Miranda IM
Shares rank 44 of 48 messaging apps by recommenders
People recommend Miranda IM as a small, portable multi-protocol chat client that is highly customizable with plugins, settings and themes.
People recommend Miranda IM as a small, portable multi-protocol chat client that is highly customizable with plugins, settings and themes.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Highly customizable with plugins and themes
“Beautiful app with lots of plugins, and lot of settings and themes to customize it for yourself.”
Comment from 17 Feb 2026 in “Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026” “I long to bring this back in a Miranda-IM way (super customizable)”
Comment from 11 Oct 2026 in “IRCv3” “were also fully customizable”
Comment from 2 Jul 2026 in “Winamp Skin Museum”
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All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I long to bring this back in a Miranda-IM way (super customizable)”
“It was tiny and portable (unlike Trillian) and could connect to pretty much every popular messaging service”
“most of us (me also) used ready builds, which was also awesome”
“were also fully customizable”
“Beautiful app with lots of plugins, and lot of settings and themes to customize it for yourself.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.