HexChat

HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. Since XChat is open source, it’s perfectly legal. For more info, please read the Shareware background. HexChat was originally called XChat-WDK which in turn was a successor of freakschat.

Features

Easy to use and customizable interface
Cross-platform on Windows and Unix-like OSes
Highly scriptable with Lua, Python, and Perl
Translated in multiple languages
Fully open source and actively developed
Multi-network with auto-connect, join, and identify
Spellcheck, Proxies, SASL, DCC support and more

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Linux, Mac, Windows

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Registered

2024-06-19

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