Adium
Open Source
Adium is an Open source multi-protocol instant messaging client for Mac OS X, supports MSN, Jabber, Yahoo! and other networks.
Trillian
Freemium
Trillian is a proprietary multiprotocol instant messaging application.
Digsby
Open Source
Digsby provides you with IM, email and Social networks in one easy to use application.
Empathy
Open Source
Empathy is an instant messaging (IM) and voice over IP (VoIP) client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication ov…
Psi
Open Source
Psi is a free instant messaging application designed for the XMPP network (including Google Talk). Fast and lightweight, Psi is fully open-source and compatib…
Ring
Open Source
Ring (SFLphone) is an open-source SIP-compatible softphone and instant messenger for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X and Android.
Gajim
Open Source
Gajim is an instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol which uses the GTK+ toolkit.
Quassel IRC
Open Source
Quassel IRC, or Quassel, is a graphical, distributed, cross-platform IRC client.
Xabber
Open Source
Xabber (XMPP and Jabber) is a XMPP client for the Android Operating System.
Spark
Open Source
Apache Spark is an open-source cluster-computing framework.
WeeChat
Open Source
WeeChat is a free and open-source Internet Relay Chat client, which is designed to be light and fast.
Conversations
Freemium
Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for the Android platform.
Kiwi IRC
Open Source
KiwiI RC is a webIRC client.
Bit Chat
Open Source
Bit Chat is a secure, peer-to-peer, open source instant messenger with end-to-end encryption.
Textual
Commercial
Textual is an IRC client created specifically for macOS.
Dialog Messenger
Free Personal
Dialog Messenger is a handy and feature-rich enterprise multi-device messenger available for server or cloud.
Tkabber
Open Source
Tkabber is a GPL instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol which uses the Tk toolkit for the GUI.
Tox
Open Source
Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption.
Jitsi
Open Source
Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is a free and open source multiplatform voice (VoIP), videoconferencing and instant messaging application.
Miranda IM
Open Source
Miranda IM is an open source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows.
IM+
Freemium
IM+ supports simultaneously major IM services, including Google Talk, Twitter DMs, Yahoo!, AIM/iChat, ICQ, Jabber (and Slack through Jabber), etc.
Kopete
Open Source
Kopete is a multi-protocol, free software instant messaging client released as part of the KDE Software Compilation. Although it can run in numerous environme…
ICQ
Free
ICQ is an open source instant messaging software.
Miranda NG
Open Source
Miranda NG is a successor of Miranda IM, a popular multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows.
Instantbird
Open Source
Instantbird is a cross-platform instant messaging client based on Mozillas XULRunner and the open source library libpurple used in Pidgin.
Matrix.org
Open Source
Matrix is an open protocol for real-time communication. It is designed to allow users with accounts at one communications service provider to communicate with…
qutIM
Open Source
qutIM is free and open-source multiprotocol (ICQ, Jabber, Mail.Ru, IRC, VKontakte) instant messenger.
Psi+
Open Source
Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP/Jabber client (Qt, C++) designed for the Jabber power users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi IM XMPP/Jabber client.
Kadu
Open Source
Kadu is a free and open source multi-platform instant messaging client that supports Gadu-Gadu, XMPP IM networks and other services based on XMPP like Google …
Finch
Open Source
Finch is a console-based IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, and other IM networks. It runs on Unixes. It uses GLib and ncurses.
Coccinella
Open Source
Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform client for the XMPP/Jabber-instant messaging-protocol.
Disa
Open Source
Disa is your new messaging hub. Conversations from different services can seamlessly be joined together, or disbanded within seconds.
Shout
Open Source
Shout is a self-hosted web IRC client.
YakYak
Open Source
YakYak is a desktop chat client for Google Hangouts.
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