Original author(s) Platform x86 | Development status Active | |
Initial release 3 March 1997 (1997-03-03) Stable release 5.3.4 (March 11, 2012; 5 years ago (2012-03-11)) [±] Operating system | ||
Snak (Danish for "chat") is a popular shareware Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client written by Kent Sorensen for the Macintosh platform. Snak is distributed as shareware and can be freely used and evaluated for 30 days at no charge. After the 30-day evaluation period has ended, the program will quit after 15 minutes of use, and a registration key must be purchased. Versions up to 4.12 runs on both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X while version 5 and newer only supports Mac OS X. The program is Intel Only as of version 5.3.4.
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Features
Snak supports an unlimited number of connections and channels, private chats, as well as full DCC support for file transfers and chat. It can be scripted with AppleScript and the ircII scripting language. Snak features an Actions list which makes it easy to automate responses to many common events on IRC.
Snak includes the ability for multiple panels to share the windows. A panel can contain a channel, a dialog with another user, a list, or information about a DCC file transfer. This results in an effective use of the screen space and improves the ability to follow multiple channels. A panel can be moved from one window to another by dragging the title bar or the panel tab.
Although limited support UTF-8 support has been included since version 5.1.5 (released 2006-09-23), as of December 30, 2014, full UTF-8 support is still lacking (promised for "the next major version").
Critical reception
Jason Parker, Assistant editor for Download.com, wrote for CNET Reviews on May 26, 2005:
It has also briefly been mentioned at MacWorld UK and is listed at MacObserver.