Adium X 1.4

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (66 votes)

(November 1, 2010)

Mac OS X / Open Source / 6,357 downloads

Adium X is a multiple protocol instant messaging client. This is a culmination of a year long rewrite of adium, which now utilizes libgaim (the core part of gaim) to connect to multiple protocols, and is also based on a new plugin architecture. Partial address book integration, cool looking tabs, multiple protocols for instant messaging, and a compact contact list are some of the many features of the new Adium X.

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  • Latest Changes

    - Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later

    - Added Twitter

    - Added IRC

    - Greatly improved group chats and group chat bookmarks

    - Updated to libpurple 2.6.6 with added fixes

    - Mind-bogglingly large number of enhancements and bug fixes

Reviews of Adium X

  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    EMkaEL

    Reviewing 1.2.4 (Apr 3, 2008)

    release date of v1.2.4 was march 30, not may 30.
    unless its from the future. ^^

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    PseudoX13

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 14 (Nov 21, 2006)

    adium is awesome. easily the best IM program for mac. 1uk3, just download GAIM if you want something like this for windows. it rocks also.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    DigitalSin

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 14 (Nov 9, 2006)

    The best hands down.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    1uk3

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 3 (Aug 28, 2006)

    It's great! I wish there was a version of this for my Windows machine.

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    dmainzman

    Reviewing 1.0 Beta 3 (Jul 7, 2006)

    I downloaded adium because it's the best thing for using AIM on a Mac (AIM 4.whatever for mac is way too outdated).
    And Adium is a nice client and all, but compared to AIM 5.9 for windows, this sucks donkey balls. As far as I'm concerned, chat clients achieved perfection with AIM 5.9 (once you hack away the ads, and such).
    AIM triton sucks. AIM 5.5 sucks. AIM 5.9 is the absolute only way to go.
    See, here's the thing about Adium. It's based on GAIM, so they basically have the same problems:
    You can't do everything you can with AIM. There are just some features for AIM 5.9 that have been refined and refined so much over the years with trial and error combined with a MASSIVE user base, that they're just... perfect features. And you can't use a lot of them in Adium. And also direct connect simply doesn't work. And that makes me VERY angry.
    Anyway... it looks nice, and it's the best I'll ever get on a mac, but... I'd prefer the windows version any day. I guess that's what Parallels is for.

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