Textual is a top-rated macOS IRC client for chatting in Internet Relay Chat rooms. It helps protect your privacy by using well-established, proven security technologies—such as Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR)—so that your messages are visible only to the people you intend to communicate with.

Textual also includes:

• Address Book to track when friends are online or offline
• Auto-completion for nicknames, commands, and channels
• Rich text formatting (bold, color, italic, underline)
• Built-in conversion of text emoticons to emojis
• Growl and native Notification Center support
• Inline media embedding (display images directly in chat)
• Inline nickname colorization
• Per-channel notification controls
• Rule-based ignore matching with advanced customization
• Powerful filters that can trigger commands based on incoming messages
• Strong ZNC integration for advanced users
• Quick navigation via fuzzy searching
• Extensive, customizable keyboard shortcuts
• SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP proxy support (with or without SSL)
• SASL for simple authentication and security
• Support for self-signed certificates for authentication
• Options to validate and manage trust for untrusted certificates
• Ability to view multiple channels simultaneously
• …and much more!

What's New:

Version 7.2.7:

Fixes

• Fixed automatic scrolling on macOS 27.

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