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]

Empathy

Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. ... [More] libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application. [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]

PyICQt: ICQ transport for Jabber

PyICQt is an ICQ transport written for XMPP/Jabber written in Python/Twisted. It provides a mechanism for XMPP users to log in to their ICQ accounts and communicate with friends from ICQ.

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

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.