Chatuino is a Twitch chat client gives you a native experience without the browser overhead.
It handles multiple accounts, displays emotes directly in supported terminals, and stays out of your way.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multiple accounts with easy switching.
- Join any number of chats simultaneously.
- Anonymous lurking without an account.
- Emotes rendered in-terminal (Kitty, Ghostty).
- 7TV and BTTV emote support.
- Tab completion for emotes and usernames.
- User inspect mode for viewing chat history per user.
- Mention notifications and live alerts in dedicated tabs.
- Message search and local chat logging.
- Moderator tools with quick timeout shortcuts.
- Custom commands with templating support.
- Theming and configurable keybinds.
- Self-hostable server component.
Website: github.com/julez-dev/chatuino
Support:
Developer: julez
License: MIT License

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