IRC/Clients

Clients

Desktop

HexChat

Hexchat was the continuation of the X-Chat, when X-Chat was discontinued. Unfortunately, Hexchat itself got discontinued in February 2024.

Website: https://hexchat.github.io/

Source: https://github.com/hexchat

Windows download: https://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html

Linux: In your distro's repository ;)

KVIrc

Website: https://www.kvirc.net/

Downloads (Windows, macOS) https://www.kvirc.net/?id=releases&lang=nl

Linux: In your distro's repository ;)

Quassel

Website: https://quassel-irc.org/

Downloads (Windows, macOS) : https://quassel-irc.org/downloads

Linux: In your distro's repository ;)

Mobile

Goguma

Website: https://sr.ht/~emersion/goguma/

Source: https://codeberg.org/emersion/goguma

Available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/fr.emersion.goguma/

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.emersion.goguma.play

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goguma-irc/id6470394620

IrisChat

Source: https://github.com/umutcamliyurt/IrisChat

Available on IzzyOnDroid: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.nemesis.irischat

Revolution IRC

Revolution IRC is an IRC client for Android.

Source: https://github.com/MCMrARM/revolution-irc

Available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.mrarm.irc/

Services

On BlaatIRC we offer Anope Services to register nicknames and channels.

To register your nickname, type (replace password and emailaddress with your desired password and your email address)

/MSG NickServ REGISTER password emailaddress

Then after connecting to IRC, you can identify yourself with

/MSG NickServ IDENTIFY password

To register additional nicknames, change to the desired nickname and type

/MSG NickServ GROUP

To remove a nick from a group, change to that nick and type:

/MSG NickServ UNGROUP

If your connection got a PING timeout, and you connect with a different nickname, you can regain your nickname with (replacing nickname with the nick you with to recover)

/MSG NickServ RECOVER nickname