The Best 57 Textual Alternatives

  • Nettalk icon

    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

  • 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

  • Linkinus icon

    Linkinus

    Linkinus 2 provides a rich, social IRC experience; featuring embedded media, short URL expansion, message starring, combined chats, emoticons, and much more!

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • sushi IRC suite icon

    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 icon

    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 icon

    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

  • irc.lc icon

    irc.lc

    IRC web chat. You can make any irc.lc url with this syntax: irc.lc/[network|server]/[channel]/[Default_Nick_@@@] DONT PUT the # character before channel ! If required...

    Free Web Qwebirc

  • wsIRC icon

    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

  • Floe icon

    Floe

    Floe is an IRC client written in C#, using the .NET 4.0 framework with WPF technology.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • 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

  • relay.js icon

    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 icon

    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 icon

    Snak

    Popular shareware IRC client for Macintosh.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Visual IRC 2 icon

    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