Adium

List of services supported by Adium

No service can talk to all services. In order to talk to contact X, you must have an account on the same service as contact X, or on any compatible service. This page lists all services supported by Adium, along with information on which other services that service can talk to. If we don't give a list of services, that means that the service can only talk to itself (for example, QQ users can only talk to other QQ users).

Some Jabber servers (mostly private ones) allow chats with proprietary services such as AIM, MSN, and Yahoo! via a mechanism called Jabber transports. In Adium, you should be able to chat through transports transparently (that is, it should work just like chatting with users who actually are on the same server). However, you will need to contact the administrator of your Jabber server to find out what services it has transports for. The public servers for Jabber.org and Google Talk do not support transports.

Icons shown here are from the Aqua service-icon pack, which is the default as of Adium 1.0 and later. Other service icon packs probably have different icons for these services. Hopefully, they should look close enough to the Aqua icons that you'll recognize them nonetheless.

Most popular services

AIM's icon is a yellow running-man figure.

AIM is AOL Instant Messenger. AIM users can talk to MobileMe (formerly known as .Mac) and ICQ users.

MSN's icon is a multi-colored butterfly.

MSN is Microsoft Network, now called Windows Live Messenger.

Yahoo!'s icon is a red capital Y.

Yahoo! Messenger.

Google Talk's icon is a speech balloon with the word “talk” inside it; the letters in the word “talk” are blue, red, yellow, and green, in that order.

Google Talk is Google's Jabber-based service. GTalk users can talk to Jabber, LiveJournal, and Gizmo users.

ICQ's icon is a green flower with one red petal.

ICQ is a network that was bought by AOL and integrated with AIM. ICQ users can talk to AIM and MobileMe users.

Jabber's icon is an incandescent light-bulb.

Jabber is a service based on the open XMPP protocol. Jabber users can talk to GTalk, LiveJournal, and Gizmo users.

.Mac's icon is a blue globe with white paths criss-crossing on its surface.

MobileMe is Apple's bundle of online services, including AIM-compatible instant-messaging. MobileMe users can talk to AIM and ICQ users.

Bonjour's icon is three orange electrons in a perpetual trefoil path, which is traced in gray.

Bonjour is a local-network service that uses XMPP for chat. Unlike most services, you don't need to sign up anywhere to use Bonjour messaging; you only need a local network.

Less-popular services

LiveJournal's icon is a blue pencil tracing a blue inward spiral in midair.

LiveJournal is Six Apart's blogging service, with instant-messaging based on Jabber. LiveJournal users can talk to Jabber, GTalk, and Gizmo users.

Gadu-Gadu's icon is a yellow smiley-face inside a red gear.

Gadu-Gadu is a popular service in Poland.

Groupwise's icon is a blue speech balloon with a human figure inside it, with a red N on the figure's front.

Groupwise is Novell's instant-messaging service for corporate networks.

QQ's icon is a penguin wearing a red scarf.

Tencent QQ is a popular service in China.

Sametime's icon is a green figure (an apparent cousin of AIM's running man) with its arms in the air.

Lotus Sametime is IBM's instant-messaging service for corporate networks.

SIP's icon is the word “SIP”.

SIP/SIMPLE is an open protocol primarily used for audio chat, though audio chat is not supported in Adium yet.

Zephyr's icon is a stylized ‘Z’.

Zephyr is MIT's instant-messaging service.