repartee

A modern terminal IRC client built with Ratatui, Tokio, and Rust. Inspired by irssi, designed for the future.

Demo

TUI (left) | Mobile web (center) | Desktop web (right) — 1:1 state sync across all interfaces.

Features

Full IRC Protocol

Channels, queries, CTCP, SASL, TLS, channel modes, ban lists — the complete IRC experience.

irssi-style Navigation

Esc+1–9 window switching, /commands, aliases. If you know irssi, you already know repartee.

Mouse Support

Click buffers and nicks, drag to resize side panels. Terminal client, modern interaction.

Netsplit Detection

Batches join/part floods into single events so your scrollback stays readable.

Flood Protection

Blocks CTCP spam and nick-change floods from botnets automatically.

Persistent Logging

SQLite with optional AES-256-GCM encryption and FTS5 full-text search across all logs.

Nick Coloring

Deterministic per-nick colors (WeeChat-style). HSL hue wheel for truecolor, 256-color and 16-color fallbacks. Auto-detected terminal capability, configurable saturation/lightness.

Theming

irssi-compatible format strings with 24-bit color support and custom abstracts.

Lua Scripting

Lua 5.4 scripts with an event bus, custom commands, and full IRC/state access.

Spell Checking

Multilingual inline spell checking with Hunspell dictionaries and a 7,400-word computing/IT dictionary. Replace and highlight modes, Tab cycles suggestions.

IRCv3 Capabilities

Full IRCv3 suite: server-time, echo-message, away-notify, account tags, BATCH netsplit grouping, SASL SCRAM-SHA-256, and more.

Extended Bans

WHOX account tracking and extban support — ban by account name with /ban -a accountname.

Web Frontend

Built-in HTTPS web UI with mobile support. Real-time bidirectional sync with the terminal — switch buffers, send messages, see nick changes live.

DCC CHAT

Direct client-to-client messaging with active and passive (reverse) connections, auto-accept masks, and nick tracking.

Embedded Shell

Full PTY terminal inside Repartee — run vim, btop, irssi, or any command without leaving the client. Available in TUI and web (beamterm WebGL2 renderer with Nerd Font, mouse selection, font resize).

Detach & Reattach

Detach from your terminal and reattach later — IRC connections stay alive. Like tmux, built in.

Single Binary

Compiles to a ~15MB standalone executable with WASM web frontend bundled. Zero runtime dependencies.

Written in Rust

Memory-safe, zero-cost abstractions, fearless concurrency. Built on tokio async runtime.

Quick Install

cargo install repartee
repartee

That's it. No build steps, no configuration required. Connect to a server with /server add and you're chatting.

New to repartee? Start with the Installation guide.