BitlBee

BitlBee brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client.

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bitlbee brings im (instant messaging) to irc clients. it's a great solution for people who have an irc client running all the time and don't want to run an additional msn/aim/whatever client.

bitlbee currently supports the following im networks/protocols: xmpp/jabber (including google talk), msn messenger, yahoo! messenger, aim and icq, and the twitter microblogging network (plus all other twitter api compatible services like identi.ca and status.net).

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Pidgin

Pidgin is an easy to use, multi-protocol chat client client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP, and more chat networks all at once.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Xfce

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Video calling Voice Call Multiple languages Multiple Account support Multiple protocols Multiple protocols support Multiple chat protocols Supports XMPP
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Trillian

Trillian is an instant messaging app that works on phones, tablets, and desktops while keeping your chats neatly synchronized between all of them! We think conversation should be easily shared between all of your devices, not trapped as...

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone iPad Web Blackberry

POP3 Support Team Collaboration Facebook integration Multiple protocols
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Miranda IM

Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Multiple protocols
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Kopete

Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It is designed to be a flexible and extensible multi-protocol system suitable for personal and enterprise use.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD
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ICQ

ICQ is one of the oldest instant messengers. First developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, sold to AOL, sold again and currenly owned by the Russian "mail.ru" group (known for one of the largest social networks).

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Web Windows Mobile Java Mobile
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Disa

Disa is your new messaging hub. Conversations from different services can seamlessly be joined together, or disbanded within seconds.

Free Android Android Tablet Kindle Fire

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Texting Unified messaging
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MetroIRC

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

Free Open Source Windows
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Jabiru

Jabber client for Android.

Free Android
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Sim-IM

Sim-IM, Simple Instant Messenger, is a multiple protocol instant messenger for MS Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD. Sim-IM supports Jabber/XMPP, Google Talk, ICQ and AIM (Oscar), Yahoo! Messenger and Microsoft Messenger (MSN) protocols.

Free Windows Linux BSD
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Minbif

Minbif aims to use the libpurple library from the Pidgin project to provide an IRC-friendly instant messaging client.

Free Open Source Linux
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Centericq

Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

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Alternatives in BitlBee for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, BSD, Xfce, Android, iPhone, iPad, Web, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Java Mobile, Android Tablet, Kindle Fire. This list contains a total of 12 applications similar to BitlBee.

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

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