Alternative apps to ICQ:
  • 4.8
    22 votes
    mIRC 7.51
    IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk.
    • Shareware
    • Windows
  • 4.3
    106 votes
    Yahoo! Messenger 0.8.288
    Share photos instantly, send GIFs and even unsend messages. It’s the fastest way to keep in touch with friends.
    • Freeware
    • Windows/macOS
  • 4.4
    20 votes
    Trillian 6.0.0.61
    Trillian is a multinetwork chat client that currently supports mIRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 4.9
    18 votes
    Pidgin 2.12.0
    Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
    • Freeware
    • Windows/macOS/Linux
  • 4.3
    30 votes
    Windows Live Messenger 16.4.35522
    The latest version of the popular MSN instant messaging client.
    • Freeware
    • Windows XP/Vista/7
  • 5
    6 votes
    Miranda IM 0.10.74
    Multi protocol instant messenger client.
    • Freeware
    • Windows
  • 5
    6 votes
    Empathy 3.12.3
    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