irssi VS Textual

Compare irssi vs Textual and see what are their differences.

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irssi Textual
10 8
2,799 1,844
1.0% 0.1%
7.7 5.7
15 days ago 7 months ago
C Objective-C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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irssi

Posts with mentions or reviews of irssi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-11.

Textual

Posts with mentions or reviews of Textual. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-27.
  • Is there anyone still maintaining a native IRC client for macOS?
    4 projects | /r/macapps | 27 Jul 2023
    Textual's source is on GitHub, and the most recent commit was only 4 months ago, so it appears it's still being worked on.
  • Entitlement in Open Source
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2022
    Textual¹ is open-source but sells the precompiled app. Keka² has the app available for free on GitHub but charges for it on the Mac App Store, to support development.

    ¹ IRC client for macOS: https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual

    ² Un/archiver for macOS: https://github.com/aonez/Keka

  • Building Textual IRC Client
    2 projects | dev.to | 13 Jan 2022
    Textual is often the most recommended IRC client for macOS. You can buy it for $7.99 or you can simply build it from source. Let us look at how to do exactly that.
  • Selling my own GPL software, part 1: a lot of hurdles
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2021
    Textual is a good example of this working IRL for me. Their app is one of the best IMO IRC clients on MacOS, is open source [1] and is also sold on the App store and their site.

    1. https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual#original-limechat...

    2. https://www.codeux.com/textual

  • Does M1 16 inch even have fans?
    1 project | /r/macbookpro | 7 Dec 2021
    Textual: https://www.codeux.com/textual/
  • Open Source Tax Software
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2021
    Two quick examples: Keka and Textual[2] are both open-source and you can pay for them on the Mac App Store or by direct payment. The former gives you compiled builds either way, the latter only if you pay.

    [1]: https://github.com/aonez/Keka

    [2]: https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual

What are some alternatives?

When comparing irssi and Textual you can also consider the following projects:

Weechat - The extensible chat client.

TrueCraft - Minecraft for hipsters

hexchat - GTK+ IRC client

halloy - IRC application written in Rust

solo1 - Solo 1 firmware in C

cla-assistant - Contributor License Agreement assistant (CLA assistant)

emailengine - Headless email client

securitytxt.org - Static website for security.txt.

mlang - Compiler for the M language, used to compute the income tax of French taxpayers

modern-irc - A useful overview and reference to the IRC client protocol as it is implemented today.

openfisca-france - French tax and benefit system for OpenFisca