Ghostty Inside
Messages render through Ghostty’s terminal engine. Metal on the GPU, so scrolling through years of history stays fast.
Drift
Native IRC.
An IRCv3 client for iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe. SwiftUI front to back.
Features
Pure SwiftUI
No web views, no Electron. Same app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. All data stays on device.
Bouncer-Native
Connects to soju over a single WebSocket. All your networks, one connection.
Buddy List
See who's online across all your networks. Add nicks, get notified when they connect or drop off. Powered by IRCv3 MONITOR.
Full IRCv3
Bold, italic, color, monospace. 32-color nick palette, theme-matched. SASL, message-tags, chathistory, the works.
Find in Channel
Live search with match count. Keyboard shortcuts to jump between results. Full scroll-back via server history.
In Action
Under the Hood
- Protocol
- IRCv3. CAP 302, SASL, message-tags, echo-message, chathistory, labeled-response, batch
- Bouncer
- soju via
soju.im/bouncer-networks. Multi-network over single WebSocket - Rendering
- GPU-accelerated Metal Ghostty terminal engine. Full ANSI rendering
- Color
- 32 nick colors from the 256-color palette. 240 extended colors per theme via CIELAB interpolation.
- Framework
- Swift 6, SwiftUI, SwiftData, strict concurrency
- Platforms
- iOS 26+, macOS Tahoe. iPhone, iPad, Mac