Monal - XMPP Chat

Open source XMPP Messenger

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Description

There has never been a better time to get into XMPP, a free public chat network no one controls or owns. Monal is a fast and user friendly way to use XMPP. Just download the app, login or register and you are ready to chat in minutes. It looks and works the way other apps do, so there is no need to “learn XMPP” or even care what it is.
Notable features:
- Open Source
- No Ads! Strong focus on privacy. Does not phone home and does not have software "metrics"
- Does not read any personal information
- With a direct connection to your server, your password and all other info are never sent to a third-party
- OMEMO encrypted chat
- Will work with corporate XMPP servers that require VPN
- Multi user chat (MUC) support for group chats
- Audio/Video calls
Implements certain XMPP extensions intended to improve mobile communication:
- XEP-0357: Push Notifications
- XEP-0280: Message Carbons keep messages in synch between clients
- XEP-0198: Stream Management to quickly reconnect
- XEP-0199: XMPP Ping to maintain connections
- XEP-0313: Message Archive Management to download chat history
- XEP-0352: Client State Indication for dramatic reduction on power use
- XEP-0363: HTTP File Upload to send images in conversations
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User Rating

5 out of 5

5 ratings in Türkiye

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Monal Reviews

Thanks for developing Monal!

erenkaplan.xcodeproject on

Türkiye

I am very happy to be able to use XMPP on my iPhone. There is nothing wrong with the app, but the interface could be improved a bit. I will also provide financial support in the near future!

Thank you!

ged296123 on

Türkiye

5 stars for support! Thank you for supporting XMPP on iOS (and MacOS). Really looking forward to updates resolving issues with MUC. I’m sure once that’s in place, development will proceed with more functions. The app is great to the eye and unlike it’s alternatives, it stays online! XMPP is an open-protocol, can be self-hosted and runs on all platforms with multiple application alternatives. If it’s decentralized and private messaging that uses minimum resources, it’s the way to go. If you haven’t checked out XMPP, install this app, create your account and start using. Lot’s of information on the web for XMPP: if you’d like, do a quick research yourself. Promise you won’t be disappointed!

Just needs some UI tweaks

cengizIO on

Türkiye

Thanks goes to developer for strict focus on privacy

Excellent app

Elkenfugel on

United States

Use jabber? Have iOS? Use monal p e r i o d. Recent iOS versions probably work extremely well. iOS: 16 does have a couple quirks, I think. Haven't zeroed it in. yet. Devs: I know I am using an ancient iOS version but my contacts and I have extreme trouble getting video calls to connect sometimes and they will drop randomly. It's likely a network issue, but we notice that if we use wired or no headsets, symptoms seem to subside and dissappear or, at very least, seem to help with initial connection speed and success rate. Not sure if we will ever upgrade from 16. not a big deal.

Robust v 6.4.0

SocialBandwidth on

United States

Wow Monal for iOS has come a long way. Years ago it wasn’t my first choice. Neither were there any viable alternatives to be honest. Monal 6.4.0 performs really well for me. Kudos! Obviously apple being apple I don’t get notifications if I didn’t touch the app for a while. This is something all third party apps have to contend with on iOS.

OTR

Talan Roj on

United States

Why not adding OTR feature which already exists in Chat Secure app; This will make this app work more efficiently with other xmpp clients on other OS’s

Ios breaks xmpp texts

Girthus Bigus on

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.

XMPP on iOS is great

bdksbdjen on

United States

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?)

Connects Using SSLv3 (obsolete) Versus TLS 1.3

ttkis1k on

United States

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.

Monal works great but....

zfkdnop on

United States

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 :/

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App Info

Languages
Arabic, Basque, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew (modern), Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Panjabi, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Recent release
6.4.7 (2 weeks ago )
Released on
Jun 15, 2009 (15 years ago )
Last Updated
4 days ago
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