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.
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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 |
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joby_toss
on 2016-10-05 13:04
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It might be, but I have no idea how it works (always greyed-out)... :) |
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.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Apache License |
How to extract: |
Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
Similar/alternative apps: | AdiIRC, HexChat |
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.
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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. |
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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.
TAIMAT
on 2011-04-17 06:46
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if u can bear with screen flickering & some slow responses .. u've find the best free irc client (DCC+1) @least in my opinion |
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).
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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. |
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Cattleya
on 2011-10-16 19:26
It's safe, but without Unicode support, a chat software almost useless.
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
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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). |
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.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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What's new? |
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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
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The website wants you to complete a survey or download games before you can download the application. Very bad style... |
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.
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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 |
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Specular
on 2015-10-06 18:57
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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. |
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.
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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 |
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J_D
on 2010-09-22 00:51
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Doesn't even support MOTD |
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 |
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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
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i've tried many portable irc clients, this one is far the best |