Top 15 Fire Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

Fire is a multi-protocol instant messenger client for Mac OS X based on freely available libraries for each service. Currently Fire handles AOL Instant Messenger®, ICQ®, MSN® Messenger, Jabber, limited IRC, Yahoo!®, and Apple Bonjour communications.

1. Instantbird

Instantbird Instantbird is an instant messaging client based on Mozilla XULRunner and the open source library libpurple created by the software developers of Pidgin . Over 250 add-ons allow user customization of, and addition of, features.FeaturesUsers can set their own user icon and display name.Several themes are included by......

2. Centericq

Centericq Centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols.......

3. Ayttm

Ayttm Ayttm is an instant messaging (aka chat) client that provides all-in-one chat functionality for several major instant messaging services from one simple program. Ayttm "Contacts" allow you to refer to several accounts of the same person from a single contact name, making it one of the cleanest and simplest clients......

4. Empathy

Empathy Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.Empathy uses Telepathy for protocol support and has a user interface based on Gossip.......

5. Trillian

Trillian Trillian is an instant messaging app that works on phones, tablets, and desktops while keeping your chats neatly synchronized between all of them! We think conversation should be easily shared between all of your devices, not trapped as text messages on your phone. Here's how we do it:• INSTANT MESSAGING:......

6. Tor Messenger

Tor Messenger Tor Messenger is a cross-platform chat program that aims to be secure by default and sends all of its traffic over Tor. It supports a wide variety of transport networks, Off-the-Record (OTR) messaging and has an easy-to-use graphical user interface.......

7. Pidgin on MacOSX

Pidgin on MacOSX This is an unofficial native port of Pidgin to Mac OS X. It uses native GTK+ ( www.gtk-osx.org ) which provides better integration and does not require X11. It also comes with more plugins out of the box, including OTR.......

8. centerim

centerim Centerim is an command line interface chat client for the common protocols like icq, msn, aim, jabber, .........

9. BitlBee

BitlBee BitlBee brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client.BitlBee currently supports the following IM networks/protocols: XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk), MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and ICQ,......

10. Miranda NG

Miranda NG Miranda New Generation is a successor of a popular multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows - Miranda IM . Very light on system resources and extremely fast.Protocol Support:* AIM AOL Instant Messenger* Em-LAN* Facebook* Gadu-Gadu* ICQ* IRC Internet Relay Chat* Jabber XMPP* MRA * MSN* Omegle* Skype* Skype......

11. Psi+

Psi+ Psi+ is a development branch of Psi IM XMPP/Jabber client. Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP/Jabber client (Qt, C++) designed for the Jabber power users.......

12. WeeChat

WeeChat WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client. It runs on many platforms (including Linux, BSD and Mac OS). WeeChat is: - modular: a lightweight core with plugins around - multi-protocols: IRC and Jabber (other soon) - extensible: C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl and Scheme)......

13. Jitsi

Jitsi Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator with full end-to-end encryption that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, GTalk/Hangouts extensions, as well as OTR, ZRTP, etc.It can handle every firewall, and has many other useful features.Jitsi is completely open source / free software,......

14. naim

naim naim is a console client for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), AOL I Seek You (ICQ), Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and The lily CMC.......

15. Subway

Subway Subway is a web-based IRC client with a multi-user backend and a JavaScript-heavy UI. Frontend/backend communication is done with websockets (or best available fallback where not available). The backend supports connection persistence and optional logging when the browser disconnects.Subway is built with node.js, node-irc and Backbone.js and jQuery on the......