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What are the best XMPP clients for Windows?

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The Best 2 of 6 OptionsWhy?

6 Options ConsideredPricePlatformsMedia
Excellent
Miranda
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Pidgin
Windows, Linux, MacYes
Mozilla Thunderbird
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Miranda

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Stuart Kearney
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Requires no installation and is very lightweight

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Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive.
Stuart Kearney
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Insanely customisable

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You can see all the plugins available for Miranda here.
UnderstandingDanina
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Doesn't support XMPP with OMEMO (yet)

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Pidgin

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Stuart Kearney
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Very lightweight

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

Free and Open Source

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Pidgin and its code is completely free and open source. Pidgin has no ads and no features behind a paywall.
thermoplastics
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Convenient notification features

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Like other quality messaging clients, Pidgin features notifications that the user can set in order to have a variety of things happen when the users is mentioned, such as an audio cue or changing the system tray icon.
thermoplastics
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Supports HiDPI display

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Pidgin has built in support for HiDPI displays with no formatting issues to be seen.
thermoplastics
Stuart Kearney
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Highly customisable with plugins

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Pidgin not only has a large plugin library built-in, but also an array of third party plugins for a variety of functions.
thermoplastics
Stuart Kearney
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Support for a wide range of additional chat services

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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.
Stuart Kearney
Top Pro

Easy to setup

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Pidgin is very user friendly and easy to use.
Alex
InquisitiveWambeen
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Can't be used with self-signed server certificates

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Many places have their own jabber servers, and many self-sign their certs. Pidgin is hard-coded to refuse these.
Endi Sukaj
IndependentAnagolay
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Support for enlarged fonts for visually impaired is less than perfect

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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.
thermoplastics
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No native VoIP support

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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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Mozilla Thunderbird

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Dario Volarić
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Chat support

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Supports Google Talk, IRC, Twitter and XMPP protocols
Dario Volarić
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Very reliable

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Version after version, Mozilla Thunderbird works as expected.
Dario Volarić
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Large assortment of plugins available

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Mozilla Thunderbird offers a huge amount of extensions to expand the usability and options of the client.
Dario Volarić
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Available on Linux, OS X and Windows

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Dario Volarić
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Lightning Calendar and Address Book integration

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JM80
Dario Volarić
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Free

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Know any negative aspects of this option?
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Mastodon

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Movim

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thermoplastics
Nÿco
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Simple and social

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JM80
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Tells you if messages have been read

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You will never have to worry about the status of your message as the app alerts you when your message has been delivered and read.
JM80
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Synchronizes your chat across all supported devices

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JM80
Top Pro

Works on Linux

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John Miller
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No Windows support

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Gajim

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OMEMO encryption available as a plug-in

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Alex
InquisitiveWambeen
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Chat logs are in SQLite DB.

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Plaintext (or XML/markup) logs are not available.
Chloe Montanez
Big: Commander Of Criminal Killers
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OMEMO not natively supported

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Requires plug-in.
Chloe Montanez
Big: Commander Of Criminal Killers
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Chat logging enabled by default

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Problematic for encrypted chats.
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So far the best looking and most user friendly mail and XMPP chat client for Windows.
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