Keyboard first. Open source. Unmistakably IRC.
The speed and familiarity of irssi, with the capabilities of a modern IRC client. Connect to your networks, switch between terminal and browser, and make the experience your own.
Leave the terminal. Keep the conversation.Built-in detach & attach keeps your IRC connections alive. Pick up where you left off — without tmux or screen.
cargo install --locked repartee30+ IRCv3 capabilities, with native Soju and Lurker support. Your networks, in one workspace.
A built-in web UI with live, bidirectional 1:1 sync. One session, on desktop and mobile.
RPE2E brings end-to-end encryption to your IRC conversations, directly in the client.
Extend Repartee with Lua 5.4 scripts. A complete terminal client and web UI in one ~24 MB binary.
Built-in settings
No hand-editing config files required. A searchable settings interface opens on top of your chat and writes straight to ~/.repartee/config.toml.
/configOpen settings over a live channel, add or edit servers and switch between networks with Ctrl+←/→. Changes apply as soon as you save.
/wizardTen clear categories, from appearance and notifications to E2E encryption and translation. Press Ctrl+F to find any setting by name.
Protocol
RPE2E is Repartee End-to-End: a compact IRC-oriented protocol that adds end-to-end encryption for channels and private messages without changing the transport. repartee ships the native implementation, and matching scripts are available for WeeChat and irssi-compatible clients including erssi. erssi project.
The protocol page documents wire identifiers, CTCP handshake frames, chunk format, AAD layout, the recipient-keyed per-direction DM context, replay window, trust model, and current v1 security tradeoffs directly from the implementation.
The same RPE2E v1 wire format is implemented in repartee plus companion scripts for WeeChat and irssi/erssi, so encrypted conversations can work across clients.
The protocol page also links to the official scripts tree and lists what is required to run the Python and Perl clients correctly.
A robust foundation for a reliable client
Terminal-first, zero-compromise. No Electron, no heavy runtime. The TUI is the primary interface.
Native Soju and Lurker integration: network discovery, BOUNCER BIND, CHATHISTORY TARGETS, read-marker sync, /bsearch, /bmeta, /bcert, WebPush, and FILEHOST uploads.
Translate incoming and outgoing IRC conversations per buffer across 8 languages, with multi-provider fallbacks, privacy masking, quality gates, and a channel wizard.
Built-in HTTPS web UI with mobile support, shared /wizard settings panel, WebPush notifications, and real-time 1:1 terminal sync.
server-time, echo-message, labeled-response, CHATHISTORY, read-marker, message-redaction, account-registration, extended-monitor, setname, +typing, and more.
Channels, queries, CTCP, TLS, themed WHOIS, MONITOR nick watching, and modern SASL including OAUTHBEARER, SCRAM-SHA-1/256/512, EXTERNAL, and ECDSA.
Alt+1–9 window switching, Alt+A unread jump, /bind custom key sequences, /bare selection mode, and /wizard settings UI.
Lua 5.4 scripts with an event bus, custom commands, persistent per-script settings, and full IRC/state access.
CHATHISTORY TARGETS discovery, scrollback paging, automatic reconnect gap-fill, read-marker sync, and /bsearch server-side search.
SQLite with optional AES-256-GCM encryption and FTS5 full-text search across all logs.
irssi-compatible format strings with true color support. Custom abstracts and color schemes.
Popup and inline chat image thumbnails (`image_preview.inline`) with Kitty, iTerm2, Sixel, and Halfblocks protocols.
Full PTY terminal inside Repartee — run vim, btop, or any command without leaving the client.
Detach from your terminal and reattach later — IRC connections stay alive. Like tmux, built in.
The ratified IRCv3 +typing tag: see who is composing, in both the TUI status line and the web UI. Sending is toggleable per channel and query.
Built-in shr.al-compatible client. Long URLs you send and receive are shortened inline, with an [host] hint and a phishing-aware host extractor.
183 built-in GG7 :name: emotes render inline in the TUI and web, with emote & emoji pickers (Ctrl+G) and tab-completion.
Multilingual inline checking with Hunspell dictionaries and a 7,400-word IT dictionary.
Direct client-to-client messaging with active and passive connections, auto-accept masks.
Batches join/part floods into single events so your scrollback stays readable.
Blocks CTCP spam and nick-change floods automatically, and honors provider SAFERATE outbound limits.
WHOX account tracking and extban support — ban by account name with /ban -a.
Compiles to a ~24MB standalone executable with WASM web frontend bundled.
Get up and running in seconds. No build steps, no configuration required.
Install from crates.io
cargo install --locked reparteeConfig stored at ~/.repartee/config.toml