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Are there any chat applications that will let me access AIM, Skype, and GChat all at once?

Asked by MrItty (17416points) February 28th, 2009

I’m annoyed having to set away messages on all three applications whenever I go somewhere. Are there any apps that will let me access all my contacts on all three networks in one application? One that will let me use all the features of each, including voice calls and video conferencing?

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aprilsimnel's avatar

Two chicks, one discussion about pros and cons of all-in-one chat apps.

jasongarrett's avatar

Trillian looks like it will do all of that, but you have to pay for the version that supports video.

Skyrail's avatar

Trillian doesn’t look like it has access to Skype, and Google Talk is only available on the pro version. I know pidgin supports GTalk and AIM but not Skype, I’m not too sure if Skype allow other apps to connect to their network. But don’t quote me on that, I’ve just not really seen any other apps that support that protocol.

TitsMcGhee's avatar

Adium. I know it can do AIM, GChat, MSN, and a bunch of other ones all at the same time, but I’m not sure about skype. Check it out here

MrItty's avatar

w00t. Thanks for all the tips. I was already using Pidgin (formerly Gaim) because I hate the default AIM client. I didn’t actually realize it could support other networks. I just enabled my GTalk account, and then found plugins that let it work with Facebook chat and Skype as well. Nice!

RandomMrdan's avatar

digsby does all of those, plus twitter, facebook, myspace, and more. It’s just a tad heavy on the resource usage. But the cool part is that it has an appearance similar to iChat.

Alyanna's avatar

I use Pidgin. It already works on a lot of different chat clients, plus it has plug-ins for Facebook: http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/
and for Skype: http://eion.robbmob.com/

MrItty's avatar

@Alyanna, yup, that’s what I’m using, with the FB and Skype plugins. Very nice! Thanks.

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