Miranda NG
Shares rank 34 of 48 messaging apps by recommenders
Free, lightweight instant messaging client that one recommender praised for its skins and low memory use; the evidence is thin, and one critic reports it becomes unresponsive.
Free, lightweight instant messaging client that one recommender praised for its skins and low memory use; the evidence is thin, and one critic reports it becomes unresponsive.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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Other messaging apps people recommend
The four most recommended other messaging apps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 48 messaging apps, rankedWhat people said
9 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Miranda NG, Psi, Gajim, and Pidgin all tend to become unresponsive”
“Haskell was still getting beyond Miranda”
“you had a working enterprise chatter in no time”
“Miranda NG was able to do the same functionality with cool skins and just 30 megs of ram”
“I rewrote a lot of my previous Haskell solutions to Advent of Code puzzles with it, and liked it so much”
“I really loved Miranda back when I learned about it.”
“was sad that it was a paid product”
“I can unblock it from my phone in 5 seconds instead of rejecting a PR based on a wrong guess.”
“Miranda as my language of choice”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.