Comparison of LAN messengers

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of LAN messengers.

General information

Basic general information about the LAN messengers: creator/company, license/price, among others.

Protocol Author, creator First public release date Latest stable version Cost (USD) Software license Programming language
AChat ? Michal Hruby 2005 beta 7 (v0.150) (January 24, 2007) Free[1] GNU GPL Delphi, C# version begun
BeeBEEP [2] BeeBEEP Protocol Marco Mastroddi 2010 3.0.7 (August 11, 2016) Free QPL C++ and Qt
Bit Chat Bit Chat Protocol Technitium 2011 4.5.1 (September 24, 2016) Free[3] GNU GPLv3 C#
BORGChat ? Ionut Cioflan 2002 v1.0.0 b438 (March 31, 2007 (2007-03-31)) [±] Free[4] Freeware ?
iChat Bonjour IM Protocol Apple Inc. 2003 5.0.3 (745), (April 26, 2010) Non-free, bundled with OS Proprietary Likely Objective-C
iptux Windows Messenger service Jally, ManPT, others 2008 0.51 (November 20, 2009) Free[5] GNU GPL ?
LinPopUp Windows Messenger service Jean-Marc Jacquet 2000 1.2.0 (Debian, April 7, 2008) Free[6] GNU GPL C
Miranda IM[7][8] Windows Messenger service Roland Rabien 2000 0.10.56 (August 12, 2016) Free GNU GPL C/C++
Net-C ? DGtalize 2008 0.2.0 (May 15, 2010) Free[9] GNU GPL Java
Pidgin[10] ? Mark Spencer, others 1998 2.11.0 (June 20, 2016) Free GNU GPL C
Qualia LAN Messenger LAN Messenger protocol Qualia Technologies 2010 1.2.37 (November 10, 2016) Free[11] GNU GPL C++

Operating system support

The operating systems the messengers can run on without emulators or compatibility layers.

Windows OS X Linux BSD Unix
AChat Yes No No No No
BeeBEEP Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bit Chat Yes No Yes No No
BORGChat Yes No No No No
iChat No Yes No No No
iptux No No Yes No No
LinPopUp No No Yes No No
Miranda IM Yes No No No No
Net-C Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Qualia LAN Messenger Yes Yes Yes No Yes

Features

Information on what features each of the clients support.

Toolkits or SDKs Private messages Private chat Public chat Message board Encryption File transfer Unicode (UTF-8) Message filtration Graphical smileys Message logging Whiteboard Terminal Service Compatibility User base in Active Directory Serverless (No server required)
AChat No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No No Yes No No No Yes
BeeBEEP No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes
Bit Chat No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No No Yes
BORGChat No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
iChat 1 No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No
iptux No Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes
LinPopUp No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No No No No Yes
Miranda IM ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes
Net-C No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes No No No No Yes
Qualia LAN Messenger No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes

Note 1: Using Apple's Bonjour protocol

See also

References

  1. ↑ "AChat". SourceForge.net. 2013-05-01. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "BeeBEEP (Secure Lan Messenger)". SourceForge.net. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Bit Chat". Technitium. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "BORGChat". Softpedia. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "iptux". freecode.com. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "A Linux Enhanced port of Winpopup". SourceForge.net. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "Does Miranda work for a LAN network?". forums.miranda-im.org. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  8. ↑ Miranda IM LAN plugins, may be old/buggy though
  9. ↑ "Net-C". SourceForge.net. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  10. ↑ "Use Pidgin for Chatting And Transferring Files on Local Network Without Internet Connection". ubuntubuzz.com. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  11. ↑ "An opensource LAN messenger". GitHub. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
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