There were several upgrades to Adium 1.0, ending with Adium 1.6.2c. The version numbers of Adium since then have followed a somewhat unusual pattern. Give it a try you won’t look back.Īdium was created by college student Adam Iser, and the first version, “Adium 1.0”, was released in September 2001 and supported the only AIM. It supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client that supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, SIP/SIMPLE (Text), and Lotus Sametime.