Instant Messaging Software

Off-the-Record Messaging is a Pidgin plugin that allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing: Encryption No one else can read your instant messages. Authentication You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is. Deniability The messages you... Platforms: *nix

Improve communications in your company, student campus, home network, or even replace that old pabx system. Snappy IM is designed to be an instant messaging and video software for use within small, medium and large Local Area Networks {LAN}, even Wi-Fi networks. This application is an ideal... Platforms: Windows

Solixa Chat Software Fully Customizable Chat Solution.. Solixa utilizes its very own special Solixa Protocol which is faster and can handle much larger amounts of data. Unlike most other chat software companies Solixa comes loaded with /commands that you can type in any Channel, Private... Platforms: Windows

IMGiant is a new instant messaging client that lets you unify all your screen names from AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, and IRC in one tabbed chat window. All your buddies from your screen names are stored and viewed in one Buddy List window so you can always keep in touch with your family, friends, and... Platforms: Windows

Bapuli Home Messaging is a freeware IRC messaging server to enable instant messaging within a private (home) network to be used with clients like Pidgin. Computers in a home network can be connected within a few minutes in a hassle free way the operation instructions are given during setup. A... Platforms: Windows

AIM Instant Messenger 6.5 is an instant messaging program from which you can chat, talk via microphone, by video and send all types of file. It is also intuitive and easy to use. Platforms: Windows

Tired of the needless hassle that comes with having four or more Instant Messaging clients running at one time, just so you can talk to your friends and family? Looking for a single application that will house all of these networks into one central location? Well, look no further! Introducing... Platforms: Windows

JClaim is a set of few components designed for instant messaging communications. Finally a simple communication framework that unites all the mediums! Use any part of the project by itself or all together. Client Interface Features: Cross-Platform! Runs on Windows, Macintosh, Linux,... Platforms: *nix

PPhone project is a universal communication client for IP telephony and instant messaging. The applications design is modular, so GUI, protocol, codec, and sound drivers have plugin interfaces, the GUI is detachable, and you can switch among different GUI implementations and change the clients... Platforms: *nix

Free software for Voice, Video and Instant Messaging. Platforms: Mac

Escon LiveHelp is instant messaging applications designed specifically to provide online assistance to users of a web site. The software enables the administrator or webmaster of a web site to receive and respond to text communication from multiple users of the web site.LiveHelp allows the users... Platforms: PHP

Internal Chat is a corporate client-server chat (instant messaging) application. It is written completely in Java and thus can be run on any platform that supports Java: MS Windows, Linux, xBSD, Solaris etc. Internal Chat uses open industrial protocols: it works over HTTP/HTTPS, utilizing the... Platforms: *nix

JXTA Instant Messenger (JIM) aims to establish a server-free instant messaging system with various options. It features encrypted messaging, presence awareness, and sophisticated search for users. We started to develop this product at the computer-science laboratories at university of hamburg in... Platforms: *nix

DirectNet is a serverless instant messaging system. Rather than every client connecting to a given server, they connect to each other and messages are passed across the network. Thus, it can be a full IM network, or a LAN chat network. Platforms: *nix

You want the power and convenience of instant messaging, but don't need or want the clients to talk to the outside world. Be it a bunch of friends having a LAN party, or a large corporation - instant messaging makes working together easy. Unfortunately, existing instant messengers allow users to... Platforms: Windows

DKMessenger is an instant messaging program with a twist. DKMessenger allows you to share images and real-time video while you have a conversation with your friends. The conversational aspect of the program is accomplished through Text to Speech (TTS) synthesis, which speaks the text of messages... Platforms: Windows

Simkl Tray gives you easy access to Simkl IM History Viewer from your PC. Simkl allows you to consolidate all your IMs - ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, or MSN. Simkl is a Web application that collects all your instant messaging conversations into one convenient, searchable archive which can be accessed... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Windows CE, Pocket PC

Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It is designed to be a flexible and extensible multi-protocol system suitable for personal and enterprise use. The goal of Kopete is to provide users with a single... Platforms: *nix, C/C++, BSD

Net::Chat::Daemon is a Perl module to run a daemon that is controlled via instant messaging. ABSTRACT This package is intended to serve as a superclass for objects that want to communicate via IM messages within a distributed network of client nodes and a coordinator, without dealing with the... Platforms: *nix

BuddySpace is an instant messenger with four novel twists: (1) it allows optional maps for geographical & office-plan visualizations in addition to standard buddy lists; (2) it is built on open source Jabber, which makes it interoperable with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and others; (3) it is implemented in... Platforms: *nix