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]

KMess

KMess is an alternative MSN Messenger / WLM chat client for Linux. It allows Linux users to chat with friends who use MSN Messenger in Windows or Mac OS. The strength of KMess is its integration with the KDE desktop environment, focus on MSN Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.

BitlBee

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

aMSN

aMSN is a Tcl/Tk client for MSN Messenger. Its features include multi-language support, smileys, logging, multi-profiles support, email notification, customizable sounds, group management, file transfers with NAT support, and proxy support. It is a Windows Live Messenger look alike with extra features.

emesene

emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version. emesene most interesting features are: * Clean and easy to use Interface? with no ... [More] ads * File transfers (almost done) * Custom emoticons sending/receiving/stealing * Tabbed chatting * Multilingual interface * Great customization * Plugins support * Messenger Plus! formatting tags support * Powerful Chat logging * All the other basic Windows Live Messenger features [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]