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Profanity is a text mode instant messaging interface that supports the XMPP protocol. [2] It supports Linux, macOS, Windows (via Cygwin or WSL), FreeBSD, and Android (via Termux). Packages are available in the Debian, [3] Ubuntu [4] and Arch Linux [5] distributions.
It was initially completely XMPP based (similar to Google Talk and Facebook's chat implementations), but others wanted it to use the Telepathy stack. This led to the forking and new name Empathy. Empathy also provides a collection of reusable graphical user interface widgets for developing instant messaging clients [2] for the GNOME desktop.
Psi is a free instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol (including such services as Google Talk [4]) which uses the Qt toolkit. It runs on Linux (and other Unix-like operating systems), Windows, macOS and OS/2 [5] (including eComStation and ArcaOS). [6] User interface of program is very flexible in customization.
Gossip is an instant messaging client for Unix-like operating systems. It uses XMPP protocol [1] and adheres to GNOME's published human interface guidelines. [2] It is written in the C programming language, and its main developer is Mikael Hallendal, founder of Imendio. [3]
Coccinella (from the Latin "coccinella", ladybird) is a free and open-source cross-platform client for the XMPP/Jabber-instant messaging-protocol. Coccinella Roster & Whiteboard The software is written in the Tcl / Tk language, and it runs under BSD , Linux , Mac OS X , Solaris , Windows and all other platforms that support Tcl/Tk.
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for many instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to simultaneously log in to various services from a single application, with a single interface for both popular and obsolete protocols (from AIM to Discord), thus avoiding the hassle of ...
Blink is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) client distributed under the Blink license (GNU GPLv3 with an exception to permit the inclusion of commercial proprietary modules). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The software is written in Python for macOS 's Cocoa , with a later port to Qt for supporting Microsoft Windows , Linux , AmigaOS .
Clients that use the same protocol can typically federate and talk to one another. The following table compares general and technical information for cross-platform instant messaging clients in active development, each of which have their own article that provide further information.