Colloquy User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience39.3% of reviews
Neutral8.8% of reviews
Negative experience51.9% of reviews

~ Based on 308 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Colloquy Safe?

Colloquy - IRC Client does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Colloquy is 49/100.

This assessment is based on 32 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.8/5.

Safety Analysis

15.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
75.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 32 App Store ratings for Colloquy.

Is Colloquy Legit?

Colloquy - IRC Client appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Colloquy is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Вводимый текст и тема оформления

Вводимый текст не отправляется. Пробовал менять кодировки толку нет.
При темном оформлении устройства настроек не видно.
Зря потраченные деньги. Не рекомендую.
Как вообще такое кривое приложение попало в магазин?!

Вводимый текст

Вводимый текст не отправлется. Пробовал разные каналы в разных сетях. Так же пробовал устанавливать различные кодировки, но эффекта нет. У кого такое было и кто как это победил или это такой лютый баг в самом софте?
На темной теме устройства вообще ничего не видно из настроек, приходится менять на светлую
Зря потраченные деньги в общем. Не рекомендую.
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Does not play well with dark mode

If your mac is in Dark mode forget it as you can't read half the setup instrucitons or channel names

Developers please test your apps in the OS's dark mode as well as normal

Inappropriate content

Certain channels should be monitored and blocked.

No longer maintained

No longer maintained by the developer, unfortunately.

Used to be great, needs update

Crashes on launch on iOS 14. Please fix

不能一直连接

自动断开

Progressively buggin me

Used this on my Mac then iPad for years, but it’s getting more buggy now. Failure to connect to servers, crashes... it doesn’t even stay connected in the ‘background’!
Time to search for something reliable, regularly updated and actually does the job.

update-güncelleme

When will the update come?

Used to be great.

Been using colloquy for years, and it used to be great, but the lack of recent updates is becoming a real problem. Under iOS 13 the app is largely broken with constant disconnections and UI glitches. I’ve been hoping for an update that fixes these issues for months, so I think it may be time to look at something else.
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Please fix it

Since IOS 13 auto scroll in chats no longer works making it unpleasant to use ....could you please fix this as I used to love using this app ....thanks

Used to be awesome

iOS 13 and the latest update made a formerly awesome app into something that feels unfinished. The font selection doesn’t work as expected... most of the choices don’t look correct. And the worst part is that chats don’t automatically scroll up the screen anymore. Unless you keep flicking upward you can’t see the latest messages... even your own.
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Yes, iOS 13 broke it

I’ve been using this client for many years and it worked perfectly! Up until iPadOS 13. It no longer scrolls automatically to show new messages when the screen is full.

Also (and I think this is more of an issue with iPadOS, but I’m still going to mention it just in case), when using Colloquy in split screen/multitasking (chat on the right, Safari on the left), I can’t browse/scroll Safari on the left-hand side and keep the cursor “live” in the chat on the right-hand side. I have to tap on the chat side to be able to type anything again. I used to be able to type whenever I wanted with my connected keyboard while still scrolling the internet with my finger on the left.

Just very inconvenient all around now, which has pushed me to stop using this app on my iPad. I have to pull out my laptop and use the program on there, which is annoying.

I’m still giving this 3 stars because it’s served me well for so many years. But I wanted to write this review to let the developers know that some features aren’t working any longer and to hopefully get an update!
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Ios13 broke it

As of ios13 for some reason the chats don’t scroll. No longer functional and very annoying. Please update it I have uninstalled and reinstalled it to no avail.

iPhone X

I am using an iPhone X running iOS 11.4 and the conversation scrolling cuts the last line of everything off at the bottom.

Doesn’t work on iPhone X

I don’t know if it’s an iOS 11 issue or an iPhone X issue, but this app hangs as soon as I start it. Unable to adjust any settings or click on any button. Have to kill the app to exit.

Used the apps for years with znc and it worked great. Not sure why it is so bad now.

Solved

Thank you for such a fast fix :)
Great job.

This version is miserable

I am using colloquy since 2015
I dont recommendd this app atm since it has many bugs.

It has only one thing which is very nice
It supports fallback encoding too

Please fix it and change the interface

Full of bugs

This mobile version of Colloquy is very different from the desktop version. This mobile version is barely usable. Below is a list of bugs I frequently encounter each time I use it.

• Display bug where console window bar will be drawn as a duplicate channel window bar. Clicking on a bar to reopen and return seems to force it to redraw properly

• Display bug where duplicate user names are listed in channel

• Bug that prevents private messaging a user in channel - app believes user is offline when they are clearly online.

• Bug that prevents a whois on a user that has joined a channel if selected from chat window - app believes user is offline, however console displays whois info just fine. Workaround is to select user from user listing instead of chat window.

• Bug that draws first two or three lines in a private conversation above visible space. Must swipe pull down private chat window to read. Even the preview next to user name bar does not properly display the text hidden above

• Random bug where message and channel bars become locked and are unselectable. A workaround is to “open a console” to unlock this condition, this works even if console window is already open

At its current state, I cannot recommend this app - save your money. There are likely other IRC apps that work better than this.
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Slowest IRC client I've ever used

The app seems like a wonderful idea… Until you try to use it to connect to a chat room. Worked very well on older versions of iOS. The developers really need to do some work to keep it current. Sometimes, it takes me up to an hour to connect to a chat room… Where as with any other client, or via the web, I connect instantly.
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