Adium

Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS Xs Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team.

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Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS Xs Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.

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Customizable Multiple languages Tabbed interface Support for Themes Multiple protocols OTR

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The Best Adium alternatives for Customizable, from Multiple languages to a Tabbed interface.
Alternatives in Adium for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted, BSD, Haiku, S60, Android, Xfce, Android Wear, Kindle Fire, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Android Tablet, Web, Hangouts. This list contains a total of 75 applications similar to Adium.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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