Adium

About Adium

Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for OS X, written using OS X's Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.

Notable Features

Open Source, so everyone can see how Adium works and help improve it
Support for a wide range of different Instant Messaging services (see the full list)
A delightful UI
- Tabbed chat windows
Mac OS X integration
- Address Book integration
- WebKit Message View: Theme your chat windows
Combined Contacts: Merge your contacts so that each one represents a person, not an account
A sophisticated events system (including Growl notifications)
OTR Encryption
File Transfer
Xtras and many, many other customization options
A beautiful icon, the "Adiumy" duck
Translations: Adium speaks 27 different languages

System requirements

Adium 1.5 or later: Mac OS X 10.6.8 or newer, an Apple-branded Macintosh computer
Adium 1.4.5: Mac OS X 10.5.8
Adium 1.3.10: Mac OS X 10.4
Adium 1.0.6: Mac OS X 10.3.9
Adium X 0.89.1: Mac OS X 10.2.x and older

Adium X 0.88 up to Adium 1.4.5 are Universal applications which run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers. Adium 1.5 and up require an Intel based computer.

See our Supported OS Policy for more information.

Contributing

See our own wiki for ways you can contribute to Adium.

Adium Contact information