HexChat is a discontinued Internet Relay Chat client and is a fork of XChat.

[2][3] The client runs on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems,[2] and many Linux distributions include packages in their repositories.

[4] The XChat-WDK (XChat Windows Driver Kit) project started in 2010 and was originally Windows-only.

The project's original goal was to merge itself with XChat, but evolved from just fixing Windows bugs to adding new features.

[5] The project was discontinued in early 2024, citing lack of maintainer availability.