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Empathy vs iChat

A side-by-side look at Empathy and iChat. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

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iChat

iChat

Social & Communications

iChat is an instant messaging software application developed by Apple. It allows users to communicate with each other using text, audio, or video chat over the Internet.

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