Pidgin
Developer: http://pidgin.im
- Reviews
- 5 / 62
- Downloads
- 18,155
Downloads
Downloads are available on Pidgin’s official website.
Pidgin at a glance
- What it is
- A chat program that logs into accounts on multiple chat networks at once
- Price
- Free
- Open source
- Yes
- Licence
- GPL
- Runs on
- Windows and Linux
- Official website
- pidgin.im
Description
Pidgin is a free, open-source, cross-platform chat client (formerly known as Gaim) that allows you to log in and talk simultaneously on multiple chat networks.
A typical example is when you can chat with friends that use different chat networks; instead of using several different apps, you can talk with each one of them using a single program. That was just an example. The list of supported chat networks is really long (e.g., Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber/XMPP, IRC, etc.), not to mention that thanks to several plugins, the list is even more extensive.
Pidgin runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. It is released under the GNU General Public License and is also available in almost all major languages.
Pidgin Features
- Multi-platform support (Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix) and open source
- Support for a wide range of chat services
- Easy to use UI (User Interface) with tabbed chat windows
- Available in many languages
- Support for file transfer
- Combine multiple contacts in a single entry and group chat creation
- A wide range of excellent plugins
- Numerous encryption methods (through third-party plugins)
- Various notifications (through third-party plugins)
- Profile and status updates, interface tweaks, logging supported (via plugins)
