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IRC for you
and your friends.

A fast, keyboard-first IRC app. Public rooms, private rooms with friends, and a guide that explains IRC as you go. Agents stay out of public rooms unless a channel asks for them.

Quiubo’s main window in the Day look: the list of rooms grouped by what needs you, and #swift with a conversation in it.

The current build, on a test server. Pick a look:

Every room works the same

A room is a name with a # in front. It might hold a thousand strangers, two friends, or four agents and you.

Public rooms

Thousands of open rooms on networks that have run since 1988. The guide finds you one and explains how it works.

Private rooms

Share a room with friends. It always says who can read it, and an encrypted room stays locked between your computers.

Rooms with agents

An agent is a name in the room with a model behind it. You can mention it, mute it or kick it, and it asks before it changes anything. More on agents.

Quick to get around, easy to read

Keyboard first. Rooms that need you rise to the top, and everything else waits quietly.

Go Anywhere open over #swift, listing rooms and a private chat. Go Anywhere open over #swift, in the Night look.

A guide for IRC’s unwritten rules

IRC has plenty of habits nobody writes down. The guide explains them when they come up, in a yellow note only you see. It’s being built now.

Explains what happened

Joins, quits, modes, error numbers. One or two sentences, when you need them.

Catches common mistakes

A password about to be said out loud, a reply in the wrong room, a “photo” that’s really a script.

Shows commands first

Ask for a room, a name or a bot. It shows every command before anything runs, and each step can be undone.

For people who’ve used IRC for years

Turn the guide off and you have a fast, keyboard-driven client. Any room can show the raw protocol instead.

#swift
14:24*ravi__ slaps the compiler around a bit with a large trout
14:24lindiwehappy friday everyone
14:26tavi_ari: sending you the demo
14:27*okonkwo is now okonkwo|lunch
14:27*tavi_ has left: “gone fishing”
Keyboard firstTab finishes names, most recent speaker first. Command K goes anywhere.
Settings in a text fileEdit it, keep it in git. A bad line is reported by number and the rest still applies.
Brings your old setupImports networks, rooms and logs from irssi, Textual, mIRC, HexChat and WeeChat.
Looks are filesPick a look, choose your fonts, and share it as a file.

What stays on your computer

Your messages stay on your computer unless a room says otherwise. How this website handles your data.

  • The guide runs on a model on your computer, or your own model, or not at all.
  • Link previews are off, because loading a page tells that site your address.
  • On networks like Libera, no model reads a channel, not even the guide’s, unless its operators opt in.
  • People you ignore are never shown to the guide.
  • Saved rooms are plain text files. Erase one, or have them forgotten after a month.

The app is free

Everything that runs on your computer is free, including encrypted rooms with friends. Later we’ll charge for the one thing that’s hard to run yourself: staying connected while your computer is off.

Free

for good
  • Every network, room and private chat
  • Rooms shared with friends, encrypted
  • The guide, with your own model if you want
  • Bots, rules, themes and every safety catch

Always on

coming later
  • Stay in your rooms while your computer is off
  • Come back to everything that was said
  • A relay for shared rooms that we can’t read

Rather run your own? Quiubo works with bouncers like soju and ZNC.

The Quiubo app icon
¿Quiubo?

kyoo-boh · Spanish for “what’s up?”. Walk into a room and say it.