The Best 53 X-Chat 2 for Windows Alternatives

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    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

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    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Chatzilla icon

    Chatzilla

    ChatZilla is a clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, built on the Mozilla platform, which provides all the usual features: multiple servers, a built-in list of standard networks, easy searching and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Firefox SeaMonkey

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mibbit icon

    Mibbit

    No Java, no flash. With Mibbit, chatting online is easy, just choose your nickname and press go! No sign-up is required and you can use it from wherever you are with just a web browser.

    Free Web

  • 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

  • Polari icon

    Polari

    polari is an internet relay chat (irc) client designed for gnome 3.

    Free Open Source Linux GNOME

  • AmIRC icon

    AmIRC

    Famous IRC client created by Oliver Wagner and Jamie van den Berge for VaporWare. Its look and feel was copied many times and inspired the creation of XChat.

    Free AmigaOS MorphOS

  • HydraIRC icon

    HydraIRC

    HydraIRC is an open-source IRC client with an attractive and easy to use interface.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Qwebirc icon

    Qwebirc

    qwebirc is a web based AJAX IRC client.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • 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