{"id":4447,"date":"2008-02-17T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-5-jabber-im-clients\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:34:41","slug":"top-5-jabber-im-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-5-jabber-im-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Jabber IM clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/02\/jabber_logo.png\" alt=\"Jabber logo\" align=\"left\" \/>If you&#8217;re not sure what all this jibber-jabber is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jabber.org\/about\/overview.shtml\">Jabber<\/a> then let me explain. In software terms, Jabber is known as the &#8220;Linux of instant messaging&#8221; due to its open and secure nature. It&#8217;s a highly effective and useful alternative to all those ad-bloated IM networks such as AIM, ICQ and MSN. Now for the science. At its heart, Jabber is basically a set of streaming XML protocols and technologies that allow two clients to communicate with each other. The advantages of Jabber are numerous including greater security, it&#8217;s completely open, it can be extended easily and it&#8217;s completely decentralised. After reading all this, you may be thinking &#8220;Sign me up! Where do I get started?&#8221;. Well, for starters, you can use any one of these excellent clients that support the Jabber protocol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gaim.en.softonic.com\/\">Pidgin<\/a> &#8211; Previously known as Gaim and supports multiple protocols at the same time<\/p>\n<p>Universal Messenger Plus &#8211; Very simple and lightweight IM client<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neos.en.softonic.com\/\">Neos<\/a> &#8211; Simple client offering voice and video over IP<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pandion.en.softonic.com\/\">Pandion<\/a> &#8211; Highly secure and customisable client with plugins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miranda-im.en.softonic.com\/\">Miranda<\/a> &#8211; Requires no installation and very light on your CPU<\/p>\n<p>After choosing one of the above you&#8217;re ready to go by just following the instructions on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jabber.org\/user\/quickstart.shtml\">Jabber Foundation<\/a> homepage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not sure what all this jibber-jabber is about Jabber then let me explain. In software terms, Jabber is known as the &#8220;Linux of instant messaging&#8221; due to its open and secure nature. It&#8217;s a highly effective and useful alternative to all those ad-bloated IM networks such as AIM, ICQ and MSN. Now for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-5-jabber-im-clients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top 5 Jabber IM clients&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336377,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/336377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}