Monal User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience56.9% of reviews
Neutral12.4% of reviews
Negative experience30.7% of reviews

~ Based on 202 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Monal Safe?

Monal — XMPP Chat appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Monal is 74/100.

This assessment is based on 133 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.7/5.

Safety Analysis

63.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
27.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 126 App Store ratings for Monal.

Is Monal Legit?

Monal — XMPP Chat appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Monal is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

My thoughts about your enforced certificates

Your software your rules. My choice what security level to pick AND not to use your software.
Also maybe check your patronizing smug attitude.

Very buggy!

This app is really hard to use. Wish there was a better option.

Bad experience

Continuous tls banner message spam when something is wrong that covers the save button in the configuration screen making it hard to fix. Uninstalled.

been great

been great, I hope the devs never stop working on this project, because the xmpp clients on ios aren’t good

Never been able to connect my account.

Unfortunately, I’ve never been able to simply log into my account in Monal. My credentials are fine; they function perfectly on a web browser. The problem is with Monal. Hour+ of troubleshooting and I got nowhere. Don’t waste your time.

No searching feature

The main problem - no searching feature in the app.

Probably the best xmpp iOS client

I’ve been doing nothing but banging my head against the wall with most iOS xmpp clients, Monal was the only one that worked pretty much out of the box. I can guarantee compatibility with self hosted prosody, most of the online clients(they have their own issues), conversations on android, Dino and gajim. Don’t forget to get OMEMO and run prosody features check. I found it has barely any compatibility with Siskin IM
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Шифрование

Постоянно вываливает в час ошибку шифрования, прошу довести приложение до должного уровня, спасибо.

good xmpp chat but cant copy paste

thats all thats the review

Does everything a jabber/XMPP app should do

I saw some reviews of people having issues receiving messages and the server not fetching them properly that’s primarily because of the Server that you’re using for that it’s kind of out of Monals hands if the server that your jabber account is using is unstable you can verify that on the XMPP website where they provide server addresses to use or even create your own server then you won’t have to worry about it being unstable. But overall wonderful app is the best of the best. In my opinion you’re not gonna really get a modern looking one because jabber is just so old and I’m surprised it’s even still around lol
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Very good ios xmpp client

works well

Ugly

Ugliest messaging up I’ve seen in ages

A nice and simple XMPP client, happy to see it on macOS as well as iOS!

OMEMO and device verification is really nice and comfortable too compared to some alternatives

Can’t copy text!

Why such a basic feature doesn’t exist on this app? I would be even happy with bulk copy not necessarily the ability to highlight certain text and copy it

Great!!

Great app, with Omemo capability! And most important, this app is constantly maintained and updated. Thanks developers!

Strongly recommended

Great experience, nice functionality. Best XMPP client for iPhone so far…

App unstable at times

This app would be absolutely amazing if it weren’t for the weird glitches that happen. Being able to copy Jabber handles and being able to fetch messages from the Jabber server is something that Monal does perfectly, but there seems to be a strange bug where some UI items overlay on one another or don’t show at all. This app would be amazing if it weren’t for these bugs, and I intend to come back to use this when they are fixed. Overall, it is a great app but lacks stability at times.
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Best XMPP iOS App

Works well and as expected. Could do with some more feature like emoji reactions and ability to change font size for elderly etc but so far enjoying it thanks.

Why cannot I copy messages

Why cannot I copy messages

terrible experience

limited functionality, not focused security and privacy features