Name: Textual
Price: 7.99 $
Rating: 5 (7 reviews)

A well thought out IRC client, that has a simple intuitive interface. Well supported with quick response time for anyone with questions. Priced very well (with a suitable trial period) for anyone looking to explore one of the internet's classic protocols. Personally I found this client better suited to my needs than freeware Colloguy and I confidently purchased Textual on the first day of my trial.

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Version 6.0.1

Beautiful app. Actively being developed. Super clean interface. Buy it and support the future of this app.

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Version 5.2.10

IMHO the best IRC client on OS X. Good to see it's continually being updated while the other major IRC clients haven't been updated in over a year.

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Version 5.2.3

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Helmo-Hass

12 December 2015

i disagree
The best would mean it has all its implementations perfectly working.
Unfortunately this is Not the case.
it may be good looking and appealing, but many of the features it offers are incomplete and buggy.
Then compares to Colloquy which may occasionally crash its true. BUT ItS FREE. it lacks the most important feature when using file transfers = Resume. and only for that is a total no-go for me.
Now listing all the comparisons would be very long and time wasting, especially when reading comments about the good shining looking of an app, maybe the best option for these kind of consumers would be a pinball or a xmas tree, you won't chat with it but i'm sure you'll be happy.

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Best IRC Client I found. Better then Coloquy because more stable more descent design.

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Version 5.0

A stable, well supported and fully featured IRC app.

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Version 5.0

Nothing else compares!!!! Best IRC client available!!!! Developer updates app constantly and it's very stable and is loaded with tons of featurs and customizations!!!! I use it everyday, So 5 Stars

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Version 4.1.1

MisterE

18 December 2013

Version 4.0.1 on MAS now for a while. I guess they are not updating MU anymore either. :/

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Version 3.2.3

I gotta say I like Textual a lot, its cheap and does a good job as long as you don't need dcc. I don't think anyone still uses dcc. I am not sure if this is comparable to limechat as limechat is very basic. I switched from linkinus, which was a memory hog.

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Version 2.0.6

The homepage for Textual fails to mention that it is based on Limechat, which is both outstanding and costs nothing. Limechat is also actively developed. Trying a demo of Textual, I couldn't see any must-have feature in it (that isn't already in Limechat). I also found some users in the Textual IRC room to be either sarcastic or indifferent to my question of what Textual has that Limechat doesn't. Which I thought they would be eager to answer, seeing as they are selling a product. So my first interaction with them was not impressive.

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Version 2.0.1

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Damien`

17 March 2011

i'm sorry but i totally disagree with this review, i have both clients and textually by far has many more, if you don't care for scripts or features and just want inline images limechat is fine, if you want scripts, formatting options, conversation tracking, etc you will never find these on limechat, so really depends what you're looking for

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Neutralzone

13 March 2012

I'm sure Damien is correct about most of the features he listed, but I would disagree that formatting options are not available in LimeChat. I'm not a super technical user, but I was able to figure out how to edit the LimeChat CSS files to make a custom theme with formatting quite different than any of the bundled themes. I wouldn't be surprised if Textual moves many formatting options to the GUI, and the reasonable price makes Textual's improvements worth considering, it certainly looks a little nicer. But LimeChat is doing the job so far.

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Ochre

01 November 2013

Not sure what aspect of your experience has caused you to rate it only half a star. I think you've done that in a fit of pique. I'd encourage you to amend your rating, because it's certainly not a half-star app, whatever else it may or may not be.

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