Projects

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]

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]

IM Gateway Plugin for Openfire

The IM Gateway plugin for Openfire provides connectivity to other IM networks (AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, etc). It uses internal mechanisms to smooth the interaction with the various transports that standard transports can not currently provide.

ayttm

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

Funpidgin

Funpidgin is a fork of the popular open source client Pidgin which allows instant messaging with over twenty different protocols.