# ChatSecure Messenger — user reviews > 145 indexed App Store user reviews of ChatSecure Messenger by Chris Ballinger, rated 4.20/5 from 282 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chatsecure-messenger/id464200063/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chatsecure-messenger/id464200063.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 190 · 4★ 26 · 3★ 22 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 31 ## What do users think of ChatSecure Messenger? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Great app - 🔒 Secure chat - 👍 Intuitive setup - 🚀 Reliable - 👍 Excellent service - 🚀 Works well - 🔒 Encrypted - 👍 Awesome **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes often - 🐛 Buggy - 🐛 Notifications not working - 🐛 Messages not syncing - 🐛 Stability issues - 🐛 Freezes - 🐛 Incompatible with newer iOS versions - 🐛 Disappearing messages **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes on startup - Fails to send messages - Notifications not working - Syncing issues across devices - Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions **Most requested features** - Add group chat support - Improve background support - Add search functionality - Customization options - Improve message delivery reliability - Restore Tor support ## Newest reviews (18 of 145) ### 4/5 — Liquid Glass needed! *2026-03-31* The app is very well, but add the Liquid Glass, and Reply context menu, please! And completely translate to Russian language! ### 3/5 — Настройки *2024-08-01* Нет выбора сервера и настроек TOR как на первом скриншоте, в остальном вроде работает. Разработчики поправьте пожалуйста ### 5/5 — Отличное приложение на iOS, но есть один нюанс *2023-05-09* Уважаемые разработчики, приложение отлично работает на iPhone, альтернатив вообще нет. Но пожалуйста, добавьте возможность блокировать приложение код-паролем ### 3/5 — Отсутсвие внимания к проблемы от создателей *2023-02-19* Было бы отличным приложение, но если бы, была устранена проблема с уведомления. Не приходят уведомления когда на телефоне включён vpn, но только с включённым vpn, сообщения отправляются шифрованными через otr. Проблема с уведомлениями смотрю уже были год назад. Если за год вы ничего так и не поделали ничего, полагаю что полагаться на решение проблемы не стоит. ### 5/5 — Good!! *2022-12-28* Good ### 5/5 — TesetOne *2022-10-22* Самое адекватное что есть ### 5/5 — Hope it would be one the most secure ones *2022-10-02* After gather some info on this app, I decided to give it a try instead of always secured signal. Wondering how the calls would sound considering different protocols being used. ### 5/5 — Помогите пожалуйста *2022-08-04* Помогите пожалуйста, объясните мне тупой как создать аккаунт. Какой сервер не пропишу, все ответ что нет соединения с интернетом(инет есть конечно же).. что не так делаю-не пойму..прям инструкцию напишите мне пожалуйста ### 3/5 — Chat *2022-08-01, version 5.0.4* Good ### 3/5 — Sent messages won’t sync across devices *2022-07-30* Sent messages won’t sync across devices with the same account. No idea why. ### 5/5 — 🫶 *2022-07-29, version 5.0.4* 🫶 ### 5/5 — It works! *2022-07-25, version 5.0.4* XMPP/Jabber with it without security ### 5/5 — Parabéns! *2022-05-31* Muito bom, focado realmente na segurança no chat pessoa-a-pessoa, utilizando os protocolos omemo e otr. ### 4/5 — Great app, few weird things *2022-04-08* The app generally is fantastic to use, the only issue I have is that it doesn’t handle certificate changes very well and you need to manually accept it (which is a Pain for let’s encrypt 3 month refreshes). Other than that it’s a great app. ### 5/5 — Excellent Service *2021-12-28, version 5.0.4* Great. Free. Private. The trifecta. ### 5/5 — Amazing app!! *2021-10-06* Great xmpp/jabber app. Only complaint is that someone’s notifications aren’t sent until the app is loaded. Please work on the background refresh so notifications always come in when a new message arrives ### 3/5 — ok *2021-08-21, version 5.0.4* its ok but im unable to send picture messages or gifs through this app only smileys for some odd reason also android notifications come through phones as alerts but not iphones unless the person is running the app I guess it requires a Valid TLS certificate im hosting my own prosody server that has a self signed certificate because I want to keep everything free and its only used for family and friends I also have the cloud_notify module in prosody enabled all android users get notifications without running any app they choose this is exactly why I hate apple too many restrictions I tried upgrading prosody to the latest to see if that would work but it fails im currently running mojave and cant upgrade my mac I used homebrew to install prosody but I got version 0.9.14 and when I try to update it says im already up to date the app works great if iphone users could get push notifications and could send pictures messages the odd thing is I tried swift im and it allows me to send picture messages from there and they can receive them in chat secure ### 5/5 — Nevermind Signal, this is the real deal *2021-08-17* Although signal has good encryption technology, it doesn’t have much technology for anonymize yourself behind it like chat secures XXMP + Omemo technology. The encryption algorithms in this app are just as strong if not stronger than Signals, and it DOES not require a phone number like signal. Both are great depending on your use case, but I believe chat secure is better if you want to stay safe from the NSA or from prying eyes. Its great for reporters, high security situations/people, system admins who need to protect their assets or identities from hackers or just anyone in general who wants to stay safer and more anonymous on the internet. In a day where mass surveillance is a real thing, this app is important for privacy of good honest people. This app is simple to use, very stable, and developed by well respected developers. It is not full of features, like telegram, but that is because it’s focus is on security and anonymity. Less code=less flaws. So if that’s what you are looking for, go ahead and ditch the signal app, and the spy driven wikr app, and the crap security telegram app, and start using this well developed, hardened chat app that implements algorithms and technologies much older and more refined/tested than the signal app. Thanks for chat secure! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Приложение заброшено уже много лет *2026-05-21* Концепт был неплохой, но сейчас приложение заброшено и давно не обновлялось. Секурностью и защищённостью в таких условиях и не пахнет. ### 1/5 — Incoming messages missing *2021-09-20, version 5.0.4* Messages from one of my contacts completely fails to receive. Nothing in my chat history, no notification. He uses an iPhone and I'm on a MacBook Air M1. Inbound messages from ANY contact fail to show up when I resume if my laptop is off/sleeping. I never had this problem with Gajim (Windows & Linux) or ChatSecure (Android). I'm having *some* of the same problems with Monal, but not as consistently. I'm convinced that there are no XMPP apps for Mac that actually work 100%. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work. Don’t waste your time. *2021-03-17, version 5.0.3* Can’t create a user or see any room or message any person. Great app ### 1/5 — Sounds Great *2021-02-28, version 5.0.3* Cannot create an account. Is this supposedly free to use? If not there is no way to know you have to pay before you can use and evaluate if this service works. Very dissapointed ### 1/5 — Constantly crashes *2020-12-19, version 5.0.2* Unreliable. Otherwise good app. Please patch it. Stop the bit rot. ### 1/5 — Crashes all the time *2020-11-15* This is why no one uses xmpp ### 1/5 — Вылетает на IOS 14 *2020-09-25* Установил ios 14 и теперь прога сама закрывается ((( ### 1/5 — needs to be updated *2020-08-21, version 5.0.2* needs to be updated Bug fixes ### 1/5 — Ugh *2020-07-25, version 5.0.2* All this does is freeze and crash. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2020-07-17* Downloaded the app and tried to sign up and create an account but would always crash. Broken and cannot use. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Простота *2026-06-11* Потрясающий легкий интерфейс, отправка-проучение текста и очень хочется только аудио звонки. Такое приложение было бы подарком судьбы. ### 5/5 — Check me out *2026-04-08, version 5.0.4* 💕 ### 5/5 — The best XMPP client *2024-11-19* Crazy fast, smooth and easy to configure, push notifications just work. The best by far. ### 5/5 — Jabber *2024-07-27, version 5.0.4* Great app ### 5/5 — This has been my goto for Google Chat *2024-07-19, version 5.0.4* Easy to use. Allows for OTR. Used it for years. ### 5/5 — Пушок *2024-05-15* Хорошо рабочее ### 5/5 — Five minutes and jabber acrive *2024-03-03* Good complete, Java best ) ### 5/5 — Онлайн *2023-08-22* Сообщения можно отправлять, только когда онлайн… ### 5/5 — Супер пуппер *2023-08-16* Очень нужное и простое приложение. Всем советую. Небольшие трудности при регистрации. Но за то потом никаких проблем нет. Надеюсь🤣🤣🤣 ### 5/5 — Слетает аккаунт *2023-07-20* Все было хорошо, сейчас пишет: network is unreachable, что делать? Не могу зайти в аккаунт! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*