The Best 55 bIRC Alternatives

  • Polari

    polari is an internet relay chat (irc) client designed for gnome 3.

    Free Open Source Linux GNOME

  • MetroIRC

    An IRC client for the Windows desktop which follows the Metro design guidelines.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Qwebirc

    qwebirc is a web based AJAX IRC client.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • Maid-IRC

    A modern web IRC client. Built on Node.js.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Node.JS

  • ZeroChat

    An IRC-like internet chatroom hosted on ZeroNet, a distributed network. 0rc is a fully distributed website, and messages are shared through peers using the ZeroNet stack.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Web Mac Self-Hosted Python JavaScript ZeroNet

  • Convos

    Convos is the simplest way to use IRC. It is always online, and accessible to your web browser, both on desktop and mobile.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

  • jsIRC

    jsIRC is written using Socket.IO, node.js, jQuery Title Alert and Sencha ExtJS, relying on string.js, Lo-Dash and PhantomJS. Implemented Features: * Webcam Chat *...

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Node.JS jQuery Socket.io

  • jakeIRC

    jakeIRC is a web-based Meteor IRC client that allows users to connect to their favorite IRC channels. To run jakeIRC locally, you need to have meteor as well as npm...

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted npm Meteor

  • leafChat

    leafChat is an IRC client for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Chat with your friends using popular IRC networks. leafChat has a friendly, clean interface that...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • WebIRC

    WebIRC runs as a server and is always connected to your favorite IRC networks. Seamlessly open the same session from home, work, and your mobile devices to continue...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

  • CGI:IRC

    CGI:IRC is a Perl/CGI program that lets you access IRC from a web browser, it is designed to be flexible and has many uses such as an IRC gateway for an IRC network, a...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Web Self-Hosted Perl

  • Gnotty

    Gnotty ties the knot between the web and IRC. It is designed to assist open source projects that host an IRC channel for collaboration on their project. Gnotty is BSD...

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Python

  • Subway

    Subway is a web-based IRC client with a multi-user backend and a JavaScript-heavy UI. Frontend/backend communication is done with websockets (or best available fallback...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • Tiny Tiny IRC

    Tiny Tiny IRC is an open source AJAX-powered IRC client. The idea behind this being that you don't need either client software or even a stable network connection to...

    Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

  • wsIRC

    wsIrc - the global community communicator, goal is to offer a free web IRC client which should be at the end as good as old standalone application, but yet without...

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Atomic IRC

    atomic is an open source irc client built for a new age. new features from its heritage of yaaic, improvements and stuff.

    Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

  • HoloIRC

    HoloIRC is an open source IRC client for Android 4.0 and up. It is designed to be as simple to use as possible while being extremely small in size and fairly light in...

    Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

  • AndroIRC

    AndroIRC is your new IRC client! Features: • mIRC colors • auto join channels on startup • nickserv auth • Android notifications • copy & paste • logging •...

    Freemium Android