IRC/Clients

This article about IRC clients. Clients with encryption support (SSL 3.0 or newer) is approved only.

Windows

HexChat
Jitsi Desktop
Konversation
Leafchat (2012)
mIRC
Pidgin
Quassel IRC

Cygwin

irssi
weechat

Web

The Lounge

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Penelope recommends

Windows Users have a few options:

• Trillian offers basic support for IRC.

• mIRC seems to be fairly popular.

Linux/Unix users have a few options See these links:

• Basic 'How-to' for IRC on Linux
• The IRCII command line client.

For Mac users, we suggest using the GUI clients Adium 1.4 Beta or Colloquy.