Weechat
Fast, light and extensible chat client.
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Still maintained? Yes: 430 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v4.10.1 (Sep 2026).
At a glance
Weechat quick facts
- Health score
- 94/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 3,418
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v4.10.1, Sep 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Weechat
In its own words
The project's README opens: "WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a free chat client, fast and light, designed for many operating systems. It is highly customizable and extensible with scripts."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Weechat scores 94/100, #1 of 11 in Communication - IRC: 430 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v4.10.1, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 3,418 stars add 14.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 5.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
430 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v4.10.1 released 2 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 14.1 / 20
3.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 430
- Last 90 days
- 898
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 11 tools in Communication - IRC by health , just above InspIRCd (#2) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C, Docker, deb |
| Latest release | v4.10.1 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 3,418 |
| Open issues | 351 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | weechat/weechat ↗ |
Weechat vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Weechat (Communication - IRC), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weechat (this tool) | 94 | 3.4k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| InspIRCd | 93 | 1.4k | GPL-2.0 | 6 days ago |
| Ergo | 86 | 3.4k | MIT | 8 days ago |
| The Lounge | 85 | 6.4k | MIT | yesterday |
| ZNC | 58 | 2.1k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| UnrealIRCd | 56 | 527 | GPL-2.0 | 7 days ago |
Weechat: common questions
Is Weechat still maintained?
Weechat had 430 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v4.10.1, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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