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This article is about Internet Relay Chat clients. For a comparison of instant messaging clients, see Comparison of instant messaging clients. For a comparison of mobile Internet Relay Chat clients, see Comparison of mobile Internet Relay Chat clients.The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of IRC client programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
General
Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license/price etc. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
- Can be installed as part of a web browser
- ^ Distributed as a Universal Binary
- Web browser component
- Not complete, proof of concept
- Separate client and daemon
- In development
Release history
A brief overview of the release history.
Client | First public release | First stable release | Latest stable release | ||
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Date | Version | Date | Version | ||
Bersirc | 1999 | 2.2.14 (12 August 2005; 19 years ago (2005-08-12)) [±] | |||
BitchX | 1996 | 1.2.1 (November 14, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-11-14)) [±] | |||
ChatZilla | 2001 | 0.9.93 (November 8, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-11-08)) [±] | |||
Colloquy | 2005 | 2.4.3 (6011) (March 22, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-03-22)) [±] | |||
DMDirc | 2007 | 0.7 (January 5, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-01-05)) [±] | |||
ircII | 1990 | 20240918 (September 18, 2024; 3 months ago (2024-09-18)) [±] | |||
Ircle | 1995 | 3.5a6 (November 17, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-11-17)) [±] | |||
Irssi | 1999 | 1.4.4 (March 31, 2023; 21 months ago (2023-03-31)) [±] | |||
Konversation | 2002 | Template:Latest stable software release/Konversation | |||
LeetIRC | 2006 | Template:Latest stable software release/LeetIRC | |||
LimeChat | 2007 | Template:Latest stable software release/LimeChat | |||
Linkinus | 2007 | 2.4.3 (August 23, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-08-23)) [±] | |||
Mibbit | 2008 | web application, no version | |||
mIRC | 1995 | 7.78 (6 November 2024; 2 months ago (2024-11-06)) [±] | |||
Neebly | December 13, 2008 | 1.0.1 | Template:Latest stable software release/Neebly | ||
Nettalk | 2004 | 6.7.16 (October 30, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-10-30)) [±] | |||
nexIRC | 2004 | Template:Latest stable software release/nexIRC | |||
Opera | 1996 | 100.0.4815.21 (June 20, 2023; 18 months ago (2023-06-20))
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Orion (IRC client) | 1.0 | Template:Latest stable software release/Orion (IRC client) | |||
PIRCH | 1995 | 1.0.1.1190 (January 1, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-01-01)) [±] | |||
Smuxi | 2008 | 1.2.1 (April 23, 2023; 20 months ago (2023-04-23)) [±] | |||
Snak | 1997 | 5.3.4 (March 11, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-03-11)) [±] | |||
Visual IRC | 1995 | 2.0pl2 (December 30, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-12-30)) [±] | |||
WeeChat | 2003 | 4.4.0 (August 17, 2024; 5 months ago (2024-08-17)) [±] | |||
XChat | 1998 | Template:Latest stable software release/XChat | |||
Client | Date | Version | Date | Version | Latest stable release |
First public release | First stable release |
Operating system support
The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).
Client | Windows 7, Vista | XP, 2000 | NT 4.0 | NT 3.x | Me, 98 | 95 | 3.1x | ReactOS | Mac OS X (Intel/PPC) | OS 9 | OS 8 | System 7 (PPC/68k) | BeOS, Haiku | OS/2, eCS | AmigaOS (68k) | AmigaOS 4, MorphOS (PPC) | DOS | Other |
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Bersirc | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
BitchX | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
ChatZilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
Colloquy | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
DMDirc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
ircII | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | |
Ircle | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
Irssi | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
Konversation | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | Partial | Partial | No | ? | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
LeetIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
LimeChat | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Linkinus | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Mibbit | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
mIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | Yes | Partial | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Neebly | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Nettalk | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Partial | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
nexIRC | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Opera | Yes | Yes | Dropped (10.10) | No | Yes | Yes | Dropped | No | Yes | Dropped | Dropped | No | Dropped | Dropped | No | No | No | |
Orion (IRC client) | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
PIRCH | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Smuxi | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Snak | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | |
Visual IRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
WeeChat | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | Partial | Partial | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | Partial | No | No | No | No | |
XChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | |
Client | Windows 7, Vista | XP, 2000 | NT 4.0 | NT 3.x | Me, 98 | 95 | 3.1x | ReactOS | Mac OS X (Intel/PPC) | OS 9 | OS 8 | System 7 (PPC/68k) | BeOS, Haiku | OS/2, eCS | AmigaOS (68k) | AmigaOS 4, MorphOS (PPC) | DOS | Other |
- ^ Requires Cygwin
- Requires EMX
- ^ Requires Mac OS X v10.4 or later
- Requires RubyCocoa 1.0.0 or later
- Does not support Windows 95 or Windows 98
Unix and Unix-like operating systems:
- Unix (BSD): 386BSD, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, ULTRIX
- Unix (System V): AIX, A/UX, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO UNIX, Solaris, UnixWare
- Unix-like: Linux, NeXTSTEP, OpenVMS, OSF/1, QNX, Tru64 UNIX
Client | 386BSD | BSD/OS (BSD/386, BSDI) | FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD | SunOS | ULTRIX | AIX | A/UX | HP-UX | IRIX | SCO UNIX | Solaris | UnixWare | Linux | NeXTSTEP | OpenVMS | OSF/1 | QNX | Tru64 UNIX |
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Bersirc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
BitchX | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
ChatZilla | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
Colloquy | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
DMDirc | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
ircII | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Ircle | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Irssi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Konversation | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
LeetIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
LimeChat | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Linkinus | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Mibbit | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
mIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Neebly | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Nettalk | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
nexIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Opera | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Dropped | No |
Orion (IRC client) | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
PIRCH | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Smuxi | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Snak | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Visual IRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
WeeChat | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Partial | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
XChat | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Client | 386BSD | BSD/OS (BSD/386, BSDI) | FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD | SunOS | ULTRIX | AIX | A/UX | HP-UX | IRIX | SCO UNIX | Solaris | UnixWare | Linux | NeXTSTEP | OpenVMS | OSF/1 | QNX | Tru64 UNIX |
- ^ BitchX is known to work on BSDI 2.0, 2.1, 3.1, 4.0; FreeBSD 2.x, 3.x, 4.0; NetBSD 3.x, 4.x; SunOS 4.1.4; Ultrix; AIX; HP-UX 9.x, 10.x; IRIX 5.x, 6.x; Solaris 5.x and later; Linux; OSF/1 (DEC Alpha); QNX
- ^ WeeChat tested on FreeBSD 4.11, 5.4, 6.0; NetBSD 2.0, 2.1; OpenBSD 3.6, 3.7, 3.8; Solaris 5.10; QNX 6.3
- In development
- XChat tested on HP-UX 10.20 and 11
mIRC will run on *NIX systems under WINE — Confirmed
Protocol support
What IRC related protocols and standards are supported by each client.
Client | CTCP | DCC | IPv6 | SSL | TLS | OCSP | CRL |
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Bersirc | ? | Partial | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
BitchX | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
ChatZilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Colloquy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
DMDirc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
ircII | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Ircle | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Irssi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Konversation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
KoolChat | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
LeetIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
LimeChat | ? | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Linkinus | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Mibbit | ? | Partial | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
mIRC | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | ? | ? | ? |
Neebly | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Nettalk | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
nexIRC | ? | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Opera | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Orion (IRC client) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
PIRCH | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Smuxi | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Snak | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Visual IRC | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
WeeChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
XChat | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Client | CTCP | DCC | IPv6 | SSL | TLS | OCSP | CRL |
- Can not send files, can only receive files up to 2MB
- ^ DCC is not always successful at this stage
- ^ Wrapper library available Cite error: The named reference "wrapper" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) support
Client | CHAT | Whiteboard | SEND | RESUME | TSEND | SEND T | XMIT | Passive DCC | Server | RDCC | REVERSE | RSEND | Reverse / Firewall DCC | File servers (FSERVs) | XDCC |
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Bersirc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
BitchX | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
ChatZilla | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
Colloquy | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
DMDirc | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
ircII | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Ircle | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Irssi | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Konversation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
KoolChat | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
LeetIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
LimeChat | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Linkinus | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Mibbit | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
mIRC | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Neebly | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Nettalk | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Partial | No | No | No | No | ? | ? |
nexIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Opera | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Orion (IRC client) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
PIRCH | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Smuxi | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Snak | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Visual IRC | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
WeeChat | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
XChat | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes |
Client | CHAT | Whiteboard | SEND | RESUME | TSEND | SEND T | XMIT | Passive DCC | Server | RDCC | REVERSE | RSEND | Reverse / Firewall DCC | File servers (FSERVs) | XDCC |
- Planned for a later version
- ^ Supports the DCC Resume protocol
- ^ Supported via a script
- Supported via scripts and plugins
Features
Information on what features each of the clients support.
Client | Multi-server | UTF-8 | Proxy server | irc:// URI scheme | Automatic updates | Scripting language | Smooth scrolling |
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Bersirc | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | — | |
BitchX | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Enhanced IrcII script | |
ChatZilla | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | JavaScript | |
Colloquy | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | AppleScript, Cocoa, F-Script, JavaScript, Python | |
DMDirc | Yes | Partial | ? | Yes | Yes | Custom "Actions" system, Java plugins | |
ircII | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | IrcII script | |
Ircle | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | AppleScript | |
Irssi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Perl | |
Konversation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Shell script, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript | |
KoolChat | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
LeetIRC | ? | ? | ? | — | ? | ? | |
LimeChat | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | — | |
Linkinus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | AppleScript, Cocoa API | |
Mibbit | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | — | — | |
mIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | mIRC script | |
Neebly | No | No | ? | ? | ? | — | |
Nettalk | Yes | Yes | SOCKS | Yes | Yes | VBScript, Custom | |
nexIRC | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | VBScript, Custom | |
Opera | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | — | |
Orion (IRC client) | Yes | No | No | No | No | Partial | |
Pidgin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes |
PIRCH | Yes | No | ? | ? | No | Yes | |
Smuxi | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | |
Snak | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | AppleScript, IrcII script | |
Visual IRC | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Versus | |
WeeChat | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl | |
XChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, C++, ECMAScript, Scheme (Guile) | |
Client | Multi-server | UTF-8 | Proxy server | irc:// URI scheme | Automatic updates | Scripting language |
- Automatically updates via the Sparkle framework
- Supported as of version 20050921
- Any language which supports DCOP may be used for Konversation scripting. Virtually any language can be made to support Konversation scripting by executing the command line "dcop" program.
- Planned in version 0.8
See also
- Comparison of mobile IRC clients
- Comparison of instant messaging clients
- Comparison of instant messaging protocols
- Comparison of LAN messengers
References
- "mIRC: Register mIRC". Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- "Khaled's Nutshell: Frequently Asked Questions". Archived from the original on 2008-02-13. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
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