Top 15 MacIrssi Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Originally created by Nils Hjelte, the Cocoa port of Irssi has recently fallen out of development and become website-less. Having aquired a copy of the source from Nils, this branch contains my gradual "improvements" to the original 0.8.2 release of MacIrssi.

So far, this includes:
Colloquy-style notification system.
Improved support for alternative character encodings.
Sleep/Wake support.
New shortcut system, which can now bind IRC commands to any valid menu key combination.
Perl Scripting support.
Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.

1. HydraIRC

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2. irssi

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3. XChat for Linux

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4. Colloquy

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5. XChat for Windows

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6. X-Chat 2 for Windows

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7. jsIRC

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8. Subway

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9. Web-IRC

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10. IRCAnywhere

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11. PChat-IRC

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12. Subrosa

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13. nirc

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14. relay.js

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15. mIRC

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