Empathy Alternatives

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.

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.

VoIPstudio is an award-winning VoIP system that offers businesses of all sizes a scalable communication solution. It’s inexpensive, easy-to-use, offers a full suite of PBX features, and is fully integrated for CRM.

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Stay in touch with your family and friends for free on Skype. Download Skype today to chat and call on desktop and mobile.

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Facebook Messenger is a faster way to message.

Chat everywhere! IM+ is the most widely used mobile IM app! Connect all-in-one to MSN, Yahoo!, Goo...

Open-source video calling and chat platform.

Full featured and easy to use Jabber client

WhatsApp Messenger: More than 1 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere.

free

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

Miranda NG is a successor of a popular multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows - Miranda IM. Very light on system resources and extremely fast.

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

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