Open Source BSD IRC Clients

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.

A pidgin plugin that allows user to assign global hotkeys (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+g) for togglling buddy list and reading queued message. When "Toggle List" hotkey is enabled, it makes the buddy list hidden from your taskbar and task switcher (similar to ICQ).

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.

Eggdrop is the most advanced IRC robot available. It has been under development since December 1993, and unlike most other bots, it is still regularly updated.

EIRC is an IRC client program written entirely in Java using only Java API version 1.1, for compliance with once mainstream web browsers. It runs both as an applet and as an application.

PJIRC is a full-featured Java-based IRC client

[ 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.

AceServ is an irc service wich provides OperServ & BotServ. It's based on OBserv by SideWnder (wnder@underworld.net).

Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is the heir of the Everybuddy project, and aims to continue improving the program and addressing its shortcomings.

A powerful set of IRC Services written in the C programming language, with a centralized multithreaded Proxy scanner (with support for single server scan bots) and statistical services, designed to run as a daemon on BSD systems.

Traditionally, IRC clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

Friendly Java IRC client, runnable either as web applet or desktop application. It is based on Eteria IRC client, with many improvements.

This Darkbot page is a fork of the original Darkbot. The original page was taken by new ownership and the original group of contributors have had no luck in retaining control over the project as was originally the case. Darkbot is an artificially intelligent IRC robot originally created by Jason Hamilton for use in help rooms on the Undernet IRC network, and others. It is capable of being taught responses to questions, and can help simulate the feeling of having a real person around to answer questions when nobody else is available. The aim of this page is not to take control over the project again as much as to begin making updates and making things fresh for the few who are still dedicated users.

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.

Genethic IRC Server Monitor is a perl bot which has started being written by the administrator of Geneva.CH.EU.Undernet.org in August of 2001. It is monitoring your IRC server, publishing almost all of the stats in a webpage.

GigaGoogle.tcl - TCL de recherche sur google via IRC par un eggdrop - Search on Google with an IRC eggdrop

Irc web client (PHP, xhtml, css, ECMAScript) in real time (without "refresh"). Groucha doesn't need anything else than php and is "safe mode" compatible.

IRC JAVA BOT is a bot for IRC written in JAVA. It can manage connection to database, identification and so on ...

IRC JdR is a permanent game playable via IRC

A tcl to generate webpages statistiques of IRC channels directly from eggdrops.

IRCd and IRC services project by the coders committee for the IRCube network.

IRC Java client with support of smileys, skins, jython scripting and plugins.

JChatIM is an instant messaging (IM) system written in Java with support of smileys and skins

KineIRCd is a flexible IRC daemon, built on modular, future-ready code. Kine boasts Unicode/ISO-10646 and multilingual support, but its flexibility is ultimately derived from network nonalignment, a powerful core with a simple API, and standards adhesion