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AdiIRC v4.2

webfork on 30 Mar 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Mar 2022
  • Suggested by Userfriendly

AdiIRC is an IRC client with multi-server support and a customizable interface. It offers all the standard IRC features including private chats, basic Identd features, system informations, SSL, IPv6, chat logging and DCC Chat/Transfers.

It also offers now playing support for various media players, advanced scripting, themes, MTS themes, plugins, and dockable/undockable activity monitors that lets you monitor many channels at once.

Note: Additional Themes and Language files are available from the homepage.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or 4.5+
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AdiIRC.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: KVIrc Portable, HydraIRC, PChat, HexChat
What's new? See:
https://www.adiirc.com/download.php?v=4.2
Latest comments
joby_toss on 2015-04-02 04:37

This feature (Favorites) is already planned, yes.

smaragdus on 2016-10-04 21:35

@joby_toss
"Added server favorites menu"
Is this what you needed? ;)

joby_toss on 2016-10-05 13:04

It might be, but I have no idea how it works (always greyed-out)... :)

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Nettalk v6.7.16

webfork on 30 Mar 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 Oct 2012
  • Suggested by guwapo

Nettalk a lightweight, powerful, and easy-to-use IRC client with a tabbed interface. It offers comfortable management of multiple IRC connections, script and plug-in support, on screen displaying of messages (e.g. in games), DCC chat and file transfer, sock proxy support, configurable text and menu shortcuts, configurable colors and background picture and much more.

Supports 7 world languages including Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and German.

Warning: development of this program appears to have stalled and the software may be subject to security vulnerabilities.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Apache License
How to extract:
  1. Download the portable ZIP package (Nettalk6usb_EN.zip) and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch Nettalk.exe

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: AdiIRC, HexChat

PChat Portable v1.5.2

webfork on 30 Mar 2022

PChat is an IRC client forked from XChat with a customizable, tabbed or tree interface, SSL support, DCC transfers and chats, CTCP, and multiple normal or SSL servers. PChat Portable is the portable version released by the developer. Includes a variety of scripting add-ons via the website including Lua, Perl, Python, and TCL. Also available for Linux.

Warning: development of this program appears to have stalled and the software may be subject to security vulnerabilities.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. PChat supports Unicode within the app itself but it can not be installed to a path containing certain Unicode characters.
Path portability: Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PChatPortable.exe.
Latest comments
Kermode on 2010-06-23 22:44

Crashes a lot, and pieces of windows get "left behind" over the interface, like the chat text and then slowly scrolls out of view. Very bad.

Asterisk on 2010-06-24 16:23

This is 37mb for two reasons: a) it is a GTK app and includes the full GTK runtimes in the package, and B) it contains full localization for dozens of languages.

Removing the localizations and UPXing the GTK runtimes should bring this down to a fraction of its size.

TAIMAT on 2011-04-17 06:46

if u can bear with screen flickering & some slow responses .. u've find the best free irc client (DCC+1) @least in my opinion

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Dana v1.4

Checker on 5 Aug 2014
  • 317KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Fluffy

Dana is a skinnable, single-server IRC client. Very light and "barebones," Dana is great for users that just want to chat on IRC, but will leave more advanced users searching for a more capable client.

Note: Official website has been offline since 2011. Linking to archive.org (thanks lastaltoid).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application Folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Dana.exe.
Latest comments
Cattleya on 2011-10-16 19:26

It's safe, but without Unicode support, a chat software almost useless.
Anyone have a anternative ? I really want a portable IRC Software with file size smaller than 1MB, also support Unicode(very important).

lastaltoid on 2013-07-05 06:36

Web site is gone! Wayback machine's last capture is from December 2011. In view of the above comments regarding should this be removed from the database?

webfork on 2013-07-09 03:04

I think the website offline notice will be plenty of warning on it's own. It might be useful for someone that wants a very low resource usage IRC client in a closed network (you never know).

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MegaIRC v4.06

Checker on 15 Mar 2014
  • 512KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Barrette

MegaIRC is an Internet Relay Chat client that can work in one-windowed mode, putting all private, channel, and system messages in same window. Supports proxy, SSL, and various server encodings.

The program can also work in a debug mode where all server messages will be shown as-is, according to IRC protocol.

Note: Based on user comments and due to a listing by multiple services as malicious, it has been replaced with the Softpedia download.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download "MegaIRC ZIP archive" and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. [This step is unnecessary when downloading from Softpedia] Download "SSL Libs ZIP archive" and extract to the same folder
  3. Launch megairc.exe
What's new?
  • HTTP-CONNECT proxy support
  • PREFIX command support
  • Minor bugfixes and changes
Latest comments
André Felipe on 2009-01-06 00:34

It doesn't support UTF-8, despite it's "multilingual" inferface (which apparently was created with machine translations).

Emka on 2011-12-24 19:02

The website wants you to complete a survey or download games before you can download the application. Very bad style...

webfork on 2011-12-24 20:41

Emka: thanks for pointing that out.

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HexChat v2.14.3

billon on 30 Dec 2019
  • 32MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Dec 2019
  • Suggested by Specular

HexChat is an easy-to-use and extensible IRC client. The program features both tab and tree style views, color schemes, chat logging, auto replacements and customizable time-saving user commands. Additionally the client supports DCC, SASL, proxies, file transfers, spellcheck, alerts and Python/Perl scripts.

Cross-platform with clients available for Linux and experimental Mac builds.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the installer and during the setup check the "Portable Install" option on the last screen. Launch hexchat.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AdiIRC, Nettalk
What's new? See:
https://hexchat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html
Latest comments
Specular on 2015-10-06 18:57

Updated the entry to reflect since v2.10.1 support for Vista has been dropped. Check earlier versions if you need Vista support, and v2.9.4 if for some reason you require XP support.

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0irc v1.4.53

webfork on 30 Mar 2022
  • 157KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Jan 2008
  • Suggested by simon

0irc is a lightweight IRC client with chat, dcc, multi-server connections, overview over all channels, simple mdi-interface, and can be used as a desktop module in litestep.

Warning: development of this program appears to have stalled and the software may be subject to security vulnerabilities.

Category:
Runs on:WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch 0irc.exe.
What's new? v1.4.53 - release 9 (2007/4/3)
* exe: fixed saving of configuration when quitting with the close button
* exe/dll: fixed log command with enabled logging and parameter
* exe/dll: fixed /HELP command display
- exe: added color subsection [Color] with TextColor/EditColor/FrameColor
in ini file
+ exe/dll: added new handling for colorcodes
- exe/dll: serveral internal changes
Latest comments
J_D on 2010-09-22 00:51

Doesn't even support MOTD

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KVIrc Portable v5.2.2 Updated

Andrew Lee on 24 Mar 2024

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.

Category:
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
Latest comments
Stable Release is GOOO on 2008-04-30 18:43

There is a new stable release, ver 3.4

Carbonize on 2008-06-13 03:02

In latest version the folder is called $[31] and not $_OUTDIR other than that the instructions are the same.

century on 2012-04-09 11:07

i've tried many portable irc clients, this one is far the best
a great one!

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