Mac OS X

Mac OS X : Instant messengers and IRC clients ...

Skype is a little piece of software that allows you to make free calls to other Skype users and really cheap calls to ordinary phones. Require Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
Producer / download / (34,1 MB) / Freeware


Adium is a free and popular multi- instant messaging application for Mac OS X released under the GNU GPL. That can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Yahoo, ICQ, Novell GroupWise and more. It is support plug-ins and using OS X's Cocoa API.
Producer / download / (22,7 MB) / GPL


Free Instant Messaging client for Mac OS X. It supports the seven most popular Instant Messaging services: AIM, ICQ, Jabber (including Apple iChat Server), MSN, Apple Bonjour, IRC and Yahoo Messenger.
Producer / download for Mac OS X 10.2+ (6,5 MB) / download older version (1.0.4) for Mac OS X 10.1 / (6,3 MB) / GPL


An internet telephone. As simple as an instant messenger. It based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). It requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher.
Producent / download / (18,6 MB) / Freeware


Fast IRC client. It's support plugins.
Producer / download / (363 KB) / GPL


A free Mac OS X bridge application between Adium and Address Book. Used to search, manage and keep your contacts in sync. Requires MacOSX 10.2 or later and Adium version 0.84 or later. Universal binary.
Producer / download / (344 KB) / Open Source


Very popular instant messaging for Mac OS Classic 9 and Mac OS X.
Producer / download / (3,8 MB) / Freeware


A popular multri-protocol instant messaging client for Mac OS X. It was written useing Cocoa API. Support protocols: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, iChat Rendezvous, Jabber, Lotus Sametime, MSN, OSCAR, Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Japan.
Producer / download / (17,3 MB) / GPL


jIRCii is an Internet Relay Chat client (IRC) for MacOS X. Features include DCC/CTCP support, multiple server connections, IRC over SSL support, tab key nickname completion, and over 75 built-in commands. It is require Java 1.4.2 or later.
Producer / download / (1,2 MB) / Open Source


A software package that lets you add special effects to your video chats. It's also possible to stream your desktop and still images. With CamTwist, you can also use multiple video chat programs at the same time (but NOT work with iChat). It requires MacOS 10.4 and most of the interesting effects require hardware that supports Quartz Extreme.
Producer / download / (2 MB) / Freeware


Kadu is a dynamically evolving instant messenger compatible with the Gadu-Gadu protocol. It can be run on all platforms supporting the Qt toolkit (except Windows).
Producer / download (Universal) / (10 MB) / GPL


A free IRC client for Mac OS X. It is a native Macintosh application written with Objective-C and uses the Cocoa library. Program can connect to multiple servers at the same time and it's lightweight and fast.
Producer / download / (99 KB) / Open Source


Wengo is a softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place. Also it is an open source VoIP application. It is a multiplatform alternative for Skype.
Producer / Download: PPC or x86 / (16,1 MB) / Open Source


instant messaging client for the Jabber (XMPP) protocol which uses the Qt toolkit.
Producer / download / (5,7 MB) / GPL

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