What is a good chat client for Macs?

Asked by KatawaGrey (21483

) August 17th, 2011

I’m sick of AIM. I want to use a new chat client. However, when I went to download Pidgin it told me that there was something that might be better to use on a Mac. Well, now I’m super confused. I don’t know anything about computers but I want a chat client that will be the best for what I’ve got set up.

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Adium is by far the best. It supports pretty much any protocol.

jrpowell (40562

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I second @johnpowell. Keep in mind that with Lion, iChat can now log into other clients besides AIM.

missingbite (7531

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Thank you! Downloaded it. I like it. :)

KatawaGrey (21483

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Why not just use iChat? We used Pidgin at work for a while and everyone hated it but it may be because we were ALL using it.

SamIAm (8703

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I use iChat exclusively—the UI really annoyed me in Adium and often time (at least a year or so ago) it would get presence wrong and I wouldn’t get messages.

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