Comparison of mobile Internet Relay Chat clients

Comparison of mobile Internet Relay Chat clients

The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of IRC client programs for mobile devices. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.

Contents

General

Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license/price etc. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

Client Primary developers Cost Software license User interface Programming language Computing platform Website
AndroidChat[1] Free software GNU GPL TUI, GUI Java Android [1]
AndChat[1] Freeware Proprietary software TUI, GUI Java Android [2]
Mobile Colloquy Kiji Roshi US$1.99 BSD License GUI Objective-C iOS [3]
CoolIRC[Note 1] Free software GNU GPL GUI Java Java ME[Note 2] [4] (archive)
EbIRC Shin Ise, Nobuhiro Ito Freeware
iPhone: US$3
Proprietary software GUI ? iOS, Windows Mobile [5]
fIRC Laurence Muller Free software GNU GPL GUI Java Android [6]
JedIrc[Note 1] Free software GNU GPL GUI Java Java ME[Note 3] [7]
jmIrc Juho Vähä-Herttua Free software GNU GPL GUI Java Java ME [8]
k-IRC[Note 4] Armond Avanes Free software GNU GPL GUI Java Java ME [9]
MtvIRC[Note 1] Free software GNU GPL GUI Java Java ME [10]
PSPIRC Ludovic Jacomme Free software GNU GPL GUI C PlayStation Portable [11]
upIRC[Note 5] Shareware US$10 Proprietary software GUI ? Palm OS[Note 6] [12]
Virca Free software GNU GPL TUI Java Java ME [13]
wIRC Free software GNU GPL GUI C & JavaScript WebOS [14]
WirelessIRC Demoware US$20 Proprietary software GUI ? Symbian [15]
WLIrc Sverre Kristian Valskrå Free software GNU LGPL GUI Java Java ME [16]
Yaaic[Note 7] Sebastian Kaspari Free software GNU GPL GUI Java Android [17]
zsIRC Gargaj Freeware Proprietary software GUI C++ Windows Mobile [18]
Client Primary developers Cost Software license User interface Programming language Computing platform Website
  1. ^ a b c Based on jmIrc
  2. ^ MIDP 1.0 and 2.0
  3. ^ MIDP 2.0 only
  4. ^ Uses the Relay-IRC framework
  5. ^ Formerly apIRC
  6. ^ Palm OS 3.0 or later, Palm OS 5 compatible
  7. ^ Uses the PircBot framework

Release history

A brief overview of the release history.

Client First public release First stable release Latest stable release
Date Version Date Version
AndroidChat 2008 2008-12-29  (December 29, 2008; 2 years ago (2008-12-29))
AndChat June 14, 2009 0.05 1.3.4.1  (January 9, 2011; 10 months ago (2011-01-09)[9])
Mobile Colloquy January 28, 2009 1.0 1.3.4  (March 30, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-03-30))
CoolIRC 3.1  (June 16, 2007; 4 years ago (2007-06-16))
EbIRC September 24, 2006 0.01 0.19  (February 18, 2009; 2 years ago (2009-02-18))
fIRC December 22, 2008 0.1.0 0.2.11  (March 26, 2009; 2 years ago (2009-03-26))
JedIrc 2007 3.2.4  (June 17, 2009; 2 years ago (2009-06-17))
jmIrc May 14, 2004 0.60 0.95  (January 1, 2006; 5 years ago (2006-01-01))
k-IRC August 20, 2002 1.0 1.1  (October 4, 2003; 8 years ago (2003-10-04))
MtvIRC 2.3  (June 12, 2009; 2 years ago (2009-06-12))
PSPIRC July 20, 2007 1.0.1 1.6  (September 12, 2007; 4 years ago (2007-09-12))
upIRC September 18, 2001 1.0.0 3.8.3  (September 3, 2004; 7 years ago (2004-09-03))
Virca 2003 0.0.1 1.1.20  (November 22, 2004; 6 years ago (2004-11-22))
wIRC 0.3.2  (September 6, 2010; 14 months ago (2010-09-06)[10])
WirelessIRC 1.22  (June 12, 2007; 4 years ago (2007-06-12))
WLIrc September 15, 2003 0.90 2.0.1  (August 16, 2007; 4 years ago (2007-08-16))
Yaaic March 14, 2010 0.1 0.9  (July 17, 2011; 4 months ago (2011-07-17))
zsIRC June 13, 2006 2009.12.26  (December 26, 2009; 22 months ago (2009-12-26)[11])
Client Date Version Date Version Latest stable release
First public release First stable release

Protocol support

What IRC related protocols and standards are supported by each client.

Client CTCP DCC IPv6 SSL TLS OCSP CRL
AndroidChat No No No No No No No
AndChat Yes No ? Yes ? ? ?
Mobile Colloquy Yes[citation needed] No[citation needed] Yes[citation needed] Yes[citation needed] Yes[citation needed] No[citation needed] No[citation needed]
CoolIRC Yes No No No No No No
EbIRC ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
fIRC ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
JedIrc Yes No No No No No No
jmIrc Yes No No No No No No
k-IRC Yes No No No No No No
MtvIRC Yes No No No No No No
PSPIRC No No No No No No No
upIRC Yes Yes No No No No No
Virca ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
wIRC Yes Yes No Yes Yes ? ?
WirelessIRC Yes No ? Yes ? ? ?
WLIrc Yes Yes ? No No No ?
Yaaic ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
zsIRC Yes No No Yes Yes No No
Client CTCP DCC IPv6 SSL TLS OCSP CRL

Direct client-to-client (DCC) support

Client CHAT Whiteboard SEND GET RESUME TSEND SEND T XMIT Passive DCC Server RDCC REVERSE RSEND Reverse / Firewall DCC File servers (FSERVs) XDCC
AndroidChat No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
AndChat ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Mobile Colloquy Yes[citation needed] No No ? No No No No No No No No No No No No
CoolIRC No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
EbIRC ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
fIRC ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
JedIrc No No No ? No No No No No No No No No No No No
jmIrc No No No ? No No No No No No No No No No No No
k-IRC No No No ? No No No No No No No No No No No No
MtvIRC No No No ? No No No No No No No No No No No No
PSPIRC No No No ? No No No No No No No No No No No No
upIRC Yes No No ? No No No No No No No No No No No No
Virca ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
wIRC Yes No Yes Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No
WirelessIRC ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
WLIrc ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Yaaic ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
zsIRC No No No ? No No No No No No No No No No No No
Client CHAT Whiteboard SEND GET RESUME TSEND SEND T XMIT Passive DCC Server RDCC REVERSE RSEND Reverse / Firewall DCC File servers (FSERVs) XDCC

Features

Information on what features each of the clients support.

Client Multi-server UTF-8 Proxy server irc:// URI scheme Automatic updates Scripting language
AndroidChat ? ? ? ? ? ?
AndChat Yes Yes ? ? Yes ?
Mobile Colloquy Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
CoolIRC No Yes Yes[Note 1] No No Yes
EbIRC ? Yes ? ? ? ?
fIRC ? ? ? ? ? ?
JedIrc No Yes Yes[Note 1] No No Yes
jmIrc No Yes Yes[Note 1] No No Yes
k-IRC No No No No No No
MtvIRC No Yes Yes[Note 1] No No No
PSPIRC No Yes No No No Yes
upIRC No No No No No Yes[Note 2]
Virca ? Yes ? ? No ?
wIRC ? ? Yes ? ? ?
WirelessIRC ? ? ? ? ? ?
WLIrc ? No ? ? No ?
Yaaic Yes Yes No No Yes No
zsIRC Yes Yes No No Yes No
Client Multi-server UTF-8 Proxy server irc:// URI scheme Automatic updates Scripting language
  1. ^ a b c d HTTP proxy server support
  2. ^ Supports "shortcut" command aliases[12]

See also

References


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