MyChat

MyChat offers a good communication solution for office environments. It lets you exchange messages over your local networks, but it is capable of delivering them over the web as well. The application supports text, voice and video chat and it provides a good amount of useful features. If you want to keep communications to your internal network, this tool will satisfy your needs.

The software is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It comes in a small package and it can be installed in under a minute. It doesn't require any special tools or services and you don't have to sacrifice too many resources. Also, the software is offered completely free of charge.

When you launch MyChat for the first time, a wizard will help you set everything up. You can let the wizard search your network for available servers or you can specify one yourself. Another option is to connect to an online server and create your own channels. What makes MyChat interesting is the fact that you can use it on your local network, but you can still use its web chat functionality, which can be incorporated on a website. This allows customers from the outside to communicate with employees on the inside.

In terms of appearance, MyChat is not too different from traditional IRC applications. When you connect to a channel, you will find all other participants in a list, on the left side of the interface and you can chat in public, in the larger area on the right. Of course, you can also chat with people in private, add them to your contacts list, view their details and much more.

When it comes to chatting with people, regardless if it's in public or private, you can add various emoticons in the conversation, insert preset phrases, post files, images, take screenshots and perform other actions. When chatting with someone in private, you can also make use of MyChat's voice and video call capabilities.

MyChat can satisfy all your needs when it comes to communicating with other people on your local network.