Top 9 Open-Source Alternatives to HydraIRC

Product categories

Communication Developer Tools Emulators Group Chat & Notifications Instant Messaging Messaging Terminal Terminal Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to HydraIRC are HexChat, Quassel IRC, and KVIrc. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

HexChat Landing Page
1

HexChat

HexChat is a fork of XChat with bug fixes and new features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 7 social mentions
Quassel IRC Landing Page
2

Quassel IRC

Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt4 framework.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 4 social mentions
KVIrc Landing Page
3

KVIrc

KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication
Smuxi Landing Page
4

Smuxi

Smuxi is a free and user-friendly IRC / Twitter / Facebook Chat / gTalk / XMPP client for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication
Hyper Landing Page
5

Hyper

Extensible, cross-platform terminal built on open web standards.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Terminal Tools #Emulators #Terminal 42 social mentions
Kiwi IRC Landing Page
6

Kiwi IRC

A hand-crafted IRC client that you can enjoy. Designed to be used easily and freely.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 6 social mentions
Textual Landing Page
7

Textual

Textual is the world's most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC)...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication
irssi Landing Page
8

irssi

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 6 social mentions
WeeChat Landing Page
9

WeeChat

WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 17 social mentions