gloom

A modern TUI IRC client for professional lurkers. Haunt IRC from your terminal.

Features

• Native terminal graphics: image support in Ghostty and Kitty.
• Adaptive layouts: resizable panes that adapt to your terminal needs.
• Lightweight: a focused, single-server client with bounded scrollback and network queues.
• Privacy: no logs by default and certificate-verified TLS connections.
• Themes: switch between light and dark themes.

Gloom is in active development, expect lots of changes over the coming months.

Build

Requires Go 1.27 or later.

go install github.com/gloomafk/gloom/cmd/gloom@latest

or

git clone https://github.com/gloomafk/gloom.git
cd gloom
go build -o gloom ./cmd/gloom
./gloom -server irc.gloom.im -port 6697 -tls -nick yournick

Usage

gloom -server HOST [-port PORT] [-tls] [-nick NICK] [-pass PASSWORD]
      [-sasl-user ACCOUNT -sasl-pass PASSWORD [-sasl-mech PLAIN]]

License

Licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Copyright (c) 2026-present Gloom