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Pidgin, the universal chat client

Riccardo83 rated 22 months agoFeatured Review
Today I wanna tell you guys about the best, free and most powerful messenger on earth! What is Pidgin? Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. - Thats what Pidgin.im says :) Pidgin can work with AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Goo... more
Tags: instant-messaging, open-source, chat, software, im, internet

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shade11 rated 2 weeks agoinstant-messaging
It's a piece of shit, but it seems to be the best shitty instant messenger I can get.
uzair88 rated 6 weeks agoinstant-messaging
The best, truly.
fooziex rated 7 weeks agoopen-source, instant-messaging
Very nice IM client. I've been using this as my only IM client for years now, and while it's not perfect (not many reverse-engineered applications are), it's very well done and much less obtrusive than most of the official clients it replaces. I strongly recommend using the OTR (off-the-record) plugin for pidgin. It provides strong encryption, and beyond that, deniability.
buzzintown reviewed 2 months ago
IM all your friends in one place Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.
ViperGeek rated 5 months agoinstant-messaging, im, pidgin



Undeniably the best, most flexible, simplest text-only instant messaging program on the planet. I have twelve accounts defined in my Pidgin Portable installation and use it constantly throughout the day. In addition to the mainstream IM networks, easily installed plug-ins exist for Facebook Chat, Xfire, and more.

The only thing missing is voice and webcam support, which of course, hardcore IM'ers frown upon. :-)

ps. Regarding Mariavis' concern about IM BOTs (below), check out the Bot Sentry plugin.
seely rated 5 months agowindows, vista, instant-messaging, pc, gtalk
The best IM client I've used to date, lean and clean.
mariavis rated 6 months agoinstant-messaging
Too bad there isn't an inbuild function to stop SPAM BOTs sending IM's....
Amide rated 6 months agoinstant-messaging
so much better than everything
bellesouthblogs rated 7 months agoinstant-messaging
This is awesome!!!!!!! From the page: "Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once."
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