Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients facts for kids
The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of IRC client programs. Please see the individual products pages for more information. This page is does not include everything and may not be current.
Contents
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
- Separate client and daemon
- Not complete, proof of concept
- 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 | ||
0irc | January 25, 2000 | 1.0 build 1 | 1.4.53 (April 3, 2007 ) | ||
Aki | 0.0.3 (November 4, 2009 ) | ||||
AmIRC | 1995 | 3.6.1 (July 14, 2012 ) | |||
Bersirc | 1999 | 2.2.14 (August 12, 2005 ) | |||
BitchX | 1996 | 1.2-final (January 1, 2013 ) | |||
bnIRC | 2004 | 1.1.2 (May 31, 2009 ) | |||
ccorp-irc | 2004 | 1.0 (January 27, 2004 ) | |||
ChatZilla | 2001 | 0.9.90.1 (July 7, 2013 ) | |||
ClicksAndWhistles | February 14, 2008 | 1.0 | February 14, 2008 | 1.0 | 2.7.154 (January 24, 2012 ) |
Colloquy | 2005 | 2.4.3 (6011) (March 22, 2014 ) | |||
Conspire | 2007 | 1.0.0 (October 8, 2009 ) | |||
Coolsmile | 2002 | 20120410 beta (April 15, 2012 ) | |||
DMDirc | 2007 | 0.7 (January 5, 2013 ) | |||
dxirc | 2008 | 1.00.0 (December 24, 2011 ) | |||
EPIC | 1994 | 5-1.1.4 (August 4, 2012 ) | |||
HydraIRC | 2002 | 0.3.165 (December 12, 2008 ) | |||
IceChat | 2002 | 9 RC7.2 (September 2, 2013 ) | |||
ii | 2006 | 1.6 (January 31, 2011 ) | |||
ircII | 1990 | 20111115 (November 15, 2011 ) | |||
IRCjr | 2008 | mTCP_2013-04-26 (April 26, 2013 ) | |||
Ircle | 1995 | 3.5a6 (November 17, 2007 ) | |||
Irssi | 1999 | 0.8.15 (April 3, 2010 ) | |||
jini | 2002 | 2.2.0 (May 6, 2013 ) | |||
Klient | 1999 | 2.2.3 (January 3, 2009 ) | |||
Konversation | 2002 | 1.6.2 (4 August 2016 ) | |||
KoolChat | 2.3 (February 24, 2009 ) | ||||
KoroIRC | 2004 | 0.3 (February 8, 2008 ) | |||
KSirc | 1997 | 1.3.12 (August 26, 2008 ) | |||
KVIrc | 1998 | 4.2.0 (July 3, 2012 ) | |||
LeetIRC | 2006 | 1.1 (March 18, 2008 ) | |||
lightIRC | 2008 | 0.9.9 (April 1, 2010 ) | |||
LimeChat | 2007 | Mac OS X Mountain Lion / Lion 2.32 (July 30, 2012 ) Mac OS X Snow Leopard |
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Linkinus | 2007 | 2.4 (August 23, 2011 ) | |||
Mibbit | 2008 | web application, no version | |||
mIRC | 1995 | 7.32 (May 23, 2013 ) | |||
mzirc | 2006 | 09.02 (February 7, 2009 ) | |||
Neebly | December 13, 2008 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.4 (February 28, 2009 ) | ||
Nettalk | 2004 | 6.7.16 (October 30, 2012 ) | |||
nexIRC | 2004 | 2.26 (February 27, 2007 ) | |||
Opera | 1996 | 15.0.1147.141 (July 10, 2013 ) | |||
Orion (IRC client) | 1.0 | 1.8 (August 27, 2006 ) | |||
OrnateIRC | 2001 | 1.60 (May 18, 2003 ) | |||
PhibianIRC | 2005 | 1.7.7b2 (2009) | |||
PIRCH | 1995 | 1.0.1.1190 (December 31, 2000 ) | |||
PJIRC | 2002 | 2.2.1 (November 29, 2004 ) | |||
Quassel IRC | 2008 | 0.12.4 (May 17, 2016 ) | |||
rxIRC | February 14, 1991 | 2.1 (November 17, 1994 ) | |||
savIRC | 2001 | 2.1.0 (March 13, 2007 ) | |||
ScrollZ | 1994 | 2.2.2 (April 30, 2012 ) | |||
ShadowIRC | 1996 | 1.1 (November 20, 2001 ) | |||
Smuxi | 2008 | 0.8.11 (May 22, 2013 ) | |||
Snak | 1997 | 5.3.4 (March 11, 2012 ) | |||
sushi IRC suite | September 30, 2008 | 1.0-alpha1 | April 26, 2009 | 1.0.0 | 1.2.1 (August 7, 2010 ) |
ThrashIRC | 2003 | 2.4 (October 16, 2010 ) | |||
TurboIRC | 1998 | 7.85 (April 29, 2009 ) | |||
Visual IRC | 1995 | 2.0pl2 (200/187) (July 15, 2007 ) | |||
Vortec IRC | 2001 | 1.0.2 (September 27, 2009 ) | |||
WeeChat | 2003 | 0.3.8 (June 3, 2012 ) | |||
WookieChat | 2004 | 2.11 (February 1, 2009 ) | |||
XChat | 1998 | 2.8.8 (source) (May 30, 2010 ) 2.8.9 (windows) (August 28, 2010 ) |
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XiRCON | 1996 | 1.0B4 (August 10, 1997 ) | |||
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0irc | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Aki | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
AmIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
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 | |
bnIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | Palm OS |
ccorp-irc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? | No | No | No | No | |
ChatZilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
ClicksAndWhistles | Yes | Yes | ? | No | Yes | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Colloquy | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Conspire | Partial | Partial | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Coolsmile | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
DMDirc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
dxirc | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
EPIC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
HydraIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
IceChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
ii | ? | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | |
ircII | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | |
IRCjr | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
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 | |
jini | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
Klient | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Konversation | Partial | Partial | Partial | No | Partial | Partial | No | ? | Partial | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
KoolChat | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
KoroIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
KSirc | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
KVIrc | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | 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 | |
lightIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
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 | |
mzirc | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | 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 | ? | 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 | |
OrnateIRC | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
PhibianIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | 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 | |
PJIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
Quassel IRC | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
rxIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | VM/CMS |
savIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
ScrollZ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | |
ShadowIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | 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 | |
sushi IRC suite | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
ThrashIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
TurboIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Visual IRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
Vortec 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 | |
WookieChat | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
x3irc | Yes | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | No | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
XChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | |
XiRCON | ? | ? | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | 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
- In development
- Requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or later for Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT4, and 2000
- Requires comctl32.dll version 5.80 or later for Windows 98 and NT 4.0
- Requires Service Pack 6 and Internet Explorer 4.0 or later for Windows NT 4.0
- Requires RubyCocoa 1.0.0 or later
- Requires Mac OS X v10.4.3 or later
- Requires Windows XP Service Pack 2 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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0irc | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Aki | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
AmIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Bersirc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
BitchX | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? |
bnIRC | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
ccorp-irc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ChatZilla | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes |
ClicksAndWhistles | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Colloquy | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Conspire | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Coolsmile | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
DMDirc | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
dxirc | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes |
EPIC | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
HydraIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
IceChat | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ii | ? | ? | 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 |
IRCjr | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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 |
jini | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
Klient | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Konversation | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
KoolChat | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
KoroIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
KSirc | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? |
KVIrc | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
LeetIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
lightIRC | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
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 |
mzirc | 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 |
OrnateIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
PhibianIRC | 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 |
PJIRC | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
Quassel IRC | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
rxIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
savIRC | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
ScrollZ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ShadowIRC | 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 |
sushi IRC suite | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
ThrashIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
TurboIRC | 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 |
Vortec 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 | ? |
WookieChat | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
x3irc | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
XChat | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
XiRCON | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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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0irc | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Aki | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
AmIRC | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Bersirc | ? | Partial | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
BitchX | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
bnIRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
ccorp-irc | Partial | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
ChatZilla | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
ClicksAndWhistles | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Colloquy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Conspire | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Coolsmile | ? | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
DMDirc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
dxirc | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
EPIC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
HydraIRC | ? | Yes | Partial | No | ? | ? | ? |
IceChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
ii | ? | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
ircII | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
IRCjr | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Ircle | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Irssi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
jini | Partial | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Klient | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Konversation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
KoolChat | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
KoroIRC | ? | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
KSirc | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
KVIrc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
LeetIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
lightIRC | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No |
LimeChat | ? | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
Linkinus | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Mibbit | ? | Partial | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
mIRC | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | ? | ? | ? |
mzirc | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
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 |
OrnateIRC | ? | Yes | No | Partial | ? | ? | ? |
PhibianIRC | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
PIRCH | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
PJIRC | ? | Partial | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Quassel IRC | ? | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
rxIRC | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
savIRC | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
ScrollZ | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
ShadowIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Smuxi | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Snak | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
sushi IRC suite | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
ThrashIRC | ? | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? |
TurboIRC | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Visual IRC | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Vortec IRC | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
WeeChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
WookieChat | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
x3irc | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
XChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
XiRCON | ? | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? |
Client | CTCP | DCC | IPv6 | SSL | TLS | OCSP | CRL |
- Planned for a later version
- Marked as completed, but not included yet
- Supported via a plugin
- Supported via an external tunnel program
- Can not send files, can only receive files up to 2MB
- DCC is not always successful at this stage
- Wrapper library available
- Requires the OpenSSL library
- Partial OpenSSL support
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0irc | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Aki | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
AmIRC | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Bersirc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
BitchX | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
bnIRC | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ccorp-irc | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ChatZilla | Yes | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? |
ClicksAndWhistles | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Colloquy | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Conspire | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
Coolsmile | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
DMDirc | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
dxirc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
EPIC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
HydraIRC | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
IceChat | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
ii | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
ircII | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
IRCjr | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Ircle | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Irssi | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
jini | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No |
Klient | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Konversation | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
KoolChat | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
KoroIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
KSirc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
KVIrc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
LeetIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
lightIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
LimeChat | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Linkinus | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Mibbit | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
mIRC | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes |
mzirc | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Neebly | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Nettalk | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 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 |
OrnateIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
PhibianIRC | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Partial | Yes |
PIRCH | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
PJIRC | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Quassel IRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
rxIRC | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
savIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
ScrollZ | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
ShadowIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Smuxi | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Snak | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
sushi IRC suite | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
ThrashIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
TurboIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Visual IRC | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
Vortec IRC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Partial | Partial | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? |
WeeChat | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes |
WookieChat | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
x3irc | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
XChat | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes |
XiRCON | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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
- Marked as completed, but not included yet
- 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0irc | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | N/A |
Aki | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | N/A |
AmIRC | No | No | No | No | No | ARexx |
Bersirc | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | N/A |
BitchX | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Enhanced IrcII script |
bnIRC | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Python |
ccorp-irc | No | No | ? | No | No | N/A |
ChatZilla | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | JavaScript |
ClicksAndWhistles | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Colloquy | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | AppleScript, Cocoa, F-Script, JavaScript, Python |
Conspire | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | C |
Coolsmile | No | No | ? | ? | ? | N/A |
DMDirc | Yes | Partial | ? | Yes | Yes | Custom "Actions" system, Java plugins |
dxirc | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | No | N/A |
EPIC | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Enhanced IrcII script, Perl, Ruby, Tcl |
HydraIRC | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | C++ |
IceChat | Yes | No | ? | Yes | No | VBScript (version 5), mIRC script clone (version 7) |
ii | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | language agnostic (anything that can handle IO operations) |
ircII | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | IrcII script |
IRCjr | ? | ? | ? | N/A | ? | ? |
Ircle | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | AppleScript |
Irssi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Perl |
jini | No | No | ? | No | No | N/A |
Klient | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | VBScript, JScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP |
Konversation | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Shell script, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript |
KoolChat | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
KoroIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | N/A |
KSirc | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Perl |
KVIrc | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | KVIrc script, Perl |
LeetIRC | ? | ? | ? | N/A | ? | ? |
lightIRC | No | No | Yes | No | No | N/A |
LimeChat | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | N/A |
Linkinus | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | AppleScript, Cocoa API |
Mibbit | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | N/A | N/A |
mIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | mIRC script |
mzirc | Yes | Yes | SOCKS | No | No | Pascal Script |
Neebly | No | No | ? | ? | ? | N/A |
Nettalk | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | VBScript, Custom |
nexIRC | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | VBScript, Custom |
Opera | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | N/A |
Orion (IRC client) | Yes | No | No | No | No | Partial |
OrnateIRC | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Pascal Script, Own Language (OSL) |
PhibianIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Pascal Script, PSI |
PIRCH | Yes | No | ? | ? | No | Yes |
PJIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | JavaScript |
Quassel IRC | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | N/A |
rxIRC | No | No | No | No | No | REXX |
savIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Tcl/Tk |
ScrollZ | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Enhanced IrcII script |
ShadowIRC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Smuxi | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | N/A |
Snak | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | AppleScript, IrcII script |
sushi IRC suite | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | Python |
ThrashIRC | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | N/A |
TurboIRC | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Own language, VBScript, JScript |
Visual IRC | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Versus |
Vortec IRC | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Pascal Script, Custom |
WeeChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl |
WookieChat | No | Yes | ? | No | No | Yes |
x3irc | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Own language |
XChat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, C++, ECMAScript, Scheme (Guile) |
XiRCON | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | Tcl |
Client | Multi-server | UTF-8 | Proxy server | irc:// URI scheme | Automatic updates | Scripting language |
- When compiled with ncursesw (ncurses with wide-character support)
- Automatically updates via the Sparkle framework
- Planned for a later version
- Supported as of version 20050921
- Uses the Windows Active Scripting technology and supports any scripting language with the appropriate interface
- 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.
- Not complete, proof of concept
- Supported via a plugin
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Clientes IRC para niños