Open Source Mac 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 complete rewrite of the mobile java irc-client WLIrc. (http://wirelessirc.sourceforge.net) Aims to be more responsive and use less memory maintaining the current gui and looks.

Halloy is an open-source IRC client written in Rust, utilizing the Iced GUI library. It aims to provide a simple and fast client for Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms

BitchX is an IRC client based on ircII/EPIC4. It includes many features that are usually relegated to scripts such as CDCC and flood protection -- you can just start it and go. Development was on hiatus for a while but is now resuming.

Perlbot is an IRC bot written in Perl. It uses Net::IRC, which is a proven, stable implementation of the IRC protocol. The bot can be extended through plugins, which are implemented through Perl modules using a robust, intuitive, event-driven API.

An eggdrop TCL script to automaticaly rid of unwanted spamming. Using multiple techniques.

Effortlessly browse and search XDCC packs with this streamlined tool for mIRC and AdiIRC, crafted by Eric^^. Say goodbye to tedious channel interactions! Simply load the script (`/load -rs xdccv.mrc`) and let it build a comprehensive database while you idle. Then, use the commands `/xdccv` or `/xdccs` to find your desired files. Keep it alive. Make it better. Compatible with Windows 10/11 and Linux via WINE. Get the latest updates and source code here: https://pastebin.com/HUmDgd0g

Jaic Wain is an effort to create an IRC client that is actually easy to use and to understand, while still being powerful. Written in Java, it is platform independent and supports scripting via BeanShell using scripts written in a Java-like language.

DocSynch is a collaborative editing system on top of IRC. By transforming single-user editors into multi-user editors, it allows to remotely edit text documents together. Implementations are targeted as extensions to many popular text editors and IDEs.

X-Chat Aqua is X-Chat with an Aqua interface for MacOS X. X-Chat Aqua uses the irc engine from X-Chat, and is designed to look and feel like the GTK+ front end.

A daemon made to interface with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and control the registration of nicknames, channels, etc -- aswell as providing many other informational and control facilities.

UFONet - Is a set of hacktivist tools that allow launching coordinated DDoS and DoS attacks and combine both in a single offensive. It also works as an encrypted DarkNET to publish and receive content by creating a global client/server network based on a direct-connect P2P architecture. + FAQ: https://ufonet.03c8.net/FAQ.html -------------------------------------------- -> UFONet-v2.0 [R3D] "R3DST4R!" (.zip) -> md5 = [98fcd2bd3bba3f1d52738113522d3bc9] -> UFONet-v2.0 [R3D] "R3DST4R!" (.tar.gz) -> md5 = [13337a1853e144a425836c3f75ed3948] --------------------------------------------

Provides an overlay notification of events while using Gaim Instant Messaging client. This software utilizes the xosd library and should therefore support any platform that xosd and Gaim support.

Happy Fun Bot is a fully modular IRC bot. This consists of a basic engine, providing networking code and event handling, and a core module which provides some basic bot functionality. All other functionality will be provided by third-party modules.

Plugin for ChatZilla which monitors torrent IRC announce channels, downloads torrent files based on a user-defined filter, and then sends the torrent files to a local or remote torrent client. Supports several different private trackers.

[ 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.

Martyr is a Java framework around the IRC protocol to allow application writers easy manipulation of the protocol and client state. Martyr can be used to write bots, end-user clients, or add IRC functionality to an existing Java application.

pisg is a smart Perl script which generates nice looking statistics out from IRC logfiles. It's a funny thing for the users of your channel :)

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

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.

Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available libraries for each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant Messenger®, ICQ®, MSN® Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, Yahoo!®, and Apple Bonjour communications.

LimeChat is an IRC client written on RubyCocoa.

An IRC bot, similar to the Blootbot and Infobot, written in python.

A simple bot used for monitoring recent changes on small Wikipedia projects and reporting them to freenode channel(s). The bot has the core features that one would expect. Details available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EhJJ/RCBot

pyirclib is an IRC library for Python. It provides basic and advanced characteristics for developing IRC applications