shareware Internet Relay Chat client for Windows, created in 1995 and developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... nexIRC is an IRC client for Microsoft Windows which is published by the software company Team Nexgen and awarded the editors choice award on DailySofts website [1]. nexIRC has a ranking of five stars on Planet Source Codes [2] website. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Opera is an Internet suite which handles common internet-related tasks, including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, and online chat. ... is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Gaim (to be renamed Pidgin in the next release) is a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... Snak is a modern IRC client for Macintosh written by Kent Sorensen. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ... Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows created by Cerulean Studios that can connect to multiple IM programs from one client, such as AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, Jabber, and Skype networks (the latter four with Trillian Pro which allows for additonal... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows created by Cerulean Studios that can connect to multiple IM programs from one client, such as AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, Jabber, and Skype networks (the latter four with Trillian Pro which allows for additonal... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... WeeChat is an IRC client. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... A question mark is a punctuation mark. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... A typical X-Chat session on the Freenode IRC network showing an active conversation in the #Wikipedia channel as well as other channels in tabs. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... PJIRC is an open source Java applet IRC client. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... USD redirects here. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ...


Operating system support

The operating systems on which the clients can run without emulation. An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ...

Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD / Unix AmigaOS
0irc Yes No No No No
AmIRC No No No No Yes
BitchX Partial Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bersirc Yes No No Yes Yes
ChatZilla Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Colloquy No Yes No No No
EPIC Partial Yes Yes Yes No
HydraIRC Yes No No No No
IceChat Yes No No No No
ii No Yes Yes Yes No
ircII No Yes Yes Yes No
IRCle No Yes No No No
Irssi Partial Yes Yes Yes No
Klient Yes No No No No
Konversation No Yes Yes Yes No
Kopete No Yes Yes Yes No
KoroIRC Yes No No No No
KSirc No No Yes Yes No
KVIrc Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Linkinus No Yes No No No
Miranda IM Yes No No No No
mIRC Yes No No No No
nexIRC Yes No No No No
Opera Yes Yes Yes Yes No
OrnateIRC Yes No No No No
Pidgin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (Cygnix X11 engine)
savIRC Yes Yes Yes Yes No
ScrollZ Partial Yes Yes Yes No
Snak No Yes No No No
Trillian Yes No No No No
Trillian Pro Yes No No No No
TurboIRC Yes No No No No
Visual IRC Yes No No No No
WeeChat Partial Yes Yes Yes No
WookieChat No No No No Yes
X-Chat Yes Yes Yes Yes No
PJIRC Yes Yes Yes Yes No
PhibianIRC Yes No No No No
Windows Mac OS X Linux BSD / Unix AmigaOS

1. ... Mac OS X (IPA: ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. ... AmIRC is a MUI based IRC client for the Amiga. ... BitchX ANSI splash screen (one of several in rotation). ... Bersirc is a multi-platform Open Source IRC client currently in development for the Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. ... ChatZilla is an IRC client, written in XUL and JavaScript for Mozilla web browsers. ... Screen grab of #wikipedia Colloquy is an IRC and SILC client for Mac OS X. It uses Irssi as its IRC protocol engine, and supports customizable message views using XSLT and Apple Computers WebKit renderer, which is based on KHTML. The software supports plugins enabling integration with the OS... The Enhanced Programmable ircII Client (ircII-EPIC) is an IRC client for Unix systems descended from the ircII client. ... HydraIRC is an Internet Relay Chat client for Windows, created in June 2002 and developed by Dominic Clifton. ... IceChat is a Windows IRC client written in Visual Basic. ... ii (irc improved) is a minimalist and innovative FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client created by the wmii development team. ... ircII is a Unix IRC client that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form. ... Ircle (sometimes spelled IRCle) is an IRC client written by Onno Tijdgat for the Macintosh computer platform. ... Irssi is an IRC client program originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. ... Klient is a shareware IRC client for Windows. ... Konversation is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). ... Kopete is a multi-protocol, free software instant messaging client. ... KVIrc started as an alternative IRC client for KDE under GNU/Linux by Szymon Stefanek. ... Linkinus is a shareware IRC client for Mac OS X. Linkinus features a easy-to-use user interface that fits very well into Apples GUI, Aqua. ... Miranda Instant Messenger is a minimalist, open source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows. ... mIRC is a shareware Internet Relay Chat client for Windows, created in 1995 and developed by Khaled Mardam-Bey. ... nexIRC is an IRC client for Microsoft Windows which is published by the software company Team Nexgen and awarded the editors choice award on DailySofts website [1]. nexIRC has a ranking of five stars on Planet Source Codes [2] website. ... Opera is an Internet suite which handles common internet-related tasks, including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, and online chat. ... Gaim (to be renamed Pidgin in the next release) is a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols. ... Cygnix is a pseudo-UNIX environment based on Cygwin. ... In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. ... Snak is a modern IRC client for Macintosh written by Kent Sorensen. ... Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows created by Cerulean Studios that can connect to multiple IM programs from one client, such as AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, Jabber, and Skype networks (the latter four with Trillian Pro which allows for additonal... Trillian is a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows created by Cerulean Studios that can connect to multiple IM programs from one client, such as AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, Jabber, and Skype networks (the latter four with Trillian Pro which allows for additonal... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. ... WeeChat is an IRC client. ... A Screenshot of Xchat 2. ... PJIRC is an open source Java applet IRC client. ... 1. ... Mac OS X (IPA: ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. ...

Features

Multiserver DCC Passive DCC / dccserver SSL IPv6 UTF-8 Text UI GUI Scripting
0irc Yes Yes No / No No No No Yes No None
AmIRC No Yes No / No No No No No Yes ARexx
BitchX Yes Yes No / No [1] Yes Yes No Yes Yes Enhanced IrcII script
Bersirc Yes Partial No / No No No No No Yes None
ChatZilla Yes Yes No [2] / No Yes Yes Yes No Yes JavaScript
Colloquy Yes Yes Yes / No Yes Yes Yes No Yes AppleScript, Cocoa, F-Script, JavaScript, Python
EPIC Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No Enhanced IrcII script, Perl, Ruby, Tcl
HydraIRC Yes Yes ? No [2] No [3] No [2] No Yes C++
IceChat Yes Yes ? ? ? No ? Yes VBScript
ii Yes No No / No No No Yes No No Shell script
ircII Yes Yes No / No No Yes Yes [4] Yes No Own language
IRCle Yes Yes ? Yes ? No No Yes AppleScript
Irssi Yes Yes Yes / Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Perl
Klient Yes Yes Yes Yes [5] No No No Yes VBScript, JScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP [6]
Konversation Yes Yes No / No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Shell script, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, C++, C#, Javascript [7]
Kopete Yes ? No / No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Shell script, Python, Perl
KoroIRC Yes Yes No [2] / No No No [2] Yes No Yes None
KSirc Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes No Yes Perl
KVIrc Yes Yes Yes / No Yes Yes Yes No Yes KVIrc script,Perl
Linkinus Yes Yes Yes / No Yes No Yes No Yes AppleScript, Cocoa
mIRC Yes Yes Yes / Yes Yes [8] Wrapper [9] Yes No Yes mIRC script
nexIRC Yes Yes No No No No No Yes VBScript, Custom
Miranda IM Yes Yes ? Yes ? No [10] No Yes PHP
Opera Yes Yes Yes / No Yes Yes Yes No Yes None
OrnateIRC Yes Yes No OpenSSL (Partially) No No No Yes Pascal Script/Own Language (OSL)
Pidgin Yes Yes ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes Perl, Tcl/Tk
savIRC Yes Yes Yes / No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Tcl/Tk
ScrollZ Yes Yes No / No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Enhanced IrcII script
Snak Yes Yes No / No Yes Yes Yes No Yes AppleScript, IrcII script
Trillian Yes ? ? ? ? No No Yes Own language
Trillian Pro Yes ? ? ? ? No No Yes C++
TurboIRC Yes Yes Yes / Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes VBScript, JScript[6]
Visual IRC Yes Yes Yes / No No No No No Yes Versus
WeeChat Yes Yes Yes / No Yes Yes Yes Yes No C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua
X-Chat Yes Yes Yes / Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, C++
PJIRC [11] Yes Partial [12] No / No Yes [5] ? Yes No Yes JavaScript
PhibianIRC Yes Yes Yes / Partial Yes No Yes No Yes Pascal Script, PSI
Multiserver DCC Passive DCC / dccserver SSL IPv6 UTF-8 Text UI GUI Scripting

Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) is an IRC-related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange files or perform non-relayed chats. ... Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) is an IRC-related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange files or perform non-relayed chats. ... Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) is an IRC-related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange files or perform non-relayed chats. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. ... UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. ... Snapshot of the Phoenix AwardBIOS TUI. TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface (and sometimes Terminal User Interface), is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text based user interfaces. ... GUI redirects here. ... Scripting languages (commonly called script languages) are computer programming languages that are typically interpreted. ... AmIRC is a MUI based IRC client for the Amiga. ... ARexx is the Amiga version of scripting language REXX by IBM. It has been not licensed from IBM, but it is a version written by Bill Hawes who ported REXX to the Amiga, with many special Amiga features. ... BitchX ANSI splash screen (one of several in rotation). ... ircII is a Unix IRC client that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form. ... Bersirc is a multi-platform Open Source IRC client currently in development for the Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. ... ChatZilla is an IRC client, written in XUL and JavaScript for Mozilla web browsers. ... It has been suggested that Client-side JavaScript be merged into this article or section. ... Screen grab of #wikipedia Colloquy is an IRC and SILC client for Mac OS X. It uses Irssi as its IRC protocol engine, and supports customizable message views using XSLT and Apple Computers WebKit renderer, which is based on KHTML. The software supports plugins enabling integration with the OS... AppleScript is a scripting language devised by Apple, Inc. ... A Cocoa application being developed using Xcode. ... F-Script is an object-oriented scripting programming language developed by Philippe Mougin at TechMetrix Research in France. ... It has been suggested that Client-side JavaScript be merged into this article or section. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... The Enhanced Programmable ircII Client (ircII-EPIC) is an IRC client for Unix systems descended from the ircII client. ... ircII is a Unix IRC client that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Ruby is a reflective, dynamic, object-oriented programming language. ... Tcl (originally from Tool Command Language, but nonetheless conventionally rendered as Tcl rather than TCL; and pronounced tickle) is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. ... HydraIRC is an Internet Relay Chat client for Windows, created in June 2002 and developed by Dominic Clifton. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose programming language with high-level and low-level capabilities. ... IceChat is a Windows IRC client written in Visual Basic. ... VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft. ... ii (irc improved) is a minimalist and innovative FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client created by the wmii development team. ... A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. ... ircII is a Unix IRC client that is made available completely free of charge, and is available in source form. ... Ircle (sometimes spelled IRCle) is an IRC client written by Onno Tijdgat for the Macintosh computer platform. ... Irssi is an IRC client program originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Klient is a shareware IRC client for Windows. ... 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A mIRC script is a piece of code written on the scripting language included on mIRC, a popular IRC client for Windows. ... nexIRC is an IRC client for Microsoft Windows which is published by the software company Team Nexgen and awarded the editors choice award on DailySofts website [1]. nexIRC has a ranking of five stars on Planet Source Codes [2] website. ... Miranda Instant Messenger is a minimalist, open source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows. ... For other uses, see PHP (disambiguation). ... Opera is an Internet suite which handles common internet-related tasks, including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, and online chat. ... OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. ... Gaim (to be renamed Pidgin in the next release) is a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols. ... 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To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft. ... JScript is the Microsoft implementation of the ECMAScript scripting programming language specification. ... Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. ... Versus is a scripting language originally developed for the IRC client Bisual IRC, and currently used with Visual IRC. It is similar in many ways to the scripting languages used by ircII and mIRC, as well as Tcl. ... WeeChat is an IRC client. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of C Programming The C programming language (often, just C) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie for use on the Unix operating system. ... 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Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose programming language with high-level and low-level capabilities. ... PJIRC is an open source Java applet IRC client. ... It has been suggested that Client-side JavaScript be merged into this article or section. ... Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) is an IRC-related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange files or perform non-relayed chats. ... Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) is an IRC-related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange files or perform non-relayed chats. ... Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) is an IRC-related sub-protocol enabling peers to interconnect using an IRC server for handshaking in order to exchange files or perform non-relayed chats. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. ... UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. ... Snapshot of the Phoenix AwardBIOS TUI. TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface (and sometimes Terminal User Interface), is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text based user interfaces. ... GUI redirects here. ... Scripting languages (commonly called script languages) are computer programming languages that are typically interpreted. ...

See also

IRC redirects here. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of instant messaging clients. ...

References

  1. ^ Unconfirmed.
  2. ^ a b c d e Planned for a later version.
  3. ^ Marked as completed, but not included yet.
  4. ^ Supported as of version 20050921.
  5. ^ a b Supported via a plugin.
  6. ^ a b Uses the Windows Active Scripting technology, and supports any scripting language with the appropriate interface.
  7. ^ Any language which supports DCOP may be used for Konversation scripting. Virtually any language can be made to support Konversation scripting by executing the command line "dcop" program.
  8. ^ Requires the OpenSSL DLLs; see http://www.mirc.co.uk/ssl.html. Pre-compiled DLLs can found at http://m00.cx/ssl/.
  9. ^ Wrapper available at http://users.skynet.be/jaguar/mircv6.html.
  10. ^ A patch exists to enable UTF-8 support in Miranda, but it does not allow switching between UTF-8 and the system encoding.
  11. ^ Can be run as a Java applet, Java Web Start or standalone application.
  12. ^ DCC is not always successful at this stage.


 
 

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