Yahoo Unix/Linux & Mac Chat Clients

This is not a list of recommended clients, nor am I saying all these clients are safe to use. I made this as a list of all Unix/Linux & Mac chat clients I could find. As with any program you download and use you are doing so at your own risk.

Unix/Linux Clients

YahELite by Deepthawt Runs on WINE.

Yahmini by Deepthawt Comes with source code.

Gyach by buy_more_pepsi Gyach is a GTK+ based Yahoo! Chat client.

Gyach Advanced by Phrozensmoke

GYach Enhanced in a greatly improved version of the original GYach. It is an unofficial 'fork' of the GYach project.

Curfloo by jfcinnovations

Curfloo is a console CLI/curses based chat client for the Yahoo Chat system.

Curphoo by the_cpu_fan

It doesn't run on windows. It is hard to install. It doesn't have buttons. It doesn't support smileys. It doesn't support fonts.

Magnesium maintained by Jory Pratt

Magnesium was originally written by Alex Mercader and is just Curphoo (which he also wrote) with a GTK gui. Can run on windows. It is now maintained by Jory Pratt.

Zinc

What is Zinc? Zinc stands for Zinc Is Not Cur(fl|ph)oo. Zinc is a Yahoo! chat client for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Zinc is written in Python and released under GPL. Zinc originally started out as a code fork of Curphoo 0.3.7 but it has been completely rewritten since then. Currently there is "apparently" absolutely no Curphoo or Curfloo source code in Zinc.

ncchat by ctrl_v_esc ncchat is a Yahoo chat client for Linux written in C/Ncurses.

GAIM

Gaim is a messenger program that can be used to log onto MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber and more. It will also supports Yahoo chat.

Mac Clients

Crappy Chat by Erik A mac client by the writer of Ychat

Charla by Peter Ammon

Charla allows you to connect to the Yahoo! Chat boards, in the same way that Yahoo! Messenger for Windows provides.

ChitChat by GostCoder

ChitChat is a Yahoo! Chat client. It enables the user to communicate with others over the global Yahoo! Chat network using an interface that should be comfortable for anyone who has used AOL Instant Messenger or a similar service.

Zinc

What is Zinc? Zinc stands for Zinc Is Not Cur(fl|ph)oo. Zinc is a Yahoo! chat client for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Zinc is written in Python and released under GPL. Zinc originally started out as a code fork of Curphoo 0.3.7 but it has been completely rewritten since then. Currently there is absolutely no Curphoo or Curfloo source code in Zinc.