adium
Adium is an open source and free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more. (by adium)
colloquy
Colloquy is an advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client for macOS and iOS! Latest Mac builds: https://github.com/colloquy/colloquy/releases (by colloquy)
| adium | colloquy | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | |
| 285 | 220 | |
| 4.2% | 4.1% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| Objective-C | Objective-C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
adium
Posts with mentions or reviews of adium.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-22.
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New company "new" projects
I love classic IM apps, and I want to give the macOS instant messaging app "Adium" a complete rejuvenation for Apple Silicon because it's last update was over 5 years ago and I've needed a good XMPP client for Mac because I've started using it. But almost the WHOLE. THING. is written in Objective-C, containing no Swift code whatsoever. It's so old, it still has growl (old 3rd party macOS notification system before Apple introduced native notifications) within it. And I know that doing so would be very, very difficult.
- Adium is an open source and free instant messaging application for macOS
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Pidgin: Pidgin, the Universal Chat Client
Looks like work is being done in a branch: https://github.com/adium/adium/commits/adium-1.5.11.asher.10...
colloquy
Posts with mentions or reviews of colloquy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-08.
- Ask HN: What IRC client do you use?
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IRC technology news from the second half of 2021
Colloquy link is dead (again), https://github.com/colloquy/colloquy/releases is probably the most relevant link at this point. A couple of guys keep it limping along when there are breaking OS changes, but it's pretty much in a coma. A pity, since imho it's still the best-looking UI IRC client on any platform.
- IRC Client for OSX
What are some alternatives?
When comparing adium and colloquy you can also consider the following projects:
cordless - The Discord terminal client you never knew you wanted.
ircv3-specifications - IRCv3 specifications | Roadmap: https://git.io/IRCv3-Roadmap | Code of conduct: http://ircv3.net/conduct.html
awesome-pidgin-plugins - A list of Pidgin plugins to support modern networks and features
Monal - Monal for XMPP (iOS and macOS)
purple-facebook - Facebook protocol plugin for libpurple (moved from jgeboski/purple-facebook)
hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua
purple-gowhatsapp - Pidgin/libpurple plugin for WhatsApp Web.
ChatSecure-iOS - ChatSecure is a free and open source encrypted chat client for iOS that supports OTR and OMEMO encryption over XMPP.
purple-hangouts