ZoiteChat is a GTK3 IRC client based on HexChat, available for Windows and UNIX-like operating systems.

Features include HexChat-compatible Python, Perl and Lua scripting support, a plugin API, multiple server/channel windows, spell checking, multiple authentication methods including SASL, and customizable notifications.

See IRCHelp.org for information about IRC in general.

For more information on ZoiteChat:

• Main Documentation and FAQ

• Downloads

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_{X-Chat ("xchat") Copyright (c) 1998-2010 By Peter Zelezny. HexChat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2009-2014 By Berke Viktor. Hexchat ("hexchat") Copyright (c) 2015-2025 By Patrick Griffis. ZoiteChat ("zoitechat") Copyright (c) 2026 By deepend. This program is released under the GPL v2 with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed. You may provide binary packages linked to the OpenSSL libraries, provided that all other requirements of the GPL are met. See file COPYING for details.}