Adium vs AIM

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Adium is a popular free instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple protocols through the libraries libezv (for Bonjour) and libpurple (for all other protocols). , written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by AOL in May 1997. Stand-alone official AIM client software includes advertisements and is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Linux .

Adium vs AIM :

	Adium	AIM
Operating system support	Mac OS X	Windows,Mac OS X,Windows Mobile,BlackBerry,,Palm OS, iPhone OS
Protocol support	Multiprotocol clients	AIM, ICQ,
Features included	Encryption ,Graphical smileys ,Unicode (UTF-8) ,Themes / skins,Plugin system,Third party add-ons, Scripting,Message Logging.	Encryption ,File transfer,Graphical smileys,Unicode (UTF-8) ,Themes / skins,Third party add-ons,Plugin system,Third party add-ons,Message Logging,Voice messaging,Webcam Support,Offline messaging