The Best 110 Pidgin Alternatives

  • Vacuum-IM icon

    Vacuum-IM

    Crossplatform Jabber client. The core program is just a plugin loader - all functionality is made available via plugins. This enforces modularity and ensures well...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Haiku

  • Convos icon

    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 icon

    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 icon

    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

  • WebIRC icon

    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 icon

    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

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    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 icon

    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 icon

    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

  • nirc icon

    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 icon

    Iris

    Web IRC client for the Atheme platform.

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted Python JavaScript

  • BuddyTalk Instant Messenger icon

    BuddyTalk Instant Messenger

    BuddyTalk is a java based instant messanger, you can login with your gmail username and password to chat with your friends or to test the software you can login with the...

    Free Windows

  • Fire icon

    Fire

    Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available libraries for each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant Messenger®...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • Minbif icon

    Minbif

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

    Free Open Source Linux

  • OctroTalk icon

    OctroTalk

    OctroTalk is an Jabber/Gtalk client with support for GTalk (GMail) audio and Video calls. OctroTalk also supports SIP calling (through a provider of your choice). ...

    Free Mac OS X Android iPhone Android Tablet Windows Phone

  • Centericq icon

    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