KVIrc (K Visual IRC) is a customizable Internet Relay Chat client allowing multiple server connections, notify and ignore lists, mIRC font codes, themes, and more. The program supports standard + extended direct connect connections (with resume), IPv6, SOCKv4, SOCKSv5, and HTTP proxies. It also comes with a sophisticated scripting language that allows you to implement automated reactions to network events.
The program is cross-platform with clients available for Mac, BSD and Linux. KVIrc Portable is a portable wrapper for KVIrc. Alternatively, you can make standard KVIrc portable by following these instructions.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: | Download the portable installer and install to a folder of your choice. Launch KVIrcPortable.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | AdiIRC, Pidgin |
What's new? |
See: https://www.kvirc.net/?id=news&dir=latest |
In latest version the folder is called $[31] and not $_OUTDIR other than that the instructions are the same.
There is a new stable release, ver 3.4
Although the cleanest and most feature rich of all the portable IRC clients available, unfortunately KV has quite a few bugs. Though the UNIX version of the program is still active, the Windows version of this program has not been updated much as its last stable release was in Feb '05. It doesn't look like those are going to get cleared up.
What could have been a fantastic, open source alternative to the commercial mIRC doesn't appear to have many advocates.
i've tried many portable irc clients, this one is far the best
a great one!
V4.0.4 Rev 2