Yahoo! Messenger

Enjoy the best experience in instant messaging, having all your friends in just one window, no matter if they use Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Mesenger, making worldwide phone calls, to another PC or to a regular or mobile phone, playing games, listening music, sharing documents at the easiest way possible. This program is available in several languages.

Windows Live Messenger

Windows Live Messenger combines the ability to chat with one or more friends online for fun, work, or both with voice calling, video conference, gaming, and mailing functions. The program has not changed much from the previous versions in its core, but adds a great array of new features that the user can surely benefit from.

Google Talk

Google Talk 1.0 is an instant messaging client for Windows. Additionally, it offers free PC-to-PC voice calls, the ability to send and receive voicemails (If the person you're calling isn't available), file transfers, and gmail notifications on your desktop for new messages in your email inbox.

SweetIM Toolbar for Internet Explorer

SweetIM for Messenger is an add-on that brings a little more life to your IMs. This application works with Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and AIM for Messengers and with Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo for e-mail. Basically, it allows you to send exclusive content to your contacts. Be it winks, nudges, emoticons, or sound effects, you can send it to all your contacts to spice up things.

ICQ

This is the newest version of the instant messaging software that started all, even though, today is not as popular as it used to be. It has video, audio and chat capability and is available for Windows, Linux, Mac and some mobile devices or smartphones.

mIRC

mIRC is a full-featured and really easy to use IRC client that allows users to communicate via IRC for work or fun. The IRC (Internet Relay Chat) abounds with information and resources, and mIRC is the best way to get what you want. This IRC client is simple yet powerful and can be ready to go in a snap.

Messenger Plus! Live

Messenger Plus! Live adds many interesting features to your Windows Live Messenger. It allows you to change the color and format of the text of your messages, send funny sounds to your contacts, personalize your status and many other things. Download Messenger Plus! Live and customize your Windows Live Messenger.

Messenger Plus! Live & Sponsor (CiD)

Messenger Plus! Live adds many interesting features to your Windows Live Messenger. It allows you to change the color and format of the text of your messages, send funny sounds to your contacts, personalize your status and many other things. Download Messenger Plus! Live and customize your Windows Live Messenger. It's completely free!

SweetIM for Messenger

SweetIM for Messenger is an add-on that brings a little more life to your IMs. This application works with Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and AIM for Messengers and with Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo for e-mail. Basically, it allows you to send exclusive content to your contacts.

Rediff Bol

Rediff Bol 8.0 Messenger - Instant messenger able to send SMS to mobile phones from the computer. The software has voice chat and web cam facility, and the sound and picture quality is similar to Yahoo's and MSN. It is also possible to send SMS to mobiles using the software, which is an additional feature.

AIM 6

AIM is an instant messaging program by America Online. With this program, you can talk to as many people as you want, and all of the tabs just appear on one window for each person you’re talking to. You also can see when your buddies are typing, when they are away, when they have sent you a message or when they have signed off.

Xfire

Xfire is an instant messenger application for Windows. Unlike instant messaging giants like MSN or Yahoo!, this application is targeted at gamers. It is a simple application that does without all the unnecessary features of those messengers. The main window has information that resembles the friends tab of Xbox Live!

ooVoo

ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world. ooVoo has many great features — from video calls with up to six people at once to video messaging to chat and file transfer capabilities.

MSN Messenger

MSN Messenger 8.1 is an instant messenger from Microsoft. It is now called Windows Live Messenger. In version 8.1, there weren't any significant changes, except, perhaps, a couple of bug fixes from the previous entry in the franchise and some improvements in the voice calling system.

Trillian

Trillian is today´s most innovative single multi-protocol IM client for communication via the Internet. The application is capable of joining users of ICQ, MSN, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger, IRC and Google Talk into a single chat space.

Pidgin

Pidgin is a great IM program available both in Linux and Windows. With this program you can chat with all your contacts, no matter the IM network: MSN, Jabber/XMPP, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM...you just set up all your accounts, and a few seconds later, you are able to send messages (and files in some cases) with everyone.

BuddyCheck

BuddyCheck will show you the real online status of your Yahoo! Messenger friends. It will regularly check to see if they are online, even if they are invisible or are using Stealth Mode.

aMSN

aMSN is an open source messenger application that supports several networks. With this single application, you can connect to all your messengers. You can use MSN messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, AIM, and more. The support for the messenger's features is not as great as the original applications.

weblin

Weblin makes you and others on the Web visible as small avatars. There are others on the same page you are on right now. Weblin opens a new and exiting world on every web site. Get to know people having the same interests.

WebcamMax

Add videos, screen, pictures, flash and effects to virtual or real Webcam and broadcast on all messengers (ICQ, AIM, MSN, Camfrog, Skype and etc). Enable PinP, Dual Camera, Play List, Free Paint, Photo Slides and Skin Changing. Mask moves with head.

Yahoo!7 Messenger

Reach out to anyone, anywhere with the easiest and fastest instant message service. Now you are just a click away from one of the easiest and fastest way to meet thousands of people online. Yahoo!7 Messenger 8.1 is the largest chat network with its simple to use interface.

StuffPlug

StuffPlug is an application that adds extra functionality to Windows Messenger. StuffPlug has come a long way since it was first released and now it feels and works absolutely great. There are many features that make this application a nice addition to Windows Live Messenger. The first of them is Action Text. Since Windows Messenger 8.0, new text messages have been added.

Google Talk, Labs Edition

Google Talk Labs Edition is a wonderful instant messaging program. It has almost the same features as the Google Talk Gadget, such as instant messaging, emoticons, and group chat. The application also comes with new desktop notifications from Calendar, Orkut, and Gmail.

Crawler Smileys

Crawler Smileys makes expressing yourself more fun! Insert smileys into your messages with a single click. Enjoy over 2,500 animated smileys. Works with AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk and most webmail services.

Nimbuzz

Nimbuzz lets you Chat, Message and BUZZ other users on either their desktop or mobile phone. Chat with contacts on Nimbuzz, MSN, Skype, GTalk and AIM.