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]

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.

Eclipse Communication Framework

claimed by Eclipse Foundation

ECF is a framework for building communications functions into Eclipse-based tools and applications. It can be used to create other plugins, tools, or full applications that require asynchronous point-to-point or publish-and-subscribe messaging. ECF is also a small set of applications for ... [More] real-time developer communication, including instant messaging, file sharing, and real-time collaboration. [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

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.

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]

Miranda NG

Miranda NG is a successor of a popular multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows - Miranda IM. Very light on system resources and extremely fast.

ayttm

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