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Which is the best IRC client for Mac OS X?

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commodoreguff | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Colloquy is the best I've encountered so far. It's got a good, clean interface, it's completely free (as in price and as in open source) and has no limits on usage.
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andy | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

I'm going to second Colloquy. We use it here at Mahalo to help communicate with in-house and remote staff and it has been an invaluable tool for communicating.

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harrisonpowers | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

Definitely Colloquy. Simple, mac-like interface.

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akashs04 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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There are many available but I think Ircle and MacBitchX are two most popular ones.

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spoon | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I have only ever used Babbel on the Mac. Having had success while using this program I have never felt the need to try any others.

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possible | 3 years, 4 months ago Report

Full disclosure: I am the author of Babbel.

The question of "Which is the best IRC client for Mac OS X?" begs the question "what is the best".
What do you need in an IRC client? The one IRC client that answers that the best is YOUR best IRC client.
Of course for others that might be completely different.
It's not for nothing there are so many different IRC clients out there.
Just do a google (or any other search engine) search for 'irc client for mac' and you will find a lot of them. Test them out and see what's best for your needs.

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whiskeybravo | 3 years, 5 months ago
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Try Ircle (mac only)

http://www.ircle.com/

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bubbaprog | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I strongly recommend xchat Aqua. While it hasn't been updated in a while, it's rock-solid and being that xchat is the de facto standard for IRC clients that actually work properly, I'd use xchat Aqua (there's a regular xchat build for OS X, but it requires you to run it in X11 -- xchat Aqua runs natively and looks GORGEOUS). All scripting works perfectly... I've been using it for more than two years.

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benau | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I hate installing more applications on my computer than necessary. For IRC on my Mac I use the FireFox AddOn known as ChatZilla
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16

It works really well and of course, the cool thing about ChatZilla is that it can also be installed on Windows or Linux! Cross Platform!

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gamemaster5000 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I recommend Linkinus. It's shareware for 12.5 Euros. It has a very good user interface, including custom styles. In my opinion, the selling point is that there's the option for when you quit the app to keep a background process connected, so that you're always connected, even when the frontend is closed.

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pvera | 3 years, 5 months ago
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The two most useful ones are Colloquy (colloquy.info) and Xchat Aqua.

Colloquy is more Mac-like and has a rabid following. The developers run a chatroom in Freenode and are always happy to talk to end users. Plus it's free.

Xchat Aqua is a stale port of the popular Xchat IRC client from Linux and Windows. It is updated rarely, is ugly but the damn thing works.

I have tried many others over the past 6 years, and the only ones that never disappoint are Colloquy and Xchat Aqua.

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aac74 | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I use ircle:

http://www.ircle.com/

works great :)

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xds | 3 years, 5 months ago
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I'm going to have to go with Mibbit on this one.

It's the best Ajax/Ruby Rails based web IRC app since sliced bread.

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xds | 3 years, 5 months ago Report

Also while it is web based, It still has everything a local irc client would including logs, preferences, and script support.

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