Următoarele tabele compară informațiile generale și tehnice dintre o serie de programe clienți IRC.

General Informația de bază generală despre clienți: creator/companie, licență etc. Clienții listați pe fundal violet deschis nu mai sunt în dezvoltare activă.

Client Dezvoltatori primari Model de distribuție Licență software Interfață Limbaj de programare AdiIRC Per Amundsen Freeware GUI C# AmIRC Oliver Wagner, Jamie van den Berge Freeware GUI C Bersirc Jamie Frater, Nicholas Copeland Free software GUI C (Delphi originally) BitchX Colten Edwards Free software TUI, GUI C ChatZillaMozilla Foundation Free software GUI JavaScript, XUL Colloquy Timothy Hatcher, Kiji Roshi Desktop: free software,Mobile: commercial GUI Objective-C DMDircChris Smith, Greg Holmes, Shane McCormack Free software GUI Java ERC Free software TUI, GUI Emacs Lisp f-irc Folkert van Heusden Free software TUI C HexChat Berke Viktor Free software TUI, GUI C (forked from XChat) HydraIRC Hydra Freeware (source available) GUI C++, WTL IceChat Paul Vanderzee Freeware GUI C# (Visual Basic until 2004)IceChat History. IceChat.net ii (IRC IT)IRC IT (ii) IRC client. Official webpage. suckless.org.(rationale)(rationale) Nico Golde, Anselm Garbe Free software filesystem based FIFO C ircII Michael Sandrof Free software TUI C IRCjr(rationale) official page. Michael Brutman Free software TUI C++ IRCCloud RJ, James Subscription service (free in alpha phase) ? GUI Erlang, JavaScript Ircle Onno Tijdgat Commercial 30-day trial GUI C Irssi Timo Sirainen Free software TUI C jIRCii (English).Magic (20 noiembrie 2004). "jIRCii review" . mirc.net. Raphael Mudge, Serge Baranov, Andreas Ravnestad Free software GUI, TUI Java KiwiIRC Darren Whitlen Free software Web Javascript frontend, Node.js backend KVIrc Szymon Stefanek Free software GUI C++ Konversation Free software GUI C++ LeafChat Samuel Marshall Free software GUI Java LeetIRC official page. Mike Chambers Free software TUI QuickBasic LimeChat"LimeChat: IRC Client for Mac". Official site. Satoshi Nakagawa Free software "Limechat". Github. GUI RubyCocoa (2007–2010)Objective-C(2010–)“do not load RubyCocoa” Commit on GitHub. Linkinus Conceited Software Commercial, 15 day trial GUI Objective-C Mibbit Jimmy Moore Textual Adbar Web JavaScript frontend,Java backend mIRC Khaled Mardam-Bey Shareware 30-day trial GUI C/C++ (Borland C++ originally) NeeblyNeebly website. Christos Constantinou Freeware GUI Nettalk Nicolas Kruse Freeware GUI Visual Basic Opera Freeware GUI C++ PChatPChat-IRC website. Zach Thibeau, Luis Miranda Free Software GUI C++ PIRCH Shareware GUI Delphi PJIRC Philippe Detournay Free software GUI Java Quassel Manuel Nickschas, Marcus Eggenberger, Alexander von Renteln Free software TUI, GUI C++ qwebirc Chris Porter Free software Web JavaScript frontend,Python backend rIRC Risharde R. Free software GUI Visual Basic .NET rcirc Ryan Yeske Free software TUI Emacs Lisp ScrollbackScrollback website. Askabt Free software Web, Embeddable JavaScript frontend,Node.js backend Smuxi Mirco Bauer Free software GUI, TUI, Server C# Snak Kent Sorensen Commercial GUI Textual Michael Morris Commercial GitHub. GUI Objective-C Visual IRC Free software GUI WeeChat Sebastien Helleu Free software TUI, GUI C XChat Unix/Linux: free software; Windows: commercial, 30-day trial ; or proprietary for Windows TUI, GUI C XChat-SE Freeware (violates GPL) GUI C, C++ Client Primary developers Distribution model Software license User interface Programming language

Istoric lansări

Prima lansare publică Prima lansare stabilă Ultima lansare stabilă Client Data Versiune Data Versiune AdiIRC 2005 AmIRC 1995 Bersirc 1999 BitchX 1996 ChatZilla 2001 Colloquy 2005 DMDirc 2007 ERC 1999? f-irc 2006? 0.0.1 1.30 (1 ianuarie 2014) HexChat 4 octombrie 2009 r249 9 octombrie 2009 2.86.0 2.9.6 (15 septembrie 2013) HydraIRC 2002 IceChat 2002 3.0 ii (IRC IT) 19 decembrie 2005 0.1 1 februarie 2007 1.0 ircII 1990 IRCjr 2008 2008 Ircle 1995 Irssi 1999 jIRCii ? ? KVIrc 1998 0.6.0 21 decembrie 1999 1.0.0 Konversation 2002 LeafChat ?1.0 LeetIRC 2006 LimeChat 2007 Linkinus 2007 Mibbit 2008 web application, no version mIRC 1995 Neebly 13 decembrie 2008 1.0.1 Nettalk 2004 Opera 1996 PChat 2010 2010 1.4.3 PIRCH 1995 PJIRC 2002 Quassel 27 august 2008 0.3.0 qwebirc 2009 0.81 rIRC 2010 Preview Release 1 2012 1.44 1.4.4 (16 ianuarie 2012) Scrollback 2013 2013 rcirc ? ? Smuxi 29 iulie 2008 0.6 3 septembrie 2010 0.8 Snak 1997 Visual IRC 1995 Textual 2010 1.0.0 GitHub. 2010 1.0.0 WeeChat 2003 XChat 1998 Client Date Version Date Version Latest stable release First public release First stable release

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

Client Windows 7, Vista XP, 2000 NT 4.0 NT 3.x Me, 98 95 3.1x ReactOS OS X (Intel/PPC) OS 9 OS 8 System 7 (PPC/68k) BeOS, Haiku OS/2, eCS AmigaOS (68k) AmigaOS 4, MorphOS (PPC) DOS AdiIRC AmIRC Bersirc BitchX ChatZilla Colloquy ERC HexChat (2.9.5) HydraIRC IceChat ii (IRC IT) ircII IRCjr Ircle Requires OS X v10.4.3 or later Irssi jIRCii KiwiIRC Konversation KVIrc Connect to the ReactOS IRC Channels 2012-07-03: 4.2.0 Released! LeafChat LeetIRC LimeChat Linkinus Mibbit mIRC Neebly Requires Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later Nettalk Opera (10.10) PChat PIRCH PJIRC Quassel qwebirc rIRC rcirc Scrollback Smuxi Snak Textual Visual IRC WeeChat XChat XChat-SE Client Windows 7, Vista XP, 2000 NT 4.0 NT 3.x Me, 98 95 3.1x ReactOS OS X (Intel/PPC) OS 9 OS 8 System 7 (PPC/68k) BeOS, Haiku OS/2, eCS AmigaOS (68k) AmigaOS 4, MorphOS (PPC) DOS

Unix and Unix-like operating systems: Unix (BSD): 386BSD, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, ULTRIX Unix (System V): AIX, A/UX, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO OpenServer, Solaris, UnixWare Unix-like: Linux, NeXTSTEP, OpenVMS, OSF/1, QNX, Tru64 UNIX

Client 386BSD BSD/OS (BSD/386, BSDI) FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD SunOS ULTRIX AIX A/UX HP-UX IRIX SCO OpenServer Solaris UnixWare Linux NeXTSTEP OpenVMS OSF/1 QNX Tru64 UNIX AdiIRC AmIRC Bersirc BitchX ChatZilla Colloquy DMDIrc ERC f-irc HexChat HydraIRC IceChat ii (IRC IT) ircII IRCjr Ircle Irssi KiwiIRC Konversation KVIrc LeafChat LeetIRC LimeChat Linkinus Mibbit mIRC Neebly Nettalk Opera PIRCH PJIRC Quassel qwebirc rcirc Smuxi Snak Textual Visual IRC WeeChat XChat Client 386BSD BSD/OS (BSD/386, BSDI) FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD SunOS ULTRIX AIX A/UX HP-UX IRIX SCO OpenServer Solaris UnixWare Linux NeXTSTEP OpenVMS OSF/1 QNX Tru64 UNIX

mIRC will run on *NIX systems under WINE: confirmed

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

Client CTCP DCC IPv6 SSL TLS OCSP CRL SASL AdiIRC AmIRC Bersirc BitchX ChatZilla Colloquy DMDirc ERC f-irc HexChat HydraIRC IceChat ii (IRC IT) ircII IRCjr Ircle Irssi jIRCii KiwiIRC Konversation KVIrc LeetIRC LimeChat Linkinus Mibbit mIRC Neebly Nettalk Opera PIRCH PJIRC Quassel qwebirc rcirc Scrollback Smuxi Snak Textual Visual IRC WeeChat XChat XChat-SE Client CTCP DCC IPv6 SSL TLS OCSP CRL SASL

Direct Client-to-Client (DCC) support Client CHAT Whiteboard SEND RESUME TSEND SEND T XMIT Passive DCC Server RDCC REVERSE RSEND Reverse / Firewall DCC File servers (FSERVs) XDCC AdIRC AmIRC Bersirc BitchX ChatZilla Colloquy DMDirc ERC f-irc HexChat HydraIRC IceChat ii (IRC IT) ircII IRCjr Ircle Irssi KiwiIRC Konversation KVIrc LeetIRC LimeChat Linkinus Mibbit mIRC Neebly Nettalk Opera PIRCH PJIRC Quassel qwebirc rcirc Smuxi Snak Textual Visual IRC WeeChat XChat Client CHAT Whiteboard SEND RESUME TSEND SEND T XMIT Passive DCC Server RDCC REVERSE RSEND Reverse / Firewall DCC File servers (FSERVs) XDCC

Caracteristici

Client Multi-server UTF-8 Proxy server irc:// URI scheme Actualizări automate Limbaj de scripting AdiIRC C#, mIRC script AmIRC ARexx Bersirc BitchX Enhanced IrcII script ChatZilla JavaScript Colloquy AppleScript, Cocoa, F-Script, JavaScript, Python DMDirc Custom Actions system, Java plugins ERC Emacs Lisp f-irc HexChat Perl, Python, Tcl, Lua, Javascript, C, C++, and via D-Bus. HydraIRC IceChat VBScript ii (IRC IT) Shell script ircII IrcII script IRCjr Ircle AppleScript Irssi Perl KiwiIRC Javascript, Node.js Konversation Shell script, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript KVIrc KVS (custom), Perl, Python, C++ LeafChat Java LeetIRC LimeChat Linkinus AppleScript, Cocoa Mibbit mIRC mIRC script Neebly Nettalk SOCKS VBScript, custom Opera PIRCH PJIRC Partial, JavaScript Quassel qwebirc rcirc Emacs Lisp Smuxi (language agnostic) Snak AppleScript, IrcII script Textual AppleScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, shell script Visual IRC Versus WeeChat C, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme (Guile) XChat Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby, C++, ECMAScript, Scheme (Guile) XChat-SE Perl, Python, Tcl, Lua, C, C++ Client Multi-server UTF-8 Proxy server irc:// URI scheme Automatic updates Scripting language

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