Open Source XMPP Software

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.

Psi is cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. There are builds available for MS Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS.

Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Previously is was a sort of fork but now just consider it as a space for nightly builds.

Pandion is an open source instant messaging client for XMPP networks. Keep in touch with friends or collaborate with colleagues using Pandion instant messenger. Pandion is designed for ease of use and secure communication.

Conversations is an open source Jabber/XMPP client for Android, designed to provide a unique and more freeing mobile messaging experience. XMPP is a federated protocol that can work with every XMPP server out there, giving you the freedom to choose a trustworthy server for yourself while still being able to chat with contacts from other servers. All communications are TLS encrypted and Conversations offers to enable one of two state of the art end-to-end encryption mechanisms, so you can be assured of the highest level of security in messaging. Conversations also offers plenty of unique features, such as image sharing, read markers, dynamic history loading and more.

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.

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

jclient (Jabber/XMPP client) is a lightweight library that provides access to many usual Jabber instant messaging servers. It has been designed to run in embedded devices.

FireFloo is an Instant Messaging Communicator combining the open XMPP standard (Jabber, GMail Chat etc.) with the Echo Protocol for secured Chat and Messaging.

JabberMixClient is a IM Jabber client for portable devices, based on J2ME;JMC implements all the features of an IM client: contacts/presence management, single/multi user chat, users search, services discovery, GTalk and MSN transport.With 2 gui versions

Rudel is a collaborative editing framework for GNU Emacs. It is designed to support multiple collaborative editing protocols such as the obby protocol.

a jabber (instant messaging) client running atop emacs.

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.

This software allows a MUD server to be run as a Jabber bot. Users can then play the MUD using their Jabber client instead of a MUD client or telnet. This relieves the MUD server from having to handle user chat as users can chat in Jabber instead.

A Jabber client written in C# using the .NET Compact Framework for use on Windows PCs and Windows Mobile PDAs. It is intended primarily to be deployed in a corporate environment where restricting the actions of users is desired.

An Open Source JavaScript Jabber Messenger, build with the Ext and Prototype Library.

The desktop application for Ribe - A Zimbabwean, African solution to FREE Chat & Messaging

Program for simple controlling PC over the XMPP/Jabber. It connects on given jabber account and doing all commands that you'll send to it on hosted PC.

Engroup is the web enterprise groupware promotes various collaboration methods plus adding company business management modules. Features are included: CRM, HRM, Document Management, Project Management, Chat, Wiki, Forum, News, Todo.

This is a less intrusive ajax web chat which uses Ajax, Smack, XMPP. This is the client version Servlet. The backend code should run under Tomcat server. You can use openfire or any other XMPP server as the server, gtalk also.

Akila’ize GChat IM is a free Instant Massager Chat client like Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger and IBM SameTime for Windows. Akila’ize GChat IM allows you to converse with your friends in Akila’ize Language. It is an alternative to Google Talk. Start sending messages in Akila’ize Language to your Google talk/Gmail friends and have fun Speaks out your conversation (Text to speech conversion – Enable/Disable anytime) Simple and Lite weight application

A realtime collaborative mind-mapping project. AmoebaChat allows the user to send and receive chat-style messages in an interconnected graph. This allows for a new way of communicating between parties that hasn't been explored yet.

Audible Alerts is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to produce notification of an IM audibly. It uses eSpeak, a text-to-speech program, to call out the name of the buddy who IMs you. You can download eSpeak from www.sourceforge.net/projects/espeak

Baraza is an Open Source mobile instant messaging server for Unix/Linux, implementing the Wireless Village/Instant Messaging and Presence Service (IMPS) protocol. The server supports inter-domain federation using IMPS SSP and Jabber/XMPP -www.baraza.im