X-Chat Aqua For Mac

X-Chat Aqua is a free and simple to use OS X IRC chat application designed from the get-go to help you connect to multiple IRC channels simultaneously and interact with other users connected to the same IRC server.

IRC, short for Internet Relay Chat, is a protocol for live interactive text messaging and synchronous conferencing. The main purpose of IRC is to facilitate the communication in different discussion forums and between users.

Moreover, the X-Chat Aqua OS X App is based on XChat’s IRC engine and comes with support for over 41 locales and a wide assortment of XChat core features.

With the help of X-Chat Aqua, you will be able to talk publicly on different channels or have private conversations with individual users.

On top of that, while using X-Chat Aqua to chat with other people you will also be able to send files via the chat’s context menu. X-Chat Aqua’s "Chat" slide menu helps you choose a color for your text and change the text style with just a few mouse clicks.

As an added bonus, from the Preferences window, you can easily customize X-Chat Aqua's interface and adjust the transparency level of the chat windows.

The Chatting tab helps you customize the default quit, part, away and sleep message. What is more, you can enable a series of options such as Beep on private messages or Show away at once.

X-Chat Aqua comes with support for Growl notifications and allows you to choose the event for which you want to receive notifications.

On the whole, although it is an outdated IRC client that hasn’t been updated since 2006 and there are a lot of other such apps available for the Mac platform, X-Chat Aqua is still a usable IRC client that will allow you to get in touch with your friends via a IRC server of your choice.