Best iOS client – Monal - XMPP chat Review

Monal is the best xmpp client for iOS by a fairly substantial margin. Unfortunately it’s still a little rough around the edges, but omemo mostly works now, and finally notifications mostly work. It looks like MUCs are starting to work now, however this currently results in a lot of notification spam with no way to mute channels. It’s still very difficult to recommend xmpp for people on iOS devices, but it is getting better and monal has made some good strides towards this over time. Unfortunately, progress is a little slow… I believe there’s only one person really working on it. Hopefully the new muc stuff gets sorted out and hopefully the app gets a little bit of polish soon! It’s mostly fine… but having used it for a few years it still feels fragile to me.
Review by chibzly on Monal - XMPP chat.