IRC

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others.

According to our data, IRC ranks 19th among the instant messaging apps we track.
It has 0.07% of the instant messaging market share and is detected on 0.006% of all websites.

🏠 Website
- irchelp.org #4,223,556
🔗 Links
- Wikipedia

💸 Pricing

IRC is available for free.

Free ✔️

📊 Rankings and Market Share

Instant Messaging
- Rank: 19
- Market share: 0.07%

🏆 IRC Awards

🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.

⚡ Sites Using IRC

We have data on 197 websites that use the IRC instant messaging app. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using IRC is wikidata.org.

#	Website	🔗	Rank	Country	Language
1	wikidata.org	irc://irc.libera.chat/wikidata	#2,908	United States	English
2	squarefree.com	irc://irc.mozilla.org/fuzzing	#31,025	United States	English
3	freecad.org	irc://irc.libera.chat/freecad	#37,321		English
4	pygame.org	irc://irc.freenode.net/pygame	#51,423	United States	English
5	subsplease.org	irc://irc.rizon.net/subsplease	#65,716		American English
6	hackthissite.org	irc://irc.hackthissite.org/	#68,321	United States	English
7	dwarffortresswiki.org	irc://irc.esper.net/bay12games irc://irc.libera.chat/dwarffortress irc://irc.synirc.net/df	#71,343	United States	English
8	wiki.commonjs.org	irc://irc.freenode.net/commonjs		Switzerland	English
9	pirate-king.es	irc://irc.rizon.net/Pirateking/	#82,443	Spain	Spanish
10	munin-monitoring.org	irc://irc.oftc.net/	#89,430		English
11	project-osrm.org	irc://irc.oftc.net/	#103,604	Germany	English
12	tinycorelinux.net	irc://irc.freenode.net/tinycorelinux	#129,764	Germany	English
13	hard-light.net	irc://irc.esper.net/hard-light irc://irc.esper.net/BP irc://irc.esper.net/Diaspora	#131,005		English
14	iqdb.org	irc://irc.rizon.net/iqdb	#140,170	France	English
15	haproxy.org	irc://irc.libera.chat/%23haproxy	#141,363	Netherlands	English
16	hackerspaces.org	irc://irc.libera.chat/hackerspaces irc://irc.libera.chat	#147,977	Germany	English
17	wiki.osgeo.org	irc://irc.libera.chat/osgeo		United States	English
18	micropython.org	irc://freenode/micropython	#162,137	Australia	English
19	rohitab.com	irc://irc.rohitab.com:6667/	#166,930		American English
20	puella-magi.net	irc://irc.rizon.net/madoka	#177,978	Japan	English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use IRC:

are located in the United States
have content in English
use the .org domain extension
fall into the Software/Hardware category.

🌎 Countries📢 Languages⭐ TLDs🗃️ Domain Categories

Most of the sites using IRC are from the United States, Germany, and France.

Most IRC users speak English, German, or French.

The IRC instant messaging app is especially popular on .org, .net, and .com top-level domains.

The primary market segments for websites utilizing IRC include software and hardware, games, and blogs and wiki.

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best IRC alternatives.

Rank	Name
1	WhatsApp Menlo Park, California, United States An instant messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Meta. Free
2	Telegram Dubai, United Arab Emirates A cloud-based messaging app for mobile and desktop platforms focused on security, speed, and privacy. Free$$$
3	Messenger Menlo Park, California, United States An instant messaging service developed by Meta, available on Android, iOS, and web platforms. Free
4	Line Tokyo, Japan A Japanese instant messaging and social networking app often described as a super-app because it integrates services such as a digital wallet, news feed, digital comics, media streaming, and shopping. Free
24	XMPP Parker, Colorado, United States A set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, and collaboration.