What are the best XMPP clients for Windows?

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6 Recommended Products	Recommendations	Platforms	Messaging systems	Media
#1 Mastodon· · ·	1 \| 0	–	–	–
#2 Gajim· · ·	1 \| 0	–	–	–
#3 Pidgin· · ·	5 \| 3	Windows, Linux, Mac	Many	Yes
#4 Movim· · ·	1 \| 0	–	–	–
#5 Miranda· · ·	1 \| 0	–	–	–
#6 Psi· · ·	0 \| 0	–	–	–

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#1 Mastodon

A crowdfunded, federated, primarily social publishing platform supporting Jabber Texting (XMPP); free from Thought Police, ads, tracking. With multiple apps available for iOS, A...

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#2 Gajim

Jabber Texting (xmpp) client with support for OTR and OMEMO via plug-ins

Pro
OMEMO encryption available as a plug-in

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Chat logging enabled by default

Problematic for encrypted chats.

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OMEMO not natively supported

Requires plug-in.

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#3 Pidgin

Pidgin is a cross platform instant messaging client that has support for almost every chat service available.

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Very lightweight

Pidgin is very lightweight both in its minimalistic UI as well as RAM/CPU usage, especially when compared to competition like trillian.

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Highly customisable with plugins

Pidgin not only has a large plugin library built-in, but also an array of third party plugins for a variety of functions.

Con
Support for enlarged fonts for visually impaired is less than perfect

Typing messages with enlarged fonts sometimes makes that part of the UI glitch. It will change size (grow and shrink) as you type, making it hard to follow.