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7 Best Free and Open Source Console Based XMPP Clients

Here’s our verdict on the best console-based XMPP clients. They are free and open source goodness.

XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. We select the best servers.

XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. Web-based clients are featured.

jabberd 2.x project is the next generation of the jabberd project. It’s rewritten from the ground up to be scalable, architecturally sound.

Metronome is a XMPP instant messaging server, based on the latest approved RFC standards.

Prosody is a modern XMPP communication server. It aims to be easy to set up and configure, and efficient with system resources.

MongooseIM is a mobile messaging platform with focus on performance and scalability.

Openfire is a real time collaboration (RTC) server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP.

ejabberd is a distributed, fault-tolerant technology that allows the creation of large-scale instant messaging applications.

Dino is a modern chat client for the desktop. It focuses on providing a clean and reliable Jabber/XMPP experience.

Swift Desktop is a multi-platform XMPP client for instant messaging and multi-user chat.

Kaidan is a simple, user-friendly and modern chat client. It uses the open communication protocol XMPP (Jabber).

Profanity is a console based XMPP client using ncurses and libstrophe, inspired by Irssi.

Poezio is a console XMPP client (the protocol on which the Jabber IM network is built).

mcabber is a small XMPP (Jabber) console client that’s extensible.