Projects

Pidgin

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can log in to multiple ... [More] accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. [Previously known as "Gaim".] [Less]

Adium

Unified OS X instant messaging platform

Kopete IM Client (KDE)

claimed by KDE

Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system. All protocols are plugins and allow modular installation, configuration, and usage without the main application knowing anything about the plugin being loaded. The goal of Kopete is to ... [More] provide users with a standard and easy to use interface between all of their instant messaging systems, but at the same time also providing developers with the ease of writing plugins to support a new protocol. The core Kopete development team provides a handful of plugins that most users can use, in addition to templates for new developers to base a plugin on. [Less]

Miranda IM

Miranda IM is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows. Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive. Featuring a powerful plugin-based framework and boasting over 350 plugins, Miranda ... [More] IM is one of the most flexible and customisable messaging clients on the planet. [Less]

BitlBee

A chat network to IRC gateway. Currently supports most common IM protocols (plus Twitter microblogging), or all protocols supported by libpurple.

Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator)

Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator) is a cross-platform VOIP, videoconference, desktop sharing and chat client. Protocols supported include SIP, XMPP/Google Talk/Jabber/Facebook chat, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo! Messenger and Bonjour. Other features include: Call recording, Call & chat ... [More] encryption, Noise suppression, Echo cancellation, File transfer, multi-user chat, Desktop streaming, Presence, Conference calls, Integration with Microsoft Outlook and Apple Address Book, Support for LDAP directories, Support for Google Contacts, On-line provisioning, Systray notifications, IPv6 support, Spell checker and many more. [Less]

CenterIM

CenterIM is a fork of CenterICQ, an ncurses-based IM client. It supports ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Live Journal, IRC, RSS and Jabber protocols

galaxium

Galaxium is an instant messenger application designed for the GNOME desktop. It will allow you to connect to MSN (and other protocols through the use of addins) to communicate with your family, friends and co-workers! It is a cross-platform application that uses the Mono and GTK# toolkits for the ... [More] user interface and protocol handlers. Several plugins are also in the works to bring advanced features like Adium Theme support. [Less]

Instantbird

Instantbird is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client. Using it, you can connect to all your different IM accounts. It uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks (including AIM, Facebook Chat, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, ICQ ... [More] , IRC, Lotus Sametime, MSN, MySpaceIM, Netsoul, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Simple, XMPP, Yahoo and Yahoo JAPAN). Many features are not implemented yet, but most users should find it contains all the needed IM features. We hope you will like it and we look forward to getting your feedback! [Less]

ayttm

Ayttm is an open source, multi-protocol instant messenger. It is built using C and Gtk-2 and works across multiple platforms.