Spicebird was a personal information manager based on Mozilla Thunderbird's code developed by an Indian company called Synovel. It was free and open source software. It provided e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging. It could be used for personal or office use to access email, calendar information and various instant messaging (or chat) accounts. The integrated instant messenger could connect to GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, XMPP and various other servers and protocols.