Igloo 4+

Retired?

Just received notice igloo classic was retired, but will not let you continue to use it unless you upgrade.

Just a bad developer

I'm very unimpressed. I bought the app once in 2020. They did a big upgrade but after that requiring we email them, then they stopped honoring the upgrades for existing users. At some point they added a pro upgrade and apparently despite having bought the app before, I would need to pay again for that. Now they do version 3, less than 4 years after I first bought the app. They say existing users get a discount.

Version 3 doesn't detect that I bought the app before. The version I bought before no longer gives me features I paid for. Now they offer another "lifetime" license or a subscription.

I expect they'll want $40 in 2026.

Find another IRC app. This one is not reliable. I need it only occasionally and every time I come back, they want more money.

I wouldn't be so mad, except the version I already paid for is currently useless. Why should I keep buying from these guys?

Developer Response ,

Let me get this straight, you paid $3 6 years ago, missed your chance to get a free copy of version 2 even though I gave out free codes for over a year to the point where I didn't even have any more free codes to generate, and now you're complaining that you have to pay again for a brand new app when you can just use the old one?

The funniest part is I've given out 100+ free codes for version 3 already just because someone asked for it or said they couldn't afford it etc. I'm not here making millions of dollars, it's an IRC client in 2024, there's only hundreds of dollars to be made.

You should be grateful that I'm wasting my time making a new & improved app from scratch for the 200 people that use IRC on their iPhone for a few hundred dollars when I can be focusing on something that actually pays my bills.

Also, this new version specifically added subscriptions for situations like yours, if you don't want to buy a license, just subscribe for a month and cancel it. The subscriptions aren't there for me, they're there as a way for users to save money depending on their situation.

Anyway, best of luck to you in life with an attitude like that. We'll see you back on Igloo after you try out the other clients that haven't been updated in years and barely work and have no features or configuration 😉

Junk

ITS A SCAM
Doesn’t have ignore feature, doesn’t have ability to type in color, can’t make font bigger than 20 so it’s tiny on phone screen, developer response “I’ve only made enough money to buy a slice of pizza” don’t waste your money find something else, even turboirc has more features and it hasn’t been updated in years, developer got mad when email complaints came in and pulled the older version but not until he pulled all its features. Paid for that one and he pulled it, nothing to say he won’t pull this one after he gets more pizza money.
ITS A SCAM

Developer Response ,

Instead of a jerky 1 star review, how about send a friendly email or hop in our chat and just make some suggestions. This app has been here now for a few months and nobody has asked for ignore, nobody has asked for the color inputs, and nobody has asked for a font bigger than 20 (which is massive btw). Turbo IRC is a really bad app that literally is so old it doesn't even take up your whole screen and can't connect to a server with SSL lol. Also, this new app exists specifically so it can be supported long term unlike the old app, and this is a lifetime purchase rather than an upgrade in an app that was planned to be depreciated a long time ago. This new version was started back in 2021, just was too busy with things that make me more than $200 to finish it.