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Textual

IRC for macOS

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Textual is a native IRC client for macOS, designed for interacting with Internet Relay Chat chatrooms. It features a refined user interface, support for IRCv3 specifications, IPv6, client-side certificate authentication, and OTR messaging for privacy. Users can customize the app with styles and addons built using various programming languages. It includes an address book, auto-completion, highlight spam prevention, conversation tracking, filters, media display in chat, ZNC bouncer integration, fuzzy searching, keyboard shortcuts, proxy support, SASL, speech synthesis, and emoji conversion.

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