Textual 5 is the best IRC application for OS X currently in the App Store

Textual 5 is an outstanding IRC application and has taken this hardcore IRC user from the past of terminal based IRC applications to the future of a well formed IRC client that allows me the flexability to customize my user interface with CSS and inline media. I’ve never been able to use a GUI client for more than 30 days but I started a few months ago with Textual and haven’t looked back. This new update works great and fixes the bugs I had encountered in the previous verison. The author and support team are responsive, helpful and willing to take the time to walk you through whatever you may find as an issue.

There are plenty of third party Styles and Add-On modules for this client and as it grows and develops I am sure more and more authors are going to start writing their own.

The one star reviews all seem to focus on an issue caused by an application rename in the App Store that is easily fixed by renaming the app or rebooting your computer. The developer has even put this in the release comments here in the store. More reviewers need to focus on resolving potential issues before reviewing software.

The authors continued dedication and quick release cycle prove that this is the one IRC application on and off the Mac App Store that is not a dead or halfway dead project. For this reason alone Textual is superb.

_dw about Textual 6