BChat 0.3.0

Handle IRC as a bee does a flower. A modern, safe IRC client for Windows by BajuBesi Labs.

BChat 0.3.0 adds the tools mIRC users reach for every day, plus modern IRC's replies and typing, while keeping the calm XChat 2 look.

Highlights

• One-click problem reports: after a crash or a freeze BChat offers to send a report, and Help → Report a Problem... sends one any time. You see what is sent first; nicks, channels, addresses and passwords are replaced, and chat text is never included
• Daily logs and a Logs window: a new log file every day, Window → Logs... to read and search them, and an optional clean-up of old days. Logging stays off until you turn it on, and BChat asks how long to keep them
• Nick colours by nick, address or host, and an Address Book with notes for the people you know
• Channel Central: topic, modes, bans, exceptions and invites in one window (double-click in a channel's text, or /channel)
• /timer and /alias, with $1, $2-, $nick, $chan and |
• Reply to a line (right-click, or Alt+R) and see who is typing, on networks that support it. Showing your own typing is off until you turn it on
• Double-click a nick in the nick list to open a private chat, like mIRC
• Start with Windows puts itself back if something removed it

Update

BChat 0.1.0 and 0.2.0 offer this update by themselves: look for Update after Help. It checks the signature and installs when you quit.

Install

Download BChat-0.3.0-setup.exe from this release and run it. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you: choose More info → Run anyway. Some antivirus programs may also stop it; see the README.

VirusTotal: none of the 70 antivirus engines that scanned the installer flagged it.

bchat-update.json is the signed update file BChat reads; you don't need to download it.

Free, no ads. If you like it: support BChat on Ko-fi.