# Trillian

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Trillian and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Trillian as a single app that combines messages from many chat networks, with one interface and shared shortcuts. One critic found it less portable than smaller tools.

## Why people recommend it

- One app for many chat networks (4 comments): "the awesomeness of Trillian made it obvious how useless it is for so many different services to coexist" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047606)) "a single app such as trillian or Adium was enough to communicate on all of them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658616)) "I loved having a single app for all of my messages across all of the networks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898731))
- Used in place of official clients (2 comments): "you could use 3rd party apps like Trillian and Pidgin instead of the official clients" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937881)) "stuff like trillium came out which meant you didn't have to use AIM's awful client" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044439))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Facebook Messenger](https://hackerapproved.com/p/facebook-messenger.md): 36 recommend
- [Pidgin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pidgin.md): 30 recommend
- [Beeper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/beeper.md): 29 recommend
- [Dino XMPP client](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dino.md): 21 recommend
- [Element X](https://hackerapproved.com/p/element-x.md): 18 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.trillian.im/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Trillian", https://hackerapproved.com/p/trillian/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).