Monal

HIGHLIGHTS

If you are iPhone and iPad owner,you now can download Monal for free from Apple Store. The application is designed for use in English language. It weighs in at only 10MB to download. It is highly advisable to have the latest app version installed so that you don`t miss out on the fresh new features and improvements. The current app version 2.0.6 has been released on 2014-11-18. For ensuring consistency with the device you should take into account the following app compatibility information: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.1.3 or later.
Bottom Line: For more information about Monal check developer Anurodh Pokharel`s website : http://sworim.blogspot.com/

Monal stands out in a small crowd of XMPP aka Jabber clients taking the high road of your chats are your business As such it fulfills an important niche for privacy minded users but there are minor quibbles in the version I am using 1 It clearly supports images in the dev blog and or documentation but only text has been seamless with my prosody server Any time I attempt to send an image in either JPG PNG or GIF it complains about an SSL error but the certificate is correctly signed and the CA issuing it is Lets Encrypt SSL scorecard places the certificate as A so I doubt the problem lies there I suspect I need to have a specially configured web server available for the upload to occur but I can t find documentation on those potential dependencies 2 Because there isn t a user accessible debugging function client side it is difficult for me to determine if the image problem is server side or client side Prosody in debug mode emits a little bit of useable information and a lot of noise but only shows half the story 3 Trying to examine logs with the More Chat Logs account name date menu path shows a black screen Perhaps a function needs to be enabled server side Which makes no sense as I can see prior convos in the regular chat thread Beyond my own personal issues with my setup it has been a solid client Just be sure to keep it running in the background and it will periodically ping your server for new messages the prosody server log shows reconnect activity about every 30 seconds or so not too bad a trade off I was concerned about the impact on my battery by leaving it running but my last battery report in settings said it only consumed 4 over the course of an 8 hour day so it s relatively minimal The author deserves recognition for achieving this difficult feat To the author I encourage you to continue to develop and deploy his client iOS users deserve to have their privacy and you are delivering it Keep up the good work Update 2018 01 10 I have managed to get images to work as file uploads but they still do not appear inline The issue was an additional firewall port that needed to be open I ve tried other clients but some were iffy and some just plain creepy another client appeared to ship off your images to their servers Monal still remains the best choice with regard to your privacy                 Trustworthy and slightly frustrating Quieteyes

Disconnects frequently cannot have a two way conversation as some messages are lost         Disconnects frequently not reliable Vladwil

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                     ideal XMPP app tekbasse

I use it with OpenFire and it works great                     Great XMPP Client R.No

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         Very buggy app but couldn t find any better PolkRB

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     Absolute Garbage CL_Admin

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                 Best IM for xmpp briskspirit

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             Passable Bahamat

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                     Just works jklowden

Highly recommended Ad free great UI layout easy to setup Easily the best iOS also available on OSX chat app out there                     Best XMPP app TheDaikini

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             Simple but Ugly peejstudio

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                 Good just wish it was better I hate the App Store.

Xmpp settings does not work     Xmpp BelloSoft

Good app but please fix the Group Chat functionality         Mr Paul777777777777777

this app is amazing everything else is trash                     ssl enabled jabber client free Bill Automata

I use Monal as a jabber client for one of the games that I play online I was able to connect to the server effortlessly and I was able to see all the other people on the server However as I went to join the Lounge in the server the join room feature would not work at all             App is great but the join room feature doesn t work Cajipino

Buggy unresponsive group chat feature doesn t work     Buggy djbarker79

Love it when its working It crashes randomly when its minimized If stability is fixed this would be a must have         Good but unstable Eric4292

Not very useful when it constantly drops connection and this drops you out of MUC         Constantly disconnects from xmpp servers brokenagain

As an Openfire user this app works perfectly and is one of the very few that doesn t require a commercial service to function properly I m thankful to have found it and get it for free The only suggestions I have to the developer is to fix the landscape display to not extend beyond the screen and don t put the toolbar so close to the text input box It s quite frustrating and easy to type out a long text and then press the About button by accident instead of the small Send button which then erases all the text Otherwise thanks for a usefull free app Btw I like the icon too Great job with the IOS7 fix and update Thanks                     Functions Well JackuvTrades

If you are having problems connecting to a Google Talk account after updating from older version try removing and recreating the account in this app                 Works ok lkr 666

Just installed added my accounts and am chatting away I like the simple UI UX and the fact it also supports XMPP MUC which a lot of clients didn t years ago and many still don t                     So far so good luquado

Also     Omen-666

This update prevent me to connect to server please check Thank you very much             Not this update LuciferAC

Great replacement for Hangouts at least until Google kills the XMPP side of Hangouts                     Love it Clegko

Love the fact that this client makes direct connections to the XMPP server instead of going through a middle man proxy This update also fixed chat room MUC listings I wish I could send slash commands to the MUC server like affiliate Keep up the good work                     Excellent XMPP client BubbaDoug

Such a great option for a persistent background XMPP client WITH push notifications WITHOUT running through some 3rd party service I m very glad to have this option                     Great XMPP option ColinC.

But that s not saying a whole lot This one managed to find a way to directly connect to my server and stay open in the background which is huge I recommend this app for those reasons alone On the downside my user s avatars don t come through broadcast messages cannot be viewed for some reason even though the indicator is there No OTR option What s here though is high quality If you run a Jabber server and need an always on client this is the one you want                 Best Jabber App So Far XMPP Server Admin

For Google Talk account all online contacts appear regardless of whether you have removed them from your contact list placed them in a minimized group in another app program e g Pidgin Xabber or never accepted an invitation to chat Cannot minimize offline contacts group Online contacts not sorted by availability status             Groups Qcqc424

Sometimes it will replicate my XMPP accounts and duplicate the contact list Not entirely sure why                 Good but buggy Tylerwatt12

And trust me I ve tried them all This is the only direct connect jabber client that also properly supports multi user chat muc                     Best Jabber Client in App Store Joseph Woolls

Needs better is server broadcasts server announcements support Current version receives broadcasts but you cannot view it in Monal or clear the badges Ideally we d get the broadcast as a normal message Right now I have 100 badges for server broadcasts which is annoying Being able to save conferences and automatically joining conferences is needed as well Update Monal now disconnects frequently It displays the disconnected message Usually my client is always on Wifi iOS 7 1             Great but needs server broadcast support Pr0phet84

For its multitasking capabilities I m giving it a four and i would pay for this app if they add some more polished design and password protection                 It s a great app cf.ch

Can t even open it up     Bad App Rockstarly

I do not recommend this app if your trying to connect to spark It does not work     UNABLE TO CONNECT TO SPARK Sundezine

This might be the only app I know of on iOS that supports xmpp on the client side AND supports the Jingle protocol too which aside from allowing for VoIP functionality over xmpp it allows under iOS policy for the app to be backgrounded My only suggestion is that the app be updated with iPhone 6 support better more useful ui scaling for bigger screens and that you guys look into adding otr support maybe talk with the ChatSecure guys                 Fantastic app I have some suggestions though Puyan Lotfi

First off I have had a lot of issues with messaging on my phone in the past I used Im plus cause it offered services I use like google yahoo aol and Skype then Skype stopped working which was my main reason for using it so I finally decided it was time to start with using jabber with service gateways so I ve since been looking and had a lot of luck with this one first it looks like a iOS 7 app second it works with everything save for Facebook I m not really sure why but if everything else works it took a bit of fiddling to get jabbim working but once it started working it has worked without a hitch so using Facebook messenger is a small price for it to play nicely with everything else The only issues outside of Facebook I ve noticed are it isn t entirely realtime showing service updates whether they str logged in or not But it looks good otherwise and haven t had issues with messages sending even gtalk is working flawless                 Finally a good jabber app hdofu

I am able to connect to Spark and message colleagues on the go I wish I can search contacts My work server has all the contacts listed It s really hard to scroll                     Nice app Able to connect to spark Rohith76

Working like a charm love it thanks to the developer for all his hard work As right now I wouldn t mind paying for it Awesome                     Excellent Dave291

Can t connect to google my server and other peoples servers that work with other apps     Logins BaoJia08

Third upgrade not the charm Still can t use the connection that was working for me on 2 0     2 1 2 still isn t working Firdanoob

Version 2 0 of this app was working fine for my xmpp accounts but the 2 1 update broke this and all of my accounts failed to log in This new version fixes this                 Works with my xmpp accounts again eralston

Just upgraded to 2 1 2 and the connections that didn t work and now working again Hurray great App keep the good work     Working again Hankm60

Please fix the problem of connecting to some jabber servers There was no problem with the previous version Thanks fellows         New version got bugs Richard Trenky

Yes it works well for out ejabberd2 server                     So much better than years ago ecsos

Jabber will not connect following the latest update Please revert or fix     Broken post update LuckyJackAubrey