irc — independent software & tools

4 independent irc listings the big search engines bury.

• stugan

  github · Free · by klppl

  Self-hosted web IRC client — a 24/7 Go daemon plus a Vue 3 frontend, with IRCv3 support and a Lua plugin system.

• twi

  github · Free · by worxbend

  Keyboard-first Twitch chat client for your terminal. Multi-channel IRC read/send, 13 themes, and OAuth tokens that never leak into logs. Written in Go.

• CryptIRC

  github · Free · by gh0st68

  Self-hosted encrypted IRC client. Rust backend with 24/7 connectivity, Signal Protocol E2E for DMs, AES-256-GCM encrypted logs and channel keys. Native apps for Windows/Linux/macOS plus installable PWA for iOS/Android.

• agentirc

  github · Free · by h1ddenpr0cess20

  Agentic IRC chatbot with multi-provider LLMs (OpenAI, xAI, LM Studio), tool use, MCP, and per-user history