Many of those listed below do offer packages for other operating systems.
Those highlighted are recommended.
| Advanced IRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| BersIRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| BoxedIRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| Chocoa | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| dIRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| Easy IRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| hIRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| HydraIRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| IamC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| IceChat | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| IChat | Homepage | Download | Free browser plugin |
| IRCbase | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| IRC Gold | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| IRCToons | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| Klient | Homepage | Download | Shareware |
| LeafChat | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| Masquerade | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| MaxxChat | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| mIRC | Homepage | Download | Shareware |
| ML IRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| MonIRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| pIRCh | Homepage | Download | Shareware |
| PowerChat | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| Relay-WFC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| TCustomIRC | Homepage | Download | Commercial |
| TeleCafe | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| Trillian | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| TurboIRC 2000 | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| Visual IRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| WinShoe | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| wIRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| wsIRC | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| X-Chat | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| xIRCon | Homepage | Download | Freeware |
| Help, advice, tutorials etc | Homepage |