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Empathy vs MetroIRC

A side-by-side look at Empathy and MetroIRC. 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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MetroIRC

MetroIRC

Social & Communications

MetroIRC is an open-source, lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Windows. It has a simple, easy-to-use interface and supports multiple IRC networks and channels, nickname registration, notification icons, auto-connect on start, logging, and other basic IRC client features.

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