IRC Clients for Desktop Operating Systems

Browse free open source IRC Clients and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source IRC Clients by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    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.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    IRCD-Hybrid

    IRCD-Hybrid

    A lightweight, high-performance Internet Relay Chat server

    IRCD-Hybrid is a lightweight, high-performance Internet Relay Chat server.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    libircclient is a small but powerful library, which implements client-server IRC protocol. It has all features needed to create your own IRC client or bot, including multi-threading support, sync and async interfaces, CTCP/DCC support, colors, SSL connections and so on.
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    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    Undernet Coder Committee -- ircu development
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Windows (XP/Vista/7/8/10) ports of the Eggdrop IRC bot
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    NetChatLink
    MOVED TO GITHUB: https://github.com/pR0Ps/NetChatLink NetChatLink is a small application that links chats across multiple DC hubs and IRC channels. It includes support for the ADC protocol, IRC channel keys, chat filtering, per-user settings, op commands, and more. It is a fork of MyIrcDcLinks by Burek.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Darkbot

    The IRC's Talking Robot

    [ 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.
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Gamers.IRC

    Gamers.IRC

    Full mIRC MSL Script

    Gamers.IRC is a full MSL Script for mIRC, the most popular Windows IRC client. Gamers.IRC is for Windows 95 and higher. Source code: Download and run the installer. Open the .grc and .ini files with notepad.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Eggdrop
    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.
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    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    A multiplayer RPG that connects as a psuedo server to an IRCD. Built in the tradition of old BBS Door games such as LORD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon). Forest fights add experience and gold needed to best your master (gain level
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    An original bruteforce-based encryption/decryption system. BBE was originally conceived to chat with encrypted text on IRC. mIRC and X-Chat support BBE via script addon. BBE can also encrypt MIME encoded files. Blowfish encryption is currently supported.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    This is a modification of the Markovsky IRC Bot. Extra code has been added so that the bot has the capability to not only speak in the distinctive dialects of Andrew Hussie's Homestuck Trolls, but can also switch between them at runtime.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    VooDoo cIRCle
    VooDoo cIRCle is modular IRC bot, scriptable thanks to PHP and Perl, with built-in SSL support, File System, private BotNet and advanced security rights for each user. Runs on POSIX/Unices, Windows and Mac OS X.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Rich Features IRC Services, the project is resumed 2010
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Bowser is an IRC client for BeOS that aims to be very easy to use, very elegant, and very stable.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    FeigBot is an IRC bot written in C providing: account/access management via configurable group memberships; 50+ built-in admin/co-admin commands; flattext database (no sql needed); Lua script support; ability to dynamically load/unload modules on the fly
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Mx3bot is a MySQL based IRC robot, using Tcl for commands, supporting user and channel management, as well as ability to connect to multiple servers at a time.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    This is a collection of lots of XChat2 plugins.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    deStats is a rather small, fast, and cool IRC Logfile stats generation program. It will eventually become an open source alternative to the existing ones such as mIRCStats, and IRCStats.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    A resource-conscientious, flexible, modular, platform-independent, scalable and robust server based on ircd-ratbox.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    psyBNC is an easy-to-use, multi-user, permanent IRC-Bouncer with many features. Some of its features include symmetric ciphering of talk and connections (Blowfish and IDEA) It compiles on Linux, FreeBSD, SunOs and Solaris.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ptyaim is a simple curses client for AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, and IRC. It runs on many Unix-like systems, and Win32.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    AIR - Anope IRC Registrator
    AIR is a bridge between the NickServ Anope Service and a socket connection (e.g. php sockets) AIR ist eine Brückensoftware zwischen dem NickServ Anope-Service und einer Socket-Verbindung (z.B. php Sockets) New site: http://air.codeplex.com/
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    AServ is a fully featured IRC Service written in TCL to provide stable services to both network operators, and users. AServ uses Undernets P10 protocol to communicate with servers. Bugs and Requests should be made at http://AServ.ownage.org.uk
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Acidblood is not some drug or some lame band name. Yes, it is an IRC robot. I wanted to write my own that I knew had no backdoors and would be easy to setup and fast.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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