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KVIrc vs CIRC

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When comparing KVIrc vs CIRC, the Slant community recommends KVIrc for most people. In the question“What are the best IRC clients for Windows?” KVIrc is ranked 6th while CIRC is ranked 26th. The most important reason people chose KVIrc is:

Help files and online resources show all of the feature and scripting capabilities.

Specs

Auto updateNo

CRLNo

CTCPYes

DANENo

DCCCHAT SEND RESUME TSEND Passive DCC REVERSE RSEND Reverse/Firewall DCC FSERV XDCC VOICE

EmoticonsYes

IPv6Yes

InterfaceGUI

LicenseGPL

MediaYes

Message historyYes

Multi-AccountYes

Multi-channelYes

Multi-serverYes

Notification intergationYes

OSCPNo

OTRNo

OpensourceYes

PlatformsGNU/Linux, Windows

Proxy serverYes

SASLYes

SSLYes

Scripting languageKVS (custom), Perl, Python

TLSYes

URI schemeYes

UTF-8Yes

Video chatNo

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Pros

Pro
Extensive documentation available

Help files and online resources show all of the feature and scripting capabilities.

Pro
Portable

KVIrc does not need to be installed. It can be kept on a flash drive and run from there.

Pro
Still active developement

Despite whats been said, development has been continuing at a steady pace on version 4.3.1 and more recently 4.3.2.

Pro
Plenty of customization options

Pro
"One Identity" ability

Create a personal "bouncer" of sorts, using CIRC "/make-server" (/help make-server for more details) give you a connection so that you can using the same Ident/Nick from multiple devices.