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WeeChat

WeeChat is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.

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Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Haiku
  • Xfce
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Support for Themes
  3.  Decentralized
  4.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  IRC
  2.  Command line interface
  3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  4.  Modular System
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  No registration required
  7.  No Tracking
  8.  Dark Mode
  9.  Support for @mentions
  10.  Multiple Account support
  11.  Portable
  12.  Support for Multiple protocols
  13. XMPP icon  Supports XMPP

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GitHub repository

  •  3,391 Stars
  •  364 Forks
  •  439 Open Issues
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about WeeChat, and it has gotten 37 likes

WeeChat was added to AlternativeTo by bdheeman on and this page was last updated .

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Tanath
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High learning curve, but after that the ease of use is great. Keyboard shortcuts for anything.

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What is WeeChat?

WeeChat is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts.

Features

  • Modular chat client: WeeChat has a lightweight core and optional plugins. All plugins (including IRC) are independent and can be unloaded.
  • Multi-platform: WeeChat runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, macOS and Windows (Bash/Ubuntu and Cygwin).
  • Multi-protocols: WeeChat is designed to support multiple protocols by plugins, like IRC.
  • Standards-compliant: the IRC plugin is compliant with RFCs 1459, 2810, 2811, 2812, and 2813.
  • Small, fast, and very light: the core is and should stay as light and fast as possible.
  • Customizable and extensible: there are a lot of options to customize WeeChat, and it is extensible with C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme, JavaScript and PHP).
  • Fully documented: there is comprehensive documentation, which is translated into several languages.
  • Developed from scratch: WeeChat was built from scratch and is not based on any other client.