Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Textual

Product categories

Chat Communication Group Chat & Notifications Instant Messaging Messaging Productivity Video Chat

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Textual are HexChat, Kiwi IRC, and irssi. 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
Kiwi IRC Landing Page
2

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
irssi Landing Page
3

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
4

WeeChat

WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 17 social mentions
KVIrc Landing Page
5

KVIrc

KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication
The Lounge Landing Page
6

The Lounge

The Lounge is a web IRC client that you host on your own server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 38 social mentions
Quassel IRC Landing Page
7

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
Smuxi Landing Page
8

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
Convos Landing Page
9

Convos

Convos is the simplest way to use IRC.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 10 social mentions
Franz Landing Page
10

Franz

Franz is your messaging app for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Gmail, Telegram and many many more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- €4.0 / Monthly
#Group Chat & Notifications #Messaging #Communication 28 social mentions
Matrix.org Landing Page
11

Matrix.org

Matrix is an open standard for decentralized persistent communication over IP.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Instant Messaging 582 social mentions
Tox Landing Page
12

Tox

Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Instant Messaging 28 social mentions