Mango IRC vs Beluga Social
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mango IRC
A modern, native IRC client for iOS and macOS, offering seamless integration with IRCv3 features, bouncer support, and customizable themes. It ensures you never miss messages and syncs settings across devices via iCloud.
- Full IRCv3 support
- Bouncer-native integration (soju, ZNC)
- iCloud sync for networks and settings
- Push notifications for mentions and DMs
- Customizable themes
- Native iOS and macOS experience
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Mango is a native IRC client for iPhone and iPad. Follow your communities, catch up on conversations, and make your chat feel like home. YOUR CONVERSATIONS, ORGANIZED • Connect to multiple IRC networks and keep channels and direct messages together • Find mentions in retained history and jump back to the original conversation • Follow reply threads and browse pinned messages on compatible servers • Search channels, complete nicknames, and use familiar IRC commands MORE THAN PLAIN TEXT • Rich link and image previews, inline video playback, and audio players with waveforms • Emoji reactions, custom emoji, and image-link stickers • Browse, re-share, and manage files in your Mango Uploads library • Choose themes, fonts, chat layouts, and notification sounds CONNECT YOUR WAY • Direct IRC connections, TLS, and WebSocket connections to compatible servers • soju and ZNC bouncer support, with network discovery and connection management • Local conversation caching and earlier history from servers that support CHATHISTORY • iCloud sync for your networks and settings across Mac, iPhone, and iPad Server-dependent features require support from your IRC server or bouncer. Push notifications require a compatible bouncer and setup. Mango Uploads requires a Mango Account. You can connect to other IRC networks without a Mango Account; individual networks may require their own account.
Beluga Social
Share your thoughts and updates with friends and followers through a "tweet-like" feed. It generates a mini-website for easy sharing, even with non-users, and supports RSS feed readers for broader reach. This decentralized app ensures you own your data.
- Tweet-like content publishing
- Personalized mini-website generation
- JSON Feed compatibility
- Decentralized data ownership
- RSS feed reader integration
- Multiple S3-compatible storage support
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Publish your thoughts and keep your friends and followers informed of what you are up to. This app is ideal for publishing "tweet-like" content. All your posts are added to your Beluga feed, and a mini-website is generated and published so you can easily share with everyone, even people that don't use the app. You can think of Beluga as a feed reader/writer. All Beluga feeds are JSON Feed compatible, so your friends can follow you on many popular RSS feed reader apps like NetNewsWire and others available on iOS. Beluga is decentralized. We don't have any servers. So you are the owner of your data, and you can host it wherever you like. To publish your Beluga feed and mini-website, you must have an S3-compatible object storage provider account. We currently support Amazon Web Services S3, Wasabi, Digital Ocean Spaces, Linode Objects, Backblaze B2, and DreamHost, with more to come soon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Beluga Social at Free against Mango IRC's $9.99. Beluga Social also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Mango IRC's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly) and chart position (#34 vs unranked). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Beluga Social is free to download; Mango IRC costs $9.99 up front. Mango IRC sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Beluga Social asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beluga Social holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mango IRC has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mango IRC ships an update every 6 days, Beluga Social monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mango IRC | Beluga Social |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #34 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pavel Kanzelsberger | Blimp, LLC |
Customer experience
Mango IRC
Beluga Social
In-app purchases
Mango IRC
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$3.99
- Large Tip$8.99
Beluga Social
No in-app purchases
Questions
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