Igloo 4+

One of the last IRC Apps Alive

With IRC sunsetting among the masses, it’s nice to see that there’s a few clients still in active development. This is the best one for iOS to date.

Some points,

- Plenty of options in settings, integrates nicely with bouncers, can port over prior-Igloo config, backup to iCloud (currently manual, hopefully it can be automated in the future).
- Dev is open to feedback and feature requests. Can be snarky at times but respectful.
- Not another SaaS product, so not another subscription to monitor and mentally juggle.
- There’s a discount for those who owned the previous version.

Overall, if you’re not cheap and want a quality IRC app, drop a few bucks.

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

Update : went to support and asked questions about it not having a feature and was berated and kicked out of the room, I can see now why it only has 3 stars, I was willing to give it a shot but if the developer is condescending and has a “it’s my app and I do what I want” attitude and berates and allows people to be berated in the so called “support” room what does that tell you? If I could afford the 20$ I now know I wouldn’t pay it FIND ANOTHER, ANY OTHER APP OR PROGRAM

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.

RE: Update
Just like you were a jerk in your original review, you were a jerk in the channel to myself and others just trying to help you, additionally, what makes you think you're going to get help if you leave a 1 star review first saying it's a "SCAM"? The fact that you're crying this much about not having /ignore makes a lot more sense now after seeing multiple interactions with you. Don't be so confrontational and you won't need to ignore people when they hurt your poor little feelings in response to your jerkiness. If you could just be a decent person, you would've gotten a free code just like every single other person that comes into the channel or emails me, but you're not capable. Please go find another client, you using Igloo gives it a bad name.

Access shut off - when will it happen again?

I don't mind the developer charging for a new iteration of an application. What I do mind is the developer going and disabling the old one entirely for people still using it. Someone remotely shutting off your access to an application, especially one you paid for, leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I would be more understanding if it was an old version that required a lot of continuous server-side support to function, but it's an irc client! Sure, stop supporting the server-dependent features like push notifications, that's fine, but why on earth is it necessary that "This app will stop working entirely on June 1st."?