Monal - XMPP Chat App Reviews

Buggy, unresponsive, group chat feature doesnt work.

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.

this app is amazing, everything else is trash

Good app but please fix the Group Chat functionality!!!

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 cant write a review for it? Hopefully I can remember most of what I wrote. Love this app, because it works, its 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 doesnt. 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 dont 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.

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.

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