The Google Talk service is built to support industry standards. You can connect to the Google Talk service using Google‘s own client, as well as many other IM clients developed by third parties. Use the table below to help you choose which client is best for you.

*Trillian offers a free version of its client, but you need to pay for the Pro version to connect to Google Talk or any other service that supports the Jabber/XMPP protocol.

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