Beautiful interface
Textual feels at home on your Mac, with carefully refined controls and a choice of light or dark appearances, each with matching chat styles.
Textual 7
Textual is an easy-to-use IRC client for macOS that brings your favorite chatrooms and communities together in a familiar Mac interface.
Free for 30 days · macOS 12 Monterey or later
Coming from the Mac App Store? Read the transition guidance before switching.
Textual features
Powerful
Connect to modern IRC networks with IRCv3, IPv6, SASL, and client certificate authentication, along with support for ZNC and other bouncers.
Privacy and security
Configure SSL/TLS connections, certificate trust, and proxies, with OTR available for supported private conversations depending on your setup.
Customizable
Personalize your conversations with open-standard chat styles and extend Textual using scripts and addons in AppleScript, Swift, Python, and other languages.
Textual also includes
- Nickname and channel completion
- Rich text formatting
- Customizable notifications
- Inline images and media
- Quick channel search
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Rule-based ignore lists
- Conversation tracking
- An address book
- Message filters
- Multiple channel views
- Speech synthesis
Try Textual for 30 days
Textual 7 remains our current release and is available to download while we work on the next version.
For macOS 12 Monterey or later · Disk image (.dmg)
News & announcements
All news →Textual has a new home, and it is us
Textual is joining Blendbyte. Here is what stays the same, what we are planning for Textual 8, and what the handover means for your licence and data.
Read the announcement →