The Best 48 Polari Alternatives

  • HexChat icon

    HexChat

    hexchat is an irc client based on xchat for linux , but unlike xchat it’s completely free for both windows and unix-like systems.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD MacPorts XQuartz Xfce

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    XChat for Linux

    XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible. .

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • mIRC icon

    mIRC

    mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world.

    Commercial Windows

  • irssi icon

    irssi

    Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Cygwin

  • Quassel IRC icon

    Quassel IRC

    Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt4 framework.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • KVIrc icon

    KVIrc

    KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit. KVirc is being written by Szymon Stefanek and the KVIrc Development Team with the contribution of many IRC addicted developers around the world.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Smuxi icon

    Smuxi

    Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • AdiIRC icon

    AdiIRC

    c#/csharp IRC CLient. AdiIRC stores all its settings in text files, this way you can grab the adiirc folder and put in on a usb device or external harddrive. Take all your settings and servers with you everywhere!

    Free Windows Linux Mac Wine

  • X-Chat 2 for Windows icon

    X-Chat 2 for Windows

    A freeware build of X-Chat for windows, as opposed to the official 30-day-trial shareware Windows build.

    Free Windows

  • Konversation icon

    Konversation

    Konversation is an easy-to-use IRC client for novices, nut novices and experts can take advantage of its rich featureset.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Kiwi IRC icon

    Kiwi IRC

    A hand-crafted IRC client that you can enjoy. Designed to be used easily and freely. More friendly than other webirc clients giving the general public an easy option to connect to any IRC network.

    Free Open Source Web Chrome Self-Hosted

  • Textual icon

    Textual

    Textual is the world's most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on OS X. Textual includes two elegantly designed light and dark variants of the user interface to match all tastes.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • IRCCloud icon

    IRCCloud

    IRCCloud is an IRC client with a future. Stay connected, chat from anywhere, and never miss a message.

    Freemium Android iPhone Web

  • Shout icon

    Shout

    What is it? Shout is a web IRC client that you host on your own server.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

  • LimeChat icon

    LimeChat

    LimeChat is an IRC client for Windows, Mac OS X and iOS.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows iPhone iPad

  • Yaaic icon

    Yaaic

    Yaaic (Yet Another Android IRC Client) is a free and open source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Android devices.

    Free Open Source Android

  • Qwebirc icon

    Qwebirc

    qwebirc is a web based AJAX IRC client.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • Maid-IRC icon

    Maid-IRC

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

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Node.JS

  • ZeroChat icon

    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

    Decentralized Distributed