United StatesThere 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 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.
XMPP on iOS is great
I had a mistaken view that there were no good XMPP options on iOS. Perhaps that was true before, but now it’s false. Additionally, the XMPP standards have added a lot of things to make the protocol very usable on mobile devices. Monal is good, usable, and actively developed. There are some minor UI issues but they are fixable, and a small trade off for a communications channel you actually have control over. This is one app I’ll be pushing my friends to use. Monal is open source which means you can have confidence that it can continue being updated for many years. I would consider this a significant strength for any software, but even more so on iOS which breaks apps once they are too old (guessing half of the iOS apps I’ve paid for don’t work/can’t be install anymore?)
United StatesConnects Using SSLv3 (obsolete) Versus TLS 1.3
UPDATE: Thank you for your reply. I guess my feature request is for Monal to be allowed to accept self-signed certificates. (Host has non globally routable IP.) My XMPP host won’t let Monal connect because it’s using an obsolete encryption protocol. I see in prosody logs other clients connecting with TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3 but when Monal tries to connect it’s rejected. Log message: “Client disconnected: sslv3 alert bad certificate.” This app looks great and I want to try it and recommend it, so hopefully this is just a minor bump in the road.
United StatesConnects Using SSLv3 (obsolete) Versus TLS 1.3
My XMPP host won’t let Monal connect because it’s using an obsolete encryption protocol. I see in prosody logs other clients connecting with TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3 but when Monal tries to connect it’s rejected. Log message: “Client disconnected: sslv3 alert bad certificate.” This app looks great and I want to try it and recommend it, so hopefully this is just a minor bump in the road.
United StatesMonal works great but....
It no longer works. I’m running iOS 14.1 and I refuse to update. I want to give a better rating because Monal seems to have the most compatibility and functionality with my server but I can’t use the app anymore.... Please fix the app and I will fix my rating :/
United StatesSecurity concerns
This app automatically creates a file folder in the phone, this might leads to leakage of files shared in conversations when phones are compromised or inspected by government authorities
United StatesGreat app
Have been using the beta version of the app. I give the app 5 stars, because its a solid app for iPhone. Very dependable. Messages deliver as expected! I do have one recommendation, This being a mobile app, network connectivity is expected to be unstable. It is not necessary to notify the client of sync issues as a notification. I hope the developer considers this annoyance and enables the user to disable this notification by default.
United StatesSends messages but doesn't do anything else right
I configured this program to connect to my XMPP server. It sends the messages and the other party receives them. But there are two basic issues. First, when I start to compose a reply message, the keyboard opens and covers up the message I was replying to. Second, you can't copy the text of the messages you receive to your clipboard. These UI glitches are the reason for my rating.
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- Group creation - Group management - Displaying qr-codes when generating invitations, thanks lissine - Added privacy setting to ignore incoming messages from unknown sources Fixes
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