
Textual 7
Textual is the world's most popular application for interacting
with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on macOS.
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Beautiful Interface
Textual includes two elegantly designed dark and light variants of the user interface which have been refined all the way down to the very last pixel.

Powerful
Textual supports very powerful modern technologies such as native IPv6, the latest IRCv3 specifications, client-side certificate authentication, and much, much more in a easy to navigate, clutter free environment.

Privacy is valued
Textual protects your privacy by leveraging widely accepted, proven technologies such as Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) to ensure that the only people reading your conversations are those that you intend to.

Customizable
Textual takes customization to the next level with styles created using well documented, open standards in addition to addons built using a multitude of programming languages such as AppleScript, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Shell, and Swift.
Textual also includes…
- Address Book for tracking when friends are online & offline
- Auto-completion for nicknames, commands, and channels
- Bold, color, italic, and underline text formatting
- Built in support for converting text emoticons to emojis
- Growl and native Notification Center support
- Inline media embedding (Show images inline with chat)
- Inline nickname colorization
- Per-channel notification controls
- Powerful, customizable, rule-based ignore matching
- Powerful filters that can perform commands in response to input
- Powerful ZNC integration for power users
- Quick navigation using fuzzy searching
- Rich array of keyboard shortcuts
- SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP proxy support (with or without SSL)
- Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
- Support for sending self-signed certificates for authentication
- Support for validating and specifying trust for untrusted certificates
- Viewing multiple channels at the same time
- iCloud support for syncing connections and preferences
…and much, much more!
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