In this world of social media, we've got a lot of chat channels to keep track of. Whether you're checking your Twitter DMs, GChats (Google Talk), Facebook Messenger messages, or iMessages, you can have most of them in one place with a dedicated chat client. These are the best chat apps for Mac.
Messages
Apple's built-in chat client, Messages, makes it seamless for you to chat with anyone that has an iPhone, iPad, or Mac without any effort. You can add SMS and texts messaging from Android or Windows phones to Messages if you have Text Message Forwarding enabled. It gets better, though. Thanks to a little help from Jabber, you can use Messages for dozens of chat channels that use XMPP instant messaging. It's lost some of its universal appeal over the last few macOS updates, however. Messages no longer works with Facebook, AOL Instant Messenger, or Yahoo. It's also very difficult to get Messages to work with GChat (though not impossible).
- Free - It's already on your Mac!
At one point it re-created Facebook’s ‘Chat Heads’ feature How To Get Facebook-Style Chat Heads For Hangouts In Chrome How To Get Facebook-Style Chat Heads For Hangouts In Chrome Hangouts is a wonderful cross-platform messaging and video chat app, but this newest release straight from Google improves upon the app by offering Facebook-style 'Chat Heads' on Chrome. Google Duo is the new, simple video calling app that brings you face-to-face with all the people that matter most.
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Adium doesn't support Google's voice and video chat functionality on a Mac. (Just confirmed in the current version - 1.5.4b4.) For Google's voice and video chat functionality on a Mac, the only (non-VM) option I know is Google Chat within Gmail.
Adium
Adium is probably the most popular third-party chat client. You can connect it to AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, Twitter, MobileMe, IRC, Bonjour, Jabber, plus a few more. It's a great way to keep most (if not all) of your various chat clients in order. I personally don't like the interface of Adium, but sometimes function is more important than looks. Adium has a lot of little features that are really awesome, like initiating encrypted ORT chats, and file transfers. You can't get it in the Mac App Store, but it's free and open source and it's highly rated among Mac users.
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Trillian
Trillian is another popular chat client that brings together many of your messaging apps into one place, including AOL Instant Messenger, Facebook, Google Talk, ICQ, Olark, and Twitter. I much prefer Trillian's interface because it reminds me so much of the built-in Messages app. It is, however, slightly less feature-rich unless you go pro. You can get quite a few more business-facing features for about $2 per month. It's a seamless experience for Mac users and my personal favorite third-party client, but I don't use a lot of different chat channels in my daily life. I stick with Google Talk, Facebook, and Twitter. It's perfect for me.
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YakYak
I haven't personally used YakYak, but it's a big hit with Mac users that only want a Google Talk client. You may have noticed that GTalk compatibility with Messages in macOS High Sierra is difficult, to say the least. If you just want to be able to chat with your Google peeps with a dedicated window on your Mac, YakYak looks like the perfect option. You can upload images, group chat, and more. You have to install it from GitHub, but there are some fairly clear instructions on how to do so if you're saavy with your Mac. It's not a Chrome extension and doesn't rely on Chrome to work. So, if you're anti-Chrome, this apps is for you.
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How do you chat on Mac?
What is your preferred chat client for bringing together all of your various chat channels? Put your recommendations in the comments and I'll check them out.
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Are you a MAC user searching for a good chat application to communicate with your friends? If you have a MAC computer and want to voice or video chat with PC computer users, there are couples of good apps for free of cost. These apps are good for sharing files between with PC and MAC, multiple video chats same time.
These apps we listed here are free and capable to chat between Mac and Windows for an unlimited time without any cost.
WhatsApp
WhatsApp is the fastest growing messaging service in the world with active users near to one billion. Day by day the numbers of WhatsApp users are increasing and the most attractive thing to the users is that the developers are upgrading the app with nice additional features. WhatsApp is used for sending texts, images, videos etc. that can be sent via the data connection of the mobile phone without relying on the traditional SMS/text, MMS services along with the recently introduced voice call feature.
Download Link: Windows | Mac
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Skype
Google Chat App For Mac
Skype from Microsoft supports voice, video and text chat between the PC and MAC platforms. It supports up to 10 people group video chat at the same time for free of cost. Skype supports mobile platforms like iOS, Android, Blackberry etc. Skype supports group chats with Windows desktop, Mac, and Xbox One platforms.
Download Link: Windows | Mac
Viber
Viber for Mac and PC lets you send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users, on any device and network. Viber syncs your contacts, messages and call history with your mobile device. Viber allows to send Text, photo and sticker messages and offers full sync between your mobile and Mac. Viber connecting based on your phone number rather than user id. You need to download Viber into your Mobile phone and register with your number before start using on your MAC or PC.
Download Link: Windows | Mac
Google Chat App For Windows
Nimbuzz
Use Nimbuzz apps to connect with your Nimbuzz friends and all your friends across popular instant messaging – and social networks. You can share music, movies, and photos with your friends by simple drag and drop to the Nimbuzz chat window. Nimbuzz helps to connect with your friends on Nimbuzz, Facebook, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo and Google Talk.
Download Link: Windows | Mac
ooVoo
Google Chat
You can stay in touch with your friends and talk with other ooVoo members for an unlimited time. ooVoo offers up to twelve people to a free group video call. Like other apps, you can send text and instant messages to your friends with ooVoo, even while you’re video chatting.
Download Link: Windows | Mac
Trillian
Trillian automatically keeps all of your devices synchronized throughout the day, ensuring you’re always able to access conversation wherever you are with different devices. Trillian supports different chat networks, including Facebook, Skype, Google, MSN, AIM, ICQ, XMPP, Yahoo!, and more.
Download Link: Windows | Mac
Google Chat App For Computer
There are Facebook and Google Hangout chats, both are integrated with the browser. They don’t have any dedicated app for windows and mac. You need to login to Facebook or Google hangout to start to chat with your friends.