What are the best XMPP clients for Windows?

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The Best 1 of 7 OptionsWhy?

Best XMPP clients for Windows	Price	Platforms	Media
91 Pidgin	-	Windows, Linux, Mac	Yes
89 Miranda	-	–	–
-- Movim	-	–	–
-- Mozilla Thunderbird	Free	Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
-- Mastodon	-	–	–

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Mozilla Thunderbird

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Free

Experience

Dario Volarić

So far the best looking and most user friendly mail and XMPP chat client for Windows. See More

Specs

Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux

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Lightning Calendar and Address Book integration

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Available on Linux, OS X and Windows

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Large assortment of plugins available

Mozilla Thunderbird offers a huge amount of extensions to expand the usability and options of the client. See More

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Very reliable

Version after version, Mozilla Thunderbird works as expected. See More

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Chat support

Supports Google Talk, IRC, Twitter and XMPP protocols See More

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Send large files easy

Install pCloud plugin for Thunderbird and your files (upto 20 GB free storage included) will be received as download links See More

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Tabs for navigation

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Consistent and involving a moderate learning curve

The app design of Mozilla Thunderbird has not changed significantly since its beginning, making its learning curve almost non-existent. See More

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Good filtering system

Mozilla Thunderbird offers a flexible filtering system with the ability to set flags and read/unread, as well as sort/assign to new mail directories. There are also numerous plugins available to assist in the filtering. See More

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Free (as in freedom and beer)

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AstraChat

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Supports a lot of protocols

RFC-3920:Core RFC-3921:Instant Messaging and Presence XEP-0012 Last Activity XEP-0016 Privact lists XEP-0054 VCARD-temp XEP-0085 Chat State Notifications XEP-0153 vCard-Based Avatars XEP-0172 User Nickname XEP-0184 Message delivery receipts XEP-0191 Blocking commands XEP-0198 Stream Management XEP-0199 XMPP Ping XEP-0176: Jingle ICE-UDP XEP-0136: Message Archiving XEP-0045: Multi-User Chat See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows , Linux , Mac , Android , iOS

Media:Yes

Message history:Yes

Hosting options:Hosted & self-hosted

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Network efficient

AstraChat is tuned to make very efficient use of the network connection and processor so you can be confident that it will use very little of your battery or data allowance. See More

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Secure

Messages are received from clients using secured (TLS or SSL) XMPP (jabber) protocol. See More

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Direct connect

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