bIRC

bIRC implements the IRC client protocol — RFC 1459 as updated by RFC 2812 — plus a wide range of IRCv3 extensions.

 

bIRC is a modern IRC client for macOS with extensive IRCv3 support.

 

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.

 

Privacy: bIRC connects only to the servers it is configured with. No analytics, no tracking, no account. Remote content — avatars, inline images, link previews — is off by default; when