IRCCloud vs Pure Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IRCCloud
Access IRC chat from any device and never miss a conversation. Your chat history is synced to the cloud, and you'll receive push notifications for important messages. Share files and customize your experience with multiple themes.
- Cloud-synced chat history
- Push notifications for mentions/DMs
- File sharing (photos, videos, files)
- Server-side connection for persistent access
- Multiple colorful themes
- Monospace font option
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Chat on IRC from anywhere, and never miss a message. • Stay connected when you're on the move. No need to rely on constant data access, we keep your IRC connection running on our servers. • Your entire chat history is fully synced to the cloud so you can catch up at your leisure. • Get push notifications for mentions and private messages. • Upload and share photos, videos and files straight from your device. • Full support for iPhone and iPad. • Choose from 9 colourful themes. • Monospace font option. Join our #feedback channel on irc.irccloud.com for feedback and suggestions to help us improve this app. You can also email us at team@irccloud.com or find us on Twitter: @irccloud
Pure Chat
Connect with website visitors and customers in real time through live chat. Engage instantly with new visitors or existing customers to answer questions and provide support from anywhere.
- Real-time visitor engagement
- Instant customer support
- Mobile chat access
- New visitor notifications
- Availability status control
- Historical chat transcripts
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Use the Pure Chat companion app to connect with your website visitors and customers in the moments that matter most. Whether it's someone coming to your website for the first time or a loyal customer who had a question about a recent purchase, live chat is the easiest way to instantly engage with these individuals and answer their questions in real time. Pure Chat includes unlimited access to all of our core live chat tools, including unlimited chats. With the Pure Chat companion app for iOS devices, you can chat with website visitors from anywhere! Using the app, you'll get helpful notifications when a new website visitor wants to chat, plus you can change your availability, access historical chat transcripts and more! Sign up today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pure Chat at 4.4 against IRCCloud's 3.4. Pure Chat also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (574 vs 78). IRCCloud's advantage is review sentiment (49% vs 16%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pure Chat holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pure Chat has 574 ratings behind it against 78, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of IRCCloud's written reviews are positive against 16% of Pure Chat's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
IRCCloud ships an update every 3 months, Pure Chat every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IRCCloud | Pure Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (78 ratings) | 4.4 (574 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.5% of reviews — better | 16.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 78 | 574 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IRCCloud Ltd. | Ruby Receptionists |
Customer experience
IRCCloud
Pure Chat
User reviews
IRCCloud
From 78 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌐 Persistent connection without app being open
- 📱 Best iOS IRC client available
- 🎨 Intuitive and polished user interface
- 💬 Seamless multi-device synchronization
- 📸 Built-in image/file upload functionality
Room to improve
- 💰 Mandatory account creation required
- 📧 Email address required upfront before evaluation
- 💳 Hidden paywall after free trial period
- 🔐 Basic features locked behind paid subscription
- 🐛 Frequent connection drops and disconnections
Pure Chat
From 574 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🔒 Secure and reliable product
- 💬 Effective live chat feature for website visitors
- 💰 Reasonable pricing for the service
- 👍 Works well on desktop version
- 📈 Generates decent customer orders
Room to improve
- 🔔 Unreliable or missing notifications on mobile
- 📱 Poor iPhone/iOS app performance
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing
- ⏱️ Slow response times and lag
- 🔐 Automatic logout issues requiring frequent re-login
Bugs and requests
IRCCloud
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes during signup process
- Login screen freezes or shows blank navy background
- Text input box cut off at bottom of screen
- Typing bar blocks view of messages
- App stuck on 'Connecting' screen on iPad
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- Email confirmation not working properly
- Frequent app crashes every 2-3 seconds
- Message text disappears when switching apps
- Image upload failures with error messages
- Cannot add custom networks that aren't listed
- Connection issues over WiFi (works on 3G/4G)
- App crashes when deleting multiple images
- Cannot send messages to channels with specific settings
- Version 3.3 introduced major connection problems
- Notification popups disappear too quickly for channel messages
- App continues running after deletion
Requested features
8 requests- Third-party client support for BNC functionality
- Bulk file deletion instead of one-by-one
- Disable auto-archiving of inactive chats
- Faster app load times for chat history
- Password support with special characters
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- Better channel listing functionality
- Shell/telnet access to bouncer
- Free tier access to passworded servers
Pure Chat
Reported bugs
10 issues- App notifications not delivering on iOS
- Chat window spinning/reconnecting indefinitely
- App crashes on latest iOS versions
- Chat toggle status not registering correctly
- Menu icon disappearing after ending chat on iPad
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- Chat window not visible in iPad landscape mode
- Update prompt redirecting to review page instead of updating
- Login failures with spinning loading screen
- Password change functionality not working
- App disconnecting and losing chat replies
Requested features
5 requests- Desktop application for Windows/Mac
- Persistent login sessions on mobile
- Quick access to canned messages on mobile
- Better iPad landscape orientation support
- Improved notification system reliability
In-app purchases
IRCCloud
No in-app purchases
Pure Chat
No in-app purchases
