ICQ Alternatives

Dialog Messenger is a corporate messenger for teamwork and secure communication.

Imo is a free communication platform used by over 200 million people across the globe. Imo has clients for both desktop and mobile devices and lets you video chat with family and friends and meet new friends and share stories on the ImoZone. Imo can handle audio and video calls no matter if they are abroad or not.

Built for teams, Google Chat provides direct message communication and team chat rooms. Google Chat is an istant messaging application developed by Google for mobile Android and iOS devices, and the web. Google Chat integrates with the gSuite offering of tools such as Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Keep and more, allowing you to stay productive with your team, in the Google ecosystem.

With Google Hangouts, you can keep in touch with through chat, video or voice calls in person or as a group. Google Hangouts is a cross-platform messaging app developed by Google that is available for Android, Chrome OS, iOS, Google Chrome or any browser that is compatible with Google Chrome Extensions.

Threema is a messenger application that puts security and privacy first. The application is designed to generate as little user data as possible. The service is fully GDPR-compliant and the company has its own servers hosted in Switzerland. With Threema you can keep in touch with friends, family and co-workers while enjoying privacy and rest assured that you personal data is not commoditized.

WeChat connects a billion people with voice calls, video calls, photo sharing, chats and payments. The multi-purpose application is developed by the Chinese company Tencent and is and in China, it is described as "the app for everything". WeChat is primarily developed for the mobile consumer, but is also avalible on desktop and in the browser.

Adium is a free and open source instant messaging client for macOS. Adium can connect to to common messaging services and networks such as AIM, XMPP (Jabber), ICQ, Google Talk, IRC and more.

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Facebook Messenger is a free standalone chat application that is well integrated with the social network, Facebook. With Facebook Messenger you can stay in contact with friends and family, and other contacts from Facebook. The applicaiton has a ton of built-in features that make communication fun and engaging. Send images, gifs, video messages, voice notes, and stickers or share content from around the web. Facebook Messenger automatically syncs with your Facebook contacts without the need of adding phone numbers or identification manually.

Viber is a cross-platform voice over IP application that allow people to make free and secure calls and messages to anyone, anywhere. With Viber, you can create group chats and make group calls, send stickers and emojis over chats that are 100% synced between devices, including 1-tap transfer of calls. Viber is available for free on Android, iOS, macOS, Linux and Windows.

Pidgin is a chat application which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Pidgin is developed and released fully free and open-source and provides a plugin architecture that allow anyone to build extensions and connections to new networks and third-party services.