Open Source ICQ Software

Miranda IM is an open source, multi-protocol instant messaging client designed to be very light on system resources, extremely fast and customizable. A powerful plugin-based architecture make Miranda IM one of the most flexible clients on the planet.

Adium is an Open Source, multi-protocol instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Adium supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, SIP/SIMPLE (Text), and Lotus Sametime. Additionally, it supports all of these applications at once so, even if you have multiple IM accounts, you don't have to log into each account separately.

Miranda NG is a successor of a popular multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows, Miranda IM. Very light on system resources and extremely fast. Supports Em-LAN Facebook, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ / MRA, IRC Internet Relay Chat, Jabber XMPP, MinecraftDynmap, Omegle, Sametime, SkypeWeb, Steam, Tox, Twitter, and VKontakte. Linux is not a natively supported operating system, but Miranda is known to run on Linux under Wine. PluginUpdater is responsible for keeping your Miranda up-to-date. It checks for updates for all installed plugins and other components like icon sets and langpack regularly (depending on its settings) and performs updating automatically.

Bot Sentry is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to prevent Instant Message (IM) spam. It allows you to ignore IMs unless the sender is in your Buddy List, the sender is in your Allow List, or the sender correctly answers a question you have predefined.

YSM is a simple ICQ client based on the v7/v8 icq protocol version. Free of external libraries requirements, written in the C Language.

Jimm is an ICQ clone for mobile devices, such as celluluar phones. It is written in Java 2 Micro Edition (MIDP) and uses protocol version 8. Jimm is not affiliated with or endorsed by ICQ, Inc.

Licq is an ICQ/AIM clone written fully in C++. It uses an extensive plugin system to manage many different functions including the MSN protocol. The main GUI is written using the Qt widget set.

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 free Win32 instant messaging client. Smaller, Faster, Easier.

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).

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.

Kraken is a continuation of the Openfire IM Gateway plugin, but in a way that works for any XMPP server. It provides a way for XMPP users to log into, and communicate through, their legacy IM accounts such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and friends.

A graphical notification plugin for the instant message client gaim. Now hosted at http://plugins.guifications.org/trac

Ultramagnetic is a concurrent fork of GAIM that provides strong end-to-end encryption using libgcrypt and anonymous routing using the Six/Four protocol.

Converter History from ICQ6+ to QHF file for QIP Infium

This plugin for Pidgin performs itself like an answering machine or, more likely, a prompter robot. It tries to find suitable answers in logs of your previous conversations and prompts its variants.

There are many people, who search server that support several protos and can work as corporate internet connection-independent ICQ gate.

jImBot - Java IM Bot, it's a bot framework for instant messager.

climm is a portable, small, yet powerful console based, fully internationalized instant messaging client supporting the current v8 ICQ protocol and XMPP.

ICQMail is ICQ->Email gateway daemon

The PlanetaMessenger.org Libraries project is a set of open source instant messenger libraries used and maintained by PlanetaMessenger.org. You can find protocol implementation for MSN, ICQ, ComVC networks for use on standalone and server applications.

icqlib is the most feature complete, open source, library implementation of Mirabilis' ICQ protocol available on the Internet. icqlib currently supports approximately 90% of the ICQ UDP v5 protocol and 80% of the ICQ TCP v2 protocol.

Kopete is a flexible and extendable multiple protocol instant messaging system designed as a plugin-based system.

GnomeICU (previously GtkICQ) is an Internet-based communications program which makes use of the ICQ protocol and GNOME. DISCONTINUED: We recommend you use Empathy

Jarl is a Perl/Tk Client. It strives to provide full functionality with every aspect of the Jabber IM system. It currently supoprts messaging, chat, groupchat, ICQ, AIM, and IRC support.