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.

Textual also includes...
* 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
* 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!

Compatibility: OS X 10.9.5 or later 64-bit
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