Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.

Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX-like operating systems. Looking for Pidgin for OS X? Try Adium!

Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: Jabber/XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.

Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smileys, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin’s functionality above and beyond the standard features.

Pidgin is under constant development. Releases are usually frequent and driven by user contributions, such as issues and contributions.

Pidgin is free and contains no ads. All our code is open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License. This means you can get Pidgin’s underlying code and modify it to suit your needs, as long as you publish the changes you make for everyone to benefit from as well.

Supported Languages

Pidgin is translated into many different languages, thanks to the generous contributions of our volunteer translators.

Afrikaans

Albanian

American English

Amharic

Arabic

Armenian

Australian English

Azerbaijani

Belarusian Latin

Bengali

Bokmal Norwegian

Bosnian

British English

Bulgarian

Canadian English

Catalan

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Dzongkha

English

Esperanto

Estonian

Euskera (Basque)

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hong Kong Chinese

Hungarian

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Kannada

Khmer

Korean

Kurdish

Lao

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Malay

Marathi

Mongolian

Myanmar (Burmese)

Nepali

Norwegian Nynorsk

Occitan

Oriya

Pashto

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Portuguese-Brazil

Punjabi

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Serbian Latin

Simplified Chinese

Sinhala

Slovak

Slovenian

Spanish

Swahili

Swedish

Tamil

Telugu

Thai

Traditional Chinese

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Valencian-Catalan

Vietnamese

Xhosa

If your native language is missing from this list or you’ve found that a translation contains errors, you can help us! Take a look at our tips for translators page!