3 Free Windows 8 Chat Apps
Here are 3 free Windows 8 chat apps that let you perform chatting right on your Windows 8 system. All these chat apps support most of the common messengers you use for carrying out conversation with your friends online.
All these categories are available under the ‘Social’ section of Windows 8 app store. All you need to do is just head over to the Windows 8 app store and search for the app (press ‘Win+Q”’ to open the search charm) or just click on the link given with the description of each chat app for Windows 8 below. Let me quickly bring out the names of each Windows 8 chat app:
- Ribbit Chat
- IM+
- Tweet Talk
Below given is the description. Lets get started with:
Ribbit Chat:
Ribbit Chat is one of the mots popular Windows 8 chat apps that lets you chat with all your contacts, from within the app, in an amazing big screen. This Windows 8 chat app supports GoogleTalk, Facebook, and MSN. You can easily add new contacts or remove the existing ones.
The interesting part is that you can carry out your conversation with multiple people at one single screen. All the chat boxes are displayed at the left side, while all the online contacts at the right, in beautiful tiles form. You can also create a group for all the close friends in one group, colleagues in another, family in yet another, and so on.. The home page of the app shows the the profile photos of all the online contacts and you just need to click on the one with whom you want to chat.
In order to add more accounts, press ‘Win+C’ to open Charms Bar ? click on ‘Accounts’ ? click on the respective account that you want to configure with Ribbit Chat. In addition, you can also perform other chat settings by heading over to the ‘Preferences’ option of Charms Bar.
Works with: Windows 8
Price: Free
Download: Click Here
IM+
Yet another popular chat Windows 8 app, IM+ is available under the ‘Social’ category of Windows 8 app store at zero cost. It’s a single chat app for all your messaging that supports almost all the messaging services including Facebook, GTalk, ICQ, Skype, Yahoo!, AOL, iChat, Gadu-Gadu, Fetion, Mig33, @Mail.RU, Mamba, Jabber, and many more.
You can easily carry out video chatting via Skype. You can send messages instantly, and share photos instantly. The mots interesting part is that you can add multiple accounts in a single service, show your mood by putting status messages, perform group chats, and do almost anything that you would expect from an advanced online messenger. It’s a must-have Windows 8 chat app for all the Windows 8 users. Go ahead and download it now..
Works with: Windows 8
Price: Free
Download: Click Here
Tweet Talk
Ending my short post with this last but not the least chat app for Windows 8, Tweet Talk. It lets you create new hashtag, and follow those hasgtags. You can send new tweets, reply existing tweets, retweet, share tweets, and perform more such activities. You can carry out Twitter chat.
The home screen displays all the hashtags you are following. As you click on a hashtag, you will find list of tweets corresponding to the hashtag. The list will be filtered as all, by me, and mentions and watchlist. You can also adjust settings according to your requirements. To avail this service, just press ‘Win+C’ to open Charms Bar. If you are a regular Twitter user, then it’s a must have Twitter Windows 8 app. Go ahead and download Tweet Talk now.
Works with: Windows 8
Price: Free
Download: Click Here