Monal - XMPP chat Reviews

Good, just wish it was better.

I hate the App Store.

I am so angry at the App Store app right now because I wrote a super lengthy review and it just threw it away saying the nickname I picked was already taken. Has anyone noticed you can't write a review for it? Hopefully I can remember most of what I wrote. Love this app, because it works, it's free, and all of the other reasons people have listed, like not proxying through some 3rd party, etc. Why does it count up received messages of the current active chat, though? You have to tap to another chat and then back to get rid of the annoying number/red ball. When I tap a notification to get back to the app, it should clear the unread count, but it doesn't. Have to tap another chat and then back. Sometimes the latest chat message is lower down and hidden by the text input box until you tap another chat and back again. The UI (at least on the iPad) could be a little bit more intuitive and solid all around. When you are away from active chats, like on the accounts tab, you want to tap on a contact in the list on the left, but nothing happens. It seems like it should take you to the chat, or just not display the contact list when you are in another tab. An easier way to enable and disable accounts would be nice, for those times when you are at your desktop and don't want your messages coming up in the background anymore. Maybe the enable switch could be right on the account in the list, just like the circle indicating its state. Is it possible to have a choice of sound to use? My notifications make sounds even when I have the volume all the way down to "muted", which could just be an iOS thing. Ability to change colors/theme would also be nice, but more form than function. Like being able to switch from bubble messages to plain lines of text with name/time stamp and differentiating between users by color (or optionally not). Thank you for the functional and free xmpp client that nobody else seems to want to make! :) Your work and efforts are very much appreciated.

Simple but Ugly

peejavery

App works but...Screenshots are not what the app looks like. The navigation bar is an ugly shade of green and the status bar text is white while the navigation bar text is black. Please make it a unified text color and give user ability to change that navigation bar color.

Best XMPP app

TheDaikini

Highly recommended. Ad free, great UI layout, easy to setup. Easily the best iOS (also available on OSX) chat app out there.

Just works

jklowden

Tried 3 other jabber clients that didn't let me pick my server. They silently assumed I was using their server, or let me try to use mine and claim I was using the "wrong password". Monal starts by showing the whole app and letting you choose the account settings.

Passable

Bahamat

Probably the best xmpp-client for iOS today. The major caveat with it is that group chats are not rejoined when the app launches even though they're still listed under active chats. Joining a group chat that has an active chat doesn't seem to work at all. There's also a bug initially joining group chats. There's no visual feedback that anything happened when tapping the join button and it doesn't show up under active chats. At some point later it just sort of shows up there, but I haven't yet figured out a reliable set of steps to make them appear.

Best IM for xmpp

briskspirit

Best IM for xmpp i have tried. But have one major problem: i have more than 1000 contacts and can't see them all... Minor problem: filter please OTR junk messages(like "OTR encrypted, can't decrypt"). If you need beta tester for os x and ios - i am here)) with 1000 contacts, personal ejabberd and all-day xmpp user;)

Absolute Garbage

CL_Admin

Doesn't inform as to why login failed. Doesn't actually join chat rooms (MUCs) for moments to minutes after attempting to do so, and gives no indication as to whether it is even attempting to. Reloads at random, leaving the app in a "not-quite-connected" state, silently failing to send or receive text, while claiming to still be connected. This app is not ready for prime time.

Very buggy app but couldn't find any better

PolkRB

I've tried many different jabber apps and this one seems to still be the best option. It has tons of bugs and not updated regularly.

Great XMPP Client

R.No

I use it with OpenFire and it works great!

ideal XMPP app

tekbasse

All the ingredients to make an excellent XMPP app are here. Responsive developer using a peer reviewable open source coding process and licensing. If I had a business, I'd hire this developer to integrate more with other productivity tools and add custom alert sounds.

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