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ICQ Alternatives

Developer: ICQ
Last updated: May 16, 2013
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows (all)
User Rating:    (24 votes)
Software that can be used as an alternative to ICQ:
  • (27 votes)
    April 29, 2013
    Camfrog Video Chat allows you to join real streaming video chat rooms where you can hear, see, and chat with many people at a time.
    • Freeware
    • Windows (all)
  • (30 votes)
    March 21, 2012
    The latest version of the popular MSN instant messaging client.
    • Freeware
    • Windows XP/Vista/7
  • (14 votes)
    May 20, 2013
    Trillian is a multinetwork chat client that currently supports mIRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger.
    • Freeware
    • Windows (all)
  • (15 votes)
    February 13, 2013
    Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
    • Freeware
    • Windows/Mac/Linux
  • 5 / 5
    (3 votes)
    May 21, 2013
    Multi protocol instant messenger client.
    • Freeware
    • Windows (all)
  • (19 votes)
    January 16, 2013
    IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk.
    • Shareware
    • Windows (all)
  • (84 votes)
    October 24, 2012
    Yahoo! Messenger is fun messenger with a lot of cool features.
    • Freeware
    • Windows (all)
  • Not rated yet
    (0 votes)
    May 6, 2013
    Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.
    • Freeware
    • Linux
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