aMSN is full of features, but you can extend its functionality even more now, getting extra features by installing plugins. Plugins are simply that - they "plug in" to aMSN and give it extra features. Here you can download plugins developed by us and by contributors. Make sure you have the right version of aMSN for the plugin (check "requirements") and the right OS (check "platform")

You can find instructions on how to install plugins in our skin and plugin installation guide.

If you would like to submit your plugin to this page, please read the plugin submitting guide.

• aMSN Plus!
• aMSN Extension similar to MSN Plus! (commands in chat window, multiple-text format)
• Created by:Mark, Jerome Gagnon-Voyer & Fred
• Version:2.6.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• BigSmileys
• Show an extra smileys button for selecting from customs smileys with a bigger preview.
• Created by:Pablo Novara
• Version:20060226
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• DualDisplayPicture
• This plugin is intended to help aMSN users shut up by stopping complaining about wanting the feature of : "I want to see my own DP as well as my contact's DP..."
• Created by:Youness Alaoui, Jonne Zutt
• Version:0.3
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.96
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• msntranslator
• Communicate with someone using an other language by auto-translating the text.
• Created by:Zhu Hengguo
• Version:3.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• WinSkin
• Some options to make the contact list smaller
• Created by:Arieh Schneier
• Version:0.11.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• Chameleon
• This plugin allows you to change aMSN look and feel using the Tile extension for Tk. This changes the way the toolkit looks so you might have a native, Qt or GTK2 look instead of Tk.
• Created by:KaKaRoTo (Alaoui Youness)
• Version:0.5
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: 0.96 and Tile(http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile)
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• Music
• Music plugin compatible with iTunes for Mac, many players for Linux and Winamp. Show current playing song in nickname and show/send current playing song from the chatwindow.
• Created by:Jerome Gagnon-Voyer, Boris Faure & Le Philousophe
• Version:r11687
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• SendDraw
• Pablo Novara
• Created by:Allows you to send a image file as a draw to your contacts.
• Version:20060213
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• amsnEliza
• Chatbot that will answer your contacts when your away. Can be controlled from a chatwindow too, with the !on and !off commands.
• Created by:benjamo
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• SkinColor
• Change the aMSN's skin colors.
• Created by:Giuseppe Bottiglieri (aka Square87)
• Version:0.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97
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• userstatus
• Prints in the chat window infos about the contact you're chatting with. By NoWhereMan ( http://www.nowhereland.it ). Thanks to Tychondriax ( http://tychodriax.altervista.org ) for helping with the debugging part :)
• Created by:NoWhereMan
• Version:1.1.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.96
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• Remind
• Shows the last sentences of the previous conversations when opening a new chat window
• Created by:Fred
• Version:1.2
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• AvatarAutoChange
• With this plugin, you can choose a different display picture for each state. This helps your contacts identify your current state more quickly and easily.
• Created by:Sethnakht
• Version:1.2
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97RC1
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• Emoticons Importer
• Plugin that allows you to batch import multiple emoticons into aMSN in one shot. Compatible with kopete emoticon packs.
• Created by:Youness Alaoui (a.k.a KaKaRoTo)
• Version:0.2
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97
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• Transparent
• This plugin makes chat windows transparent when not used, with a nice "fade" transition. Needs Tcl/Tk 8.5 and a compositing manager on linux.
• Created by:Cristofaro Del Prete
• Version:0.6
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97
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• Say It
• Speaks the messages you receive in the background. It will use the default voice set in the system preferences. If you enter a different voice (Mac), make sure you use a capital first letter.
• Created by:William Bowling, Arieh Schneier & Karel Demeyer
• Version:1.4
• Platform/OS:Linux, Mac OS X
• Requires: aMSN 0.94 & Festival for Linux
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• Desktop Integration
• For KDE or GNOME users. It shows desktop-like dialogs instead of tcl/tk ones. It also sets some options to fit better in the desktop.
• Created by:Isma
• Version:1.2
• Platform/OS:Linux
• Requires: aMSN 0.95 or higher & KDE or GNOME
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• Games
• Play games with aMSN! With this plugin you can play several games versus your aMSN contacts! Notice this plugin is *not* compatible with MSN Zone Games!
• Created by:Jonne Zutt
• Version:0.20
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.96
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• Faking It!
• Online impersonation and character deviation
• Created by:João Faria
• Version:1.0b2
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• Colorize
• Change the color of your text from either a predefined list or randomly.
• Created by:Karol Krizka
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97
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• SpellCheck
• Spell Checker for the chat window.
• Created by:William Bowling
• Version:7
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95 & aspell
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• Actions Menu
• This plugin implements a "Actions Menu" on the bottom of the contact list with Add Contact and Search Contact function.
• Created by:takeshi81 and square87
• Version:0.3.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97
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• Invisibility
• This plugin will block contacts going offline and unblock when status changes to online
• Created by:Anto Cvitic and Kemal Ilgar Eroglu
• Version:0.5
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.98b
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• Minimizer
• Automatically minimizes your contact list after a given amount of seconds.
• Created by:Vivia, KaKaRoTo
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• KeepAlivePlus
• Keep the connection alive with the contact you were just chatting to
• Created by:Giuseppe Bottiglieri
• Version:0.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97
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• GNotify
• Plugin to check Gmail accounts in aMSN and notify you with the email information. A kind of "Gmail Notifer" clone for aMSN.
• Created by:Youness Alaoui (a.k.a KaKaRoTo)
• Version:0.91
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• Notify
• This plugin comes as a replacement of the default notifications system. It uses libnotify to display messages.
• Created by:Yoda-BZH
• Version:2008-10-19
• Platform/OS:Linux
• Requires: aMSN 0.97 and libnotify
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• Growl
• Growl notification on Mac OS X
• Created by:Jerome Gagnon-Voyer
• Version:1.1.1
• Platform/OS:Mac OS X
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• POP3
• Plugin to check POP3 accounts in aMSN in the same way as hotmail ones.
• Created by:Arieh Schneier
• Version:2.3
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• What Is
• Get information from text/word or translate it to an other language!
• Created by:Jasper Huzen
• Version:1.5
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• Jake
• Chatbot made in Tcl. Really usefull, a lot of options. To see the help, type !help
• Created by:Alexander Nestorov
• Version:0.5.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: 0.97
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• Emotes
• Plugin to replace /me ocurrences in chat window
• Created by:Youness Alaoui
• Version:0.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• DBusStateChanger
• Changes aMSN state to Away when some DBus signal (configurable) is captured (like screensaver start), and back to previous state when another signal is captured.
• Created by:DeadVirus
• Version:0.5
• Platform/OS:Linux
• Requires: dbus
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• BugBuddy
• A plugin for sending automatic messages to friends.
• Created by:Karol Krizka
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• CountDown
• Shows a countdown to a specific date
• Created by:Youness Alaoui (a.k.a KaKaRoTo). Unimatrix for the idea
• Version:0.3
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97
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• Organize Received
• Saves received files by default in a subdirectory of the sender and optionally into another subdirectory of the date
• Created by:Nilton Volpato
• Version:0.4
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• GLogs
• Send logs of conversations to your email. It was made to take advantage of GMail features, but can be used with any mail account.
• Created by:Ignacio Larrain
• Version:1.0.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• SendRecents
• Adds a cascade menu into Actions of your chatwindow so that you can send recent files easily.
• Created by:MurDoK
• Version:1.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97
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• Open With
• This adds options to the right-click menu in chatwindows so that you can use up to 5 user specified programs with selected text as an argument.
• Created by:Zalbor
• Version:0.3
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.96
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• Gename
• Plugin for generating random names
• Created by:Karol Krizka
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• TeXIM
• Renders LaTeX if it's prepended by tex or by using the TeX Advanced Window
• Created by:Andrei Barbu & Boris Faure
• Version:0.8
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95 & LaTeX
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• MoveWin
• Move chat windows when they are created.
• Created by:Arieh Schneier
• Version:0.1
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• LilyPond IM
• LilyPond integration for aMSN. (Check out http://lilypond.org/ for more info)
• Created by:Benoit Mortgat
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.97 and LilyPond
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• Address Book
• Integrates aMSN with the Mac OS X address book. You can switch between having Address Book names, and nick names in the contact list by pressing Apple-Shift-A.
• Created by:Tom Hennigan
• Version:0.1
• Platform/OS:Mac OS X
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• AutoReplace
• Automatic text replacement for the chat window.
• Created by:Mathieu Papineau
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.95
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• Drae
• Search for the description of the selected word in the Royal Spanish Academy dictionary
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  Busca la definicion del texto seleccionado en el diccionario de la Real Academia España.
• Created by:Zaskar
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:Linux & Lynx
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• MacRise
• This plugin implements the Command(Apple key)+` shortcut for MacOSX users. Looks like it is solved for next version but until then this plugin may be usefull for MacOSX users.
• Created by:Dennis Bachmann
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:Mac OS X
• Requires: aMSN 0.96
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• Fortune
• Sends the person you are talking to a random quote. Extra arguments can be added such as -s and -o.
• Created by:Grunty
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:Linux
• Requires: aMSN 0.96, fortune-mod
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• DBus Viewer
• This plugin enables you to monitor dbus messages using the event log of aMSN
• Created by:Jonne Zutt
• Version:0.1.1
• Platform/OS:Linux
• Requires: aMSN 0.95 & dbus
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• Reaccentuation
• This plugin uses a tool called "Réacc" (http://rali.iro.umontreal.ca/Reacc/ReaccWord/WordReacc.fr.html). This is intended for french users.
• Created by:MPA
• Version:1.0.1
• Platform/OS:Windows
• Requires: aMSN 0.96
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• Changeit
• Convert sent/received messages using talkfiters. Example at: http://www.dystance.net/software/talkfilters/
• Created by:William Bowling
• Version:1.0
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: aMSN 0.94
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• FPSstats
• Show your current statistics in a game you're playing (such as Enemy Territory, UT2004, CS ...) in your personal message and in an auto-message.
• Created by:Boris FAURE (billiob)
• Version:0.9
• Platform/OS:All
• Requires: 0.96 and Qstat (http://sf.net/projects/qstat/)
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