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PlatformsWindows, Linux
MediaVideo send/receive, Images
Message historyOptional
EmoticonsAdd-on
Off the Record MessagingAdd-on
LicenseGPL
OpensourceYes
Video chatYes
End to EncriptionAdd-on
Spell checkingYes
Chat plugins SMS, Facebook, Discord, Skype, Telegram, WhatsApp, Steam IM, Battel.net, GoogleHangouts, Twitter feeds, Amazon Chime, WeChat, QQ, Rocket.chat, Slack, Mattermost, Tox, OkCupid,
Notification intergationAdd-on
Supported protocolsBonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Lotus Sametime, Novell GroupWise, OSCAR, SIMPLE, SILC, XMPP, Jingle, Zephyr, Various extended protocols.
Pros
Pro Support for a wide range of additional chat services
Pidgin not only supports IRC, it also supports plenty of other services such as AIM, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ and plenty of others. This way, you can have all of your conversations in the same app and won't have to deal with multiple chat windows being open.
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Cons
Con No native VoIP support
While there are plugins there is no built in support for VoIP in Pidgin which is time consuming to implement instead of being baked in from the jump.
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