Textual is the world’s most popular application for interacting with Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms on macOS. Textual protects your privacy by leveraging widely accepted, proven technologies such as Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) to ensure that the only people reading your conversations are those that you intend to.
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- Features
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- Whats new?
- Address Book for tracking when friends are online & offline
- Auto-completion for nicknames, commands, and channels
- Bold, color, italic, and underline text formatting
- Built-in support for converting text emoticons to emojis
- Growl and native Notification Center support
- Inline media embedding (Show images inline with chat)
- Inline nickname colorization
- Per-channel notification controls
- Powerful, customizable, rule-based ignore matching
- Powerful filters that can perform commands in response to input
- Powerful ZNC integration for power users
- Quick navigation using fuzzy searching
- The rich array of keyboard shortcuts
- SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP proxy support (with or without SSL)
- Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
- Support for sending self-signed certificates for authentication
- Support for validating and specifying trust for untrusted certificates
- Viewing multiple channels at the same time
- …and much, much more!
What's New in Version 7.2.7
- Added M1 Macs to list of models for the sysinfo command.
- macOS Sierra (10.12) is now the minimum version of macOS required.
- Chat filters can now be duplicated by control clicking one that already exists.
- Chat filters can now be limited based on how long its been since a user joined a channel.
- Modified list of networks to include Libera Chat.
- Libera Chat is now the home of the support channel and can be reached through the Help menu.
- The default maximum nickname length has been changed to 31 characters from 9 characters to accommodate servers that don’t advertise a specific limit.
- Modified the command query to have optional second argument which can be a message to send.
- Modified the commands amsg and ame no longer increment the unread count of channels.
- The Preferences window has been enlarged to accommodate system-wide changes on macOS Big Sur.
- The mechanics that power the User List have been reworked to hopefully provide better reliability.
Older versions & Compatibility
Running macOS Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, or Ventura? Download tested builds for Intel and Apple Silicon.
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7.2.7 LatestOct 16, 2026 · 12.6 MB · Universal
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