Textual

Textual is a lightweight IRC client created specifically for Mac OS X. It was designed with simplicity in mind. Textual has taken the best of IRC and built it into a single client. Its easy-to-use functionality combined with scripting support makes it an ideal IRC client for novice to advanced users.

Features

• Inline Media
• Fullscreen Support
• Conversation Tracking
• Automatic Nickname Completion
• Server Specific Flood Control
• Powerful Ignore System
• Address Book to Track Friends
• Configurable Growl-based Notifications
• Tight Integration with the ZNC Bouncer
• Support for SASL Plain Text Authentication
• Support for the CAP Command including many experimental capacities.
• Expandable using small scripts written in AppleScript, Ruby, Python, Objective-C, etc.

Developers

Textual is sold as commercial software to help support the people that put time into it, but that does not mean you cannot compile your own custom version if you desire to. We maintain Textual under the BSD license. It can be found hosted on our GitHub account located at: https://github.com/Codeux/Textual

Developers interested in creating add-ons for Textual see our wiki for more information.