Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as:

• audio chat
• file transfers
• group chats
• chat rooms
• buddy icons
• multiple simultaneous connections to the same network
• server-side contact importing
• typing notification
• direct connection (AIM)
• proxy support
• encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ)
• SMS support, and privacy settings

Without stealing your home page and with no other included software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique functionality such as:

• contact message history
• a powerful skinning language
• tabbed messaging
• global status changes (set all networks away at once)
• Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration)
• contact alerts
• an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client
• docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications