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