bIRC

bIRC is modern IRC client for Mac with broad support for IRCv3 extensions.

Social media platforms come and go, but IRC idles on.
If you happen to appreciate a clean native IRC client for the Mac - you might like bIRC.

Check out birc.app for more info.

Features

• Multi-profile, split view.
• iCloud sync.
• JavaScript scripting API.
• Color schemes and fonts, with optional custom CSS.
• On-device, searchable message history, mentions, scrollback, and per-conversation read tracking.
• Bouncer support, including ZNC and soju (with soju network management).
• SOCKS5, SOCKS4, and HTTP proxy support, including Tor with remote DNS.

• Notifications: banners, Dock badge, and per-event sounds, with per-network and per-channel muting.
• DCC file transfers and chat: send, receive, resume, passive mode, and routing through a proxy.
• Ignore and highlight: keywords, regular expressions, and per-channel scopes, with optional highlight-spam suppression.
• Accessibility: VoiceOver announcements, adjustable text size, and Reduce Motion.

IRCv3

• Authentication: SASL — PLAIN, EXTERNAL (CertFP), SCRAM-SHA-256, and OAUTHBEARER. STS auto-upgrade to TLS, STARTTLS.
• Transport: WebSocket support.
• Messages: message tags and IDs, server-time, echo-message, labeled-response, standard replies, and batches.
• History: CHATHISTORY with event playback, read markers (MARKREAD), multi-line messages, and message redaction.
• Presence and membership: account-notify, account-tag, away-notify, extended-join, chghost, MONITOR (and extended-monitor), multi-prefix, userhost-in-names, invite-notify, setname, WHOX, bot mode, and account extbans.
• Client tags: typing indicators, threaded replies with jump-to-parent, reactions, and channel-context.
• More: metadata (avatar, color, pronouns, status), network icons, channel rename, account registration, FILEHOST uploads, and pre-away.