The Lounge: your favourite operating systems in one place

What is The Lounge?

The Lounge is a self-hosted web IRC client for the modern world.

In private mode, The Lounge acts like a bouncer and a client combined, in order to offer an experience similar to other modern chat applications outside the IRC world. Users can then access and resume their session without being disconnected from their channels.

Modern features

Push notifications, link previews, file uploads, and more bring IRC to the 21st century.

Always connected

Remain connected to IRC servers while you are offline. Forget about bouncers. Resume where you left off on any device.

Responsive interface

The client works smoothly on every desktop, smartphone and tablet.

Free and open-source

The Lounge is open source and licensed under the MIT license.

Cross platform

It doesn’t matter what OS you use. The Lounge just works wherever Node.js runs.

Multi-user support

Supports multiple user accounts. Share your server with your friends!

Find out more here.