IRC / Free Software and web applications

This is a list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers. ---from github/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted


  • Convos - Always online web IRC client. (DemoSource CodeArtistic-2.0 Perl
  • Dispatch - A self-hosted web IRC client written in Go. (DemoMIT Go
  • Kiwi IRC - A responsive web IRC client with theming support. (Demo), (Source CodeApache-2.0 Nodejs
  • The Lounge - A self-hosted web IRC client. (DemoSource CodeMIT Nodejs
  • Quassel IRC - distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core. (Source CodeGPL-2.0 C++
  • Robust IRC - RobustIRC is IRC without netsplits. Distributed IRC server, based on RobustSession protocol. (Source CodeBSD-3-Clause Go
  • Weechat - Fast, light and extensible chat client. GPL-3.0 C
  • ZNC - Advanced IRC bouncer. (Source CodeApache-2.0 C++