Mac OS X only: Adium, the popular, open-source, multi-protocol chat application for OS X, updates today to version.
49,372 downloadsUpdated: April 28, 2017Donationware
A free and open-source multiple protocol instant messaging client that enables you to use numerous instant messaging services from within one window
What's new in Adium 1.5.11 Beta 3:
- Merged changes from Adium 1.5.10.1 and 1.5.10.2:
- Patched libotr, fixing an issue that could lead to remote code execution.
- Updated libpurple to 2.10.12.
- Updated Sparkle to 1.13.1, fixing a security issue that can lead to disclosure of local files or remote code execution.
Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services (see further down for the list) and then chat with other people using. This document is intended to help people quickly get started encrypting their Instant Messages on Mac OS X. Some background: Adium is a free and open source instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and Jabber / XMPP.
Read the full changelog Adium is a practical and easy-to-use OS X application designed to help you connect to various messaging services such as Yahoo Messenger, Jabber (XMPP), IRC, ICQ, MSN (Windows Live Messenger), Twitter, Facebook, AIM and many more other messaging protocols.
A wide selection of supported messaging services
If you need to find out if Adium comes with built-in support for a specific instant messaging protocol, you can find a detailed list of all supported services on Adium’s List of services supported and their interoperability online page.
Moreover, Adium is an open source Cocoa based instant messaging software solution that has been built as a graphical interface for the libpurple protocol library.
This way, you can see how Adium manages to connect you to your friends and family and, if you really want to and have the knowledge to do it, help its development team to further improve it and to add extra features.
Support for connecting to multiple chat protocols at the same time
With the help of the Adium messenger, you can effortlessly connect to any number of messaging accounts from any of the supported messaging services and chat with your friends, family and co-workers using the same services.
Furthermore, Adium comes with a user-friendly and highly customisable interface designed to make it as easy and simple as possible to view all your contacts regardless of their service provenience.
To make things even better, Adium offers you multi-tabbed chat windows and a state-of-the-art notification system that will alert you every time your contacts need your attention.
Advanced contact controls and displays system, as well as inbuilt OTR-based chat encryption support
The contacts you have in your list can be grouped according to your needs and preferences, and you can also hide the ones that you don’t frequently chat to with a simple mouse click.
In addition, Adium can be configured to hide or show offline, idle, away, mobile and blocked contacts using the simple and toggle-based View menu.
What’s more, Adium can also be used to rapidly and effortlessly transfer files to any chosen contact in your buddies list, view your chats’ logs and encrypt your conversations with the help of the OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) library for private conversations .
Full-featured and intuitive IM client for the Mac
All in all, Adium should be the logical choice if you want a comprehensive instant messenger with support for a vast array of messaging protocols, and with enough features to satisfy all your communication needs.
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Adium was reviewed by Sergiu Gatlan
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Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client that supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, SIP/SIMPLE (Text), and Lotus Sametime. It supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won’t look back.
Adium was created by college student Adam Iser, and the first version, “Adium 1.0”, was released in September 2001 and supported the only AIM. The version numbers of Adium since then have followed a somewhat unusual pattern. There were several upgrades to Adium 1.0, ending with Adium 1.6.2c.
Adium Features
- Open Source, so everyone can see how it works and help improve it.
- Support for a wide range of different Instant Messaging services (see the full list)
- A delightful UI
- Tabbed chat windows
- Mac OS X integration
- Address Book integration
- WebKit Message View: Theme your chat windows
- Combined Contacts: Merge your contacts so that each one represents a person, not an account
- A sophisticated events system including support for visual notifications via Growl and OS X’s Notification Center
- OTR Encryption
- File Transfer
- Xtras and many, many other customization options
- A beautiful icon, the “Adiumy” duck
- Translations: Adium speaks 27 different languages
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Supported Languages:
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Canadian English
- Australian English
- Catalan
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- French
- Canadian French
- German
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Japanese
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Traditional Chinese
- Turkish
Supported services
- AOL Instant Messenger (Including ICQ and .Mac)
- Jabber (Including Google Talk and LiveJournal)
- MSN Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan)
- Bonjour (Compatible with iChat)
- MySpace IM
- Gadu-Gadu
- Lotus Sametime
- XMPP (including Google Talk, Facebook Chat, and LiveJournal services)
- IRC
- Novell GroupWise
- IBM Sametime
- Skype with a plugin
- Skype for Business Server (previously Microsoft Lync Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server) with a plugin
- Telegram with a plugin
- QQ with a plugin
- Steam chat with the “Steam IM” plugin
- NateOn with a plugin
System Requirements
Adium 1.5.10.1 or later | Mac OS X 10.7.5 or newer, an Apple-branded Macintosh computer |
Ad 1.5.10 | Mac OS X 10.6.8 |
Ad 1.4.5 | Mac OS X 10.5.8 |
Ad 1.3.10 | Mac OS X 10.4 |
Ad 1.0.6 | Mac OS X 10.3.9 |
Ad X 0.89.1 | Mac OS X 10.2.x and older |
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Adium X 0.88 and later are Universal applications that run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers.