Battle of the Multi-Protocol IM Clients, Trillian vs. Adium

By Gina Trapani on October 10, 2007 at 11:00 PM

If you want to chat on several networks—like AIM, Yahoo Messenger and MSN—using one instant messenger client, on the Mac side you’ve got Adium and on Windows side you’ve got Trillian (and the open source Pidgin.) However, Macworld reports that the makers of Trillian are putting together an OS X version of Trillian’s upcoming version 4 release. Cross-platform users, which multi-protocol IM client do you think is better?

You excited to try out Trillian on the Mac, or is the announcement a snoozer? (Because, let’s face it, Adium’s a looker.) Profess your IM loyalties in the comments.

Trillian chat client goes OS X [Macworld]
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  • Michael
    October 11, 2007 at 10:07 AM

    meebo.

    no installation and it is web based and it works.

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  • Maxx
    October 11, 2007 at 2:29 PM

    Pidgin – because I have found that Trillian moves too slow with new releases and features (it’s been stuck on 3.1 for yonks now).

    Only problem with Pidgin is that it’s plugins are still being worked on since the change from Gaim.

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  • Hyperwolf
    December 10, 2007 at 2:25 PM

    ADIUM… without which my life would be so much more complicated. It got here first and I like to show my loyalty unless… trillium can enable video on yahoo in which case I am so there.

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