Adium

Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for  Mac OS X, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, released under the  GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.

Note: We do not host any IM services ourselves. Adium is a third-party client for connecting to services run by other people (mostly companies).

Supported services

•  AOL Instant Messenger, including  ICQ and  MobileMe (formerly known as  .Mac)
•  MSN Messenger
•  Jabber, including  Google Talk and  LiveJournal
•  Yahoo! Messenger, including  Yahoo! Japan
•  Bonjour, compatible with iChat
•  MySpace IM
•  Facebook Chat
• Lotus Sametime
•  Novell Groupwise
•  QQ
•  Gadu-Gadu

Notable Features

• Open Source, so everyone can see how Adium works and help improve it
• Support for multiple services
• A delightful UI
  • Tabbed chat windows
• Mac OS X integration
  • Address Book integration
  • WebKit Message View: Theme your chat windows
• Combined Contacts: Merge your contacts so that each one represents a person, not an account
• A sophisticated events system (including Growl notifications)
• OTR Encryption
• File Transfer
• Xtras and many, many other customization options
• A beautiful icon
• Translations: Adium speaks 27 different languages

System Requirements

Adium 1.1 and later	Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, an Apple-branded Macintosh computer
Adium 1.0.6	Mac OS X 10.3.9
Adium X 0.89.1	Mac OS X 10.2.x and older

Adium X 0.88 and later are Universal applications which run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers.

See our Supported OS Policy for more information.