awesome-irc

Very customizable, ZNC integration, iCloud sync ($4.99). ( )

One window for multiple servers, keyboard shortcuts, fast & stable. ( )

Based on XChat, easy to use, spell check & multiple languages. ( )

A simple IRC web client. ( )

Powerful modern IRC messenger for the web. ( , )

Uses the chrome.sockets APIs to connect directly to IRC servers without needing a proxy. ( )

Distributed (clients can attach to and detach from a central core that stays permanently online. ( )

Multi-server/channel support, SASL support, Smooth channel scrolling / swiping. ( )

relay.js

Focuses on making IRC less intimidating and easier to use

Circe

For use in Emacs, sane defaults

User-friendly, based on GNOME / GTK+. ( )

Free, portable, based on Qt GUI toolkit. ( )

User-friendly client built on the KDE Platform. ( )

imple RC lient - a terminal client in less than 250 lines of C

Terminal client, multi-protocol friendly for module authors, GPLv2

Revolution IRC

Feature-full, actively maintained Android IRC client

Never has a client offered such granular settings for every aspect of the IRC experience. ( , )

Android/Chrome OS client for power users, with ZNC built-ins, notification logic, reliable DCC, keybinds for hardware keyboards, etc

Friendly IRC client built in Vala and GTK, designed for elementary OS. ( )

An IRC client for mobile devices, from the creator of soju

Group chat for teams, friends, and communities. stay connected, chat from anywhere, and never miss a message (+client) (£0-£3.50/month)

iOS App

Official

Android App

Official

Nimbus

Standalone client

Always online web IRC client. ( )

Most popular. many different plugins. ( )

Always online, lightweight and secure Open Source IRC proxying with backlogging. ( )

Responsive, self-hosted & support for multiple users. ( , )

A fast, light and extensible chat client. ( )

A user-friendly IRC bouncer

sms-webhook

A simple webhook to receive SMS messages on IRC

ircd.js

Server will allow clients to connect, join channels, change topics; basic stuff

Modular, stable, written from scratch. ( )

miniircd

Very simple and limited

Portable and lightweight for small or private networks. ( )

Ergo

Modern server that's portable and designed around specifications (bleeding-edge IRCv3 support)

IRC server without netsplits. ( )

Designed for large networks with high scalability requirements. ( )

Designed for flexibility and ease of use. ( )

Oldest IRC bot still in active development. Feature rich, uses Tcl scripting. ( )

Tonnes of ready made features, tutorial, fully documented. ( )

Limnoria

Robust, user friendly, developer friendly

Twitch Plays

Takes input from the chat and presses the corresponding key

Skybot

Main goals are simplicity and power

Responds to configured trigger phrases with quotes from notable women. ( )

lazybot

User-friendly and powerful

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geordi

Compiles and runs C++ code snippets

CloudBot

Simple, fast, expandable

yossarian-bot

Large default plugin set, Cinch-based

helga

Pluggable chat bot supporting multiple protocols

EveIRC

Extendable chat/channel/server-managenent service-providing bot. Using the

BitBot

Modular, event-driven bot featuring a REST API, individual user settings and much more. ( )

Cardinal

Python Twisted IRC bot with a focus on ease of plugin development

Python Twisted IRC bot with a focus on ease of plugin development. ( )

wayback

An archiving tool with an IRC interface integrated with various archiving services

milla

New generation LLM-powered bot with lua scripting support

goirc

Event-based, stateful, lacking documentation

Hubot IRC Adapter

The IRC adapter for hubot

go-ircevent

Event-based

slate-irc

Plugin system, simple api, arbitrary input stream, debug support

PircBotX

Event based IRC Library with a straightforward API (updated fork of )

IRC::Client

based extendable IRC client framework

Flexible IRC bot customizable with JavaScript.

discord-irc

Discord ↔ IRC

dibridge

Discord ↔ IRC (with puppets)

slack-irc

Slack ↔ IRC

irc-slack

Slack ↔ IRC

XMPP, Jabber, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Twitter API, HipChat ↔ IRC

IRC gateway for XMPP clients

teleirc

Telegram ↔ IRC

toxirc

Tox ↔ IRC

skyweb2irc

Skype (webclient API) ↔ IRC

matterbridge

IRC ↔ Mattermost ↔ Discord ↔ XMPP ↔ Gitter ↔ Slack ↔ Discord ↔ Telegram ↔ etc

Heisenbridge

Bouncer-style Matrix IRC bridge

Appservice-IRC

Gateway and bridge Matrix ↔ IRC

matterircd

Matterbridge ↔ IRC, Slack ↔ IRC, Mastodon ↔ IRC

Searches 563 different networks

Searches networks listed

Searches 318 different networks

@Libera.Chat - Official Ubuntu support channel. ( )

Network mostly focused on free and open source projects, run by former freenode staff

Community of redditors and subreddits. ( )

Community for free and open source software communities

Privacy endorsing community serving as a safe and open space for the discussion of various topics

Drew DeVault's Blog

QuakeNet

Pingdom

Alex Williams (TechCrunch)

A vast amount of reasonably up-to-date information

A group of IRC software authors working to enhance, improve, maintain and standardize the IRC protocol. ( )

An attempt to write an update to the original IRC protocol. documentation ( )

Lists of numerics, modes, ISUPPORT tokens and other protocol details. ( )

grawity's IRC docs

Collection of misc IRC protocol documentation

Statistics around the server software in use on networks today. ( )

IRC Parser Tests

A CC0 set of test suites, to ensure IRC message parsers are consistent

IRC Archives for old hard to find IRC related software

superseriousstats

Fast and efficient program to create statistics out of various types of chat logs

img2src

Convert images to halfblock ANSI or IRC, with a bunch of post-processing filters