Aether

Conversations, made easy

Aether supports everything that you’re used to in a chat client; it’s simple to start a private conversation or join a public channel and chat with others. Since Aether uses the IRC protocol, you can chat with over 450,000 people in 250,000 channels! [1]

You can use as many emoji as you like, and have them rendered beautifully in the client - no need to stick to boring ASCII emotes.

Aether uses bold, visually distinct colours to identify users and their permissions. With this, it’s no problem to distinguish between two users with similar nicknames.

Find anything, any time

Aether supports searching all of your messages simply, using Ctrl+F (or Command+F on macOS). You’ll never have to waste valuable time searching for links or messages that were sent previously with Aether.

Aether automatically logs IRC messages for you, so that you can find and use them at any time. Since the logs are just files, you can also import them into other programs or modify them with a text editor.

Extensible and Adjustable

Aether comes with an extensive plugin system that allows you to tweak almost any aspect of the client. All the changes you see in the UI can be adjusted through plugins simply and easily.

Aether can automatically upload files that you drag-and-drop into the client so you can share screenshots, code snippets and logs without having to manually copy the data, upload it to a file hosting service and then copy in the link.

By default, Aether will upload images to Imgur, and text files to GitHub Gist. Other plugins are available to handle different file types if neither of the above suit you.