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Adium Logo
Screenshot of Adium.
Screenshot of Adium.
Adium's beautiful OSX interface
DeveloperAdium team
Genreinstant messenger
First releasedSeptember 1
2001
Runs onMac OS X
LicenseGNU General Public License
Source modelopen source
PriceFree
Stable1.4.1
Release statusreleased
Written inCocoa
Websitewww.adium.im/

Adium is a popular free instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and XMPP. It supports many protocols through the libraries libezv (for Bonjour), MGTwitterEngine (for Twitter), and libpurple (for all other protocols). It is written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, and it is released under the GNU General Public License, and many other licenses for components that are distributed with Adium.