Open Source Chat Software

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

BeeBEEP is a free, open-source, peer-to-peer (P2P) desktop LAN chat and office messenger built with end-to-end encryption (Rijndael Algorithm, AES). Designed for local area networks, this free cross-platform messaging app enables instant messaging, group chat, and secure file sharing across your office, home, or intranet—completely serverless and offline. Whether you need a private LAN chat application for your team or a secure office communicator over VPN, BeeBEEP operates without central servers or cloud dependencies. It is a free, serverless chat solution for Windows, Linux, and macOS where privacy, data security, and local network communication are essential.

Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Previously is was a sort of fork but now just consider it as a space for nightly builds.

phpMyChat-Plus is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use multi-room PHP/DB chat. It is currently available for MySQLi, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and ODBC. It supports IRC-like commands, moderators, is available in 24 languages and fully compatible with php7.

Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. It includes game linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their characters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakers won't be audible to other players.

EiskaltDC++ is a cross-platform program that uses the Direct Connect and ADC protocols. It is compatible with DC++, FlylinkDC++, LinuxDC++ and other DC clients. EiskaltDC++ also interoperates with all common DC hub software.

Freenet front end written in Java. Supports multiple up/downloads, messages, searching and more.

emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version.

phpFreeChat is a free, simple to install, fast and customizable chat that uses by default files for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh and display the chat zone and the nickname zone.

NOTE: This code has not been updated since 2005. Keeping it here for historical purposes. NOTE2: The code will not most probably compile against latest SILC libraries or with latest GTK either. Silky WAS a secure chat client for SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol. The code is written in C and the GUI is implemented using the GTK toolkit. Supported operating systems include Linux and Windows.

"Mibew Messenger" - is unique software allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators. This repo should be treated as an obsolete. For modern version of Mibew Messenger see https://sourceforge.net/projects/mibew/

WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the internet, independant of local network organization.

MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.

Trivbot is a a multilingual quiz/trivia bot for IRC channels. It is written in java so it can run on multiple platforms. A question is sent to the IRC channel and the text in the channel scanned for a string that matches one of the accepted answers.

[ Please read https://sourceforge.net/p/darkbot/news/2014/01/darkbots-revitalization/ ] Darkbot is a portable IRC chat robot written in the C language that can be taught responses to user inquiries, and even have conversations with them. Darkbot was originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels on Intenet Relay Chat.

Nicotine+ is a fork of Hyriand's Soulseek PyGTK2 client, Nicotine. Fixing bugs, adding new features, and keeping up-to-date with Soulseek's protocol is the goal of this project. The most popular Multi-OS Soulseek client is getting an upgrade.

Mibew Messenger is an open-source live support application allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators.

EIRC is an IRC client program written entirely in Java using only Java API version 1.1, for compliance with once mainstream web browsers. It runs both as an applet and as an application.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

I am developing a complete Chat system solution with server and client sides. Doing it with 100% Java.