The Best 37 ClicksAndWhistles Alternatives

  • Nettalk

    Nettalk is a powerful but easy to use free (open source) IRC-client for Windows. The smart user interface is based on Windows standards, so it is easy to get used to it....

    Free Open Source Windows

  • 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

  • ScrollZ IRC Client

    ScrollZ is an advanced IRC client based on ircII. It incorporates many useful features found in all sorts of scripts. The main difference between these scripts and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • sushi IRC suite

    The sushi IRC suite consists of a central daemon and several clients, which communicate via DBus. The daemon -- maki -- provides DBus methods and signals that...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • XChat for Windows

    XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux (Open Source) and Windows (Shareware, 30-day trial). It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same...

    Commercial Windows

  • IceChat

    IceChat is a fully featured, simple to use IRC Client allowing you to chat online with your friends and for meeting new people as well. It can be used in Windows...

    Free Windows

  • 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

  • nirc

    A simple web browser IRC client written in Node.js. Demo: https://nirc.herokuapp.com/

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted Git Node.JS

  • Iris

    Web IRC client for the Atheme platform.

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted Python JavaScript

  • relay.js

    Kinder, Simpler IRC. Relay.js is a web-based IRC client that focuses on making IRC less intimidating and easier to use. Demo: demo.relayjs.com • This is only a...

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted JavaScript Node.JS

  • LostIRC

    LostIRC is a simple, yet very useful IRC client. It has features such as tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, automatic joining of servers/channels, logging and...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Snak

    Popular shareware IRC client for Macintosh.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Visual IRC 2

    Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. Features FREE - no registration fee, no time limit, no nag screen!...

    Free Windows