Open Source Chat Software

BeeBEEP is a secure (encryption based on Rijndael Algorithm, AES) peer to peer office messenger. You can talk and send files with all your colleagues inside a local area network such of an office, home or internet cafe without a server. BeeBEEP works also with VPNs. This serverless application is indispensable in all those places where privacy and security an essential requirement. For more info visit: https://www.beebeep.net

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Previously is was a sort of fork but now just consider it as a space for nightly builds.

Psi is cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. There are builds available for MS Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS.

phpFreeChat is a free, simple to install, fast and customizable chat that uses by default files for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh and display the chat zone and the nickname zone.

Mibew Messenger is an open-source live support application allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators.

phpMyChat-Plus is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use multi-room PHP/DB chat. It is currently available for MySQLi, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and ODBC. It supports IRC-like commands, moderators, is available in 24 languages and fully compatible with php7.

Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.

"Mibew Messenger" - is unique software allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators. This repo should be treated as an obsolete. For modern version of Mibew Messenger see https://sourceforge.net/projects/mibew/

Anope Services are built off of the original Epona code written by Lara which is built off of IRC Services. These services have advanced the original Epona code and include new features such as Modules, Mysql, and Defcon Mode.

emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version.

EZ Intranet Messenger is designed to work within a LAN segment, without the presence of centralized server. Its primary goal is to provide instant messaging service, along with online status notification, file transmission, and real time public chat.

MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.

Nicotine+ is a fork of Hyriand's Soulseek PyGTK2 client, Nicotine. Fixing bugs, adding new features, and keeping up-to-date with Soulseek's protocol is the goal of this project. The most popular Multi-OS Soulseek client is getting an upgrade.

[ Please read https://sourceforge.net/p/darkbot/news/2014/01/darkbots-revitalization/ ] Darkbot is a portable IRC chat robot written in the C language that can be taught responses to user inquiries, and even have conversations with them. Darkbot was originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels on Intenet Relay Chat.

Denora is a set of Stats Services for IRC networks that allows IRC network admins to get a complete and comprehensive overview of their IRC network. Denora exports this information to MySQL, HTML XML and flatfile databases.

Ace Operator is a tool for enabling live communications between company representatives and online users from web sites. By clicking on the "live help" button, customers can get access to company representatives and exchange information in real-time.

Blackbox is an IRC Service which provides the following services preventing IRC Operator abuse, Anti Proxy System, Network Statistics and Web Based Management.

Chabber is an extensible XMPP-based Instant Messaging application. It is a generic, portable application that follows the standard protocols for Instant Messaging and gives users a lot of advanced functionalities. It provides a platform for plugins.

DreamworX Collaboration Tools enables you to share and collaborate development documents and projects with associated users and groups. As well as an online highlighted text-edit, and chat/message function with in-project users.

The Feds TCL Group creates TCLs for use in IRC operator help channels on IRC networks. Some TCLs that we have created are: StrictHelp, IBC, DateChan, and Login.TCL. More TCLs are in planning and coming soon.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

JForum is a complete, powerful and multi-threaded forum software. Features include unlimited forums and categories, topic watching, email notification, Private Messages, user ranking, advanced permission schema and moderation options and much more.

Jeti is a Java Jabber client that supports most chat features such as file transfer, group chat, emoticons, and formatted messages. It can be used as an application or as a Web applet.

An attempt to write a full open source bot better than eggdrop, with every single feature, but better.