3.56 out of 5
93 ratings in United States
This is in no way functionally comparable to Conversations on android but having tried ALL the recently updated xmpp text apps on iOS this is by far the best option Using the Conversations server as sender and recipient often there are huge delays for iOS clients on WiFi and Verizon 5G. Don’t give up on us.
I had a mistaken view that there were no good XMPP options on iOS. Perhaps that was true before, but now it’s false. Additionally, the XMPP standards have added a lot of things to make the protocol very usable on mobile devices. Monal is good, usable, and actively developed. There are some minor UI issues but they are fixable, and a small trade off for a communications channel you actually have control over. This is one app I’ll be pushing my friends to use. Monal is open source which means you can have confidence that it can continue being updated for many years. I would consider this a significant strength for any software, but even more so on iOS which breaks apps once they are too old (guessing half of the iOS apps I’ve paid for don’t work/can’t be install anymore?)
UPDATE: Thank you for your reply. I guess my feature request is for Monal to be allowed to accept self-signed certificates. (Host has non globally routable IP.) My XMPP host won’t let Monal connect because it’s using an obsolete encryption protocol. I see in prosody logs other clients connecting with TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3 but when Monal tries to connect it’s rejected. Log message: “Client disconnected: sslv3 alert bad certificate.” This app looks great and I want to try it and recommend it, so hopefully this is just a minor bump in the road.
It no longer works. I’m running iOS 14.1 and I refuse to update. I want to give a better rating because Monal seems to have the most compatibility and functionality with my server but I can’t use the app anymore.... Please fix the app and I will fix my rating :/
This app automatically creates a file folder in the phone, this might leads to leakage of files shared in conversations when phones are compromised or inspected by government authorities
Have been using the beta version of the app. I give the app 5 stars, because its a solid app for iPhone. Very dependable. Messages deliver as expected! I do have one recommendation, This being a mobile app, network connectivity is expected to be unstable. It is not necessary to notify the client of sync issues as a notification. I hope the developer considers this annoyance and enables the user to disable this notification by default.
I configured this program to connect to my XMPP server. It sends the messages and the other party receives them. But there are two basic issues. First, when I start to compose a reply message, the keyboard opens and covers up the message I was replying to. Second, you can't copy the text of the messages you receive to your clipboard. These UI glitches are the reason for my rating.
UI is very beautiful, but the client is in the background, after repeated entry, there will be ghosting, more affect my feelings about him, I like him very much, but this bug affects his beauty too much
Pros: Active Development, cleanest iOS interface I’ve used. Cons: No Voice Calls - yet. Since I’ve downloaded the app, it’s already been updated! An encryption lock toggle notification has been added. I think this is a very nice qol feature. I was wondering what the lock button did, I really appreciate it being more of an explicit lock now instead of having the option to accidentally disable encryption. I think this is very useful, especially for those new to xmpp and less tech savvy.
This app has a nice interface, but when you try to use encryption, it says that the other user is to blame because his device doesn’t support it. This is nonsense! Everybody gets this messages far as I can tell.
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