YahELite is an unofficial, free, highly efficient and comfortable anti-SPAM chat client that filters out spam bots, clone bots, abusive PMs, flood text, repeated postings and other forms of spam. It also protects you from 'boot codes', 'sound bombs' and other mischief.
Share your music and files with friends with CheetaChat's user-friendly file transfer! use CheetaChat's many expressive emotions or create your own for all to see and share; custom graphical avatars, socials, ascii art and more.
Your Chat (YChat) is a fully-featured 3rd party client for the Yahoo! Chat system(s). YChat is a stand-alone program, so it does not require the use of a browser. YChat was created on a 486/66sx2 computer with 24mb RAM, so in other words, it was developed on a slow computer and made for speed. It is always being modified to meet user's needs/wants and to better support Yahoo! Chat features and functions.
A messenger/chat program written in Delphi with many features.
YAM (Yet Another Messenger) is the only true Yahoo messenger replacement. It acts just like a messenger but you can also enter chat with it. Like YahELite it has it's own HTTP server for sharing files and it supports the displaying of both Cheeta's and Y!Mlite's avatars in chat.
A promising chat client written in VB. Has all the usual features like voice, smileys and so forth.
YaZak Chat Client. Capitals in UserNames (YCHT) Un-Bootable Almost, All 64 Yahoo Faces and Voice in PMs Gossip chat, Alerts Time stamped & listed, Fe/Male Icons,Client Id's, AutoCorrect, Symbols, Emote Editor, WEB Cam View.
Written in Delphi (a programming language) it supports YMSG and Chat2.
Another Delphi client that also allows the user to run scripts
A new contender. Coded in VB6 and based on the source code for an old version of CheetaChat. Has working voice and spam filters.
Has working voice.
Yahoo's messenger now has a built in chat client. To be honest it sucks big time. The maximum font size is set to high, and it is so full of exploits that people with no lives find it amusing to make programs that allow users to boot or otherwise annoy people chatting thru messenger. My advice is get a decent chat client like those preceding this one and just use messenger for talking to your friends and sharing files. Yahoo Messenger now has IMViroments which are various and often interactive backgrounds for use in IM's ( NOT pm's )
Possibly the worlds smallest Yahoo chat client yahmini (also by the author of YahELite ) weighs in at 12KB bytes and can also display in color or log chat text to a file. It exists mainly as a curiosity because of its small size and it includes 'C' source code which might be interesting if you are a programmer(ess).
YPico is astonishingly complete in an almost negligible 16.5KB, but provides, colors, fonts, userlist, ignore list, resizable windows, spam filters, pm, away, goto, think, speak, invite, join, and a full room listing for all the chat rooms. All that in 16.5KB! including a pair of icons, help, info a menu and a input history, it can even save your settings for next time
Same as above but with a RichEdit control for colored chat text 17KB
Windows version of this popular chat client for unix style OS's.
ChitChat is a Yahoo! Chat client. It enables the user to communicate with others over the global Yahoo! Chat network using an interface that should be comfortable for anyone who has used AOL Instant Messenger or a similar service.
Trillian is a multi messenger. It can connect to AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC, Yahoo! and Jabber all at the same time. With the release of Trillian 3 it now also supports yahoo chat but in a limited way.
Gaim is a messenger program that can be used to log onto MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber and more. It will also supports Yahoo chat.
An open source Visual Basic chat client with support for smileys and webcam.
One of the new batch of Visual Basic clients thats just
been released. The official blurb says " It will login YMSG and YCHT at the
same time, so it will have the full benefits of the combination of YMSG, with
IM's, buddy lists, and away messages and such, and YCHT's unbootability."
See above for details. Runs on WINE.
See above for details. Comes with source code.
Gyach is a GTK+ based Yahoo! Chat client.
GYach Enhanced in a greatly improved version of the original GYach. It is an unofficial 'fork' of the GYach project.
Curfloo is a console CLI/curses based chat client for the Yahoo Chat system.
It doesn't run on windows. It is hard to install. It doesn't have buttons. It doesn't support smileys. It doesn't support fonts.
Magnesium was originally written by Alex Mercader and is just Curphoo (which he also wrote) with a GTK gui. Can run on windows. It is now maintained by Jory Pratt.
What is Zinc? Zinc stands for Zinc Is Not Cur(fl|ph)oo. Zinc is a Yahoo! chat client for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Zinc is written in Python and released under GPL. Zinc originally started out as a code fork of Curphoo 0.3.7 but it has been completely rewritten since then. Currently there is "apparently" absolutely no Curphoo or Curfloo source code in Zinc.
ncchat is a Yahoo chat client for Linux written in C/Ncurses.
Gaim is a messenger program that can be used to log onto
MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber and more. It will also supports Yahoo chat.
A mac client by the writer of Ychat
Charla allows you to connect to the Yahoo! Chat boards, in the same way that Yahoo! Messenger for Windows provides.
ChitChat is a Yahoo! Chat client. It enables the user to communicate with others over the global Yahoo! Chat network using an interface that should be comfortable for anyone who has used AOL Instant Messenger or a similar service.
What is Zinc? Zinc stands for Zinc Is Not Cur(fl|ph)oo.
Zinc is a Yahoo! chat client for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Zinc is
written in Python and released under GPL. Zinc originally started out as a
code fork of Curphoo 0.3.7 but it has been completely rewritten since then.
Currently there is absolutely no Curphoo or Curfloo source code in Zinc.