Leave a Review Monal
Great 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.Show lessRapazzini
Sends 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.Show lessSD30001
Developer Response
To copy a message: Swipe a message to the left and tap on copy. We plan to rewrite the old UI.buautiful app
UI is very beautiful, but the client is in the background, after repeated entry, there will be ghosting, more affect my feelings about him, I like him very much, but this bug affects his beauty too much1111¥：@sjsjjs
Improving!
Pros: Active Development, cleanest iOS interface I’ve used.
Cons: No Voice Calls - yet.
Since I’ve downloaded the app, it’s already been updated!
An encryption lock toggle notification has been added.
I think this is a very nice qol feature. I was wondering what the lock button did, I really appreciate it being more of an explicit lock now instead of having the option to accidentally disable encryption. I think this is very useful, especially for those new to xmpp and less tech savvy.Show lessHelpfull Will
Does not support encryption
This app has a nice interface, but when you try to use encryption, it says that the other user is to blame because his device doesn’t support it. This is nonsense! Everybody gets this messages far as I can tell.Solemiocathay
Developer Response
Sounds like you hit a bug in either Monal or the receipient's client. If the problem persists, please open a ticket on github: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/issues or write an email to info@monal-im.orgI have some questions
I'm having problems with flashing and crashing, after sending a message at one point, monal flashed and when I opened it again nothing was displayed and it also flashed immediately. After repeating it many times I had to delete and reinstall it, now it is working fine, but I would like to know why it crashes.
Overall monal is still a good XMPP client for iOS, although it still has some minor issuesShow lessWild Ion
Developer Response
Well, I can't tell you what happened in the retrospective, but if you ever experience problems again, you can always create a ticket on github: https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/issues or write an email to info@monal-im.orgPhone calls broken
A loved function, making phone calls, seems to be broken on my iPhone and on my friends’ devices when using Monal. When pressing the call button, the calling screen appears zoomed in way to large, so no buttons or status can be seen, only the left half pf the account’s profile photo.
Please fix this useful functionShow lessNosnowjust
Developer Response
The A/V calls are indeed broken, but we got funded by NLNet to build a new one from scratch (this time even compatible with other XMPP apps like Conversations for Android)Better than most xmpp apps
I’ve tried several xmpp apps, and so far Monal has given me the least issues. However, something that really bugs me is that you have to individually delete every single message, because there is no option to clear all messages or even delete a chat. Also, every time I delete a message it sends a spam message to the other user, such as “there was an error decrypting this encrypted message”. Quite annoying.Show lessQinFenggggggg
Developer Response
The latest beta release includes a new button "Clear chat history for this contact". We furthermore improve parts of the OMEMO related code. If you have further problems please open a ticket at https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/issues.Where is the delete conversations button?
I deleted the app because I couldn’t find a delete conversations button.
No point in secure messaging without being able to have disappearing messages or deleting conversationsslayerranger
Developer Response
We added a "Clear chat history for this contact" button to the latest beta release as well as a global setting to delete messages that are older than three days.Best iOS client
Monal is the best xmpp client for iOS by a fairly substantial margin. Unfortunately it’s still a little rough around the edges, but omemo mostly works now, and finally notifications mostly work. It looks like MUCs are starting to work now, however this currently results in a lot of notification spam with no way to mute channels. It’s still very difficult to recommend xmpp for people on iOS devices, but it is getting better and monal has made some good strides towards this over time. Unfortunately, progress is a little slow… I believe there’s only one person really working on it. Hopefully the new muc stuff gets sorted out and hopefully the app gets a little bit of polish soon! It’s mostly fine… but having used it for a few years it still feels fragile to me.Show lesschibzly
Developer Response
Well, at least mucs are now working, right? ;) We will include finer control of notifications for muscs (silent, mention, all) in the 5.1 release.
