ClicksAndWhistles is a free IRC client for Windows.

• Multiple server connections and multiple “ identities” allowing you to have different nicknames on different servers.
• Unicode (UTF-8) support.
• Channel favourite list with configurable key press shortcuts.
• User groups (buddy lists) and user highlighting allowing you to associate different colours with different users.
• Keywords letting you know when somebody has mentioned something of interest to you or perhaps has mentioned your nickname. Optionally play a sound when a keyword appears.
• Support for emoticons including animated GIFs. Optionally play a sound when an emoticon appears.
• Two text display modes (“ normal” or “ column” ).
• Configurable themes, image backgrounds, outline fonts, colour gradient effects.
• Text formatting (colours, bold/italic/underline).
• Different window modes (tabbed, “ place on desktop” and MDI).
• Minimize to tray with activity popup and sound event notifications.
• Full logging support including archiving and “ scrollback logs” (previous session history).
• File transfers (DCC SEND) and direct chat (DCC CHAT). Identd support.
• Secure (SSL) server support. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/).
• “ Connection scripts” (a simple list of commands to run once connected) and “ macros” (use one command to automatically run a series of other commands).
• Customizable message text.