Today, everyone wants to be able to reach anyone at anytime
Luckily, that is not a problem nowadays. There are plenty of free applications you can use on your smartphones, desktops and tablets, to be able to contact your friends, relatives, partners, etc. Not even that, there are some apps that allow you to unite all those different messengers in one and use them more quickly and easily. All you need to do is choose a client which supports the messaging apps you use, download it and begin using it. With the abundance of all sorts of messaging apps, more and more people decide to use those clients. Here are some of them.
Pidgin
One of the most popular chat clients that is very user-friendly and easy to use. It also looks great. What you can do with it, is connect several chat accounts to it and then use it as the only place to send those messages. Here are some of the most popular messengers you can link with Pidgin: Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ, Bonjour, IRC, Groupwise, Zephyr, MSN, XMPP, SIMPLE, MySpace, SILC, Mxit, SameTime, Gadu-Gadu. Pidgin is probably one of the best, easiest to use and well-known chat clients.
Adium
An amazing messaging client, based on libpurple protocol library. It is free, open source and, of course, it allows to connect many messengers at once. What really shines here, is its looks. The user interface is just gorgeous. It has tabs for different users and messengers. It can integrate with MacOS, create a list of combined contacts, transfer files and make a lot of other interesting and useful things. This one is for those, who pay attention to good looks.
Psi
A chat client which is based on XMPP and can be used on many different platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac. It can connect multiple messengers, Google Talk included. The upside of this chat client, is that you can use it from a desktop. So this client is for those people who prefer to spend most of their time in front of their computers. The downside is, you better not use it with a mobile device, like a tablet or smartphone, since it doesn’t work too well with them.
Miranda
This one is very fast and customizable. Miranda is a very light IM client, both for your hard drive and your computer’s resources. Therefore, it works very fast and it’s responsive. The messengers it supports are Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, MSN, Facebook and a lot of others. What makes it truly great, though, is its customization capabilities. It has a large variety of available plug-ins, which allows any user to set it up in almost any way they like.
Trillian
This chat client is for those who values security and an ability to chat from multiple devices. Trillian supports almost any platform available, including Windows, Linux, OSX, Android and iOS. You can pretty much use it with any device available on the market. The variety of messengers it supports is also wide: Google Talk, Facebook, ICQ, Yahoo!, AIM, XMPP, Skype, MSN.