subway - ABANDONED - A web based IRC client

•    Javascript

Subway is not currently functional and not under active development. While the plan is to finish this project some point in the future, currently the maintainer strongly suggests taking a look at The Lounge. Subway is a web-based IRC client with a multi-user backend and a JavaScript-heavy UI. Frontend/backend communication is done with websockets (or best available fallback where not available). The backend supports connection persistence and optional logging when the browser disconnects.

Mojo-Webqq - 使用Perl语言（不会没关系）编写的smartqq/webqq客户端框架（非GUI），可通过插件提供基于HTTP协议的api接口供其他语言或系统调用

•    Perl

使用Perl语言（不会没关系）编写的smartqq/webqq客户端框架（非GUI），可通过插件提供基于HTTP协议的api接口供其他语言或系统调用

Mojo-Weixin - 使用Perl语言（不会没关系）编写的个人账号微信/weixin/wechat客户端框架（非GUI），可通过插件提供基于HTTP协议的api接口供其他语言或系统调用

•    Perl

使用Perl语言（不会没关系）编写的个人账号微信/weixin/wechat客户端框架（非GUI），可通过插件提供基于HTTP协议的api接口供其他语言或系统调用

irssi - The client of the future

•    C

Irssi is a modular chat client that is most commonly known for its text mode user interface, but 80% of the code isn't text mode specific. Irssi comes with IRC support built in, and there are third party ICB, SILC, XMPP (Jabber), PSYC and Quassel protocol modules available. Check the GitHub issues if it is already listed in there; if not, open an issue on GitHub or send a mail to staff@irssi.org.

matterbridge - bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocket

•    Go

A simple chat bridge Letting people be where they want to be. Bridges between a growing number of protocols. Click below to demo. Gitter | IRC | Discord | Matrix | Slack | Mattermost | XMPP | Twitch | Zulip | And more...

thelounge - 💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client

•    Javascript

To learn more about configuration, usage and features of The Lounge, take a look at the website. The Lounge is the official and community-managed fork of Shout, by Mattias Erming.

hexchat - GTK+ IRC client -

•    C

GTK+ IRC client -

znc - Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer

•    C++

Currently there are 2 build systems in place: CMake and ./configure. ./configure will eventually be removed. There is also configure.sh which should make migration to CMake easier: it accepts the same parameters as ./configure, but calls CMake with CMake-style parameters. Installation from source code is performed using the CMake toolchain.

ircd.js - A Node ircd (IRC daemon)

•    Javascript

I’m implementing RFC 1459 / RFC 2812 for Node.js. The server will allow clients to connect, join channels, change topics; basic stuff.

oragono - A modern IRC server written in Go.

•    Go

Oragono is a modern, experimental IRC server written in Go. It's designed to be simple to setup and use, and it includes features such as UTF-8 nicks / channel names, client accounts with SASL, and other assorted IRCv3 support. darwin.network and testnet.oragono.io are running Oragono in production if you want to take a look.

dispatch - Web-based IRC client in Go.

•    Go

This requires a Go environment, version 1.10 or greater. This requires Node.js and yarn.

quassel - Quassel IRC: Chat comfortably. Everywhere.

•    C++

Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core -- much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, but graphical. You can find the current release notes on the Quassel IRC homepage, as well as in this repository's ChangeLog.

slack-irc - Connects Slack and IRC channels by sending messages back and forth.

•    Javascript

Connects Slack and IRC channels by sending messages back and forth. Read more here. Note: node-irc uses icu-charset-detector as an optional dependency, which might fail to install depending on how you've installed Node.js. slack-irc works fine anyhow though, so no need to worry.

Limnoria - A modified version of Supybot (an IRC bot) with Python 3 and IRCv3 support including SASL, translations (fr/fi/it/hu/de), GPG authentication, TLS, and many other enhancements and bug fixes

•    Python

Supybot is a robust (it doesn't crash), user friendly (it's easy to configure) and programmer friendly (plugins are extremely easy to write) Python IRC bot. It aims to be an adequate replacement for most existing IRC bots. It includes a very flexible and powerful ACL system for controlling access to commands, as well as more than 50 builtin plugins providing around 400 actual commands. Limnoria is a project which continues development of Supybot (you can call it a fork) by fixing bugs and adding features.

Irssi - IRC client for UNIX systems

•    Perl

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. It supports Autologging, Formats and themes, Configurable keybindings, Paste detection and lot more.

Adium - Instant Messaging for Mac

•    Objective-C

Adium is a instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, XMPP (Jabber), ICQ, IRC, Bonjour and more. It supports Encryption, File transfer, Tabbed chat windows and lot more.

XChat - IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows

•    C

XChat is an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.

Shout - The self-hosted web IRC client

•    Javascript

Shout is a web IRC client that you host on your own server.

awesome-irc - A curated list of awesome IRC resources

A list of tools, software & other resources related to the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol. You use these to connect to IRC.

CloudBot - CloudBot - The simple, fast, expandable, open-source Python IRC Bot!

•    Python

CloudBot is currently unmaintained. The project possibly usable, but there are currently no developers building new features or fixing bugs. There are several forks of CloudBot which you may want to use instead. These projects have much more work done on them, and are thus incompatible. If you already have a running CloudBot instance you will probably need to start over from scratch.