Projects

irssi

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

X-Chat

XChat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit. It can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting.

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]

Colloquy

Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

Supybot

Supybot is a cross-platform IRC bot written in Python, known to run anywhere Python runs, which includes all *nices, and Windows. 1. Supybot is actively developed. 2. Supybot offers nested commands. 3. Supybot has a powerful and flexible capability system for handling security. 4. ... [More] Supybot includes many plugins , and has many more ripe for the picking on this very website. 5. Supybot supports multiple servers. 6. Supybot supports multiple channels. 7. Supybot is user-friendly. 8. Supybot is developer-friendly. 9. Supybot is stable. The stability of a Supybot is only limited by the uptime of the host it runs on. Multi-month uptimes are the norm, rather than the exception. 10. Supybot is here, now. [Less]

WeeChat

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard, it is customizable and extensible with scripts. It is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, 2813.

InspIRCd

InspIRCd is a modular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server written in C++ for Linux, BSD, Windows and Mac OS X systems which was created from scratch to be stable, modern and lightweight. As InspIRCd is one of the few IRC servers written from scratch, it avoids a number of design flaws and ... [More] performance issues that plague other more established projects, such as UnrealIRCd, while providing the same level of feature parity. InspIRCd is one of only a few IRC servers to provide a tunable number of features through the use of an advanced but well documented module system. By keeping core functionality to a minimum we hope to increase the stability, security and speed of InspIRCd while also making it customisable to the needs of many different users. [Less]

KVIrc

KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit. KVIrc is being written by Szymon Stefanek and the KVIrc Development Team with the contribution of many IRC addicted developers around the world.

ZNC

ZNC is an IRC bouncer with many advanced features like detaching, multiple users, per channel playback buffer, SSL, IPv6, transparent DCC bouncing, and c++ module support to name a few.

UnrealIRCd

The Unreal (perhaps imaginary?) IRCd's stable 3.2 branch.