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Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients


The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of IRC client programs which have been discussed in independent published literature.

Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license etc. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

(HexChat is free of charge)

A brief overview of the release history.

2.42 (June 22, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-06-22))

Lion
2.38 (September 12, 2013; 3 years ago (2013-09-12))

The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation).

Unix and Unix-like operating systems:

What IRC related protocols and standards are supported by each client.

Information on what features each of the clients support.


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Wikipedia

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