HexChat For Mac

With peak popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, IRC chat-rooms represented one of the best ways to communicate on the internet, and despite the steep rise of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, among others, they still enough followers.

Having the same platform as the very popular X-Chat, often referred to as the only real contender for mIRC, HexChat is an open source and free IRC client that provides you with a suitable environment and all the needed tools for chatting with other users that are connected to the same channels and servers as you.

Getting started with this IRC client is quite easy, as all you have to do once you have started it is to add a nickname and a username, and connect to a network from the built-in list. Of course, you can simply add chapels and networks by simply clicking the “Add” button from the Network List panel.

As you would expect, HexChat’s interface doesn’t stray from the normal and popular IRC client’s layout, with a menu bar on the top, a topic bar on the left side, and a user list in the right side.

Also not a surprise is the fact that HexChat enables you to fully customize the appearance for your IRC client, with the help of a theme manager, you can change the colors, themes, icons, buttons, menus, and pop-ups.

Of course, besides its customizable interface, you should know that HexChat is a cross-platform app, therefore, you will be able to run it on OS X, Windows, and other Unix-like operating systems. What’s more HexChat is also  highly scriptable with Python and Perl programming languages, comes with multi-network and auto-connect support, has a spell-checking engine, as well as it enables you to connect via proxies.

HexChat is a powerful and efficient IRC client that has a lot going for it, but by far the most important facts are the following: it’s cross-platform, open-source, and free; a combination that’s hard to beat by any other IRC client out there.