What are the best IRC clients for Windows?

[coders-irc_Bot]

HexChat

Free and open source

HexChat is available as a free download with source code licensed under GPL v2 and available on GitHub

WeeChat

Fully keyboard driven

Weechat can be fully driven by keyboard shortcuts. Navigating between buffers, switching between windows and changing text styling can all be achieved with keyboard shortcuts.

 

Quassel

Free and open source

Quassal is available for free with source code licensed under GPL and available here

AdiIRC

It has all needed features

It works perfectly with Windows 10, has all the needed functions like: 1 - handle all irc:// links. 2 - start with windows. 3 - start minimized. 4 - close to tray icon when pressing X(close button). 5 - it can

KVIrc

Still active developement

Despite whats been said, development has been continuing at a steady pace on version 4.3.1 and more recently 4.3.2.

IRSSI

Terminal-based

Pidgin

 

TOP CON

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No native VoIP support

While there are plugins there is no built in support for VoIP in Pidgin which is time consuming to implement instead of being baked in from the jump.

XChat

Development stopped

The latest release of XChat was in 2010.

IceChat

Capable of connecting to multiple servers and channels all at on

IRCCloud

Can stay connected while user is absent

IRCCloud offers an option to keep idling in a channel even when the user is not connected. This way no conversations or mentions will be missed while away

Kiwi IRC

Beautiful interface

Kiwi's default interface is aesthetically modern, while keeping a classic two-column layout with chat window on the left and nicklist on the right. Unlike many other interfaces, a considerable amount of

Foo IRC

Costs money

Nettalk

No longer developed

Development ceased some time ago (2012)

Smuxi

Twitter integration

It's possible to check and interact with Twitter's timeline, replies and direct messages from the Smuxi client.

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Mibbit

No download needed

CIRC

 

"One Identity" ability

Create a personal "bouncer" of sorts, using CIRC "/make-server" (/help make-server for more details) give you a connection so that you can using the same Ident/Nick from multiple devices.

Hope this will help some as i have looked and tested a lot of these clients.

[Eyecu]

you forgot mIRC in the list ?

[coders-irc_Bot]

nope thats a common one 

[Eyecu]

well the title was 10 best, not 10 uncommon lol, just sayin!

[danger-weses-m8]

Chain i agree with Wes's replies wholey, Edit your post and put mIRC at top as its the best IRC Client you can get for Windows or otherwise. 

If your going for Windows clients im pretty sure Hex Chat & Irssi are for linux based especially when Hex Chats licence is a unix licence guess you could add notes on them to say VIA VMware or The Built In Linux On Win10 But Thats A Piece Of Shit. 

Anyways bro I would say keep up the good work but this wasnt that good so I will say keep up the work.

[coders-irc_Bot]

 too both of you!!