AFAIK Conversations is one of the best, if not the best. On F-Droid it’s gratis, on Google Play it costs something. Source: about 1 year ago

Conversations (version 2.12.3): Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device. Source: about 1 year ago

Conversations [1] is the best Android XMPP client I know. IIRC they pushed the adoption of OMEMO and implemented it first, before the desktop clients could catch up. [1] https://conversations.im/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Maybe have a look at Briar or good old Jabber (XMPP) with OTR or OMEMO, e.g. Implemented in Conversations. Source: over 1 year ago

Conversations (version 2.11.0+free): An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile. Source: over 1 year ago

If you don't mind terminal clients, irssi is still regularly updated (most recent version was released in March of this year). It's available with homebrew. Source: 10 months ago

I found Irssi which apperantly has the capability to do this but the configuration is more complex than I hoped. While my experiments haven't concluded yet, is anybody aware of an easy to use IRC client that I can use to crawl the messages in an IRC channel? Source: almost 2 years ago

Eggdrop [0] and BitchX [1] come to mind. Irssi [2] has a plugin that enables Tcl scripting. I'm currently fiddling with TkCAD [3] in order to put a small CNC machine to use here, it needs some small adaptations to work on Linux, but I find it a nice find! [0] https://eggheads.org/ [1] http://bitchx.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://irssi.org/ [3] https://github.com/revarbat/TkCAD. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I've used irssi (https://irssi.org) for years. Have a session running on a shell host under tmux. Works perfectly for me on a desktop and a mobile ssh client. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

You might mean IRC chat room. Irssi is very popular IRC client. Source: about 3 years ago