mIRC Alternatives

mIRC is described as 'Windows IRC client for real-time worldwide chat with group and private messaging, multi-server access, scripting, encryption, logging, and customization' and is a popular IRC Client in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to mIRC for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best mIRC alternative is Discord, which is free. Other great apps like mIRC are Pidgin, HexChat, irssi and WeeChat.

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  1. MegaIRC icon
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    MegaIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Client. It allows you to connect to the IRC network a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. HoloIRC icon
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    HoloIRC is an open source IRC client for Android 4.0 and up. It is designed to be as simple to use as possible while being extremely small in size and fairly light in resources. It works with IRC bouncers as well as regular servers.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  3. ZoiteChat icon
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    ZoiteChat is a GTK3 IRC client based on HexChat, available for Windows and UNIX-like operating systems.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. IrisChat icon
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    IrisChat is a lightweight, open-source IRC client for Android with a clean modern interface, local database encryption, and end-to-end encrypted DMs via the Signal Protocol.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
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  5. Subway icon
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    Subway is a web-based IRC client with a multi-user backend and a JavaScript-heavy UI. Frontend/backend communication is done with websockets (or best available fallback where not available). The backend supports connection persistence and optional logging when the browser...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Snak icon
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    Popular shareware IRC client for Macintosh.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. ZeroChat icon
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    An IRC-like internet chatroom hosted on ZeroNet, a distributed network. 0rc is a fully distributed website, and messages are shared through peers using the ZeroNet stack. In addition, making a new chatroom website is a simple as downloading the files and cloning the site.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • ZeroNet
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  8. wsIRC icon
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    wsIrc - the global community communicator, goal is to offer a free web IRC client which should be at the end as good as old standalone application, but yet without requiring any installation, without any update, without any virus risk, and maybe we will offer yet a few...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  9. senpai icon
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    A modern terminal IRC client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Glowing Bear icon
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    Glowing Bear is a sleek, modern web frontend that securely connects to a running instance of WeeChat using its built-in relay protocol. It relies on WeeChat to do all the heavy lifting and then provides some nice features on top of that, like...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • WeeChat
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  11. Tiny Tiny IRC icon
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    Tiny Tiny IRC is an open source AJAX-powered IRC client. The idea behind this being that you don't need either client software or even a stable network connection to stay connected to IRC, just keep the site opened to see new messages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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