Monal - XMPP chat 4+
Open source XMPP Messenger
Molitor und Dietzel, Inh. Thilo Molitor
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- Free
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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 "metrics" software
- Does not read any personal information.
- With a direct connection to your server, your password and all other info is never sent to a third party.
- OMEMO encrypted chat
- Will work with corporate XMPP servers that require VPN
- MUC multi user chat
- Audio/Video calls
Implements XMPP certain 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.
What’s New
Version 6.3.1
- Fix flickering of chat background image
- Make keyboard auto-appear configurable
- Improve error propagation when uploading/downloading files
- Fix detection of omemo keys for groupchats
- Make several UI elements translatable now
- Fix error handling when creating groups
- Show used / discovered MUC servers in server details
Ratings and Reviews
Ok.
However weird things happen with how it resolves customer location, just like all the chat apps used with Olark. Perhaps it's an olark issue
Version 2.1.3 is causing the connection to drop immediately. Was very stable prior to 2.1.3
Please fix as overall this is a good app
Doesn’t appear to work with Openfire
I had high hopes that this software was going to work. I installed the app on two phones as well as macOS. I was running against an older version of open fire initially, but could not get it to establish omemo connectivity. It kept reporting that the other device contact didn’t appear to support omemo.
I figured I was probably doing something wrong so I emailed the developer. He responded fairly quickly but told me in rather a rude way that I was using an old server that probably didn’t support the right pub sub. This would’ve actually been a reasonable response, if he hadn’t had also said that he wasn’t going to waste his precious time, working with old servers. A reasonable request, however, delivered in a pretty bad customer service way.
I upgraded to the latest version of open fire, and this made absolutely no difference. Interestingly, I installed ChatSecure. And this worked perfectly against the old version, as well as the latest version of open fire with no glitches whatsoever. My advice is to use ChatSecure if you’re using open fire and not to waste any of your precious time attempting to get Monal to work with Openfire.
As a last note, I appreciate this software is free, but I’m always happy to donate to app developers when they do good work
Buggy but works
It’s quite buggy, for example not being able to select a profile pic from camera roll and not being able to set a nickname. The options are there but they simply don’t work. Also a prettier and clearer display for replies would be nice, as it’s not clear who is being replied to and you can’t click on this to go to the replied to message.
However it’s the only working XMPP app on iOS so for that reason I can’t complain too much.
App Privacy
The developer, Molitor und Dietzel, Inh. Thilo Molitor, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Thilo Molitor
- Size
- 53 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Basque, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Thilo Molitor
- Price
- Free