Top 12 Adium Alternatives

Trillian is a decentralized and federated instant messaging platform that lets your whole company send private and group messages, keep tabs on what co-workers are doing, share files, and much more.

Open-source video calling and chat platform.

Hangouts bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android, and Apple devices.

Facebook Messenger is a faster way to message.

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Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols.

Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.

Tagged makes it easy to meet and socialize with new people through games, shared interests, friend suggestions, browsing profiles, and much more.

Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely.

Franz is your messaging app for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Gmail, Telegram and many many more.

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Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple and free.

ICQ is one of the oldest instant messengers.