Chat with friends in several networks and exchange files, with Pidgin


Pidgin is a free and convenient chat utility that supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ and more chat networks all at once. Supported chat networks: AIM * Bonjour * Gadu-Gadu * Google Talk * Groupwise * ICQ * IRC * MSN * MXit * MySpaceIM * SILC * SIMPLE * Sametime * XMPP * Yahoo! * Zephyr *  Support of more networks with plugins * Available in many languages.

Pidgin lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Note also that numerous plugins extend Pidgin’s functionality above and beyond the standard features.

Pidgin is translated into Afrikaans * Albanian * American English * Arabic * Armenian * Armenian * Australian English * Azerbaijani * Belarusian Latin * Belarusian Latin * Bengali * Bokmal Norwegian * Bosnian * British English * Bulgarian * Canadian English * Catalan * Chinese * Czech * Danish * Dutch, Flemish * Dzongkha * English * Esperanto * Estonian * Euskera(Basque) * Finnish * French * Galician * Georgian * German * Greek, and many more languages.